Derek Jeter
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Yankee Third Base Options
As soon as Alex Rodriguez 's 162-game suspension was announced, baseball writers and bloggers speculated as to who'd play 3rd base for the Yankees. Jay Jaffe summarized internal and free agent candidates to replace…
Fangraphs Spray Charts Are Here!
Baseball fans were given a late Hanukkah / early Christmas present today, when David Appelman announced that Fangraphs now has batted ball and fielded ball spray charts for the 2012 and 2013 seasons, courtesy of Inside…
MLB Team-by-Team At-a-Glance
More than half of today's games are matinees, including a couple of 12:35 ET starts in Baltimore and Cincinnati. So, we don't have all afternoon to craft a comprehensive This Moment in Baseball post. Instead, let's run…
Best Free Agent Position Player Bargains
Last week, Adam Bernacchio of Ghost of Moonlight Graham fame penned a piece titled " The Five Best Free Agent Bargains From This Offseason " on MLB Daily Dish . Casey Kotchman was a good catch for the Tampa Bay Rays…
Respecting Honus Wagner
One hundred years ago, Honus Wagner was a 37-year old shortstop on the Pittsburgh Pirates. He would still be very productive for a couple of more years. No doubt the Yankees are hoping their 37-year old shortstop, Derek…
Clearing the Notebook
Here is a quote I read that struck me as a poignant piece of advice to writers, particularly if you're like me and you have an idea, think about it, read about it, maybe write a little bit about it, then leave it. And,…
2011 Roto Sleepers and Busts
A quick note before we get started. We'll likely be offline for the next couple of weeks because we'll be going on a two-week before-the-season-starts getaway to the other side of the world. I'm not sure if they have…
No Pressure, Starlin!
Is it fair to compare 20-year old Starlin Castro with 36-year old, 5-time World Champion, future Hall of Famer, Derek Jeter ? Well, Jeeze, um, I guess we'll pick, um... Castro? It's quite likely that we will not see…
Quick Hot Stove Thoughts
The baseball Free Agent spending economy looks healthy again with the Tigers recent signings and this ludicrous 3 year / 21 million dollar contract from the Dodgers for Juan Uribe . I knew Uribe was making millions with…
Hot Stove Notes: Benoit, Nishioka, Red Sox
As we showed during last week's unveiling of our Top 100 Free Agents post, we thought very highly of the Tigers' new relief pitcher extraordinaire Joaquin Benoit. $16.5 M buys a lot in Detroit We listed him at #12,…
Spanning the Blogosphere
It's been a busy day on the ol' blog, as I attempt to calm my nerves before my cross-continental flight tomorrow. Has travel anxiety ever affected any of you? I used to travel all the time, for vacation, as a kid. When…
Canyon of Heroes
Loyal readers, it has been an honour touring the wonderful game of baseball since this season's Opening Day. Our highly anticipated hot stove league coverage should begin soon. (teaser: tommy m.) Here is an extensive…
BAseball Reality Tour - Animal Style
First, let's get this awkwardness out of the way... The ol' blog has been silent for, gasp, more than a month. I am sorry to the gaggles of brilliant readers who've been waiting and waiting and waiting. Still, my…
Mid June Leaders
Spending some time this afternoon on the Baseball Reference 2009 MLB Advanced Batting stats page , gave us an enlightened look into the first ten weeks of the season. We were looking at individual stats, and the two…
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