Lamb starting for the Royals today.
Lead off double for Rickie Weeks

siberian -

The draft pool for those picks would have been about $6.2 million last year. Probably comes out to around $7 million altogether.

They will certainly be in position to grab this year's version of Lucas Giolito or Sean Manaea.

I'm very happy that Manaea seems to have recovered well from his injury. He would have been in the conversation for #1 overall last year if he hadn't got hurt, allowing us to snag him with our late competitive balance A sandwich pick.

Its early, but the way-too-early opinion from scouts in spring is that he looks like a terrific prospect who is healthy, should have been drafted higher, and could progress really fast.

I took shit for mentioning this on the Scout board from a few guys, but his scouting report from the Cape from a few guys was basically David Price with a better breaking ball.

One guy used exactly that language. I saw a few compare him to Price because of his height, velocity, and fastball command.

The Brewers commentators just mentioned what was already on my mind - Escobar looks beefier. Wonder if it will affect his hitting?

You took shit for dropping a scout's report on him? Talk about shooting the messenger

At the very least, his wife will stop promptly introducing herself to new neighbors, on account of not feeling like a predator anymore.

My buddy is texting me from the game and said Lamb was just destroyed. Didn't make it out of the first, didn't look like he was throwing hard. Essentially said it was painful to watch. Just one game, but pretty quickly douses the excitement over his "supposed" uptick in velocity reported just a few days ago.

Wil Myers was a 1st round talent who we money-whipped to sign. If we take Santana's comp pick and throw big money at it, anything is possible but for the most part picks outside of the 1st round are fairly worthless.

Yeah, Lamb looked pretty bad. I won't jump to conclusions, though; maybe he was instructed to lay off a bit? We'll see how he performs in actual competition after the minor league season starts.

That board harbors a weird antagonism toward Chiefs' fans.

I couldn't disagree more. In his GOOD years Santana is one step below what Shields is EVERY year.

It's a moot point. Dayton has made it clear that he's NOT signing Santana and he's NOT extending Shields, so we might as well talk about Ventura and Duffy.

Ha. Good one.

Damn it. You got in before I fixed the typo.

Anybody got a pic of escobar to confirm the bulk? Lew?