New York Yankees: Baseball Blogs Hottest Topic
Over the last two weeks, the hottest topic that has everyone from baseball fans, bloggers and expert analysts talking about is what the heck are the New York Yankees going to do about their now over-crowded pitching rotation, and more specifically AJ Burnett.
Logos from around the baseball blogosphere.
Among the three contenders, which also include Phil Hughes and Freddy...
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13 days ago
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13 days ago
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Brad Peacock, 2012 Fantasy Sleeper
Brad Peacock isn’t even ranked in the top 150 starters for CBS. Then again they have Javier Vazquez ranked 47th overall and he retired, so there’s that. Here’s what I said when he was traded to the A’s, “Peacock had a great season in Double- and Triple-A last year, putting up a 2.39 ERA and a 177/47 K/BB line. The A’s basically got Gio Gonzalez...
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16 days ago
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16 days ago
Where Have All the Expos Gone?
Another one bites the dust. With Orlando Cabrera announcing his retirement yesterday, we lose one of the last few players that can be largely identified with the now defunct Montreal Expos. It is a club that might soon be extinct, actually. Out of all the remaining "true" Expos, just Vladimir Guerrero and, arguably, Javier Vazquez remain and both of those players are...
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23 days ago
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23 days ago
New York Yankees Hot Stove: How To Be Insanely Sane By Doing Nothing
Ace CC Sabathia Image via Wikipedia
Since winning the 2009 World Series, the New York Yankees have been desperately trying to add a legitimate starting pitcher to the rotation, unsuccessfully.
THROWING A HAIL MARY:
As defending champs heading into 2010 season, GM Brian Cashman’s solution was Javier Vazquez, again, which irritated Yankee fans to no avail, again. No need to chat...
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January 11, 2012
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January 11, 2012
Starting Pitchers Still On The Market
The Pirates could be spending some more money on another starting pitcher here in the next few days or weeks, so I wanted to take a look at the remaining free agent pitchers that they could be looking at. Obviously not all of these names even make sense for the Pirates, but it's interesting to see the whole list. Jeff Francis is a popular name, mainly because the Pirates have...
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January 05, 2012
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January 05, 2012
Destinations For The Ten Best Remaining Free Agents
Baseball executives A.J. Hinch and Kenny Williams each batted around .219 in their big league careers. That may help you visualize how I'm doing in MLBTR's free agent prediction contest this offseason. With 7 of 32 correct, I currently rank 922nd out of over 5,000 entries. In contrast, MLBTR readers Kay Jay, David Silverberg, Alex Gregor, and Shaun O'Toole lead...
Via MLB Trade Rumors
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December 27, 2011
Remaining Free Agent Innings Eaters
Finding an innings eater is not as easy as you’d think. Seven MLB teams didn’t have a single pitcher throw 200 innings in 2011 and none of those seven clubs made the playoffs. Only five teams -- the Angels, Phillies, Brewers, Giants and Diamondbacks -- had three pitchers log 200 innings. Those five clubs averaged 93 wins and accounted for all three division titles in the National...
Via MLB Trade Rumors
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December 21, 2011
Frank Wren: The best in the business?
By Kent Covington
As the Braves survey the marketplace for potential trades and roster upgrades, they do so from a position of strength. That strength comes not only from their bounty of bargaining chips—few teams are as well stocked with young talent—but also from the competence of their front office.
Atlanta Braves General Manager, Frank Wren, is quite simply one of the...
Via BravesWire
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December 16, 2011
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December 16, 2011
Bullpen Banter: The Florida Marlins
A new feature we’re starting at 85% Sports is Hot Stove Banter – baseball discussions between Russ Blatt and myself. For the first one, we’re tackling the moves the Marlins made at the Winter Meetings.
Eugene: Thoughts on the Marlins moves?
Russ: Its simple. New stadium means new revenues. However, if you want people to come to the ballpark you need players...
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December 12, 2011
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December 12, 2011
The Dumber-than-Marcels: Free Agent Starters
My first run-through of the dumber-than-Marcel projections for position players left me quite skeptical of the top-line free agents. Now I’ve done the pitchers, my sense is that once again it’s the middle-class free agents who will offer better value.
These projections are based on a 3/2/1/2 regressed weighted average of pitcher value stats, a 50-50 split of Fangraphs and...
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November 16, 2011
Sometimes It’s Better to Miss Out on a Trade
Jonathan Papelbon has signed with the Philadelphia Phillies so for now he is mostly out of our lives. There was one interesting story though that has come out since he left Boston.
Peter Gammons tweeted a story about the offseason the Yankees landed Javier Vazquez. Apparently before the Yankees made the deal for him with the Braves, the Red Sox offered Papelbon up for him but they...
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November 12, 2011
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November 12, 2011
Trying To Figure Out Mark Buehrle
If there’s one truism in baseball that rings more true than all the others, it is probably that pitchers are just remarkably inconsistent. Even putting injuries aside, you have things like Ryan Vogelsong coming out of nowhere to solidify the Giants rotation or Javier Vazquez just randomly vacillating between one of the league’s best pitchers and serving as a batting...
Via Fangraphs
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November 10, 2011
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November 10, 2011
2012 Free Agent Fantasy Sleepers: Starters
The free agent season is underway and while rumors continue to rule the interwebs, it's never too early to look ahead. These five starting pitchers might end up with some decent sleeper value should they land in the right spot as a free agent. Note: Some text origionally appeared in my 2012 Free Agent Primer series for The Outside Corner. Player's 2012 age in parenthesis...
