http://www.withthefirstpick.net/ryan-buch

i’m guessing above viciedo behind flowers?

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=4736827

should have their editorial rights taken from them.

with signability issues: thompson, jones and possibly holmberg… i’d assume kw did some homework and has an idea of what these guys want and believes he can get them to sign?

most of these bozos you will never hear of again, apart from in some minor league updates on some obscure White Sox related blog – the hype of the draft is out of all proportion to the reality of what will happen to most of these players.

they probably won’t sign him.

“You can have my urine, my hair, my blood, my stool – anything you can test,” Ibanez said. “I’ll give you back every dime I’ve ever made” if the test is positive.

“I’ll put that up against the jobs of anyone who writes this stuff,” he said. “Make them accountable. There should be more credibility than some 42-year-old blogger typing in his mother’s basement. It demeans everything you’ve done with one stroke of the pen.”

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20090610_I_m_clean__angry_Ibanez_says.html

Angels draft Jake Locker…

Joe Montana’s son just committed and an article on ESPN mentions Locker is moving on – looks like he’s going to give his hand at baseball. Probably didn’t stand a chance as an NFL QB anyway.

MDGonzales: Sox confident they can sign second-round pick Trayce Thompson, son of NBA’s Mychael Thompson who has signed LOI to UCLA.

Link: http://twitter.com/MDGonzales/statuses/2099850379

some guy named “Antwonie” Hubbard.

Is that “An-too-nie” or “An-twoah-nie” ?

Draft Rule #12: College first basemen are the most valuable group of draft picks by an enormous margin. College first basemen selected in the first round have gone on to have Hall of Fame-caliber careers approximately one-third of the time.
Over the course of the entire draft study, college first basemen have returned a ridiculous +144% in draft value. Thirteen first basemen were selected in the first 30 picks between 1984 and 1999, including Frank Thomas, Mark McGwire, Will Clark, Todd Helton, and Lance Berkman. John Olerud was a first-round talent who slipped to the third round because he was considered a tough sign.

link for subscribers:
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=5152

23. Chicago White Sox
Pick: Jared Mitchell, OF, Louisiana State
KG Says: “That’s upside, and that’s up the middle. You just watch his video and you’d think he was a top 10 guy. Love, love, love this pick.”
Quotable: “Mitchell could absolutely stick in center on speed alone, but he’s going to need some instructions. He’s a bit slow to react off the bat, so he needs that speed to make up for it. But with the power potential and the baserunning ability, the upside is so much better than Pollock. If you can’t tell, Mitchell is one of my favorites in this draft.”—Bryan Smith

Hooray JMT!

Maybe he’ll have a better career this time as a 2B

Says Jones wouldn’t give him a dollar figure that a team would have to meet (unsurprisingly), but says the kid is bright and Cal would be a good fit for him, fwiw.

1 Jared Mitchell OF 20 6-0 205 Louisiana State University (New Iberia, La.)
1A Josh Phegley C 21 5-10 210 Indiana University (Terre Haute, Ind.)
2A Trayce Thompson OF 18 6-3 195 Santa Margarita High School (Ladera Ranch, Calif.)
2 David Holmberg LHP 17 6-4 220 Port Charlotte High School (Port Charlotte, Fla.)
3 Bryan Morgado LHP 20 6-3 206 University of Tennessee (Miami, Fla.)
4 Matthew Heidenreich RHP 18 6-5 190 Temescal Canyon High School (Lake Elsinore, Calif.)
5 Kyle Bellamy RHP 21 6-5 220 University of Miami (Davie, Fla.)
6 Justin Collop RHP 21 6-2 185 University of Toledo (Wayne, Mich.)
7 Justin Jones LHP 18 6-3 170 Oakdale Senior High School (Oakdale, Calif.)
8 Ryan Buch RHP 21 6-3 195 Monmouth University (Yardley, Pa.)
9 Matthew Hopps RHP 23 6-5 235 Cal State Dominguez Hills (Torrance, Calif.)
10 Nicholas Ciolli OF 21 6-2 195 Indiana State University (Terra Haute, Ind.)
11 Jimmy Ballinger RHP 21 6-1 190 University of Southern Mississippi (Moss Point, Miss.)
12 Kyle Colligan OF 22 6-1 205 Texas A&M University (Stafford, Texas)
13 Cameron Bayne RHP 21 6-2 180 Concordia University (Honolulu, Hawaii)
14 Daniel Black 1B 21 6-4 230 Purdue University (Carmel, Calif.)
15 Dane Williams RHP 18 6-6 210 Archbishop McCarthy High School (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
16 Daniel Wagner 2B 20 6-0 185 Belmont University (Kannapolis, N.C.)
17 Brian Goodwin OF 18 6-0 185 Rocky Mount High School (Rocky Mount, N.C.)
18 Phil Negus RHP 21 6-2 205 Wake Forest University (Milford, Mass.)
19 Brady Shoemaker OF 22 6-0 200 Indiana State University (Brazil, Ind.)
20 Nathan Reed LHP 21 6-3 180 University of Pittsburgh (Temple, Pa.)
21 Jared McDonald INF 19 6-1 180 Arizona State University (Tucson, Ariz.)
22 Zachary Kayne SS 22 5-10 185 Davidson College (Roswell, Ga.)
23 Goldy Simmons RHP 20 6-6 220 San Diego State University (Spring Valley, Calif.)
24 Jeffrey Tezek 2B 23 5-10 180 University of Nebraska (Poway, Calif.)
25 Mike Strong LHP 20 6-0 185 Iowa Western Community College (Afton, Minn.)
26 Matthew Harughty 2B 22 6-0 180 University of Oklahoma (Conroe, Texas)
27 Kyle Davis 2B 22 5-11 175 University of Delaware (Ewing, N.J.)
28 Robert Cummings 3B 21 6-2 195 University of California-Santa Barbara (Oak Lawn, Ill.)
29 Trey Delk RHP 23 5-11 190 Clemson University (Elgin, S.C)
30 Robert Vaughn C 21 5-10 190 Kansas State University (Humble, Texas)

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20090610&content_id=5253424&vkey=pr_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws

looking at this http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2009/06/looking_back_at_2.php

I’m reminded it wasn’t only brothers at 34, but paxton at 37 and skaggs at 40