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Jason Pirdie is in the major leagues. He is the poster boy of what the former Rays regime did with their high draft picks. As a career minor league journeyman, he was summoned when Pagan landed on the DL. NL Fantasy says: “Jason Pridie got the start in CF with Angel Pagan hitting the DL.  [...]

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In my last post, I told you about my NL Only draft this past weekend. Of the 11 teams, 4 owners have at least two pitchers that are currently slated to close games. There is one team with no current closers, and the remaining 6 owners have one closer. Some of top tier players: David [...]

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f you look at the National League East, you know the beast of the division in the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies.  They have so much troubles, they can’t seem to choose among who gets the demotion to the pen when former Met Pedro Martinez joins the team. Despite the injuries and all the failed [...]

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From the TBO, Maddon with the use of his number crunching data gave Aybar the rare start: “I cannot take credit for that,” Maddon said. “This is something we do back at the office, and we really crunch numbers and do so many things. Willy came out on top versus Greinke.” Aybar went 4-4 with [...]

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I never did understand why the Cubs parted ways with their valuable spark plug Mark DeRosa in the off season. As other players can fill the void, but You win With Mark DeRosa . At first look, it seemed the Cubs were dumping DeRosa’s 5.5 million salary. However, the Cubs GM Hendry has admitted in [...]

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As much as I want to lay into the Neal Harrington regime of the Pittsburgh Pirates for trading away the recent face of the franchise in Nate McLouth, its clear they are running the team in what is best for the team in the long term. In this case, McLouth opened up a lot of [...]

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There has been a lot of fallout after the Mets firing of Willie Randolph as their manager. I personally thought the relationship between Willie and Reyes had run its course. It seemed like Willie’s first project after taking the job 3 years ago was taking Jose under his wing. I listened to Mike Silva’s podcast [...]

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