July 2010

  1. Player of the Fortnight vol. 2

    The All-Star Break ended two weeks ago, last night, which means we may welcome back one of Baseball's most prestegious awards: the BAseball Reality Tour Player of the Fortnight Awards. The last time we handed out some…

  2. Yankee Puma & Austin's Power

    The Yankee clubhouse just got a whole lot classier . If Lance Berkman does not fit in with the Yankees, it will be because there is something wrong with the Yankees. I think guys like Cap'n Jetes, Swish, AJ & CC,…

  3. So Long CD, Aloha Kila

    The Jorge Cantu/Chris Davis platoon lasted zero days, as Davis was sent packing to Oklahoma City right after the trade with the Marlins. Chris Davis is stuck. He has nothing to prove in Triple A, but hasn't been able to…

  4. A Fistfull of Trades

    Roy Oswalt to the Phillies for J.A. Happ , Anthony Gose *, and Jonathan Villar Our reaction is that Oswalt is more than capable of being an elite pitcher in the postseason. If they make it, the Phillies will be very…

  5. Garza's No-No & Galarraga

    Matt Garza just no-hit the Detroit Tigers in front a thrilled home faithful. There was another interesting spectator, a member of the Detroit Tigers: Armando Galarraga. As you might recall, Galarraga almost threw a…

  6. Prospect Spotlight w/Reggie

    Back in the glory days of Sports Talk radio in the mid-90s, we would sometimes try to make White Sox fans sound even more like complete morons than they really are. Before the days of caller ID, and thus before spoof ,…

  7. 50 Worst MLB'ers

    Good friend and brilliant reader, Jason, comment on our Top 50 Baseball Player series: “Bad contracts can [be] almost as harmful as good contracts can be helpful.” Since this will always be a place for the readers,…

  8. 599*

    Alex Rodriguez hit his 599th homerun tonight, but a couple of days ago, in his latest blog post , Ken Rosenthal raised an interesting point about Alex Rodriguez: A-Rod, with each homer, gets closer to $30 million in…

  9. Top 50: Omissions & Revisions

    Whenever sharing opinions of who’s better, who’s best in baseball, like in the very good reading & reference book: Elliot Kalb’s “ Who’s Better, Who’s Best in Baseball? ” , debate will be sparked. Last night, at…

  10. Top 50 Baseball Players

    ESPN.com's Bill Simmons does an NBA column like this every season. He calls it the NBA Trade Value column, and he decides to rank the Top 50 most valuable players in the NBA. Age, future performance, and contract status…

  11. Fun Trading with rZIP's

    This morning, we glanced at a couple of guys' Rest-of-Season ZIPS Projection numbers from the invaluable Fangraphs site. One player we looked at is in his prime, the other appears to be having more of a renaissance. In…

  12. Trades in the Balance

    Is this a fair rotisserie baseball trade? The league scoring is standard 5x5, except we use onbase percentage rather than batting average. The Randy Randos trade: Clay Buchholz Brandon Phillips Hunter Pence Desmond…

  13. 2014 Future Star: Aaron Hicks

    According to this report from Minneapolis , the Twins offered Seattle Wilson Ramos and Aaron Hicks for Cliff Lee. Twins prospect Wilson Ramos, a major league-ready catcher with Joe Mauer ahead of him, is the name most…

  14. Player of the Fortnight Awards

    A couple of weeks ago, in this post , we tried differentiating the ol' BAseball Reality Tour by awarding Midweek Players of the Week. On July 4th, in between exasperating moments of heat and isolation on Governors…

  15. Recent Rumors & Reactions

    July is the best month of the year for MLB trade rumors, and thus mlbtraderumors.com . To keep up with the pace, we will try to pull the highlights from recent posts... Miguel Tejada to the Phillies I actually like this…

  16. Omar Infante is in the News

    Apparantly dozens of writers have already beaten this drum, so we'll let it be. The only thing we'd like to point out is as follows: Omar Infante Games: 57 Plate Appearances: 177 Strikeouts: 29 Walks: 9 BA/OBP/SLG:…

  17. Just Ramble On...

    I've been working on a piece analyzing MLB players rumored to be available in trades. We know Cliff Lee is the top prize. Roy Oswalt will be good wherever he is, and then, of course, there's everyone else. I've been at…

  18. World Cup Elite 8

    The Elite Eight of the 2010 World Cup begins right now! And Robinho scores. Goooooooooool! To further underscore the Games' legacy and heritage, we will provide a couple of lists of the remaining teams... Team Most…

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