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The Holiday Season is quickly approaching.
Have you gotten your turkey yet? Stores around here are practically giving turkeys away at 37 cents a pound.
Major League News
Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe writes that the Milwaukee Brewers are very interested in Carl Pavano and could ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
#1: Alcides Escobar, MLB Alcides finally made his long-awaited Major League debut in 2009, taking over for the recently departed J.J. Hardy . He currently profiles as a Freddy Sanchez type of offensive player. The walk rate leaves a lot to be desired, but his speed and tendency not ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
First reported by Jorge Arangure Jr. of ESPN.com (via Adam McCalvy ) the Milwaukee Brewers signed a 16-year old shortstop out of the Dominican Republic, Santo Aybar . Aybar was ranked as the 18th-best Latin prospect last summer, according to Baseball America. BA says : The wiry Aybar is ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Tom Haudricourt works with Baseball America on their annual Top 10 Prospect rankings. He was courteous enough to post an advanced copy of the composite rankings on his blog: 1. SS Alcides Escobar
2. 2B Brett Lawrie
3. 3B Mat Gamel (doesn't qualify as rookie for MLB in 2010) ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Teams are now free to negotiate with free agents. Expect the hot stove to be heating up very quickly in the coming days.
Major League News
Tom Haudricourt has a "free agency primer" of sorts to kick of the true beginning of the hot stove season. He mentions that ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Jason A. Churchill from Prospect Insider (as well as ESPN, so that ups his credibility) is reporting that several media outlets have told him that the Mariners and Tigers are exploring a three-way deal that would send Edwin Jackson to Seattle and Brandon Morrow to either Detroit or an unknown ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Seattle Mariners
Detroit Tigers
Jason Anderson
ESPN
The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired right-handed reliever Aaron Heilman of the Chicago Cubs for two minor league prospects. Once one of the most sought after relievers in 2007, Heilman was a non-tender candidate this winter after posting a 4.11 ERA in 72.1 innings for the Cubs. He still ...
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Arizona Diamondbacks
Aaron Heilman
Milwaukee Brewers
Chicago Cubs
New York Mets
Despite some recent legal trouble involving marijuana, San Francisco Giants' right-hander Tim Lincecum won the 2009 NL Cy Young Award . In my ballot for the NL Cy Young (that also saw Lincecum taking home the award), I wrote: The Freak threw at least 225 innings for the second season in a ...
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Cy Young
Tim Lincecum
Milwaukee Brewers
San Francisco Giants
Javier Vazquez
Major League Baseball executive vice president Rob Manfred responded to claims by super-agent Scott Boras about the vast amount of revenue sharing across the league. According to the Boston Globe , Manfred said: Boras's numbers "have no basis in reality" and that
Boras is living in ...
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Scott Boras
Milwaukee Brewers
FOX Sports quotes Jarrod Washburn as saying: "The Twins and Brewers are both on the radar for me," Washburn said.
"The thought of playing close to home has always appealed to me, and I
think both of those teams would be good fits for me. "I don't know yet if either of ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Fox Sports
Jarrod Washburn
Minnesota Twins
The Milwaukee Brewers desperately need pitching for the 2009 season, but the first two acquisitions have been center fielder Carlos Gomez and now catcher George Kottaras from the Boston Red Sox. Boston attempted to clear Kottaras through waivers and remove him from the 40-man roster. Doug ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Case #101: Eric Gagne Eric Gagne is once again attempting to make a return to the big leagues. Reportedly featuring a new cut-fastball, the right-hander posted a 4.65 ERA in an independent Canadian-American League. He spoke to Canadian reporters and said he is open to returning on a ...
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Braden Looper
Milwaukee Brewers
Eric Gagne
Adam McCalvy reports that Milwaukee added prospects Lorenzo Cain and Amaury Rivas to the 40-man roster to protect them from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft next month. Buried in the article is an explanation as to why Cain struggled once returning from injury this year: "When you play with an ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
If only the Brewers could be hated as much as the New York Yankees. According to the ever-factual newspaper, The Onion , the Bronx Bombers have netted approximately $90M over the past 13 years by trademarking the phrase "The Yankees Suck."
Major League News
As noted ...
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After being removed from Philadelphia's 40-man roster yesterday, right-handed reliever Tyler Walker became a free agent . Walker will never anchor a major league bullpen. He is 33-years old and owns a career 4.32 ERA. Including a brief stint with the Phillies last season, he has ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Tyler Walker
Philadelphia Phillies
The Baseball Writers Association of America unveiled the 2009 Rookie of the Year awards. Chris Coghlan of the Florida Marlins (whom you may remember from the June incident with The Happy Youngster at Miller Park) took home the award for the National League. Milwaukee's Casey ...
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Tommy Hanson
Andrew Bailey
Florida Marlins
Miller Park
Sean Smith has officially released his 2010 CHONE offensive projections. The CHONE projections have routinely been cited as one of the two or three top projection systems in baseball. They are admittedly not perfectly accurate, but toiling away in November...CHONE provides us with the ...
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Milwaukee Brewers
Chone Figgins
Carlos Gomez
Prince Fielder
Jody Gerut
Braden Looper and Claudio Vargas have officially filed for free agency . Before getting too excited about signing Vargas again for 2010, be sure to check out his BABIP. It is ridiculous lucky. Doug Melvin finally heard back from Mark Mulder's agent. No new information on ...
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Braden Looper
Claudio Vargas
Doug Melvin
Mark Mulder
The Milwaukee Brewers chose to not exercise Braden Looper's $6.5M option for the 2010 season. "I talked with Braden," said Melvin, who had to pay Looper at $1
million buyout. "I told him we still had some interest in him returning
but we want to keep some flexibility ...
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Braden Looper
Detroit Tigers
John Lackey
#1: Brett Lawrie, Low-A In his first season as a professional, Lawrie quietly put together a fine season in the Midwest League for the Timber Rattlers. Milwaukee's Class-A affiliate was hard-pressed to put runs on the board, but Lawrie still managed to bat .274/.348/.454 in 372 ...
