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Players A to Z, Josh Beckett
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Josh Beckett pitches as a starter for the Boston Red Sox. Beckett performs well in two of the three dimensions of pitching, striking out a high number of batters while walking few. Beckett’s weakness appears to be the home run ball, as hitters hammered him in a couple of seasons...
Player A to Z, Yorman Bazardo
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Yorman pitches both as a starter and reliever for the Houston Astros. In a short stint with the Tigers in 2007, Bazardo showed great control, something he needs due to his strikeouts being on the low side. In the two seasons since, however, he’s walked 27 batters in 35 innings...
Quote of the Day
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This from comment #6 on a Joe Posnanski post:
The problem with Royals fantasy camp is that there is a very good chance you will be better than the actual Royals.
Players A to Z, Jason Bay
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Jason Bay demonstrates his upper-cut swing. Photo: Icon SMI
Jason Bay played leftfield for the Boston Red Sox in 2009. He currently is a free agent, offered arbitration by the Red Sox. Jason is very close to a complete player. He sports a high career OBP and slugging percentage, and a decent [...]
The Case Against Pedroia to SS
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Shawn Haviland makes the case against Dustin Pedroia moving to shortstop.
Replay Standards
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Here’s an argument that when using replay to settle a disputed call, the original call by the umpire or referee should not matter.
Chass on Fehr
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Murray Chass reports on Don Fehr’s departure as head of the MLBPA. Fehr talks about the one thing he would have done differently:
“After the strike began in 1994, about four weeks into it, in early September,” he related, “it became clear that the clubs intended to force...
Abritration Offers
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Via True Grich (one of my favorite names for a baseball blog), MLB Trade Rumors has the list of free agents offered arbitration. The Angels offered it to both their type-A free agents, John Lackey and Chone Figgins, two players good enough that they’ll test the market rather...
Free Molina
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The Giants did not offer Bengie Molina arbitration. Metsblog.com rounds up the reactions, and believes the Mets will out-bid San Francisco for Molina’s services. It looks like the Giants job goes to Buster Posey, unless Bochy decides he likes whatever veteran backup the Giants sign better.
Wagner to the Braves
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Wow. The Braves waste no time signing Billy Wagner once Boston made their arbitration decision.
Relief pitcher Billy Wagner has signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Atlanta Braves, according to a report on Foxsports.com.
The deal includes a $6.5 million vesting option for a...
No Arizona Arbitration
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The Diamondbacks joined the ranks of teams not offering arbitration to any of their free agents as they declined Doug Davis, Scott Schoeneweis and Chad Tracy.
Players A to Z, Jose Bautista
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Jose Bautista plays outfield for the Toronto Blue Jays. His career batting is just .238, but constitutes a very small percentage of his offense. He draws a very good number of walks and he does have some power. The problem is that his batting average is so low that his overall OBP [...]
Short Attention Span Theather
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Rob Neyer is not surprised that stimulant exemptions keep going up due to ADHD. It’s like all the players who found a medical reason to take human growth hormone when they were already large men.
Players A to Z, Miguel Batista
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Miguel Batista pitched in relief for the Seattle Mariners and is currently a free agent. Batistia bounced back and forth between starting and relieving in his career, having success as a starter for Arizona and success as a closer for the Blue Jays. He tends to walk more batters as...
Tigers Say No to Polanco
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The Tigers declined to offer arbitration to Placido Polanco, but did offer it to Fernando Rodney and Brandon Lyon. I would think there’s a good enough market for Polanco that he would have tried for free agency. With the Red Sox thinking of moving Pedroia to short, Polanco, with...
Shoppach to the Rays
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The Rays acquired Kelly Shoppach from the Boston Red Sox for a player to be decided upon.
This trade does open the possibility that the Rays will cut ties with Dioner Navarro instead of offering him arbitration by the December 12th deadline as there is no need to keep both catchers...
Bay and Wagner Offered Abitration
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The Red Sox offered arbitration to two players they would like to keep, Jason Bay and Billy Wagner. Bay should be a hot enough commodity that if he accepted the offer, the Red Sox would likely save money. The Red Sox would not mind the draft choices, either:
“I think it’...
Brewers Say No to Arbitration
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The Brewers offered none of their free agents arbitration.
By not offering arbitration, the Brewers forfeit the rights to supplemental first-round draft picks in June when those players sign with other clubs.
Obviously, the Brewers feared one or more of those players would accept...
No Dodgers Offered Arbitration
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Via Dodger Thoughts, Los Angeles declined to offer any of their free agents arbitration. Jon Weisman is not happy:
I had almost talked myself into an argument for not offering Hudson arbitration, though it was on a pretty shaky foundation. In particular, however, the decision to let...
Henrich Passes
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Old Reliable, Tommy Henrich, died today, Tuesday at the age of 96:
Henrich hit the first game-ending home run in World Series history, leading off the bottom of the ninth inning with a drive against Don Newcombe to beat Brooklyn 1-0 in the 1949 opener.
“He was extremely good...
Salary Calculations
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Maury Brown serves up the numbers on average MLB salaries for 2009 and a team-by-team change from 2008. I liked this tidbit:
The Designated Hitter (with 80 or more games) accounted for an average of $7,336,833 for 12 players.
That’s a lot of money spent on one-way players. Abolishing...
Players Network
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Last year I was playing with networks of players, looking at relationships by how many years they were teammates. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good viewer for the larger graphs. There is one now, call SeaDragon, and here is the history of the Yankees. The graph represents...
Schoenweis Tragedy
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This is sad:
Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Scott Schoeneweis’ wife died from an overdose of cocaine and an anesthetic, lidocaine, an appellate court disclosed in a ruling released Tuesday.
The ruling also said an investigation revealed evidence that Gabrielle Schoeneweis...
Breakfast with Cashman
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Joseph Pawlikowski went to a breakfast talk with Brian Cashman this morning and reports on the talk at River Ave. Blues. His biggest takeaway is that Joe now believes the Yankees will not offer arbitration to any of their free agents.
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