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The Cub Reporter (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
According to Sun-Times beat reporter, Gordon Wittenmeyer , with the signing of John Grabow to a 2/7.5 contract (backended as only Jim Hendry can do) and the trading of Aaron Heilman to the Snakes, the Cubs have supposedly made their final bullpen move of the offseason. The deal appears to secure the final key piece to the Cubs' projected 2010 bullpen, coming one day after the team traded veteran Aaron...
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Pinstripe Alley (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
NYPost : As for Chien-Ming Wang, his agent, Alan Nero, said surgeon James Andrews cleared the righty to throw beginning on Dec. 1, and that he could be ready by mid-April or early May to pitch in regular-season games after shoulder surgery. However, Yankee doctors have not seen Wang and the team plans on non-tendering the righty rather than risk paying a minimum of $4 million for him in 2010. The Yanks...
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Subway Squawkers (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Well, when I did my ALCS predictions, I did say the Yankees would win in six games. It's just that I didn't expect the two losses to be so gut-wrenching! But tonight, everything changes. Tonight, the Yankees are going to win and head to the World Series for the first time since 2003. And I think that Yankee fans are confident that tonight is the night. How do I know this? Because it was pretty much...
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Pinstripe Alley (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Yeah, I'm just not seeing it... View full size photo uploaded October 23, 2009 The 2009 ALCS and 2004 ALCS are practically mirror images of each other. Indistinguishable. Talk about carbon copies! I haven't seen this level of uncanny similarity since watching Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump. Yeah, that's about how alike these two series are. If I have to read one more thinly...
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SimonOnSports (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Time to bust out the FJM format again, this time on a Newsday columnist that I think is just trying to write something preposterous . Thursday, the Yankees were one victory away away from a triumphant return to the World Series. Friday, they are two losses removed from the worst postseason collapse in their history. Yes, this would be worse than coughing up a 3-0 lead to the Red Sox in 2004. Well now...
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Sports In-Depth: Baseball Edition (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Joel Pineiro won again tonight to move his record to 13-9, and it looks like the Cardinals are a lock to win the NL Central (9 GM up). He is having his best year since 2003, when he went 16-11 for the Mariners. His W-L (13-9) and ERA (3.11) are good, but not spectacular (although he is 8-1 with a 2.47 ERA since late June). It is some of the other numbers, plus the degree to which he turned them around...
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The Mighty Quinn Media Machine (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
I was watching today's Red Sox-Yankees game on Fox (no need to discuss that), and in the fifth inning, the subject of discussion between Joe Buck and Tim McCarver was the Red Sox historic comeback in the 2004 ALCS. And once again, as he's done a few times before when the two teams have played each other, McCarver brought up a myth that he's now passing off as fact. "The Red Sox were congratulating...
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Beyond the Boxscore (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
More photos » by Winslow Townson - AP Dude, can you guess how many times I have been on the DL? Browse more photos » I have been getting several requests on where a certain player/team stands in the overall standings. I put together these tables of the top and bottom teams sending players to the DL and the players most often on the DL. I promise this will be the last of these long list...
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Home Run Derby (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
Did you ever notice that Baseball Players have great big rides? Last Spring, we showed you Mark Buehrle’s big-ass Ford F-150 Dominator. The Spring before that, we saw Jon Lieber’s F-150 Super Truck. This year we’ll head to the North Side of Chicago to check out Cubs’ Outfielder Alfonso Soriano’s tricked out Hummer H2. Now, Soriano’s ride isn’t exactly [...]...
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Thunder Matt's Saloon (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
CHICAGO CUBS SO LONG: C Henry Blanco, SS Ronny Cedeno, 2B Mark DeRosa, OF Jim Edmonds, P Rich Hill, P Bob Howry, P Jon Lieber, P Jason Marquis, OF Felix Pie, OF Daryle Ward, P Kerry Wood WELCOME: C Paul Bako, OF Milton Bradley, OF Joey Gathright, P Aaron Heilman, 2B Aaron Miles, 2B Luis Rivas, P Luis Vizcaino PROJECTED LINEUP 1. Alfonso Soriano LF 2. Ryan Theriot SS 3. Derrek Lee 1B 4. Aramis Ramirez...
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The Final Score (Free subscription) | 01/24/2009
Rotation (5): Ben Sheets, Oliver Perez, Andy Pettitte, Randy Wolf, Jon Garland Bullpen (7): Eric Gagne, Luis Ayala, Joe Beimel, Juan Cruz, Will Ohman, Dennys Reyes, Jon Lieber (long man) Catchers (2): Pudge Rodriguez, Jason Varitek Infielders (6): Adam...
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Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
It appears that the preseason project wasn't quite finished -- I only have final projection numbers for four pitchers, though I know we did three relievers as well as Jason Marquis and Jon Lieber. Here are the four we did. If anyone would like to go through the Community Projections section and tabulate the others, I'll post the rest of them tomorrow. Carlos Zambrano Projected: G 34, GS 33, IP 221.2,...
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