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The 3rd Annual New York Yankees Prospect Talk with John Sadak

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John Sadak has a fun job. He is the voice of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, amongst many other announcing gigs. He has been on hand for an amazing transformation in the Yankees farm system, and has seen some of today’s stars at the big league level develop from question marks to the reigning AL Player of the Week.

He’s never been shy to talk Yankees prospects, as he brings an aspect to prospect talk little others can. He sees these prospects play every day, watching them grow in each at bat, or unfortunately sometimes never meet the lofty expectations that are placed upon them. This year, he saw a lot of positives.

Keep reading for more with John Sadak on the Yankees future.

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The Colorado Rockies Brendan Rodgers is on fire in Asheville

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This past week, 2015 first overall draft pick Dansby Swanson made his big league debut. Roughly a month earlier, Alex Bregman, the 2015 second overall pick, made his big league debut. Swanson has been a hit since day one, while Bregman — after a well-documented slow start — has been on a tear the past 10 games.

Also on fire of late, as if to say “hey guys, don’t forget about me,” is Colorado Rockies 20-year-old shortstop Brendan Rodgers, the third overall pick in 2015.

Keep reading for more on the Rockies prized shortstop.

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The St. Louis Cardinals Delvin Perez putting past behind him

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As we continue our look back at the first-round Almost Mock Draft picks, we focus at another top ten talent that slipped all the way to the back end of the 2016 MLB Draft. While the first player to slip fell because of questionable mechanics and where he fits in as a reliever or starter, the second slipped because of his own doing, getting caught in the evil baseball underworld of PEDs just days before the draft.

Somehow, the St. Louis Cardinals were able to get both.

Keep reading on the Cardinals latest minor league success.

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Zack Collins CATCHING on for the Chicago White Sox

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Yesterday, we took a look at Dakota Hudson, who was projected to go tenth in the Today’s Knuckleball Almost Mock Draft. Hudson, of course, wound up going 34th overall to the St. Louis Cardinals while the Chicago White Sox — owners of the tenth pick — went a completely different direction.

Skipping over pitching, the White Sox swooped in and took the best catching prospect in this year’s crop.

Read more on the White Sox top catching prospect.

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The Cleveland Indians big hitting prospect Bobby Bradley is on fire

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The Cleveland Indians had a bit of a shakeup near the top at this year’s deadline. Clint Frazier and Justus Sheffield (and the promising Ben Heller along with J.P. Feyereisen) were traded to the New York Yankees in the Andrew Miller deal, and Francisco Mejia was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for Jonathan Lucroy… for about three hours.

Continue on for more on the Indians slugging prospect.

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Almost Mock Draft Revisited: The St. Louis Cardinals Dakota Hudson

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Looking back at May’s Almost Mock Draft, most of the projected top-10 picks went close to where they were projected. Not Dakota Hudson.

Hudson, who has been on a roller coaster the past few months, seeing his stock rise from mid-second rounder to top-ten, wound up being selected at the back end of the first round. His roller coaster continues as he already finds himself in High-A ball.

Keep reading for more on the Cardinals draft pick.

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Almost Mock Draft Revisited: The Colorado Rockies Riley Pint

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Right-handed pitchers simply don’t go first overall. It isn’t a rule by any means, it just doesn’t happen with any sort of regularity. Thus, when we looked at Today’s Knuckleball’s Almost Mock Draft back in mid-May, and high school right-hander Riley Pint was in serious talks about being the first overall pick, it spoke volumes of the talent most felt he possessed.

Keep reading for more on the Rockies big gun.

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The WN Fantasy Football Report: Who’s No. 1?

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It’s that time of year, my fellow sports world Dungeon and Dragoners. Preseason football is underway, there are magazines on the super market shelves, and the Sirius/XM Fantasy radio station has nixed baseball and gone directly to all fantasy football all the time.

The good news is for those that have followed our growing fantasy network — with the top Starts and Sits each week, weekly player analysis and last season’s addition of FanDuel Fee breaking down DFS — are all back. Saucy T, J.D., Teddy Ballgame, Dunton, FanDuel Fee, The Wifeyiac as well as our other guest columnists have all signed on for yet another year of the best FREE fantasy football advice on the World Wide Intraweb.

Now that we got the niceties out of the way, let’s get to it.

Keep reading for Fantasy Football 2016 Episode 1!

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Almost Mock Draft Revisited: The Atlanta Braves Ian Anderson

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Yesterday, in revisiting May’s Almost Mock Draft, we took a look at the pitcher that many expected to go first overall, A.J. Puk. Puk of course slipped to No. 6 .

The debate about the top high school arm in the draft seemed to come down to Jason Groome or Riley Pint, and all eyes were on which one would go first.

The Atlanta Braves thought otherwise.

Keep reading for more on the Atlanta Braves top draft pick in 2016!

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