What would be a worse gift idea for a Detroit Tigers fan this holiday season? An Edgar Renteria bobblehead or a Gary Sheffield bobblehead? (I'm kind of impressed by the Sheff bobblehead's likeness. Usually, these things look nothing like the actual person.) What, no Todd Jones bobblehead? Maybe a Jacque Jones model on super-clearance? These are among the offerings available through MLB.com " Gift...
After a long absence, I am back for another addition of This Week In History. Although we are late into October, and the days of regular season baseball are well over, some of baseball's most memorable and monumental events occurred during this week of Halloween. Let's take a look at these events and see if you can remember watching, listening, or reading about some of 'em. October 25 : 1986- With...
MLBTradeRumors .com posted and interesting piece today regarding the different players around baseball that are being vastly overpaid. After looking at the list, it makes me feel a little bit better about the Rowand , Renteria and Zito contract disasters, and it also got me thinking of how to possibly get one of these guys, most likely Rowand , off the Giants hands. Now, this is mostly just speculation...
1,827 days ago. It sure doesn't seem like five years. I was in the Riviera Cafe and Sports Bar that night when Keith Foulke grabbed Edgar Renteria's grounder. It set off ten minutes of sheer pandemonium and joy like I had never experienced before. Here's a tribute to that wonderful team. Happy Anniversary everyone.
ESPN's Buster Olney on the Cubs Starlin CastroStarlin Castro, the Cubs' exceptional shortstop prospect, won't turn 20 until March, but it appears he will have a legitimate chance to climb to the big leagues sometime next summer. "He's a big strong kid, not a little flea," Cubs GM Jim Hendry said Friday. "He reminds me a lot of what Edgar Renteria looked like when he was coming up."...
Below is part six of this ever-expanding series. This is the final post. Enjoy. Edgar Renteria: We all know that the Tigers gave up Jair Jurrjens to bring Renteria to Detroit for the 2008 season. He was supposed to help put the Tigers over the top and back into the postseason. Things just didn’t work out. [...]
With so many people expressing mixed emotions about the Bochy / Sabean extensions over the past couple of weeks, I wanted to take a little bit more of an in-depth look at what these two have done here during their time in San Francisco. It's no secret that Sabean has made big time mistakes over the past couple of years through free-agency. He signed Aaron Rowand and Barry Zito to multi-year deals that...
Ever since the Red Sox traded Nomar Garciaparra to the Cubs at the 2004 trade deadline, they've been looking for a long-term solution at shortstop. They've gone the big name free agent route with Edgar Renteria and Julio Lugo, tried the scrap heap approach with Nick Green, and gave a youngster like Jed Lowrie a shot as well. In total, they've used 19 different shortstops since the Nomar deal, including...
In 2007 and 2008, Upton posted wOBA’s of .387 and .354, respectively. This year, that mark has plummeted to just .298. Among batters taking at least 500 trips to the plate, Upton has the fourth-worst wOBA in the game. Only light-swinging middle infielders Edgar Renteria , David Eckstein and Orlando Cabrera have provided less value with the lumber. Per Batting Runs (a park-adjusted measure of...
Bobby Abreu has produced a lot of interesting numbers in his career, and this is a prime example. He is a throwback in many ways, in this case he is more like some of the great players of the 1920's than anyone playing today. Since 2003, he has had 5 seasons of at least 100 RBI and 20 or fewer HR (2003, 2006-09). This season, he has 15 HR and 102 RBI, and with one day to go, I'll go out on a limb...
The offseason hasn't even started yet. I already hate the offseason. The hopes of improving the Giants' offense are dead; long live the hopes of improving the Giants' offense. The team wants to re-sign Juan Uribe , which is a fine idea. But they want to sign Juan Uribe to start at second or third. The Giants' yer-only-good-as-yer-last-200-at-bats organizational philosophy doesn't see how it's possible...
Game One Hundred Fifty-Four: Cubs (80-73) vs. Giants (82-72) Game Time - 3:10pm C.T. Coverage - TV: FOX Saturday Baseball - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 189 Location - AT & T Park, San Francisco Tom Gorzelanny (6-2, 5.08/1.18) vs. Barry Zito (10-12, 3.99/1.34) Twenty years ago today (September 26, 1989), The Boys of Zimmer won the National League Eastern Division Crown by defeating the Montreal...
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