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How The Yankees Fell From Grace Part One: Letting Tino Martinez Go After 2001
It has been eight long years since the Yankees won a World Series. The last time they reached the fall classic was 2003, and every year since then they have been sent home early...
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Dodgers Are Worrying About Infield First
The Dodgers are trying to sort out their infield before they address their starting pitching. The solution remains elusive...
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Chicago Cubs Offseason: Ownership The Reason For Every Move
The buzz around the MLB offseason always focuses on at least a million different situations. This year, the Cubs are getting their usual expected press...
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Attrition By Addition: Cubs' Foes Continue Adding Mediocre Players
The Cubs might be best served staying put. Yesterday, a one-year contract was finalized between the Houston Astros and starter Mike Hampton worth $2 million...
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Market Shaping Up for Adam Dunn
The market for free-agent outfielder Adam Dunn is starting to take shape. The Braves, Mariners and Nationals are among the teams interested in Dunn, major-league sources say, and his list of suitors could grow quickly...
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The Boston Red Sox: Truly a Massachusetts Hometown Team
John Henry: Now, Theo, many Red Sox fans see Larry and me as carpet baggers... Theo: (to himself): Blah, blah, blah. John Henry: We need to let Sox fans know that despite the fact that we have been with the Orioles and the Diamondbacks and the Marlins...
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Report: White Sox Finalize Six-Player Javier Vazquez Deal with Atlanta Braves
The White Sox completed a six-player trade with the Braves today, sending pitchers Javier Vazquez and Boone Logan to Atlanta for catcher Tyler Flowers, infielders Jonathan Gilmore and Brent Lillibridge, and left-handed pitcher Santos Rodriguez...
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St. Louis Gets Busy: Cardinals Sign Trever Miller, Trade For Khalil Greene
Talk about timing. One day after I cautioned Cardinals fans to be patient, claiming general manager John Mozeliak was poised to strike in the market, he made me look like a prophet. The last 24 hours, he has been more active than the last month combined.
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Yankees Looking into Adam Dunn & Rocco Baldelli
(Zell's Pinstripe Blog) The Yankees should definitely consider going after Dunn and Baldelli. A lot of people are upset about having Brett Gardner as the Yankees starting center fielder next year...
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Breaking News: Khalil Greene Traded to St. Louis Cardinals
A report has surfaced out of St. Louis that the Cardinals have agreed to trade two relievers to the San Diego Padres for shortstop Khalil Greene. The names of the relievers have not yet been released...
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What Will Keep Pettitte Away From NY?
(Zell's Pinstripe Blog) It looks like Andy wants to be a Yankee, but he just won’t take a cut in pay. How can a deal be reached? No idea, but it looks like if Andy doesn’t change his mind he will be leaving NY...
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Khalil Greene Trade Is Good For The Cardinals...and Greene.
The San Diego Padres have agreed to trade shortstop Khalil Greene to the St. Louis Cardinals for two players, according to media reports. The Padres are likely to get pitching in return for Greene, but more importantly, they will shed the $6...
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Harold Baines for the Hall of Fame?
It amazes me that I'm even writing this.It seems to me that if you've got a player whose main job, nay, ONLY job for most of his career was to hit, he ought to have some damn impressive stats if you're going to talk about putting him in the Hall of Fame..
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"Pedro Was A Bust" Catching On
I blogged about it all year and caught lots of grief from my name-calling, but it looks like Pedro-bashing is catching on...
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Seatle Mariners Off Season Overview: Bedard, Ibanez and Putz
The Seattle Mariners need to make some off season changes. That is no question, but people are wondering how, when and who? Free Agents: The Seattle Mariners have recently signed 1B, 3B, and OF Russell Branyan...
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Job Wanted: Milwaukee Brewers' Bullpen
Hey, baseball fans. I'm back after a week's break. Too much turkey, I suppose. Last time we left off, we were taking a closer look at the Brewers' starting pitching. It seems that the rotation is anything but set...
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Cleveland Indians' Sabermetrics 101: BABIP
Inspired by this post at Beyond the Boxscore, here's my first "homework assignment" for Saber-Friendly Blogging 101.Batting Average on Balls In Play, BABIP, is essentially batting average for everything except strikeouts and walks...
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Baseball: Five Free Agent Signings That Make Sense (At Least in My Head)
1. Jason Giambi to the Giants I know, I know, he can't play defense. The obvious down side of this deal is that the Giants would be stuck playing the Giambino at first base 120-130 times a season, which is ugly at best...
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San Francisco Giants' Offseason Takes a Step Backwards, But It's a Small One
I was all set to write an article about how Edgar Renteria might not be a great idea for the San Francisco Giants, even at the relatively-cheap price of $9 million per year for two years...
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Goodbye Mr. Schilling
Want to know the best thing about being a Red Sox fan? I mean besides the fact that we finally won a World Series…twice in four years… Curt Schilling isn’t on the team anymore...
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Why The Yankees Are The Greatest: Part 7
As a young player, no one had ever seen anyone quite like him. He could hit the ball a mile and could do it from either side of the plate. He could run like a rabbit, once clocked going from the left handed batter’s box to first in 3...
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Pirates Trade Jack Wilson To Tigers
There has been an unconfirmed report that the Pittsburgh Pirates have traded veteran shortstop Jack Wilson to the Detroit Tigers. According to an unnamed source at PNC Park, news of the trade broke sometime late Thursday morning...
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Snow = Winter Meetings, I Thinks So
The snow has been falling in Green Bay, WI all day. This can mean only one thing that means another thing. Get it? Me neither. Anyway, it’s December in Wisconsin and with December comes the annual MLB Winter Meetings...
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Projecting Brewer Pitchers
These are very similar to the hitting projections I posted yesterday. I’ve been tweaking these a little bit since I first posted them on my old blog to make up for the fact that I had the ...
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MLB: All Decade Teams
Years ago I went through Bill James Win Share totals and put together first, second and third team all league teams for each decade in each league. They were entirely based on each player's win share total for that decade, with no subjectivity involved...



















