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A Few More Signings

The Phillies signed Placido Polanco to a three-year $18 million deal and will switch him from second to third. I don’t like this deal at all for the Phils...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 2 days ago 39 reads 0 comments
A's Get Jake Fox from the Cubs

The Jack Cust Era in Oakland appears to be over, as the A’s have just acquired Jake Fox, the player most likely to be the next Jack Cust...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 3 days ago 39 reads 0 comments
More on Giants Decision Not to Offer Bengie Molina Arbitration

Grant Bisbee of the McCovey Chronicles thinks the Giants made the right move not offering Bengie Molina arbitration...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 4 days ago 12 reads 0 comments
Braves Sign Billy Wagner

The Braves signed Billy Wagner today to a contract which guarantees the 38 year old left-handed closer $7.25 million ($7 million in salary in 2010, a $250,000 buy-out, and $6.5 million in 2011 guaranteed if Wagner finishes 50 games in 2010)...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 5 days ago 32 reads 0 comments
Should Scutaro Accept Jays' Arbitration Offer?

The one Type-A free agent who might be well served by accepting his team’s arbitration offer is Marco Scutaro...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 5 days ago 69 reads 0 comments
Giants Don't Offer Bengie Molina Arbitration

Giants GM Brian Sabean just doesn’t value those draft picks. The Giants would have received two picks by offering Bengie Molina arbitration, because, I suspect, there was little chance that Molina would have accepted...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 5 days ago 17 reads 0 comments
Old Reliable Passes On

Tommy Henrich, a great, but under-remembered, Yankees star passed away today at the ripe old age of 96. Here’s an AP article with the highlights of his career, which included the first ...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 5 days ago 14 reads 0 comments
How Much Will It Cost to Sign Them?

Now that Joe Mauer has won the MVP and become the first catcher since at least 1900 to lead his league in OPS, and Tim Lincecum has won his second’s consecutive Cy Young Award, how much ...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 8 days ago 101 reads 0 comments
Money Ball Moves

The Red Sox traded for minor league middle infielder Tug Hulett from the Royals today. Hulett is a guy that Money Ball teams like the Sox would like...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 9 days ago 31 reads 0 comments
Fast Takes

The Blue Jays resigned good-field-no-hit shortstop John McDonald to a $1.5 million contract for 2010. It’s still too much money for a player who will be 35 years old and is coming off a career year with the bat in which he still only had only a ..

Written by Tom Dubberke about 12 days ago 21 reads 0 comments
Albert Pujols Wins NL MVP Unanimously

Again to no one’s surprise, The Great Pujols won the National League’s MVP award unanimously. Two things come to mind for me, one negative and one positive, although with even the positive comes with an unsettling undertone...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 12 days ago 1 reads 0 comments
Mauer Wins AL MVP

No surprise there. Mauer was the obvious choice, given that the Twins made the post-season, and he led the league in hitting while playing more than 100 games at catcher. The number that really caught my attention is Mauer’s 1...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 13 days ago 6 reads 0 comments
Details on Ken Griffey's Contract with the Mariners; Vizquel Signs with ChiSox

Details of Ken Griffey, Jr.’s 2010 contract with the Mariners were reported today. He will get a guaranteed $2.35 million with incentives, that I’ll describe below, that could bring the deal up to $3...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 13 days ago 53 reads 0 comments
Post-Season Wrap-Up of North American Players in Japan, Part 1

It’s time for post-season wrap-ups on my series about the North American players who slugged it out in Japan this year. For more information on the players discussed here, see my posts from June 17 and June 18 of this year...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 16 days ago 35 reads 0 comments
Braves Looking to Trade Derek Lowe

Reports have it that the Braves are hoping to trade Derek Lowe this off-season. For some reason, I find the idea of the Braves thinking they can find someone to take Lowe and his outrageous contract off their hands in this economy very amusing...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 17 days ago 86 reads 0 comments
Lincecum Wins Second Consecutive Cy Young

Tim Lincecum won his second consecutive Cy Young award in what was the third closest vote since the current scoring system went into effect in 1970...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 17 days ago 10 reads 0 comments
Greinke Wins AL Cy Young

To no one’s surprise, Zack Greinke just won the AL Cy Young Award. I wrote a post a while back regarding the top AL Cy Young contenders...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 19 days ago 2 reads 0 comments
Rookie of the Year Awards

I haven’t really spent a lot of time thinking about baseball’s best rookies this year, and I don’t really have any strong feelings about the choices the voters made. Chris Coghlin hit ...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 20 days ago 37 reads 0 comments
Stray Thoughts

SI.com is reporting that Pablo “Kung-Fu Panda” Sandoval is taking his off-season workout regimen seriously and has already lost ten pounds (he was a reported 5′11″ and ...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 23 days ago 20 reads 0 comments
Annual Rant on the Gold Glove Awards

Every year I complain about the Gold Glove awards, because the voters clearly don’t understand: (1) the Gold Glove should go to the best fielder at each position, not the best overall ...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 25 days ago 37 reads 0 comments
The Rich to Get Richer?

SI’s Jon Heyman reports that the Phillies are going to go hard after 3Bman Chone Figgins. That makes a lot of sense...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 25 days ago 133 reads 0 comments
Mariners Re-Sign Griffey

The Mariners resigned Ken Griffey, Jr. to a one-year deal for 2010 at an amount reported to be slightly more than the $2 million base salary they game him in 2009...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 26 days ago 5 reads 0 comments
Andrew Baggarly on the Giants

Here’s an article from Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News on what he thinks the Giants are thinking about this off-season...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 26 days ago 23 reads 0 comments
Still Adrift in KC

I was looking at Miguel Olivo’s numbers today, as one of the younger free agent catchers on the market this off-season (he’ll be 32 next year), and I’m frankly amazed that the Royals declined his 2010 mutual option for $3...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 27 days ago 22 reads 0 comments
Interesting Development in Angel Villalona Murder Case

Giants former super-prospect Angel Villalona has been released on bond as a result of a $139,000 settlement with the family of 25 year old victim Mario Felix de Jesus Velete. Villalona signed for a $2...

Written by Tom Dubberke about 27 days ago 10 reads 0 comments

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Tom Dubberke Article Archive

A Few More Signings

A's Get Jake Fox from the Cubs

More on Giants Decision Not to Offer Bengie Molina Arbitration

Braves Sign Billy Wagner

Should Scutaro Accept Jays' Arbitration Offer?

Giants Don't Offer Bengie Molina Arbitration

Old Reliable Passes On

How Much Will It Cost to Sign Them?

Money Ball Moves

Fast Takes

Albert Pujols Wins NL MVP Unanimously

Mauer Wins AL MVP

Details on Ken Griffey's Contract with the Mariners; Vizquel Signs with ChiSox

Post-Season Wrap-Up of North American Players in Japan, Part 1

Braves Looking to Trade Derek Lowe

Lincecum Wins Second Consecutive Cy Young

Greinke Wins AL Cy Young

Rookie of the Year Awards

Stray Thoughts

Annual Rant on the Gold Glove Awards

The Rich to Get Richer?

Mariners Re-Sign Griffey

Andrew Baggarly on the Giants

Still Adrift in KC

Interesting Development in Angel Villalona Murder Case

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