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Yankees Soft Underbelly
Published 2/23/2009 by Mark Serio (munsoned1@yahoo.com) at BASEBALL HOT CORNER
... The accomplished veterans will need help. "Rust never sleeps."--(Neil Young) Posada, Rivera, Pettitte, Burnett and young-gun Chamberlain are question marks not exclamation points. Jeter, Damon and Rodriguez (See Juan Gonzalez.) ...

HOF election results announced today
Published 1/12/2009 by Mike A. at River Avenue Blues
... bases, and third person references. Chris Jaffe over at THT did a great job of summing up the wonder of Rickey, I highly recommend it. You can check out the rest of the ballot here. Chances are that Jim Rice will finally break through and make it too Cooperstown in his final year on the ballot, and at that point the HOF floodgates should open. Once Rice is in, don’t you have to let Frank Howard, Fred McGriff, Albert Belle, Juan Gonzalez and Will Clark in? I mean, when the best thing you can say about a guy is ...

Fun With Sim Scores: The Rest of The Ballot
Published 1/12/2009 by Dan Turkenkopf at Beyond the Box Score
... 888 7. Dave Winfield* 886 8. Duke Snider* 884 9. Juan Gonzalez 881 10. Al Simmons* 878 ...

New Yankee Stadium, Same Old Shit: Steinbrenner’s Sweetheart Assessment Deal
Published 12/18/2008 by David Roth at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... and era-defining dickweed. And you own a parcel of land with an iconic stadium on it in the city’s most benighted borough (give or take a Staten Island). And, you know, you want to build another newer stadium right next to that pre-existing stadium, but in order to do that without incurring a big tax hit, you need to get the land on which your stadium sits assessed at…actually, you know what, let’s dump the hypothetical. Here’s Juan Gonzalez — yes, this Juan Gonzalez (no, not really) — ...

TEXAS RANGERS - ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM
Published 12/8/2008 by Sully (info@sullybaseball.com) at SULLY BASEBALL
... power hitting and slick fielding third baseman, he was one of the key players that helped win the first ever division for the Rangers. He also made a throwing error in the bottom of the 12th inning that allowed the Yankees to tie the 1996 Division Series at a game a piece. If the Rangers won that game, chances are they win the series and the Joe Torre era would have been over after one year. But that’s another post. STARTING LEFT FIELDER JUAN GONZALEZ Has there ever been a two time MVP who has left less of an impact on the ...

The Best Free Agent Signings in Royals History
Published 11/24/2008 by RoyalsRetro at Royals Review
... Stairs was supposed to be a bat off the bench, but by Memorial Day he was playing regularly in place of the injured Juan Gonzalez. Stairs continued to slam home runs, finishing second on the team with eighteen. He also finished second on the team in RBI with 66 and led the team in walks with 49. Despite being embarrassed that such a lowly regarded free agent could be among the team leaders in several offensive categories, the Royals rewarded him with a one year contract extension. ...

Randy Smith’s Losing Bet
Published 11/2/2008 by Mike McClary at The Daily Fungo – Detroit Tigers Baseball: Yesterday and Today
... pitchers Justin Thompson, Alan Webb and Francisco Cordero, outfielder Gabe Kapler, catcher Bill Haselman, and infielder Frank Catalanotto. Sound like a ripoff? That’s not the half of it. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and see how that worked out for both teams since the day of the trade: Detroit Gonzalez 2000 (Detroit): 115 G, .289, 22 HR, ...

The Twi-Nighter: Rangers now notable, but not in a good way
Published 4/24/2008 at Big League Stew
... for A-Rod all those years back, it'd be almost like they haven't existed since Juan Gonzalez was in town and winning MVPs with his Juan Gone ways. ...

Cardinals Outfield Jamboree:: Juan Gonzalez
Published 2/19/2008 at STLSportsMag
... to Kansas City where he appeared in 33 games in 2004.  His last attempted comeback in Cleveland three years ago lasted one at bat, before he blew out a hamstring and was shelved for the season.  At 38 years old, is it possible that the guy has anything left in the tank?  Above rec league softball level that is.  He's got some pretty influential backers in his corner in Albert Pujols, Yadi Molina and Jose Oquendo, all of whom recommended the signing. His time with the Rangers was nothing short of dominant .  He was of course playing in steroid capitol at the time alongside ...

Now Batting, Number 73. . .
Published 2/19/2008 by Al Doyle at Baseball Analysts
... Oft-injured Juan Gonzalez hasn't appeared in the majors since a single 2005 at-bat, and the 38-year old former two-time MVP is trying to make it back to the bigs with the Cardinals. ...

Decisions 2008: Who’s in your outfield?
Published 2/8/2008 by Derrick Goold at Bird Land
... JUAN GONZALEZ, LF/RF, from the right: La Russa wants to see if the former MVP and Hack Wilson pursuer is the righthanded bat he wants for his bench and perhaps more. Eduardo Perez says “Igor” is in great shape and rejuvenated health and less prickly demeanor. Jose Oquendo and Yadier Molina gave their thumbs up after seeing Gonzalez take batting practice. Albert Pujols was also there, and said this: ...

