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Rockies Would Be Smart to Deal Holliday
Published 5/16/2008 by Bill Baer at Baseball Digest Daily
FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports that the Colorado Rockies “almost certainly would consider trading [Matt] Holliday,” their left fielder and runner-up in NL MVP voting last season. They would be smart to trade him if they feel they have no shot at winning the NL West. However, if the Rockies win three of their next five games starting tonight, that would leave them at 18-27, exactly where they were after 45 games last season when they went on to win the NL pennant. Simply put, Matt Holliday is overrated. He’s a product of hitter-friendly Coors Field, as shown by his home/road splits : 2004 : 1.009 OPS home; .654 OPS road. 2005 : 1.002 OPS ...

Lazy Sunday at the Salvage Yard
Published 5/18/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Paul Cousineau) at The DiaTribe
... (by the way, check out Holliday’s career home vs. road splits to see the Coors Field effect…um, no thanks), as well as touching on the rumor-du-jour of Garrett Atkins to the Indians (something that Buster Olney speculated on as well). The evolution of these rumors is an interesting manifestation to dissect. It starts with a piece of speculation, usually by a person in the print media, that is ...

Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
Published 7/2/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... especially the off-day puzzles of late. International Signing Day The Padres signed five players for $5,000,000. The A's signed Michael Inoa for $4.25M as a 16-year-old, the largest bonus for a non-Cuban Latin amateur ever. I haven't been able to find any indication, so far, that either the Dodgers or Angels have signed any amateur talent from Latin America. Robo-Rumor: Angels, Dodgers After Holliday Nothing like chasing a Coors Field mirage. And it'll only cost you everything the Angels have left of value in their ...