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Prediction Season 2009 Begins

Posted in American League, National League, Opening Day, Preview, Projections, Prospects, Rookies, Rotisserie on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Baseball Insights site has unveiled their 2009 player projection functionality. For example , I did I lookup on John Bowker, and Daniel Murphy. Over at Fantasy Phenoms, they have their prospect outlook by position . The MLB Jerk has a look at NL East prospects. The Grand Finale link of the day is Keith [...]

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Brignac and Bartlett Squeeze Play

Posted in American League, MLB, Rays, Rookies, Shortsop on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Rays are off to their breakout season and a lot of their success can be credited to the defense, especially up the middle. In Jason Bartlett, who the Rays obtained along with Matt Garza for Delmon Young , the Rays have the defender they have lacked for a long while. He is helping the [...]

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April Fools Edition: Sidd Finch Revisited

Posted in Mets, National League, Rookies on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The classic story of Sidd Finch: Peter Ueberroth, baseball’s new commissioner, was contacted by SI in his New York office. He was asked if he had heard anything about the Mets’ new phenomenon.No, he had not. He had heard some rumors about the Mets’ camp this spring, but nothing specific. Did the name Hayden (Sidd) [...]

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Opening Day Highlight Reel

Posted in American League, MLB, National League, Opening Day, Rookies on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Let’s just forget that the Red Sox and A’s game in Japan, and the Braves and the Nats game in Natiion’s Capital never happened. Monday is what we will consider the true opening day as we had the full slate of games throughout major league baseball. The day started off with the Yankees season opener [...]

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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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The Brien Taylor Award Winner 2008?

Posted in American League, Around the Web, Bad Advice, MLB, Mets, Minors, National League, ROY, Rookies, Rotisserie, Yankees on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The fellows In Queens got me thinking, even though we seem to focus on those prized prospects. What about the real busts over time in prospecting. The Brien Taylors‘ of the baseball world: The Yankees were without the official services of George Steinbrenner who was serving a suspension at the time but through the media, [...]

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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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Beyond the Boxscore Visits Baseball Happenings

Posted in American League, Around the Web, Braves, Brewers, Cardinals, Hall Of Fame, Infield, Interviews, Josh Hamilton, MLB, Mets, Minors, NL East, National League, Nationals, Outfield, Phillies, Preview, Prospects, Rays, Reds, Rookies, Sabermetrics, Trade, Trade Rumors on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It’s preview season at Beyond the Boxscore and people are taking notice . I had the opportunity to ask R.J. Anderson, Columnist at Beyond the Boxscore and DRaysBay a bunch of questions. Anderson has also appeared at Deadspin and just completed a book on the Tampa Rays called Lamar-itis. With the loss of 40 year [...]

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Kearns was Anchor Man in 2007

Posted in Around the Web, Eye Candy, Minors, NL East, National League, Nationals, Outfield, Prospects, Rays, Rookies on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just like the beer drinking game Anchor man : Teammates of the anchorman must drink first and decide how much they leave for the anchor man. Austin Kearns of the Washinton Nationals had a poor season for most of 2007 with his bat, but made one huge last gulp the last few months avoiding a [...]

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Hamilton got Help which led him back to Baseball

Posted in Josh Hamilton, MLB, National League, Reds, Rookies, Rule V Draft on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In this video Josh talks about he tried to beat these demons on his own and failed. Even today, he does not trust himself with his per diem meal money that he receives as a Major League player. The reason Josh is back to where he is today is a credit to all the people [...]

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