Winners and Losers of Draft Signing Day
FanHouse —
Filed under: Mariners, Nationals, Pirates, Red Sox, Royals, Yankees, MLB Biz, MLB Draft, MLB Transactions To fans and the media, what a team does in the MLB Draft pales next to a big free-agent signing or blockbuster trade. Part of that is the gaudy figures thrown around during the hot stove season. The Red Sox, this year's top spender in the draft, couldn't even buy one year of Gil Meche if they shifted their draft outlay to the open market. Most of it stems from immediacy, though. A big winter signing answers the question who will help me today? A big haul in the ...
Draft Reactions: Nationals
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
The dust has settled on the 2008 amateur draft. The Nationals, Pirates, and Royals had storylines worthy of a closer look.
The Nationals failed to sign their first round pick, college righty Aaron Crow. Crow might've completely skipped the minors had he signed. ESPN's Keith Law considers the Crow situation ...
Interesting Perspectives
Nationals Farm Authority —
{ 2008 08 18 } Interesting Perspectives An argument on how the “ Nationals Were Winners at the Draft Deadline ” compared to the ESPN’s Keith Law detailing “ yet another misstep for the Nats ” (Insider access). I will always believe the truth lies somewhere between these two stories. Posted by Brian Oliver on Monday, August 18th, 2008, at 8:35 am, and filed under Draft . Follow any responses to this entry with the RSS 2.0 feed. You can post a comment .
Clip Job: Must sees, must reads
Bird Land —
TOWER GROVE — Started watching the documentary on Ireland’s National Baseball Team late the other night, and from the opening frame there’s a St. Louis connection.
Mike Kindle, the President of Baseball Ireland and the first person you see in “The Emerald Diamond”, is a St. Louis native, a Cardinals’ fan dipped in red and devoted, and it was his interest in a car sticker about a national softball association that the movie identifies as the flashpoint for Team Irish and the growth of hardball on the island. At the 1996 European Championships, the team made its international debut with a single ...
Crow updates
Mizzourah —
Ran across a couple updates on Aaron Crow. First there's this article from his hometown newspaper in Topeka. Apparently Crow is pitching out of the bullpen for the Ft. Worth Cats. Am I the only one who is totally befuddled by the fact that he's not starting in an independent baseball league? Talk about a crappy front office. Maybe these guys are totally oblivious to the rest of the baseball world and are still waiting for Aaron to show them what he's got. Maybe they don't care where he was drafted in the, what's it called? MLB Draft? I mean, they're the Ft. Worth Cats, damnit! They've got a proud tradition to uphold. ...
