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Jeff Bailey: The New Josh Phelps?
Remember Josh Phelps? In 2002, he came up as a catcher-turned-first-baseman with the Blue Jays and absolutely smashed the ball (.396 wOBA) for 287 plate appearances. His 2003 was decent, if not mind-blowing. Phelps struggled badly in 2004 and got traded to Cleveland mid-season. He...
All Assumptions-Are-Dangerous Minor League Free Agent Team
12 days ago by
Lookout Landing
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Dave at Fangraphs passed along a link to this year's crop of minor league free agents. A popular thing to do with this information is pick out a handful of guys that would make interesting and potentially worthwhile pick-ups. This is not that. This is a full team made up of...
minor lines, 9/3/09
September 04, 2009 by
McCovey Chronicles
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Well, everyone knows the Giants are a pitching system. And they can find fine pitching performances from almost anywhere. Like 50th round pick Mike Loree throwing the equivalent of a perfect game last year. But I mean, seriously, at some point, isn't it just...
minor lines, 8/31/09-9/1/09
September 02, 2009 by
McCovey Chronicles
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A combined lines to catch up here. The highlights from the system: (a) Not a highlight, but the game of Monday was the AZL Championship. In a rematch of 2007, the Mariners again defeated the Giants for the title, this time 4-3; (b) On Monday, Josh Phelps in Connecticut...
minor lines, 8/26/09
August 29, 2009 by
McCovey Chronicles
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Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I'm way late (blame that damn leopard in the cold weather...and hope my bosses don't see me writing that).
Highlights that you missed on Wednesday's nice day of pitching: (a) That Bumgarner kid threw...
minor lines, 8/17/09
August 18, 2009 by
McCovey Chronicles
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Highlights from the Giants' farm: (a) John Bowker homered while reaching base three times; (b) Matt Kinney faced just two batters over the minimum in 6.0 IP; (c) John Monell homered while reaching base twice; (d) Juan Perez had two doubles; (e) Eric Surkamp allowed just 1 ER...
minor lines, 8/15/09
August 16, 2009 by
McCovey Chronicles
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Highlights from the Giants' farm: (a,b) Brad Boyer and Johnny Monell both reached base in all four plate appearances; (c) Kevin Frandsen had three hits; (d) Josh Mazzola homered among his two hits; (e) Aaron King allowed just 1 ER in 6.0 IP; and (f,g) Geivy Garcia and Clayton...
The Top 177 Devil Rays Ever: #131
March 26, 2009 by
Bugs & Cranks
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In our continuing efforts to preserve and protect the full, proud history of our proud, great and dominant franchise, and to hagiographize the many, many valiant warriors who have contributed to that proud history, every Monday through Thursday we’ll be counting down The Top...
2009 MLB Preview: #17 San Francisco Giants
March 23, 2009 by
Scores Report
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Offseason Movement: The G-Men added a solid piece to their starting rotation in former Cy Young-winner Randy Johnson. The club also signed free agent Edgar Renteria to play shortstop, and added Jeremy Affeldt and Bob Howry in hopes to strengthen their bullpen. Rich Aurilia and Josh...
2008 All Glove Team
February 23, 2009 by
Future Redbirds
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We’ve talked about the Total Zone Ratings already now available at minor league splits. You can read more about them here. These are the players who had the best gloves in the system last year, by position.
1B - Josh Phelps - 9 runs, 11 runs per 150 games
2B - Jose Martinez ...
2009 First Base
January 18, 2009 by
The Chuck Knoblog
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This happens to be a fairly close position and everyone is strong here so its a good place to start. Yankees- Mark Teixeira- The Yankees stole him right from under Boston's nose and it probably puts them at the top here. Clearly, he was the best free agent available this year. Teixeira ...
San Francisco Giants Off Season Report
January 10, 2009 by
Baseball Reflections
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Season Wrap Up
2008 saw the Bond-less Giants tied for the 6th worst record in baseball at 72-90, but I actually thought they had a chance of reaching 100 losses so they did better than I thought they would. They went into the year without a solid closer, which effects the rest...
Odds 'n Ends (or, Michaels 'n Cabrera)
December 15, 2008 by
Where Is Andy Van Slyke
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Jason Michaels signed with the Astros this afternoon. This isn't really a big deal because if you get past Michaels' improbable 44 RBI, he was actually quite awful with the Pirates last year. He hit .228/.300/.382 with the Bucs in 254 plate appearances and his right-handed...
Game 153 Recap: Cubs 5, Cardinals 4
September 20, 2008 by
Cub Reporter
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Cubs Clinch Division, First Back-to-Back since 1907-1908, Earliest since 1932
W - Lilly (16-9), You, Me, Santo, Harry, 104-year-old-dude-who-threw-out-the-first-pitch, all Cubs fans.
L - Pineiro (6-7), the rest of the NL Central
S - Wood (32)
Box Score, Photos...
Wake Up Pittsburgh!
January 26, 2008 by
We Should Be GM's
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The fat sleepy bear has since begun to stir this past week in preparation for pitchers and catchers reporting in 19 days with the minor league signing trio of Jaret Wright, Casey Fossum, and Hector Carrasco...now that's inspiring. Wright missed all of '07, the Rays let Fossum...
Yankees DL Another One?
June 20, 2007 by
Hot Stove New York
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Yankees leadoff hitter Johnny Damon was not in the starting lineup last night and may not be at all in the immediate future.
This recent development is bad news for the Yankees as they are already scrambling to fill-out their lineup. Yesterday the team designated Josh Phelps for...
Andy Phillips Rides Again!
June 20, 2007 by
Hot Stove New York
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Yesterday, the Yankees promoted infielder and cult hero Andy Phillips from AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Phillips had been playing well down there, batting .301 with 11 homers and 36 RBIs. Over the last two years, Phillips has battled some trying personal issues, including his wife'...
Yanks Could Shea Hey to Hillenbrand
June 18, 2007 by
Hot Stove New York
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Theoretically, Hillenbrand would be an upgrade over the Miguel Cairo/ Josh Phelps experiment, however the 31-year-old veteran has seen his playing time decrease in Anaheim this season with the emergence of the Angels' Casey Kotchman. Shea is batting .246 with three homers and 18...
Joe Juggling
May 16, 2007 by
Hot Stove New York
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Abreu protecting Phelps...Cano benched...Is Torre panicking?
Chris Shelton Gets Booed in AAA
August 04, 2006 by
The Futon Report
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Although Chris Shelton had a successful first game in AAA (2-for-4 with an RBI triple), he got booed when he made a mental mistake on the basepaths. "Running to second on a ground ball hit by Josh Phelps, Shelton eluded the tag by Louisville second baseman William Bergolla, then...
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