I noticed that in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 NFL Draft that our very own Adrian Clayborn is being considered amongst the very, very best of the elite prospects for next year's draft. Kiper and McShay (ESPN's asshat draft duo) both have Clayborn in their top 5 overall draft prospects for 2011. SB Nation's very own Mocking Dan has Clayborn as the 9th overall prospect.

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As anyone who has been reading Josh77's great minor league writeups knows, Starlin Castro has been living up to the hype and then some so far this year at Tennessee. Seems like everytime I look he's having a multi-hit game. Today was no exception: Castro went 2-4 with two runs, a double, a HR, 2 RBI and 6 total bases. His average is now sitting at a ridiculous .380 on 50 at bats. You really have to look hard to find something to hold against him, and the only thing I can find is that he has 2 errors in 11 games. Obviously that's not fantastic, but for a kid who's not even a month past his 20th birthday, I think we can more than live with those results right now.

Given how hard the last three games have been on us, I think we could use some good news, and Castro (as well as others in the farm system) are providing some real hope. I didn't imagine in my wildest dreams Castro would hit this well so early, and it's really making me rethink when he should be called up. Previously I felt that he shouldn't be added until 2011 given his age, but now I want to see him up in a matter of months. Where does everyone else stand on his callup date as of now? Anyone moving their date up like I have?

I'm getting ready for the season ahead and I'm trying to learn all I can about the Cubs upcoming prospects, especially the ones that are getting hyped. I know several such as Starlin Castro, Josh Vitters, Jay Jackson and Andrew Cashner made ESPN's Keith Law's top 100. I was wondering if anyone here would mind posting the blurbs he wrote about each Cub. Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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If only ESPN the Magazine wasn't so crappy, I wouldn't need to ask this of all you fine people. However, that is not the case...

Is there someone who has an ESPN subscription who can find out where the Bulls rank in the future power rankings? I'm curious to know.

I noticed that David Thorpe recently published a new list of rankings. This time, it's a combination of the rookies and the sophomores. I don't have an ESPN Insider account so I was wondering if anyone here could find out where Rose (and if he's included Taj) are on his list. I've found elsewhere that Tyreke Evans is #6 and someone somewhere inferred that Brook Lopez was #1, but other than that I have no idea.