FanHouse Top 100 Kelly's Heroes

The Heroes lock down 7 of the top 100, not too bad. Grats to Krauss for making his 1st top 100 of the season.

#1 OF Mike Trout
#28 SP Mike Minor
#53 C Dereck Norris
#65 OF Oswaldo Arcia
#67 Jason Kipnis
#72 Tanner Scheppers
#99 OF Marc Krauss

Trade 2/9/2011

Shue Gets
26th
30th

JK Gets
38th
43rd
51st
59th

All picks are for the 2011 draft. Was going to take a reach at least at one of those 2 picks so it made sence to make that move.

Project Prospect

Here is member of Project Prospect top 100 players.

#2. OF Mike Trout
#28 2B Jason Kipnis
#30 SP Mike Minor
#42 2B Reese Havens
#50 C Dereck Norris
#68 RP Tanner Scheppers
#91 Johnny Giavotella

Heroes Keith Law Team Rankings

#1 OF Mike Trout
#2 C Dereck Norris
#2 2B Jason Kipnis
#3 SP Tanner Scheppers
#3 2B Reese Havens
#5 SP Mike Minor
#5 OF Oswaldo Arcia
#5 OF Marc Krauss
#7 SP Chris Dywer
#7 OF A.J. Pollack
#8 SP Aaron Miller
#9 OF Donavan Tate
#9 SS Edwardo Salcedo
#10 C Christian Betencourt

Keith Law's Top 100 (ESPN)

Five Heroes were honored and places on Keith Law's top 100.

#1 OF Mike Trout
#33 C Dereck Norris
#56 2B Jason Kipnis
#61 SP Mike Minor
#74 OF Oswaldo Arcia

MILB Top 50 Prospects

The Heroes posted 3 amoung the top 50 prospects in the game.

# 1 OF Mike Trout
#21 SP Mike Minor
#43 SP Tanner Scheppers

Trade 1/26/11

GI Zo's Get
3B Casey Blake

Heroes Gets
4th rd 60th overall

Trade 1/25/20111

Heroes gets
1B Daric Barton
2012 2nd rd

Shue Gets
1B James Loney
SP Alexander Colome
2012 4th Round

Trade 1/23/2011

First trade for the Kelly's Heroes of 2011.

Heroes Gets
RP Brian Fuentes
2012 2nd Round pick

Mauling Tigers gets
RP John Axford

Juan Rivera a Blue Jay

FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reports that the Blue Jays will also get Juan Rivera in the Vernon Wells/Mike Napoli swap.

The Angels had been wanting to unload Rivera's $5.25 million 2011 salary, but they took on Wells' ridiculous contract to do it. Rivera hit just .252/.312/.409 with 15 homers over 416 at-bats in 2010, but he hit .287 and belted a career-high 25 bombs the year prior. If Jose Bautista plays third base, Rivera will slide into Wells' spot in the Blue Jays' lineup, likely playing left field with Rajai Davis sliding over to center.

Manny Ramirez Signed

SI.com's Jon Heyman reports that the Rays have signed both Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon to a one-year deals.

Damon will receive $5.25 million, plus a possible $750,000 more in attendance bonuses. That's a little more than we'd want to pay him, but the Rays more than made up for it by only having to give Manny $2 million. Damon will likely handle left field, which will probably result in Desmond Jennings getting more seasoning at Triple-A. Manny will be used as the primary DH. Dan Johnson appears ticketed for the first base job unless the Rays make another move.

Rem's Mock Draft

In Rem's lastest mock draft the Heros were getting a very nice haul.

6th pick Zach Lee
7th Chris Sale
10th Michael Choice

Nice mix of 1 collage bat, 1 collage arm and one 1high up side H.S. kid

2008 Redraft for the Kelly's Heros

Knowing what I know now what would have the Heros 2008 draft look like? Here is what it maybe have looked like:

3rd rd (27) SP Mat Latos, one of the best picks in the draft anyways I'll keep that one. Has become a front line SP. Was traded in the deal taht netted SP Chris Carpenter. (drafted 3rd 27th)

3rd rd (28)SP Brett Anderson, top line starter, ranked 24th among starters in my new baseball mag. If healthy for the full season will be the ace of the Heros this season. (drafted 4th rd 46th)

4th rd (43) SP Jeremy Hellickson, one of the very top pitching prospects entering the 2011 season. (drafted 5th rd 52th)

5th rd (54)SS/2B Asdrubal Cabrera, I'll take this pick the way it was. Turned into a starting middle infielder at the major league level. Worthy of being picked in the 5th round. (drafted 5th rd 54th)

5th rd (55) SS Alexi Ramirez, picked one spot after, has been a top 10 SS for the last 3 years. (drafted 5th 56th)

6th rd (65) OF Ryan Kalish, a sound pick looking back at it, but the Heros did not take there time and after an injury plagued year Kalish was released. In 2010 he was a 2nd rd pick in the CPL. (drafted 6th rd 65th)

6th rd (67) SP Brett Cecil, a very good rookie year in 2010, would be a solid player in any staff. (drafted 7th rd 73rd)

7th rd (76) SP/RP CJ Wilson, Leave this pick he was nice pick at this spot. Won the closer job in 2008, then last year was one of the better left handed SP out there. Lost CJ Wilson in the exp draft. (drafted 7th rd 76th)

7th rd (77) RP Daniel Bard, future closer? Well he already is a great set up man nice player to have in the pen. (7th rd 79th)

7th rd (78) RP Chris Perez, he is the Indians closer coming off a great year. (drafted 9th rd 97th overall)

8th rd (85) SS Alcides Escobar, while as a pro dosn't seem to be a super stud he was a very high ranked prospect and would have bee n a great chip. (drafted 8th 90th)

8th rd (86) SP Tommy Hanson, one of the best prospects never to be drafted in the CPL, now an ace at the major league level (undrafted)

10th rd (100) RP Neftali Feliz, set a rookie record for saves in 2010, looks to a top 10 closer for the next 10 years. C Devin Mescaro, was a good pick there but Feliz is already elite. (drafted 10th 102nd)

Lol its fun to look back and see what may have been :)