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Lookout Landing (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Baseball players can make contributions in a number of different ways, the most obvious and talked-about of which is how they do at the plate. Defense, position, and baserunning tend to be brushed off as secondary concerns. What follows are the top and bottom 15 in the sum of these latter three values, as determined by UZR, Fangraphs' position adjustment, and Baseball Prospectus' EQBRR. Note that catchers...
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Adam Lind,
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Andre Ethier,
Aubrey Huff,
Ben Zobrist,
Billy Butler,
Bobby Abreu,
Brad Hawpe,
Brendan Ryan,
Carlos Lee,
Carlos Quentin,
Chase Utley,
Chone Figgins,
Delmon Young,
Elvis Andrus,
Franklin Gutierrez,
Gerald Laird,
Ian Kinsler,
Jack Wilson,
Jermaine Dye,
Jose Guillen,
Michael Bourn,
Michael Cuddyer,
Nick Johnson,
Nyjer Morgan,
Rajai Davis,
Ryan Braun,
Ryan Sweeney,
Ryan Zimmerman,
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
More photos » by Jerry S. Mendoza - AP The "sign and trade" of Akinori Iwamura is another example of the Rays getting creative in order to acquire new talent. Browse more photos » It is no secret that the Tampa Bay Rays are never going to be major spenders in the free agent market like their AL East Rivals, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees . Instead, this team is built...
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Akinori Iwamura,
Ben Zobrist,
Boston Red Sox,
Carlos Pena,
Delmon Young,
Dioner Navarro,
Edwin Jackson,
Elvis Andrus,
Franklin Gutierrez,
Gabe Gross,
Gerald Laird,
Jack Wilson,
Jason Bartlett,
Matt Garza,
Michael Young,
New York Yankees,
Scott Kazmir,
Sports,
Yuniesky Betancourt
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Twinkie Town (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
More photos » by Charles Krupa - AP Browse more photos » Last February, Scott Boras client Joe Crede dropped his asking price enough for the Twins to sign him to an incentive-laden deal . He was exactly as advertised, from the glove to the power to the number of games he was healthy, but with the Twins going into 2010 with third base in essentially the same position it was at going into...
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
More photos » by Steve Nesius - AP Browse more photos » Speaking of that Delmon Young deal... With knowledge comes responsibility to review the past. If Wile E. Coyote learns that the Road Runner can detect dynamite from distances expanding the blast radius, this changes his perspective on what he should've done. Selecting David Price over Matt Wieters was fine with my 2007 self - ace potential...
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David Price,
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Jason Bartlett,
Joe Maddon,
Matt Garza,
Matt Wieters,
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The House,
Tim Lincecum
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Tampa Bay Rays veteran Carl Crawford won the 2009 Fielding Bible Award for left field in an announcement made November 1, 2009, in The Bill James Handbook 2010 . This is Crawford's third Fielding Bible Award. Crawford, who received an almost-perfect score, was chosen by a panel of ten experts, including Peter Gammons, Bill James, Joe Posnanski, and John Dewan, author of the new Fielding Bible—Volume...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
by Lenny Ignelzi - AP View full size photo uploaded October 29, 2009 Time for the World Series edition of Who Would You Rather Have? CBS Sportsline recently completed a 5x5 mixed league mock draft, and Chase Utley was selected 4th overall before Ryan Braun, Joe Mauer and Alex Rodriguez to name a few. After Utley went deep twice on Wednesday night do you select him before ARod? Or is ARod still a more...
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Alex Rodriguez,
Aramis Ramirez,
Ben Zobrist,
Brandon Inge,
Brandon Phillips,
Brandon Phillips,
Brandon Phillips,
Chase Utley,
Chipper Jones,
Clint Barmes,
Dan Uggla,
Ian Kinsler,
Joe Mauer,
Jose Lopez,
Kevin Youkilis,
Mark DeRosa,
Mark Reynolds,
Martin Prado,
Michael Young,
Pablo Sandoval,
Robinson Cano,
Ryan Braun,
Ryan Zimmerman,
Scott Rolen,
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Rays Index (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The Rays released a number of minor leaguers. The most notable name on the list is Glenn Gibson. He was the player the Rays acquired from the Nationals for Elijah Dukes. That may seem bad, but we have long said that as long as Gibson didn’t somehow maim Evan Longoria as a member of the [...]
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The Retrograde and Faithless (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Here are my picks from the beginning of the season: AL: East - Red Sox Central - White Sox West - Angels Wild Card - Yankees ALCS - Red Sox v. Yankees NL: East - Phillies Central - Cubs West - Dodgers Wild Card - Mets NLCS - Phillies v. Dodgers World Series - Red Sox v. Phillies World Series Champion - Red Sox AL MVP - Evan Longoria NL MVP - Albert Pujols Al Cy Young - CC Sabathia NL Cy Young - Tim...
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The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
At least according to TotalZone. I ran these ratings from a different datasource than usual. Specifically, someone sent me files with data from MLBAM. Later in the offseason I'll compare it to the results from the source of all the other TotalZone ratings, the retrosheet files. Anyway, the top 15 runs saved for 2009: 1. Franklin Gutierrez, CF, +28 2. Nelson Cruz, RF, +23 3. Chone Figgins, 3B, +20 4....
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Brett Carroll,
Carl Crawford,
Carlos Beltran,
Casey Blake,
Chone Figgins,
Colby Rasmus,
Elvis Andrus,
Erick Aybar,
Franklin Gutierrez,
Ichiro Suzuki,
Nelson Cruz,
Pedro Feliz,
Sports,
Torii Hunter,
Yunel Escobar
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Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
More photos » by Duane Burleson - AP Will Magglio Ordonez be a Cub in 2010? Browse more photos » With a day off before game six of the ALCS -- and this series has the chance to go down in history as one of the better league championship series, having already produced at least three "instant classics", let's spend today looking toward next year. As most of you probably already...
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
See: via www.actapublications.com Excerpts to come.
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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The Wall Street Journal today details one man's quest to bring honesty to the Twitterverse, at least as it pertains to sports. 26-year-old Connecticut truth-seeker Brad Wilhide claims to have unmasked 30 fake athlete accounts since January, when he first answered the call to be the enforcer of microblog accountability. So far his biggest gets are fake accounts posing as Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony...
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Rays Index (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
BJ Upton Carl Crawford Evan Longoria Carlos Pena Ben Zobrist Pat Burrell Jason Bartlett Gabe Kapler Dioner Navarro Above is a pretty standard batting order used by the Rays this past season versus left-handed pitchers early in the season. In fact, no other batting order was used more often this season. How often? Six (6!) times. Joe Maddon employed 125 different batting orders this [...]
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Baseball Managers,
Ben Zobrist,
Carl Crawford,
Carlos Pena,
Dioner Navarro,
Gabe Kapler,
Gabriel Kapler,
Jason Bartlett,
Joe Maddon,
Pat Burrell,
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