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Rangers Sign Yu Darvish To 6 Year/$60M Deal
Per Buster Olney of ESPN, the Rangers signed Japanese import Yu Darvish to a 6-year/$60M deal. Favorite Twitter gag about this so far:
Props to Angels GM Dipoto. Angels sign Wilson for 75 mil, force the Rangers to spend 120 mil to back fill his spot in the rotation #genius
I'm not so sure about that; word so far is that Darvish may be the best Japanese pitcher to hit the US...
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27 days ago
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Dodgers Ink Ethier, Loney, Still Working On Kershaw; Angels Sign Aybar
The Dodgers have signed one important and one unimportant piece for 2012, signing Andre Ethier and James Loney for single-year deals at $10.95M and $6.375M, respectively. The team will go to arbitration with Clayton Kershaw, with the Cy Young Award winner asking for $10M in his first year of arbitration eligibility, and the Dodgers offering $6.5M.
Also, the Angels signed Erick Aybar...
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27 days ago
OT: Stop PIPA/SOPA
I have (too late!) made general policy around here that politics are offlimits (I talk about them enough on Facebook), but today I'm making an exception to stop PIPA/SOPA, a pair of horrible bills that would do untold damage to the Internet. Please visit the EFF for more information. Also, Gizmodo has a nice gallery of sites going dark in protest.
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27 days ago
Bill James Predicts The Lansford/Burleson/Hobson Trade Outcome
Back when I was doing the daily series about player birthdays in team history, I ran this for Rick Burleson which detailed the catastrophic trade by the Angels of Carney Lansford, Mark Clear, and Rick Miller to Boston for Rick Burleson and Butch Hobson. That deal turned out to be a catastrophe for the Angels — it was the second such horror in as many years, given the team let Nolan...
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January 13, 2012
The Birth Of SaberBoy
The USA Today launchpad, and a nice followup post at The Platoon Advantage. An inspired act of genius; "the hero the BBWAA needs, not the one it particularly wants right now."
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January 12, 2012
Angels Sign Kendrys Morales To One-Year, $3M Deal
Per MLB.com, though I haven't been able to find dollars, the Times and Register both agree the amount is likely to be in the $3M range.
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January 11, 2012
Dodgers, Fox Cease Hostilities
Very interesting consequences from today's agreement, with both sides agreeing to cease legal actions against each other. The Dodgers will no longer pursue a TV rights sale, while leaving Frank on the hook to pay back a $30M loan Fox gave him personally to make payroll in April, 2011.
That loan is secured by McCourt's malpractice claim against Bingham McCutchen, the Boston-based...
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January 10, 2012
Barry Larkin Ascends To Cooperstown
... and none others (BBWAA). Congrats, Barry; one of these days, another Barry (coffBondscoff) should join you, but I won't be too surprised to find him excluded for strictly spurious reasons.
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January 10, 2012
Belated: Angels Extend Howie Kendrick Through 2015
The Angels signed second baseman Howie Kendrick for four years, buying out his last year of arbitration eligibility and the first three years of his free agency, and is said to be worth $33.5 million.
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January 09, 2012
Mark Trumbo's Return Delayed Five Months
The stress fracture in Trumbo's foot is healing slower than expected; he won't begin rehab until the beginning of spring training.
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January 04, 2012
Time Warner "Interested" in Dodgers
Time Warner is "interested" in buying the Dodgers; it makes sense from a fiscal standpoint (spend $4 billion for TV rights over 20 years, or own the team outright for less than half that?), but from a fan perspective, it looks for the world like a replay of the Fox years. DO. NOT. WANT.
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January 04, 2012
Joe Torre To Resign Post At MLB Operations To Join A Group Pursuing The Dodgers
Per tweets by Eric Fisher and Jon Heyman.
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January 04, 2012
Post Boxing Day Bullety Stuff
We know more about the district court's stay of the Dodgers TV rights auction:
Stark said lawyers for Fox have demonstrated a substantial likelihood they will succeed in January's hearing. That's because the bankruptcy judge who freed the Dodgers from the current contract arrangement with Fox improperly relied on a single case in making his decision, Stark said. In addition...
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December 27, 2011
District Court Stays Dodgers TV Rights Sale
A district court judge has ruled he is likely to find Fox's TV contract rights are enforceable even in bankruptcy, according to a tweet from Bill Shaikin. More details as they come in, but this is potentially huge for Fox, and devastating to McCourt's chances of escaping a forced sale of the team with any assets whatsoever. Yay.
