[(Almost) All Things Manny Machado....]

I am totally on board with trying to keep Hardy and at SS, just hoping his bat stays productive.

What do you mean "stays productive?" It's certainly not productive right now.

[(Almost) All Things Manny Machado....]

so much for the shutdown inning from Tillman.

The ONLY thing I like about this situation is Strasburg's pitch count.Tillman just gave up a bad HR. It changes the WHOLE game.

You realize this is a thread about Machado hitting better, right?

[5th Round - Colin Poche: LHP, Marcus HS (TX)]

Why is it irresponsible? He's passing on what he heard. Would it be better if the rumor wasn't part of him passing that info on?

Are you joking? He got it from the comment section on his blog. That's not a credible source.

[5th Round - Colin Poche: LHP, Marcus HS (TX)]

Why? There are rumors that he's going to college, to the point where some of us are taking it as a foregone conclusion. He's contradicting them based on what he's heard. If it was just one guy in the comment section, then yeah, but it's not just that at this point.

He said "a reader." That's one guy despite how many other rumors there are. The responsible thing would be to follow up on it or leave it in the comments and say nothing about it instead of helping spread more, possibly, unfounded rumors. There are rumors about guys going to college every year by every player who wants to squeeze more money out of the team.

[5th Round - Colin Poche: LHP, Marcus HS (TX)]

From Steve Melewski on Twitter

A reader to my blog wrote 5th rnd pick Colin Poche has decided 2 to go 2 college. But I hear that is not accurate & they are still talking.

It's pretty irresponsible and stupid for a "journalist" to even take something like a note in the comment section seriously enough to tweet it.