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The AFL Rising Stars Showcase is on right now at MLB.com. You can watch it live without paying or signing up for anything. Strasburg has been scratched and the West is down 7-0 in the first, but the good news is that Ackley led off with a walk and Fields got the final [...]--
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1 day ago by
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Joe Posnanski on the frustration of the Yankees, a topic that leads people like me to only half -jokingly propose they be forced to eat other teams’ bad contracts. Check it out.
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Hardy to Minnesota
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You can officially cross J.J. Hardy off the list of possible options this winter. He was traded to the Minnesota Twins for Carlos Gomez.
Heck of a move for the Twins.
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Getting to five hundred was hard too
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To add something to Dave’s post on why the M’s approach this off-season will look different as involves different trade-offs, there’s something we should briefly touch on:
What just happened with the team is not common or easy. If we remember back to the start of...
Griffey Decision Not Going To Drag Out
2 days ago by
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C. Trent Rosecrans, longtime sports writer in Cincinnati, passed along this story, where he basically just says that he talked to Brian Goldberg, Griffey’s agent, and he expects an announcement in a week or so. Rosecrans probably has the best relationship with Junior of any member...
The M’s potential free agents
2 days ago by
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For your discussion. They have to declare for FA in the next 15 days.
RP-R Miguel Batista
SP-L Erik Bedard
3B-R Adrian Beltre
1B-L Russ Branyan
OF-L Endy Chavez
DH-L Ken Griffey Jr.
DH-R Mike Sweeney
SS-R Jack Wilson
So expect extensions or FA announcements for all of those guys. Pravda...
The Mistake Lottery
2 days ago by
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One of the greatest advantages the Yankees have is that they’re able to blithely make mistakes and move on from them. Their market advantage is so huge that they can afford to pay their players to play against them on other teams just so they can put someone even better in their...
M’s Claim Yusmeiro Petit
3 days ago by
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The M’s continue to collect moderately interesting, low upside pitching without expending any resources. This time, they’ve claimed Yusmeiro Petit off waivers from the Diamondbacks. Petit is a Cha Seung Baek kind of pitcher – throws a lot of low velocity junk in the...
The Upside And Risk Guys
3 days ago by
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So, I’ve laid out my case for why I think the M’s need to pursue a different kind of undervalued player this winter if they want to contend in 2010. They need to be on the right side of a few coin flips, but what coins should they be choosing? Here’s some guys they...
AFL Rising Stars Game On MLB Network
3 days ago by
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On Saturday, the Arizona Fall League will host its version of an All-Star Game, pitting the best prospects in the league up against each other. The M’s will be represented by Dustin Ackley, Phillippe Aumont, and Josh Fields, so if you want to watch them play, you can tune in...
When A Good Deal Stops Being One
5 days ago by
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For years, we’ve been banging the drum of marginal value as tenet of roster construction, using metrics like Wins Above Replacement to show the impact a player will actually have on the team and the associated cost that the team should be willing to pay for that performance....
On Bradley for Silva
5 days ago by
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Catching still further up: we’ve been asked a lot whether a Carlos Silva for Milton Bradley trade makes sense, or is likely, and so forth. I know it’s tempting, since we’re all really tired of Silva and he and Bradley both have massive contracts their teams would...
Deserves has nothing to do with it
5 days ago by
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“Mr. Steinbrenner deserves another championship. That’s why I wear this number. We’re trying to do this for him.” — Joe Girardi
As we confront the possibility of the Yankees winning a World Series, I keep thinking back to Girardi after the ALCS win. Let...
On bringing back Griffey
5 days ago by
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I understand the good feelings. Heck, we partook. And no one’s going to deny the team certainly seemed happier, though we can argue how to divvy up the credit.
But are the few clutch hits really so awesome that people overlook what actually happened last year? In 2010, Griffey...
Brumley Hired as 3B Coach
7 days ago by
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Happy Halloween, everyone. It’s that one day of the year when ghosts and spooks of all kinds start coming out of the woodworks. The Mariners, in anticipation of that, have brought back a ghost of seasons past to fill out their third base coach position, hiring Mike Brumley, who played...
Roster Moves
9 days ago by
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The M’s made some procedural moves today. Bryan LaHair, Cesar Jimenez, Marwin Vega, and Randy Messenger were outrighted to Triple-A, getting them off the 40 man roster. The M’s attempted to outright Justin Thomas as well, but Pittsburgh claimed him on waivers, so he’...
The Veteran Catcher
9 days ago by
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Since Kenji decided to head back to Japan, one of the things that Jack said to the media afterwards has gained a decent amount of attention, is that this creates a hole where they’re probably going to have to bring in a veteran catcher this winter. To some more traditional writers...
Johjima to Hanshin
11 days ago by
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As was already rumored from the moment he opted out, Kenji Johjima is signing with the Hanshin Tigers. It’s reportedly a 4-year deal for $21 million. So that’s more money than he’s giving up by opting out of his contract (more years too, obviously). We can speculate...
What Are The M’s Going To Do?
16 days ago by
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Okay, you’ve seen my plan for the kind of off-season I’d like to see the M’s have. As a follow-up, I usually post a “What I Think The Team Will Do”, where I speculate on the types of moves that I expect the Mariners to actually make. I spent hours trying...
Dave’s 2010 Off-Season Plan
18 days ago by
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It’s back again – the annual winter tradition where I speculate on some potential moves the M’s could make and put together my own roster for next year. I try to be as realistic as possible, so I’m sticking to a $95 million budget and hopefully get in the realm...
Kenji Opts Out
19 days ago by
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Still working to confirm, but I’ve been told that Kenji Johjima has opted out of the final two years of his contract. Obviously, woo.
Edit: LaRue confirms with a quote.
“After lots of very deep thought and deliberation, I have decided to return home to resume my career...
The iPhone app is out: 2nd Guesser
19 days ago by
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Hey, it’s time for naked promotion time, and a small part of why I haven’t been posting so much lately: you can now check out and buy the iPhone app that’s been in development for the last few months, built by my dad and I (mostly my dad, who has a couple of other...
Now, About Yusei Kikuchi
19 days ago by
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Friday, I proposed Yusei Kikuchi as a player to look at should the Chapman bidding war get out of hand as expected. I’ve talked about him a little in the past, discussing the implications of his possible jump to the U.S., but I hadn’t profiled him to any length with regard...
About Aroldis Chapman
22 days ago by
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Coming into the 2009 season, there were three pitchers in their early 20s that were singled out as having the talent to be MLB stars in the future: San Diego State’s Stephen Strasburg, Nippon Ham’s Yu Darvish, and Holguín’s Aroldis Chapman. Strasburg, as we all know, went number...
There’s Just Not Much Going On
23 days ago by
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Sorry for going a couple of days without posting, but really, what was there to say? News is pretty scarce about now, and I’ve got some other things to tend to at the moment. One of those things will produce something you guys are going to love next spring, by the way. I [.....
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