Twinkie Town (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
More photos » by Tony Gutierrez - AP Browse more photos » The Twins now have approximately $62 million committed to eight players who are under contract for 2010, and with J.J. Hardy 's estimated arbitration salary likely somewhere around $6 million Minnesota will have approximately $17 million to shell out to their arb-eligible players. Even with a payroll which would open the year at...
AaronGleeman.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Realistic Free Agent Options: Third Base Projecting which free agents the Twins will go after is difficult because their pursuit of low-cost options depends upon how the market shakes out and who drops into their price range. In the past five years they've also wasted money on a lengthy list of washed-up veterans like Tony Batista , Livan Hernandez , Ramon Ortiz , Craig Monroe , Juan Castro , Sidney...
Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
More photos » by David Zalubowski - AP 3 months ago: Chicago Cubs' Milton Bradley follows the flight of his RBI-single against the Colorado Rockies in the sixth inning of a baseball game in Denver on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Browse more photos » Evan Grant has a lengthy blog post up that discusses the Rangers ' potential interest in re-acquiring Milton Bradley...
Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
With the long-overdue arrival of Major League Baseball's hot stove season comes the expected awakening of the rumor mill, which squandered absolutely no time on Thursday in identifying White Sox outfielder Jermaine Dye -- whose 2010 team option seems likelier to be bought out than not -- as a player "of interest" to the Texas Rangers. Sound familiar? If not, it should. Dye, much like Sidney...
AaronGleeman.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Realistic Free Agent Options: Shortstop Projecting which free agents the Twins will go after is difficult because their pursuit of low-cost options depends upon how the market shakes out and who drops into their price range. In the past five years they've also wasted money on a lengthy list of washed-up veterans like Tony Batista , Livan Hernandez , Ramon Ortiz , Craig Monroe , Juan Castro , Sidney...
AaronGleeman.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Realistic Free Agent Options: Second Base Projecting which free agents the Twins will go after is difficult because their pursuit of low-cost options depends upon how the market shakes out and who drops into their price range. In the past five years they've also wasted money on a lengthy list of washed-up veterans like Tony Batista , Livan Hernandez , Ramon Ortiz , Craig Monroe , Juan Castro , Sidney...
Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
As it stands, here are the pitchers for 2010. The analysis was to look at who remains, can we jettison some dead weight, and are there any holes to be filled. (Obviously there are some holes to be filled, just hopefully not by the likes of Sidney Ponson or Lamey Wrong.) --Salaries adapted from Cot's, with some estimations made (nothing crazy). Starters / tRA / 2010 Salary 1. 1 Z. Greinke / 2.35 / 7.25...
The San Francisco Giants Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
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...
Another Cubs Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
I don’t remember if I posted this already, but you can find the information over at Cot’s . I thought I’d post it here as well. Here’s a list of the potential free agent pitchers after this season. Starting Pitchers Brandon Backe HOU Miguel Batista SEA Josh Beckett * BOS Erik Bedard SEA Daniel Cabrera ARZ Bartolo Colon CWS Jose Contreras COL Doug Davis ARZ Justin Duchscherer...
Camden Chat (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
by Charles Rex Arbogast - AP Now that he's gotten his 50th double out of the way, Brian can go back to lollygagging. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) View full size photo uploaded September 11, 2009 So, I don't know if you've heard, but there's some hit record that one of the Yankees might pass this weekend. I'm not clear on the details; it's barely been discussed by sports writers and broadcasters....
Stan Musial's Stance (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Apparently, pretty badly. Statistics are interesting because they can highlight trends or factoids not normally made plain to the casual fan (i.e., me). Here's my current favorite one: St Louis is 31-11 since acquiring Holliday from the A's. Here's a close second, although it qualifies more as a factoid: the Cardinals have not lost ground in the Central since taking over the outright lead in the division...
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Per Ken Rosenthal ; for a pro-rated portion of major league minimum, with the Red Sox picking up the rest. Well, if Jason Schmidt can be a Dodgers and not pitch, Brad Penny can suck in the Giants rotation for a while. It seems fair to me... McCovey Chronicles : It's going to be really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,...
McCovey Chronicles (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Sez so right here . If you want to know if that's a move that makes sense, you'd probably get a better answer from this stats dork . It's going to be really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,...
Nick Sloan's Official Web Site (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Dick Kaegel has a piece up on MLB.com previewing the Kansas City Royals' September call-ups. It appears the Royals will not utilize too many of the call-ups. The Royals' September callups are likely to include some very familiar names: Jose Guillen and Alex Gordon. "I will be a September callup," Guillen announced happily, if not exactly accurately, several days ago. Guillen, the right fielder...
Sports In-Depth: Baseball Edition (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
10.15 H/9, 1500+ IP, since 1933 Jack Knott (1933-1946) 10.33 Sidney Ponson (1998-present) - 10.25 Jose Lima (1994-2006) - 10.24 Elden Auker (1933-1942) - 10.22 Bob Tewksbury (1986-1998) - 10.18 Lary Sorenson (1977-1988) - 10.16 Sir Sidney has been very tough on one great hitter: A-Rod Lowest BA (50+ AB - 14 pitchers) .176 - John Lackey .188 - Sidney Ponson (.219 OBP, 69 AB, 6 HR, 3 BB, 19 SO) .212...
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