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11:15 AM ET, June 6, 2006

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Bob Dutton / Kansas City Star:
Royals plan to take Hochevar with first pick  —  Club officials spent Monday night in negotiations with Scott Boras, who represents Hochevar, in an attempt to reach an agreement.  But plans are in place for the club to select Hochevar even in the absence of a deal.
Discussion: Royals Review
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Bryan Smith / The Baseball Analysts:
Draft Preview  —  "Everything is a mess," I was told of the 2006 draft in the past few hours.  Surprisingly, the person was not talking of my mock draft, but rather the haziness that had yet to clear, with less than twelve hours before the first name is called.
Discussion: Ducksnorts and Baseball America
David Andriesen / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Mariners expected to take college pitcher
Discussion: U.S.S. Mariner
Baseball America:
Tuesday Morning Mock Draft
Discussion: mlb.mlb.com and Purple Row
Chris Snow / Boston Globe:
Battery Park  —  Yankees unload on Sox, Beckett in Stadium rout  —  NEW YORK — When Josh Beckett walked off the mound last evening, the sky was still a soft blue, the lingering sun illuminating the Bronx courthouse that looms beyond Yankee Stadium in right-center.
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Classic case of bombing in the Bronx  —  NEW YORK — Ex-major league pitcher Bob Tewksbury insists he was summoned for one reason, and one reason only: to pitch batting practice, because manager Terry Francona needed a fresh arm.  —  Just because Tewksbury is the organization's sports psychology coach …
Discussion: mlb.mlb.com and Empyreal Environs
Jack Curry / New York Times:
Phillips Finds His Stroke, and a Foothold at First
Discussion: MLB.com and Off the Facade
Jackie MacMullan / Boston Globe:
Surprise ending— after 1 1/3
Discussion: New York Times and Bronx Banter
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
MILL LOW AFTER FANS' HIGH-FIVES  —  June 5, 2006 — Willie Randolph reprimanded Lastings Milledge for celebrating his first major-league homer - a dramatic game-tying solo shot in yesterday's 10th inning - by taking a detour to high-five fans on his way out to right field to start the next inning.
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David Lennon / Newsday:
Milledge: No regrets about high fives  —  LOS ANGELES — Any remorse that Lastings Milledge was feeling after high-fiving the fans along the rightfield line Sunday apparently had vanished by the time the Mets boarded their cross-country charter to the West Coast later that night.
Discussion: Metsblog.com
Chris Constancio / Hardball Times:
Visualizing Draft Strategies  —  Oakland's Moneyball draft received a good deal of criticism and inspired countless "statheads versus scouts" debates concerning player development.  Teams like the Dodgers used their first ten picks of the 2002 draft on high school players like James Loney, Greg Miller, and Jonathan Broxton.
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Todd Jacobson / fredericksburg.com:
Nats' drafters won't be so choosy this time around
Thomas Boswell / Washington Post:
Wait Till Next Year, And the Year After
Discussion: Capitol Punishment
Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Soler-powered  —  Rookie's gem lifts Mets in L.A.  —  LOS ANGELES - Alay Soler had a three-run cushion before he even took the mound.  Nine innings later, the Cuban defector had his first major-league win.  —  Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado homered in the first inning …
Discussion: Baseball Musings
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David Lennon / Newsday:
Soler helps deliver  —  Cuban defector gets first win in almost two years, gives pen rest  —  LOS ANGELES — To say that Alay Soler took the mound last night at Dodger Stadium with his job on the line might be an exaggeration.  Short of pulling off a trade that has yet to materialize …
USA Today:
Former prep prospect now creating heat in the kitchen after shoulder surgeries  —  Persistent shoulder injuries early this decade prevented Ryan Anderson from throwing 100-mph heat in the major leagues.  Now out of baseball, Anderson is ready to turn up the heat in a new career.
Discussion: Mariner Minors
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Doug Padilla / L.A. Daily News:   Angels: The object of ire
Dylan Hernandez / Contra Costa Times:
Giants roll as Bonds rocks  —  Slugger gets homer No. 716 and will get additional support with Alou's return  —  SAN FRANCISCO - The Giants had crushed the Florida Marlins, Moises Alou was about to be activated, and the clubhouse was theirs again.  —  Gone were the scores …
Discussion: Baseball Musings
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Clark Spencer / Miami Herald:
Rotation is on the rise  —  SAN FRANCISCO - They're young, but they're durable.  —  The Marlins have eight rookies (three starters and five relievers) on their staff, but they're getting mileage out of those arms, not to mention solid performances.  —  On May 18, the Marlins had a staff earned-run average of 5.72.
Discussion: FishStripes
Kevin Baxter / Miami Herald:
Searching for diamond in the rough  —  The Marlins have made shrewd draft picks recently, something they hope to duplicate considering that there is a relatively weak crop of players this year.  —  kbaxter@MiamiHerald.com  —  The conventional wisdom holds that the talent …
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Joe Capozzi / Palm Beach Post:
Marlins might not go for pitching in draft
Discussion: FishStripes
Paul Meyer / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates likely to select a pitcher in first round  —  Player they are projected to get might stir up memories of former star Pirates pitcher from early '90s  —  If the teams ahead of them behave as expected, the Pirates almost certainly today will select University of Houston right-hander Brad Lincoln …
NY Daily News:
Kids are all right to Brian  —  In the spring, Brian Cashman says, he and Joe Torre spent a fair amount of time talking to the Yankee kids, to the guys off the bench.  The message, Cashman says, was the same, from the first time all the players were together in one room.
Mike Downey / Chicago Tribune:
1 chance, 1 pitch, 1 dream deferred  —  'Back then, I thought, 'Well, there'll be other days.' I didn't realize that that was the only day.  Thus spoke Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, or at least a whimsical version of him brought to life by Burt Lancaster in the 1989 baseball—some would say cornball—film "Field of Dreams."
Discussion: Bleed Cubbie Blue
Jim Salisbury / Philly.com:
Former umpire Gregg, 55, dies after stroke  —  Eric Gregg, the fun-loving West Philadelphia native who became a popular Major League Baseball umpire, died last night at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood after suffering a massive stroke at his Ardmore home Sunday morning.  Mr. Gregg was 55.
 
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