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Projected NL West 25 Man Rosters

Posted in Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Giants, National League, Padres, Rockies, Rule5 on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The final rosters do not have to be finalized until Sunday afternoon, but looking at what we know today, here’s how I see it in the NL West: Pos Giants Rockies Padres Dodgers D-Backs C Molina Ianetta Hundley Martin Montero 1B Huff Helton Gonzalez Loney LaRoche 2B Uribe Barmes Eckstein DeWitt Johnson SS Renteria Tolowitzki [...]

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Kent: The David Cone throw in

Posted in Giants, Hall Of Fame, Indians, Mets, MLB, MVP, Trade on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It was with the Toronto Blue Jays that Jeff Kent first came on the radar.  He had some pop even back then with his bat when the Blue Jays were giving him some play at 3B.  The Mets did the unthinkable and traded the player who meant so much to the team in David Cone.  [...]

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Barry Bonds Destination Updates

Posted in American League, Around the Web, Braves, Former Player, Giants, MLB, National League, Rays on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It was MLBTR with their weighing in on the Barry Bonds situation. Originally, I had Braves #1 on possible landing: 1. Braves: The Braves have career backup Matt Diaz slated to be the starter. Bonds could serve a role here. … 7. Rays: He would just have to beat out Gomes at DH. Baldelli eventually [...]

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Public Opinion Will decide Bonds Fate with Rays

Posted in Free Agent Signing, Giants, MLB, Rays on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When I wrote the piece On Bonds I certainly was grasping at straws to find a place for Bonds to play in 2008. I put Rays at #7 strictly on fact they were trying to build a clubhouse as witnessed by Delmon et al removal. The Bay area seems more receptive to the move than [...]

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Bonds Away?

Posted in Braves, Diamondbacks, Giants, Great Players of Past, Long Term Contracts, Mariners, MLB, MVP, National League, NL East, Orioles, Padres, Pirates, Rangers, Rays, Royals, Steroids, Tigers, Twins on February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Early on in the baseball career of Barry Bonds, he was known as one of the Pittsburgh Pirates Killer B’s. With the numbers Bonds was putting up on scoreboards throughout Major League Baseball for the Pirates in the early 90′s , he won two National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, and was proving to [...]

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Outfield Guns Version 2007

Posted in Around the Web, Cubs, Giants, MLB, Outfield, Rays, Sabermetrics on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It was last season we first came across Arms in Outfield: five different situations when an outfielder’s throwing ability comes into play: Single with runner on first base (second base unoccupied), Double with runner on first base, Single with runner on second base, Fly out with runner on third base, fewer than two outs, Fly [...]

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Spring Cactus Fever Day Three

Posted in American League, Athletics, Giants, National League, Rays, Spring Training on March 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The Cactus league tour stop today took place in Scottsville, the home of the S.F. Giants. In town were the visiting Oakland Athletics. This seemed to be one of the visual pleasing parks. Though, finding a parking spot turned out to be near impossible until the park&ride was discovered. Barry Bonds was in the starting [...]

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Cactus Spring Fever Day One

Posted in Brewers, Giants, Spring Training on March 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »

The first day of the Cactus baseball tour began at Maryvale Park . This is the spring training site of the Brewers. In town, was the split squad of the S.F. Giants. On the mound to start the game was Dave Bush for the Brewers and Tim Lincecum for the Giants. I’d say in watching [...]

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Go West Young Man

Posted in Athletics, Diamondbacks, Giants, Padres, Rockies, Spring Training on March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I mentioned the other day about my upcoming Spring Fling. What I did not mention was the teams that I would get the opportunity to see. AL West Athletics Nation (A’s) NL West AZ Snake Pit (Diamondbacks) McCovey Chronicles (Giants) Gaslamp Ball (Padres) Purple Row (Rockies) NL Central Brew Crew Ball (Brewers) Bleed Cubbie Blue [...]

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Spring Arizona Fever

Posted in American League, Athletics, Brewers, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Giants, MLB, National League, Padres, Rockies, Spring Training on March 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »

For the past ten years, I have headed South every March to catch the Grapefruit League’s Spring Training action. Over the past few years, more and more teams have headed west moving their Spring Training to Arizona playing in the Cactus League. In a Unprecedented move, I will not be watching the Devil Rays train [...]

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