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Season awards are great, and like All-Star Game selections, provide opportunity to complain about worthiness and unworthiness on a yearly basis. We all know the BWAA are going to screw something up, it's almost a requirement, but there is some method to the madness; so in making these selections, I'm not going to be strictly looking at–I don't know–who the most valuable...
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September 03, 2008
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Francisco Rodriguez chases 57
Tonight Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez saved his 51st game of the season in pursuit of the MLB record 57 games saved held by Bobby Thigpen for the 1990 Chicago White Sox. With over a month left in the season, here's saying he breaks it. Having said that, there are several by-products that will invariably result from such an accomplishment and I wanted to look over those here now.
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August 29, 2008
Those Tenacious Tampa Bay Rays: 80-Game Winners
Can you believe it? I'll be the first to point out that a) I liked the Tampa Bay Rays enough to bet on them to win over 79.5 games in Las Vegas prior to the season starting (only $20 confident though); and b) I sure didn't think they'd do it before September.
Let's be honest here. No one did.
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August 28, 2008
All-Star Game 2008: The Home Run Derby - Handicapping the Contestants
I love the home run derby (as with most things baseball). It's a contest of power that proves nothing, but it puts on a great show for the fans. Fans want to be able to debate all of the nuances of the game and again, while the home run derby proves nothing, it provides fodder for such debates.
This season, just for the heck of it, I'm going to attempt to handicap the Home Run Derby.
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July 14, 2008
Rotogod Says: One-Third Mark All-Stars - Fantasy Baseball 2008
Rotogod here. Today I will be kicking off a three-part series in which I'm going to talk about a very important phase in the fantasy baseball season: the one-third or two month mark of the season. It is at the one-third mark that fantasy owners can begin to more accurately assess players now that their performances are fairly well established. Here are my One-Third All-Stars...
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May 29, 2008
MLB Amateur Draft 2008: My Draft Board + Pedro Alvarez Scouting Report
With the MLB amateur draft approaching, I thought it would be a good time to start profiling some of the young talent that may be coming to a team near you. Generally speaking, this draft does not have a consensus top prospect, like a Justin Upton or David Price, so it's anyone's guess who the top pick will be and the Tampa Bay Rays are thought to be deciding between Buster...
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May 27, 2008
CIN Reds' Top Prospect Jay Bruce to Debut Today
Sports Illustrated is reporting that Cincinnati Reds top prospect Jay Bruce will be making his debut today against the Pittsburgh Pirates...
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May 27, 2008
Links: Dodgers Gearing-Up for a Clayton Kershaw Debut?, LA Angels to Host 2010 All-Star Game, LA Dodgers to Host WBC, Joba Chamberlain and his CRAZY Antics and More!
1) Are the Dodgers gearing up for a Clayton Kershaw Debut? 2) Los Angeles Angels will host the 2010 All-Star Game, Los Angeles Dodgers will host the 2009 World Baseball Classic. 3) Joba Chamberlain and his crazy antics. 4) Weekend MLB announcing schedule. 5) The Red Sox are Un-Stoppable. 6) The New York Yankees find themselves in a familiar hole. 7) UFC 84.
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May 23, 2008
The Draft That Won't Be Hyped Into Submission
Anyone who turned on ESPN between the months of February and April was at serious risk of becoming exposed to the draft hype epidemic. Wherever or whenever you turned to catch sports highlights or news, you were sure to see Mel Kiper Jr. or Chris Mortensen telling you what it means for Player X to have a better 40-time that Player O. It all became one big circus, as it does every year.
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May 23, 2008
JOBA TIME: Chamberlain to Prepare to Move to NY Yankee Rotation
This just in: the New York Yankees are now preparing Joba Chamberlain for a spot in their rotation. Chamberlain will now begin increasing his innings totals until he is able to pitch the 100 pitches per game necessary to start.
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May 21, 2008
Minor League Report: Checking in with 2008's Top Prospects Part II
Today I will cover some of 2008's top prospects, as a continuation of the last time we checked in, covering Cincinnati Reds prospect Jay Bruce, Los Angeles Angels prospect Brandon Wood, Los Angeles Dodgers prospect Clayton Kershaw and St. Louis Cardinals prospect Colby Rasmus.
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May 21, 2008
Rotogod Says: Hot and Slow Starts, Buy or Sell? Part II - Fantasy Baseball 2008
Fantasy baseball expert Rotogod discusses the legitimacy of the performance of Chipper Jones, Lance Berkman, Jon Lester, Kevin Youkilis, Eric Gagne, Ervin Santana and Josh Hamilton in this weeks look at hot and slow starts.
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May 20, 2008
All-Star Game '08: Top Players from the NL & AL
I love the All-Star game. At no other point in the season does more discussion take place on player performance, merit, entitlement, etc. on a game that doesn't even matter. Still, I vote. It's a yearly event and I love it.