Via Fantasy Baseball 365
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November 08, 2011
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November 08, 2011
Vazquez undecided whether he’ll pitch in 2012
According to a source close to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports, right handed pitcher Javier Vazquez is “50-50″ on whether he'll pitch in 2012. Rosenthal adds that it depends on the environment and the team. He also says that Vazquez has a “strong preference” to stay on the East Coast. Late in September, Vazquez showed signs of retirement when he threw the ball...
Via PRO Rumors
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November 04, 2011
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November 04, 2011
Marlins Courting Vazquez to Return
By the end of the 2011 season, Javier Vazquez had become the Florida Marlins' best pitcher. Over the second half of the season Vazquez amassed an ERA of 2.15, among the best in MLB, striking out 9 batters per 9 innings and holding opposing hitters to a .194 batting average.
Vazquez had been planning to retire after the 2011 season, but the Palm Beach Post reported Monday night...
Via NBC Miami
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November 01, 2011
2012 Free Agent Primer: Top 20 Starting Pitchers
There isn’t a ton of depth to the 2012 starting pitcher market and even some of the names toward the top carry some noticeable risk. However, there looks to be a few names that have the potential to provide production on the cheap for clubs willing to look past their 2011 struggles.
1. CC Sabathia (31) – It seems as though the Yankees will try to extend Sabathia before he hits...
Via The Outside Corner
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November 01, 2011
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November 01, 2011
Marlins hoping Javier Vazquez does not depart
With the quarrels of retirement surrounding pitcher Javier Vazquez, the Marlins are hoping that the 35-year old right-hander does not call it quits just yet. Probably just in-case the Marlins do not bring in anyone this offseason.
Vazquez started off slow and I remember giving him garbage for his poor play back in the beginning of the 2011 season. However, he finished great down...
Via Rant Sports
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November 01, 2011
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November 01, 2011
2012 Free Agent Primer: Top 20 Starting Pitchers
There isn’t a ton of depth to the 2012 starting pitcher market and even some of the names toward the top carry some noticeable risk. However, there looks to be a few names that have the potential to provide production on the cheap for clubs willing to look past their 2011 struggles.
1. CC Sabathia (31) – It seems as though the Yankees will try to extend Sabathia before he hits...
Via Bloguin Best
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November 01, 2011
Vazquez, Dobbs, Lopez officially free agents
As of 12:01 a.m. ET on Sunday, Javier Vazquez and Greg Dobbs joined a list of 148 MLB players who have formally filed for free agency. Infielder Jose Lopez rounds out the eligible members of the '11 Marlins who will test the market.
Via mlb.com
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October 30, 2011
Three Florida Marlins declared free agents; signing period starts Thursday
Greg Dobbs, Jose Lopez and Javier Vazquez were declared free agents along with 145 other major leaguers on Sunday morning. Teams can sign their own free agents at any time, but players cannot ink deals with new teams any earlier than Thursday at 12:01 a.m.
It’s unlikely we’ll see any big signings until after the new collective bargaining agreement is ratified. The current...
Via Sun Sentinel
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October 30, 2011
Marlins’ Anibal Sanchez Shows Off His Shiny New Strikeouts
While perusing the FanGraphs Team Pitching Totals page I was surprised to see the Marlins so high up on the FIP leader list. They’re ranked as 9th best in all of baseball. This is mostly a surprise because after the loss of their ace, Josh Johnson, I assumed that the pitching would certainly struggle. After Javier Vazquez’s (3.57 [...]
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October 27, 2011
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October 27, 2011
Wang Poised to Return to Washington
Quick. Name a starting pitcher on the New York Yankees from the mid-2000’s.
Randy Johnson and Mike Mussina are the gimmes. Andy Pettitte. Javier Vazquez. Carl Pavano. Kevin Brown. Orlando Hernandez. Chien-Ming Wang.
Chien-Ming Wang. The Taiwanese sensation is famous enough in his home country to incite a murder, but is routinely overlooked when reminiscing over quality starters...
Via Fangraphs
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October 17, 2011
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October 17, 2011
Could He Be A Cub: Javier Vazquez
In part one of this off-season series, VFTB takes a look at free agent starting pitcher Javier Vazquez. Is he a fit for the 2012 Cubs?
To read the rest of the post, be sure to visit us at www.viewfromthebleachers.com
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October 10, 2011
Razzball’s LABR of Love
I don’t particularly like the term ‘beginner’s luck’. If we won the LABR NL-Only Expert League (sponsored/hosted by Steve Gardner at USA Today), I imagine this dismissive term would be tagged on us. Those smart-ass bloggers won LABR – such beginner’s luck!
Unfortunately, we’ll never know because we finished in a tie for 7th place and...
Via Razzball
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October 06, 2011
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October 06, 2011
The Yankees season depends on THIS guy
I hate you so much, A.J. Burnett. I think I hate you as much as I hate Javier Vazquez AND Carl Pavano. This image seemed fitting, A.J. choking himself out...good warm up photo for what will surely be a Game 4 to remember, one way or the other. F U pal.
Oh yeah, hi rob!
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October 04, 2011
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