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The Giants are taking on the Falcons at home at 1pm ET today, while the Jets are in New England later on at 4pm ET. Chat all you want about the games here, just make sure you keep your football comments in this thread. Thanks, enjoy the games.
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In a piece for the Times, former big league outfielder Doug Glanville writes about the experience of free agency from a player’s point of view. Do you go for the money? consider your family’s wants? In reality, it’s a mix of both. It’s a great and interesting read, so ...
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On November 21, 1934, the Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League. He’d debut two year later, posting a .323/.352/.576 line in the cavernous Yankee Stadium. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sorry for the shortness, but the RABbis ...
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ESPN.com’s Jorge Arangure Jr. has the headline: “Cuban defector Chapman fires agent.” That’s what I saw earlier this afternoon. My first thought, of course, is that he opted for Scott Boras. That’s not the case, thankfully. After Chapman fired his former agent, ...
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Got a craving for some live baseball? Then check out the Arizona Fall League Championship Game between the Peoria Javelinas and the Phoenix Desert Dogs on MLB Network this afternoon. The broadcast starts at 2:30pm ET, with the game set to start a little after that. Stephen Strasburg was ...
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Upon his arrival in Taiwan, Chien-Ming Wang demonstrated exercises for reporters. (Via the AP)
In my mind, Chien-Ming Wang is the late ’00s version of the lost Yankee. Through his first 97 starts in the Big Leagues, he had won 54 of them and had sported an ERA of 3.79. He ...
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In 2007, a 27-year-old rookie named Shelley Duncan arrived in the Bronx. Drafted by the Yanks in the second round of the 2001 draft, Shelley, son of Dave, brother of Chris, had a Major League pedigree, and a body to match. He is 6′5″ and 215 pounds, and when he hits, he puts all ...
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After looking at the free agent class of setup men , last weekend, I thought that “the ideal solution is for the guys already on the roster…to step up and take the late innings.” I based that conclusion mainly on the strength of the middle relievers on the market. The only ...
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At midnight last night, the Hot Stove League officially kicked off it’s season. The 15-day exclusive negotiating window has ended, so free agents are now able to talk to any team about gainful employment. There will be more rumors than you could ever possibly desire, and even though the ...
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The Yankees have announced seven additions to the team’s 40-man rotation in advance of December’s Rule 5 draft. Among them are Austin Jackson and Ivan Nova. What a difference a year makes for Nova, who was selected and then returned to the Yanks in 2008.
To go along with this ...
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While CC Sabathia is up for SI’s Sportsman of the Year award, his manager took home some honors of his own. The March of Dimes named Joe Girardi their Sportsman of the Year (Venus Williams was Sportwoman) because of his achievements with the Yankees in 2009, and will honor him 26th annual ...
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Keith Law’s list of the Top 50 Free Agents hit the tubes yesterday, and mixed among the Matt Hollidays and John Lackeys and Placido Polancos of the free agent world were two amateur lefthanders that won’t necessarily make an impact in the big leagues next year, but would still be a ...
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RAB chat 11-20-09
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Yesterday afternoon, a low-level rumor by Bob Nightengale concerning the Yanks’ reportedly making Nick Swisher available took the Internet by storm, and we debunked and contextualized it . Late last night, one of George A. King III’s Yankee sources denied the rumor and said that ...
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The deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players is December 12, just a few weeks away. The Yankees will have decisions to make on a few players, including Melky Cabrera , Brian Bruney, Chad Gaudin, and Sergio Mitre. Chances are the Yankees will offer arbitration to all four, ...
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‘Tis a fine day for a chat, don’t you think? It’s Opening Day for the Hot Stove League , Thanksgiving’s in a week, the Yanks are World Champs … yep, not much to complain about if you’re a Yankee fan. Chat starts at 2pm today; see you there.
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Over the next week or so, we’ll again break down what went wrong and what went right for the 2009 Yankees. The series this year will be much more enjoyable than the last.
Pitching and defense wins championships, or so the saying goes. The 2008 Yankees were one of the game’s worst ...
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Catchers tend not to age well. Baseball players typically start to decline physically in their early- to mid-thirties, but for catchers, who spend seven months a year squatting, it can come on earlier and more dramatically. For the past few years, Jorge Posada has defied the typical aging ...
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The Arizona Fall League regular season is over. Surprise finished 16-16, two games back of the Peoria Javelinas for the West Division title. The Javelinas will take on Phoenix in the title game on Saturday.
AzFL Surprise ( 11-9 loss to the Peoria Saguaros on Wednesday)
Brandon Laird : 1 for ...
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…until nothing happens. Yes, free agents are free to sign with other teams at midnight EST, but that means little at this point. Maybe we’ll start to see rumors with dollar amounts attached to them, but that’s about it. Otherwise, we’ll continue to play the free agent ...
