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WEEI baseball writer Alex Speier spoke with Joe Urbon, who is representing free agent outfielder Jason Bay, last week. Urbon essentially made his case in the article for why he feels that Bay is the best outfielder available on the market this offseason. According to Speier, it was the pitch ...
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Here’s another catching tip….
First off, a big congratulations to the 2009 World Champion Yankees. A great season for a great team. Enjoy your title…for about two seconds.
Why only two seconds? Because as my friend Barry Zito says, “the truth is, there really ...
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John Bowen looks at the best seasons in Blue Jays history by position.
Catcher: Ernie Whitt , 1987
Ernie Whitt was the primary catcher of the Blue Jays for all of the 1980’s, providing his team with a solid glove and a fairly decent bat. In 1987, he was, as usual, excellent behind the ...
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Toronto Blue Jays
Bill Chuck’s weekly list of baseball facts:
1. It would be hard to imagine the San Diego Padres would not start conversations about trading Adrian Gonzalez to Boston without asking for Jacoby Ellsbury. The Padres last season had a .238 batting average and .318 OBP from the leadoff slot, and ...
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How does a small-market team survive?
Surprisingly well most of the time, actually. Per Forbes, here are the top ten teams in operating income, in descending order, for the last complete tax year, 2008:
Washington Nationals
Florida Marlins
New York Mets
Chicago White Sox
Tampa Bay ...
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Kansas City Royals
Atlanta Braves
Chicago White Sox
None of us are fans of harping on the past, but when the past collides with the present, well, then, we have an issue. It’s been four years now since Mark McGwire plopped down in a congressional hearing and stated that he was not there to “talk about the past,” but more ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
Mark McGwire
Now that the offseason is upon is, top prospects lists are starting to surface. On Monday, Baseball Prospectus prospect guru Kevin Goldstein began with his annual organizational Top 11 lists. Goldstein, the former Baseball America scribe, kicked off the series with the Baltimore Orioles.
Two ...
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Baltimore Orioles
Los Angeles Dodgers
George Sherrill
dugoutcentral.com - 10 days ago
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According to Ed Price of AOL FanHouse ,
the Cincinnati Reds will need to slash payroll this
offseason. Price reports that the Reds’ financial situation could force them to move several high-priced players, such as second baseman Brandon Phillips and ...
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If Reds Are Hurting Financially, Why Deal For Rolen?
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles by Daniel Greenia on the problems with the Hall of Fame and ways to fix it. See the previous installments “ Introduction: What is a Hall of Famer – and Undoing the Anachronistic Constraints ?” and “ The 5% Rule .” ...
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Hall of Fame
Earlier today, I produced my preview of the 2010 free agent crop of designated hitters .
Well, you can now eliminate one name from that list. According to reports, Ken Griffey Jr. is headed back for one more year with the Seattle Mariners. Griffey will be paid a guaranteed $2.0M with the ...
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Seattle Mariners
Ken Griffey
American League Gold Glove winners were announced yesterday, and, as usual, there were some puzzling choices.
For starters, how could Franklin Gutierrez not be named one of the top fielders in the league? I mean, are you kidding me? Gutierrez ranked as the premier defensive player in the game ...
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dugoutcentral.com - 11 days ago
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Back in early April, members of the Dugout
Central staff made predictions for how many wins each
team would have in the regular season. Now that the season is over, it’s time to review those predictions and see whose crystal ball was the clearest. ...
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Sky Kalkman Takes Dugout Central Challenge
I have had to put the series on hold for the past week, but the next position up in my class of 2010 free agent preview—click links for first basemen, outfielders, second basemen, shortstops, starting pitchers and third basemen—is designated hitters. Last winter, the market was extremely cold ...
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The Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday declined Pedro Feliz’s $5.5M option for 2010. I was a bit surprised that the Phillies would not just pick it up and bring Feliz, an excellent defender at third base, back for one more final season. While he is a below-average offensive performer, his defense ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
A couple years ago, Eric Bedard was considered a frontline, blue chip number one starter. The Mariners, after trading the house to get Bedard, even used him as their 2008 Opening Day starter over Felix Hernandez.
Then the roof fell in.
Injuries, and an indifferent attitude have made his ...
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New York Yankees
Andy Pettitte
At his season-ending press conference, Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein said of designated hitter David Ortiz: “If he’s going to be the DH on this team, we need him to be a force.” David Ortiz had a bad year in 2009, his second consecutive year well below his established ...
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David Ortiz
Boston Red Sox
Chuck Johnson
Elvis Andrus
Despite Michael Young’s “Gold Glove defense” in 2008, the installing of Andrus as the everyday SS in Texas played a significant role in the Rangers’ improvement in the standings in 2009. And, for a 20-year-old, he held his own offensively ...
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Texas Rangers
Here’s another catching tip….
If you’ve read my book, you know the catcher has three distinct stances. The “sign stance” (used to give signs to the pitcher), the “comfort stance” (used when less than 2 strikes and nobody on base), and the ...
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Bill Chuck’s weekly, no make that bi-weekly now, list of baseball facts:
1. It took 53 years from the first World Series before Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956, and it’s now been 53 years since without another one.
2. Nelson Figueroa, Micah Owings, Matt Cain, Doug Davis, Ted Lilly and ...
