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It’s killing Jordan Schafer not to be able to say anything

Posted in Minors, National League, Prospects, Spring Training, Steroids on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have written before that I am a fan of Jordan Schafer. As is Bobby Cox. It seems we should hold off judgment (i.e. Rosenthal) on Schafer until this story plays out. However, there is  a revealing piece from Schafer’s father: I want so bad to clear things up, and I want so bad for [...]

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Cameron Maybin vs Jordan Schafer

Posted in MLB, Prospects, Rookie Of Year on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In my recent keeper league player draft, where we draft NL minor league prospects, I had the choice where I could either select Cameron Maybin or Jordan Schafer. In looking at both players, they both have a clear path on their way to the major leagues. In Maybin, the stop gap for the Marlins is [...]

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5 questions with Greener on the Other Side

Posted in American League, Free Agent Signing, Hitting, Interviews, MLB, Pitching, Prospects, Rockies, Rotisserie, Sabermetrics, Spring Training, Trade on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We are already past “Pitchers and Catchers”, and the exhibition games for the 2008 baseball season are underway. Its that time of the year that baseball fantasy owners are monitoring very closely what is going on in the Cactus League in Arizona, and the Grapefruit league in Florida. One of the better blogs I came [...]

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Fun with Chone 2008 Projections using Visualizations

Posted in Around the Web, MLB, Projections, Prospects on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Chone and Marcel projections for 2008 can now be found at Baseball Graphs in sortable format. The good folks at Many Eyes are “passionate about the potential of data visualization”. I took the Chone data for 2008 and applied their data visualization interfaces. For the pitching projections, I applied the Scatter Plot : “ [...]

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Accolades Continue For Superstar David Wright

Posted in Around the Web, Athletics, Braves, ESPN, Indians, Infield, Interviews, Mets, Minors, MLB, National League, NL East, Prospects, Twenty Something Stars on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Even before their was the legend that is growing in David Wright, just about every publication was calling Andy Marte the best overall prospect in the land. But, there was this sleeper prospect named David Wright. He slugged his way through the minor leagues that year, and has gone one to become one of the [...]

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Its gotta Be Brian Roberts Time Now!

Posted in American League, Around the Web, Cubs, MLB, National League, Orioles, Prospects, Trade, Trade Rumors on February 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

With The Orioles bringing in quite a haul with the Erik Bedard trade, you have to think that they will continue to look to the future and unload Brian Roberts.  The Cubs are a good trade partner, but like we have said before, You win with Mark DeRosa. The trade does make sense for the [...]

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Baseball’s 100 names you need to know!

Posted in American League, Around the Web, National League, Prospects, Rookies, Rotisserie on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In 2007, USA Today Sports Weekly said the top 10 of the 100 names You need to know were: Daisuke Matsuzaka, RHP, Red Sox [ Gyro Ball] Matt Garza, RHP, Twins [ Traded to Rays] Jeremy Sowers, LHP, Indians [ 6.00 ERA] Stephen Drew, SS, Diamondbacks [ Nice Player] Chris Young, OF, Diamondbacks [ Nice [...]

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Superbowl Sunday Tape Measure Blasts

Posted in Championships, Projections, Prospects, Rotisserie on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Its Sunday and the Superbowl is a few hours away. Everyone is getting their Superbowl munchies togther getting a good seat on the coach expecting to see the Tom Brady to Randy Moss Show. The record setting hookup combo have the Patriots in position to achieve to one of the most impressive feats in sports [...]

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Lou Piniella and managing Crawford and Pie

Posted in American League, Cubs, Great Players of Past, Projections, Prospects, Rays, Rookies, Yankees on February 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The year was 2003. Lou Piniella was starting his job as the skipper of the Tampa Bay “Devil” Rays. He took two youngsters in Carl Crawford and Rocco Baldelli and made them starters on his club. The thing about Rocco and Carl is that they never really had the On Base Skills, but never the [...]

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Super Santana Tuesday

Posted in American League, Around the Web, Gleeman, Mets, Minors, MLB, National League, NL East, Prospects, Spring Training, Trade, Trade Rumors, Twins on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What a day for the N.Y. Mets, as they finally reached an agreement with the Twinkees to acquire southpaw Johan Santana. I thought I would do a “best of” from the blogosphere about the deal. One thought, before I go around the web. Let’s say the Mets still had lefty Scott Kazmir, they probably are [...]

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