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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | yesterday
Powered by beautiful Saturday mornings, $200 million championships and the ever-present hope of tomorrow, we move on to the three longest Texas Rangers home runs from the season that was -- all from the two usual suspects: True Distance, a.k.a. Actual Distance - If the home run flew uninterrupted all the way back to field level, the actual distance the ball traveled from home plate, in feet. If the...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
More photos » by Chris Carlson - AP Browse more photos » Yesterday Bobby Abreu signed a two-year, 19 million dollar deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. If we were to draft for 2010 today, my guess is that Abreu would be taken around 50th overall which is right about where he was drafted in the 2009 preseason. In 2009, Abreu put up his seventh consecutive season ( eight of his last...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
For what seems like months now, the concept of achieving better run prevention via the power of defense has been stuffed down your collective throats. Knowledgable fans are embracing it, sportswriters are begrudgingly recognizing it -- some more quickly than others, of course -- and front offices have taken steps to neutralize any market inefficiencies that might have left it undervalued. Baseball,...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
1. Assuming that the Rangers have approximately $10 million to spend this winter after the signings of their arbitration-eligible players, how high would you be willing to go in order to sign free agent right-hander Ben Sheets? 2. Who will ultimately enjoy the best major league career (with "best" being measured by career wins above replacement): David Murphy, Nelson Cruz or Josh Hamilton?...
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Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
More photos » by Matt Slocum - AP 6 months ago: Texas Rangers right fielder Nelson Cruz leaps to pull in a deep fly ball from Cleveland Indians' Victor Martinez during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 8, 2009, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Browse more photos » Over at THT, Sean Smith takes MLBAM's Ball in Play data and runs the numbers for Total Zone...
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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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Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
In case you haven't had enough of the super sexy nude (or nearly) nude athletes in ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue": Texas Rangers rightfielder Nelson Cruz is swingin' a big ole' baseball bat ... and shows just the right amount...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
1. Do you agree that the usage of instant replay in baseball needs to be expanded? For that matter, has the questionable post-season umpiring already pushed baseball beyond the tipping point? 2. Now that we know that mutual interest exists between the Rangers and free agent-eligible outfielder Marlon Byrd, what is the absolute largest contract offer -- in terms of both dollars and years -- that you...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
So, are we still averse to the continued implementation of instant replay in baseball? I can certainly appreciate that the Twins put themselves in a position to be cheated on a bad call by not being able to lock down that two-run lead in the ninth inning, but with the technology already in place and the umpiring seemingly trending in the wrong direction, it's growing increasingly difficult to justify...
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Talking Chop (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Last year it was Peavy-gate and all the Peavy talk you could handle for a solid month or two. This season, the press hasn't really nailed down anyone to pin on the Braves but several folks are trying. Here's SI's John Heyman : The Braves may consider going after Matt Holliday , who made a huge error in St. Louis' Game 2 loss but is the biggest star who'll hit the free-agent market. Cardinals owner...
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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
It's pretty well-established at this point: the Braves want to add a right-handed power bat at first base or an outfield corner. Let's look at some candidates (assuming Jason Bay and Matt Holliday are too pricey). Dave O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution thinks Nelson Cruz's name will come up at the Braves' organizational meetings. Cruz, 29, hit .260/.332/.524 with 33 home runs in 515 plate...
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MetsBlog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution thinks the Braves will discuss trading for Rangers OF Nelson Cruz, since they are looking for a right-handed power bat with speed. The 29–year-old Cruz hit 33 home runs with 20 stolen bases in 128 games for the Rangers this season. Cruz is eligible for arbitration each of the next three [...]
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
More photos » by Charlie Riedel - AP Browse more photos » 1. Carl Crawford - 2008 an off year? I think so. 2. Grady Sizemore - Could easily be number one, but injury drops him down. Who knows how he'll bounce back. 3. Adam Lind - 3/100/.300 is entirely possible again after a breakout 2009. 4. Jacoby Ellsbury - Basically a cheaper Carl Crawford, with more steals. 5. Jason Bay - Free agent...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
If the ultimate goal behind Miguel Cabrera's misadventures in public confrontation, intoxication and alleged domestic abuse was to get me to root for the Twins this afternoon, he's done an absolutely stellar job: ● Whither Nelson Cruz: After happening upon the "Trade Bait" heading while writing up the Rangers-specific section for the upcoming Graphical Player 2010 book (now available...
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MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Hank Blalock knows he won't return to the Rangers in 2010, according to MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan. GM Jon Daniels hinted that the club could have interest in free agents-to-be Marlon Byrd and Ivan Rodriguez, but hasn't made any such overtures to Blalock. "Nothing has been said to me, but I know I won't be playing here next year," he said. "It is what it is. I'll just move on." Because...
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safford0drl6 | 08/22/2009
ARLINGTON, Texas – The Texas Rangers prepared to open a three-game series against Boston by reinstating second baseman Ian Kinsler from the disabled list. The Rangers also put slugging outfielder Nelson Cruz on the 15-day DL Friday with a sprained left ankle. The move was retroactive to Aug. 4. Kinsler went on the DL with a strained left hamstring Aug. 2, retroactive to July 29. He's coming off a two-day...
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