Taking a Look at... what a minute... Juan Gonzalez?
Published 2/6/2008 by Kujo at Rockin' the Red
... to a minor league contract and will be with the Cardinals for Spring Training. Aside from the sheer uselessness of it all, I don't really have a problem with them giving Gonzo a shot. If he ends of blocking capable players in Triple A Memphis, however, I would take exception to that. Apparently Albert, Yadi, Eduardo Perez, and Jose Oquendo highly recommended Juan-Gone to the front office after seeing him in action in Puerto Rico this winter. ...

Tony LaRussa is a baseball man... except when it comes to steroids
Published 2/5/2008 at JoeSportsFan.com
... It's more or less understood that Juan Gone was a product of the mid 90s steroid boom, and at least it worked out for him.  For nearly a decade, Gonzalez was one of the most dominant hitters in the game.  From 1991 through '99, he hit 35 or more home runs 6 times and drove in 100+ runs 7 times (he failed to accomplish either feat during the strike shortened '94 and '95 seasons).  At the time, I was ecstatic because I had a ...

Reds Sign Francisco Cordero (probably)
Published 11/24/2007 by Justin at Basement Dwellers
... that ended Juan Gonzalez's first tenure with the Texas Rangers. After struggling and missing time due to injury over his first two years, Cordero finally settled into the big leagues for good in 2002, and took over the closer's job for good in 2004 at age 29. Acquired by the Brewers in '06 as part of the ...

2007 Game 74: Toronto Blue Jays at Minnesota Twins
Published 6/25/2007 by SBG at The WGOM
... for $1,100,000 and The Insanity for an incentive laden contract for $8.5 million over two years. Unbelievably, the Twins ditched the slick fielding Batista fifty games into the season and coincidentally went on an historic run to the AL Central Division title, even though the biggest question surrounding The Insanity was whether they d let his -20 VORP ass get the 400 plate appearances needed to vest his player option. (Luckily they didn t, but then the Twins signed him again! This year, he s playing like his name is Juan Gonzalez and the year is 2005.) Of course, such brilliant signings netted the Twins’ GM Terry Ryan Executive of the Year honors. He s deserved recognition before, of course, but I m thinking that his 2005-06 off-season wasn t his best effort. Pardon my negativity, I m on a roll. Meanwhile, his badly overmatched competitor, Billy Beane, plugged the $500,000 Owie into his lineup and Owie responded ...

Tom Hicks Still Suspects Juan Gonzalez Was on the Juice
Published 6/21/2007 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... : "I have no knowledge that Juan used steroids. His number of injuries and early retirement just makes me suspicious," Hicks wrote in an e-mail to the Associated Press yesterday. "In any event, we paid him $24 million for very few games." Since when is missing games with injury a sign of steroids? Usually people point to a sudden drop-off in production as a sign that someone has come off the juice, but that didn't happen with Gonzalez. Although he was only able to play in 70 games in 2002 and 82 games in 2003, he was very productive when he was on the field, combining to hit .288 with 32 home runs and 105 RBI in 604 at-bats. Maybe his injuries were the result of years of steroid abuse, but does anyone know for sure? A lot of players have spent a lot of time on the DL, and I don't think that's reason enough to point fingers. Gonzalez was always injury prone: he appeared in at least 145 games just twice over his entire career ...

Tom Hicks' Greatest Hits
Published 6/21/2007 by McD at Rumors and Rants
... Juan Gonzalez is an interesting case from the "steroids era" in baseball. He was an extremely productive player for about ten years, but every single good season he had came before he was 32 and then he completely broke down physically. In fact, he was one of the more feared hitters of the 1990's, but he almost never stands out because his career ended so prematurely. Imagine if he'd been able to keep adding on to his 432 career home runs for eight more years, we'd be discussing his Hall of Fame credentials. Check out his stats. We had kind of forgotten how good he really was, despite all the injuries. ...

Rangers Owner Tom Hicks says Juan Gonzalez was Probably on Steroids
Published 6/20/2007 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... Yikes! I believe Hicks is referring to a two-year deal for ‘02 and ‘03. Juan Gone made it into a cool 152 games over the two years, banging 32 home runs and 105 RBIs. Not bad for 152 games…bad because that was over two seasons. ...

Used Book Sale Trip - Part I
Published 2/18/2007 by your_rolemodel80 at The Baseball Bookshelf
... The 2003  Royals, somewhat forgotten given the amazing exploits of that season's playoffs, finished 83-79 after starting out quite well. This stoked what we all look for in looking back at preview mags - a ridiculous prediction. In one of USA Today's Bob Nightengale's lesser moments, he uses the "Hey, we didn't expect the Marlins to win" logic to say: "We're going with a team that quietly made all the right moves." One of those key moves? Signing Juan Gonz ...

I write columns so I can self-congratulate my clever-ness.
Published 2/7/2007 by Allen Chace at Over the Monster
... Can't take away from his accomplishments, but it might be time to admit defeat.  Or start floating rumors about teams who don't already have DH-type players.  Seattle, maybe?