MLB Bonus Baby is merging with Minor League Ball. Considering that the draft and the minors are essentially the same demographic, the two sites are merging. The audience there is larger and the site here just doesn't get the viewership needed to maintain as a separate entity. We tried it this past year and it just didn't work out.

John Sickels is a great Minor League prospects and MLB Draft mind and I hope to add to the already great site that I'm sure many of you belong to. If not, join right now as you are missing out on some of the best prospect information available. Thanks for reading my stuff and I hope to see you all at Minor League Ball.

Hayden Hurst's story of Tommy John surgery as an 8th grader.

Hudson Randall is #9 on CBD's countdown of the top 100 college players.

The Blue Jays signed Ronniel Demorizi out of the DPL for $105,000.

Onelkis Garcia will be eligible for the 2012 draft after sending teams running to find out his eligibility last year.

Through the Fence Baseball posted a Mock draft of the entire 1st and supplemental round.

Yoenis Cespedes hits a home run in a Dominican playoff game. Is it just me or is there a lot of Sammy Sosa in those actions.

The Yu Darvish contract was broke down by Maury Brown at Biz of Baseball.

An interesting look at how new technology is changing scouting by Bill Petti at BtB.

The Orioles signed a New Zealand fastpitch softball player named Pita Rona. Kinda cool.

Hunter Virant, a potential 1st rounder, signed with the Walla Walla Sweets this summer before attending UCLA, potentially.

A wide variety of good reading today. Great articles, scouting reports and lists from great sources.

Mike Newman at Fangraphs has a nice article about the debut of Jameson Taillon.

Chris Webb at ESPN breaks down the benefits of going to college over pro ball.

Jason Churchill breaks down the Texas prep crop this year with Mitchell Traver at #1.

The New York Times has an article about how the draft has hurt Puerto Rico's decline in prospects.

MLB Draft Insider's Chris Crawford has his Draft Board posted.

College Baseball Daily continues the countdown with Kenny Diekroger at #13.

Perfect Game has a draft profile of potential #1 overall pick, Mark Appel.

MaxPreps posted their top player in each state.

Gary Brown runs his way into the #14 spot edging out slugger Michael Choice and power prep arms Zach Lee and Tyrell Jenkins.

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A list of players to think about, and those already drafted, after the jump.

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I watched part of the 2nd game of this year's PG Classic from July 3rd, 2011 today while I finally got some time. The first day in months I've had off form work at home or at work.

I'd write some stuff up, but you can just go to the MLB Bonus Baby Twitter, follow me and check out the timeline. I'm using it as my main twitter account now, so expect more of this going forward.

We chatted about draft prospects, pure hitters and random Twins stuff. Plan to do this more going forward. Check it out.