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Questionable Assumption - Would Barry Have Been a Good Hitter in 2008?
As promised, yet another follow up to the Barry Bonds saga. Jack Marshall writes, ...[S]igning Bonds in order to make the playoffs would have been a dubious and foolish deal for any team, even if one buys the questionable assumption that he would have played well enough to hold up his end of it. ...
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Just Let it Go...
Not just yet. I'm going to take a look at three of the main aspects regarding the Barry Bonds issue as pertaining to the article written by Jack Marshall over at the Hardball Times . I know, I have went over this article twice already, but I feel as though there are a couple more issues which ...
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On Logic and Barry
Well apparently I've gone out and upset someone, quite possibly ticked them off. That's fine, often times during a discussion individuals let their passion and opinion trump logic. Yesterday I reviewed an article over at the Hardball Times . An article which seemed to ruffle a bunch of feathers ...
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Barry Bonds is Unethical?
Over at the Hardball Times there is a well-written, albeit illogical, rationale regarding why teams did not sign Barry Bonds for the 2008 season. THT writer John Brattain has spent much of the season putting together a series of asserting that MLB has intentionally avoided Barry and done so ...
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Analysis of a Coast to Coast Blockbuster
By now, we've all heard of the 12 player, 3 team blockbuster that occurred on Wednesday Night between the Mets, Mariners, and Indians. In fact, I even posted a breakdown of the trade Thursday morning, so if you haven't heard of it yet, you probably aren't reading this. So we're got 12 players, ...
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The Trades That We Could Have Done Without
The 2008 MLB Winter Meetings have wrapped up and while there was some action, many of the headlines were either predictable or were not the ones everyone was looking for. This entry will review three trades that went down in a little over 24 hours in Las Vegas-three moves which were largely ...
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Coast to Coast Blockbuster
Here's how the trade between the Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, and Cleveland Indians shakes out: Analysis to follow...
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Rule V Draft Primer
Tomorrow marks MLB's Rule V draft, a draft where unprotected players can be had by any team for a fee and a roster spot. Of course, teams do a good job at protecting their most valuable assets, there are players who slip through the cracks, most notably being Johan Santana and Josh Hamilton in ...
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The OLIB's First Birthday
A year has gone by already? I've got to say, when I first started this thing, it was wishful thinking to believe it would last a year. I never anticipated posting daily or even having more then a handful of posts or so a month. But here we are, full circle, 216 posts later. Obviously a lot has ...
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Contemplating Speculation
Despite the fact that we are still two months away from pitchers and catchers meeting for Spring Training, there is plenty of action going on. The Winter Meetings signal the actual start to free agency, where the majority of big name free agents will either sign their contracts or begin to put ...
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