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December 23, 2011
Judge Gross Calls Fox Early TV Rights Sale Objections "Disingenuous"
A scathing rebuttal:
Gross called Fox's damage claims "highly speculative and therefore unsubstantiated." Gross also cited as "never supported by evidence" the claim of former Fox Sports Networks President Robert Thompson that Fox would have discounted the Dodgers' contract by 25% without the negotiating rights now in dispute.
Fox has an exclusive negotiating window that lasts...
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December 15, 2011
More Changes From The New CBA
An interesting long-form article at ESPN about the many changes coming due to the new CBA. Among them:
Allowing teams from the same division to meet in the playoffs before the league championship series.
A ban on all visible tattoos, and any tattoos of commercial logos.
Pace-of-game violations of up to $10,000 after the sixth violation. This means things like stepping out of the...
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December 14, 2011
Angels Sign Kendrys Morales, $3M/1 Year, Other Transactions
Per the Times, the Angels signed Kendrys Morales to a $3M/1 year deal.
The Brewers have signed former Cub Aramis Ramirez worth $36M over three years with a fourth year mutual option.
The Cards re-signed Rafael Furcal to a one year deal worth $14M.
The Dodgers non-tendered Hong-Chih Kuo, though the team is interested in re-signing him. The Dodgers did tender contracts to Andre Ethier...
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December 12, 2011
Dodgers Sign Jerry Hairston, Jr. To 2-Year Deal
Per a tweet from the Dodgers official Twitter account. Dylan Hernandez says the deal is worth $850,000 in 2012 and $1.15M in 2013. Fangraphs seems to think this isn't such a horrible idea, valuing his 2011 contributions at $5.2M.
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December 12, 2011
Angels Sign Jerome Williams To One Year Deal
Bill Plunkett tweets that the Angels have signed arbitration-eligible (!!) 30-year-old Jerome Williams to a one-year deal, dollars unknown.
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December 12, 2011
Deirdre Pujols: “The City Of St. Louis Has Absolutely Been Deceived”
Several versions of this interview with Deidre Pujols, wife of slugger Albert, have appeared on the Interwebz, but I'm linking to the NBC Sports version because it contains all the key pieces you need to know. In particular:
“I understand you’re talking to us, then one TV station, and that’s about it,” is how Sandi Brown, morning show host at 99.1 Joy FM in St. Louis, opened...
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December 12, 2011
More Linkies On A Momentous Day
Turns out the Dodgers have a first baseman in the news, too: James Loney wrecked his Maserati November 14, and was arrested for drunk driving. A song for you, James:
You are now allowed to make jokes about Loney finally hitting something.
Sam Miller has a roundup of how Ken Rosenthal was right and everyone else was wrong about the Angels' pursuit of Pujols. Amazing, and good work...
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December 08, 2011
Angels Sign Albert Pujols To 10-Year Deal Worth At Least $250M; UPDATE: Wilson Signing Official
Worth at least $250M; mind, blown. Albert Pujols hardly needs introduction, though I might add that his recent decline may make Angels fans recall the days when Mike Port was the team's GM. As my friend Philip Michaels quipped on Twitter,
I'm very excited for Angels fans who will have the chance to watch Albert Pujols, Vernon Wells, and Torii Hunter age rapidly together.
On the...
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December 08, 2011
Angels Sign LaTroy Hawkins
For one year, dollars currently unknown, but I would expect it to be in the $3-4M range. Last year represented the final year of a two-year deal with the Brewers that was worth $4.25M, but free agent pitching has been bid up considerably with the deals the Dodgers did for Aaron Harang and Chris Capuano. Hawkins had a pretty good season last year, a 3-1 record with a 2.42 ERA, and...
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December 07, 2011
C.J. Wilson Is — Or Isn't — An Angel
A stray tweet by the SB Nation blog Lone Star Ball claimed that C.J. Wilson had been converted to Angeldom, but multiple tweets from other pro bloggers and sportswriters (Mike DiGiovanna of the Times, Yahoo's Tim Brown, Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman) indicate that bidding remains active, and that the Marlins have offered a sixth year. Jon Morosi claims Wilson has met with Nolan...
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December 07, 2011
Frank Must Sell Dodgers By April
Expanding on the blog posts from yesterday is this late night Times story that explains that while Frank must sell the team by April, the parking lots are a different matter, and he has "sole authority" to decide whether to do that. I hope the new ownership group crushes him like a bug.
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December 07, 2011
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