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May 19, 2008
Scouting Report: Yu Darvish, RHP, Nippon Ham Fighters - Dice-K, Watch Out!
Daisuke "Dice-K" Matsuzaka had better watch out. There is a new Japanese phenom on the horizon. Yu Darvish, the 6? 5? half-Japanese, half-Iranian fire-baller has already won the Japanese equivalent of the Cy Young award as well as the equivalent of the World Series MVP and he's only 21.
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May 14, 2008
LINKS: Big Papi and Francona Have BEEF, Jon Papelbon Teaches Hideki Okajima How to Play Craps (In the Warning Track) and More!
Some sweet links:
1) Greg Maddux scouting report from today and from his prep days.
2) Big Papi and Terry Francona are going to throw down?!?
3) Jon Papelbon teaches Hideki Okajima how to play craps...in the warning track dirt.
4) Paul DePodesta talks about the effects of PETCO park on SD Padres.
5) Top-10 high school hitters in the amateur draft.
6) Eric Gagne and Jason...
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May 13, 2008
Ten Things to Look for in the Month of May: National League
April baseball is a lot of fun, the new season is still exciting and fans get wrapped up in emerging story-lines. Among these, Florida Marlins sit atop the National League East, beating out the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies; the Chicago Cubs, on the brink of their 100th seasons without a World Series, are looking poised to make a run; and the Colorado Rockies are looking...
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May 11, 2008
Monday Morning Links: Teixeira Plans to Get Paid, Hanley Ramirez Might Get Paid, What's Going on With Brandon Wood and More!
Great baseball links from around the blogosphere.
1) Mark Teixeira plans for a big pay-day.
2) Hanley Ramirez contract extension?
3) Brandon Wood hitting mechanics.
4) Odds on the #1 pick in the NBA draft.
5) UCLA sports round-up.
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May 11, 2008
Rotogod Says: Ask Rotogod - Fantasy Baseball 2008
Rotogod here. It's been a while, rotofans. I trust your fantasy baseball teams are all in first place and have suffered no injuries. Mine too. I jest.
Today, I will be taking more questions, following up on my last Ask Rotogod post, covering Cliff Lee, trades and waiver wire pickups.
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May 07, 2008
Minor League Report: Checking in With 2008's Top Prospects
With the Major League season now a little more than a month deep, I thought it would be a good time to check in with some of the league's notable prospects, Jay Bruce, Cameron Maybin and Homer Bailey, and see how they've fared in the early goings.
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May 05, 2008
You Be the Mastermind: Are the Oakland A's Legit?
I don't have time to post something tonight as I have a midterm and a paper due tomorrow, so here is a question for today. Feel free to comment on it and discuss. Regular posting will resume tomorrow.
Question
With the addition of Frank Thomas and a relatively strong pitching staff and defense, wil...
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May 01, 2008
Seattle Extends Catcher Jenji Johjima, What about Jeff Clement?
The Seattle Mariners have announced their decision to give catcher Kenji Johjima a three-year $24 million contract extension. This news should come as some shock as the Mariners' top prospect, Jeff Clement, is a catcher and at the moment, is hitting .397/.535/.692 with five home runs for AAA Tacoma.
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April 30, 2008
The San Francisco Giants Demote Barry Zito to the Bullpen, Should Demote Themselves Instead
Let's get some things straight: 1) Zito was never a hard-thrower and while the decline in his velocity is concerning, it was an inevitability, although the Giants were hoping the decline would come later rather than now. 2) Zito has never had good command of his fast ball. Even when Zito was at his best with Oakland, he was walking between 78 and 99 batters per season from 2001...
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April 29, 2008
What's Wrong With Francisco Liriano?
This is a question that many, especially within the Minnesota Twins organization are asking right now as the decision was made last week to option Francisco Liriano down to AAA Rochester. All of the indications are that Liriano is healthy and isn't experiencing any pain in his delivery, so the problem must be either mechanical and/or to some extent mental.
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April 27, 2008
The Evan Longoria Extension: Taking the Trend to the Next Level
Simply put, I wanted to go on the record and state that the Evan Longoria extension was absolutely brilliant. The terms are for six guaranteed years at $17.5 million, plus a one-year option for 2014 and a two-year option for 2015-16, which could raise the total value to nine-years and $44 million, ...
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April 25, 2008
Frank Thomas Re-Signs with the A's, How Do You Like Me Now?
The Oakland Athletics announced their decision to bring back DH Frank Thomas for $337,000, or the prorated portion of the league minimum after the Toronto Blue Jays made the decision to release Thomas when the slugger complained publicly of the Jays' decision to cut back his playing time. The Blue J...
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April 25, 2008
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