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Baseball has always had the best all-star game, despite the best efforts of the people who run the game to screw that up as well. And every few years, I update this lengthy piece about the mid-season classic and toss it up here...

The MLB Draft concludes today with rounds 11-20. You can follow the MLB Draft by clicking here.

Day two of the MLB Draft continues with rounds 3-10. The Toronto Blue Jays have a bonus pool of $8,372,100 to work with. For the MLB.com draft tracker, click here.

Damiano Palmegiani hit a grand slam enough to give Vancouver a six game series sweep of Hillsboro. Speaking of sweeps Dunedin swept a doubleheader from St Lucie. Rainer Nunez and Gabriel Martinez had four hits each in game one. Dasan Brown was key in game two. Nine bases for Nunez. Buffalo and New Hampshire lost through their bullpens.

The Toronto Blue Jays have four picks on day one of the 2022 MLB Draft which gets underway at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on MLB Network and ESPN. For the MLB.com Draft Tracker, click here. The Blue Jays will be picking 23rd, 60th, 77th and 78th with the latter picks as free agent compensation for losing Robbie Ray and Marcus Semien. The Baltimore Orioles have the first overall pick.

Baseball America is projecting the Jays will take California outfielder Dylan Beavers with the 23rd overall pick. MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo and Jim Callis believe Toronto will go the high school route with Mayo saying Texas High School shortstop Jett Williams will be the Jays selection while Callis believes it will be Columbia High School third baseman Tucker Toman.

New Hampshire were almost no hit. Their first and only hit came with two outs in the eighth, then the skies opened. Leo Jimenez continued his hot hitting leading Vancouver to victory. Buffalo had the bats working to win. It rained on Dunedin as well.

Four wins and one loss on Friday. Buffalo were the only losers. Even with four wins there were few big performances as the affiliates used a few key hits and some good pitching.

Addison Barger had three more hits bringing his average up to .538. We know it wont last but its an impressive start in AA. Barger struck out almost 40% of the time last season which seriously impacted his prospect status. He cut that down to 30% in Vancouver and now in three games in AA he has three K's in 13 at bats. That leaves his BABIP at .700, unsustainable but nevertheless a fine start.

They say if you watch baseball you can see something new every night. Well I did on Thursday. In the Bisons game, ninth inning, Bisons down 3-2 with two outs but the tying run is on third. Pitcher throws a ball in the dirt that the catcher blocks but it rolls away from him. He takes off the mask as he goes for the ball but the mask hits the baseball. That's called a catchers balk and the runner scores. I don't remember seeing that before. I also saw three batters getting hit in a tied game in the ninth inning, that's a new one too.

It was close games day for the affiliates. Buffalo won in extra innings. Dunedin lost in extras. Vancouver walked it off in the bottom of the ninth while New Hampshire won by two.

It looks like about half of the Omaha Storm Chasers will also be coming to town.

Buffalo and Vancouver were your Wednesday winners. New Hampshire was shutout again and Dunedin dropped a doubleheader.

Buffalo and New Hampshire lost by six but Vancouver won by seven. Dunedin's game in St. Lucie was rained out. They will try to play two today.

When you've lost 9 of 10, you need to draw a line somewhere. But where?

Let's ask the Captain.

Vancouver hitters racked up 14 hits to deliver the only win on the farm on Sunday. New Hampshire hit four home runs and lost.

Spencer Horwitz was a triple short of the cycle for Buffalo. Unfortunately his teammates could only pick up one hit. New Hampshire hit three home runs on the way to a win. Vancouver just had one dinger but they also won. And finally Dunedin hit two home runs for another win.

We have some detailed pitching numbers for Dahian Santos and Eric Pardinho.