bucsdugout.com - 11/24/2008
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Here's the best rundown I've seen of the upcoming Rule 5 draft so far, and here's a long list of players teams protected. Based on what I've seen, the player I want, and a player I think Neal Huntington will give serious consideration if the player is available, is Rays ...
baseballanalysts.com - 11/28/2008
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baseballanalysts.com —
There are only 15 more shopping days left.
Major League Baseball's Rule 5 draft will occur on...
at the end of the Winter Meetings on Dec. 11. The draft, which is explained here , has become extremely popular in the eyes of online fans, but ...
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The 2008 Rule 5 Draft: Previewing the Pitchers
walkoffwalk.com - 11/25/2008
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walkoffwalk.com —
That's a screenshot of MLB.com as of 7:30PM
EST, displaying our Indian heroes in all their glory....
They're the top story because Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has made it official : Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel are now ...
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Neal Huntington Makes It Official: Rinku and Dinesh Are ...
bugsandcranks.com - 11/25/2008
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bugsandcranks.com —
As an Indian-American, it baffles me how weak
we are as a people in sports. While the...
Chinese have managed to develop a machine that wins gold medal after gold medal, and even has managed to develop talent good enough for American sports with their 6 ...
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1 billion people can’t be athletes…or can they?
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Skelton Draws Notice Elsewhere
Bless You Boys —
... The first side might find it interesting to see who our SB Nation broham Bucs Dugout highlighted as the best position player available among Rule 5 eligible players: ...
News and Notes--Pirates Sign Two Indian Pitchers (updated)
Raise the Jolly Roger —
... Jack Wilson rumblings are still going strong, now from the [Detroit Free Press] and [Pirates.com]. Same stuff...getting Treanor from the Marlins, then packaging him with Jack for prospects. I don't see it happening. Would we then go after a FA shortstop, or deal with Bixler/Cruz all year? ------------- Bucs Dugout has some awesome posts about [The Astros' Sad Situation] (something I tried to stress late in the season) and [who's available in the Rule 5 Draft]. WHYGAVS makes [a heroic effort to analyze John Russell as a manager], which is always ...
News and Notes--Pirates Sign Two Indian Pitchers
Raise the Jolly Roger —
... Jack Wilson rumblings are still going strong, now from the [Detroit Free Press] and [Pirates.com]. Same stuff...getting Treanor from the Marlins, then packaging him with Jack for prospects. I don't see it happening. Would we then go after a FA shortstop, or deal with Bixler/Cruz all year? ------------- Bucs Dugout has some awesome posts about [The Astros' Sad Situation] (something I tried to stress late in the season) and [who's available in the Rule 5 Draft]. WHYGAVS makes [a heroic effort to analyze John Russell as a manager], which is always ...
Post-turkey links
Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? —
... for a few days, goggling my eyes at the snow. We don't have that in the south. With the Winter Meetings looming, Dejan's back at the PG. His first story updates the offseason to this point, mentioning that Grabow, Paulino, Sanchez, Wilson, and LaRoche are available while Huntington is looking for any and all pitching. Rinku and Dinesh posted about signing with the Pirates. They're pretty excited. They looked up Pittsburgh on the internet. Charlie had a good post about the Rule 5 draft earlier this week, based on this list of players made up ...
AaronGleeman.com —
... is now eligible to be selected in next week's Rule 5 draft and it would be nice to see the Twins recoup some of the value from the Young trade by taking him, but my guess is that Morlan won't make it to them. Even speculating that a specific player will be selected at all in the Rule 5 draft is somewhat pointless because the whole thing is very unpredictable, but Morlan is exactly the type of prospect many teams target and he's featured in all sorts of articles highlighting potential Rule 5 steals. Today is the deadline for teams to ...
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Monday our ...
Pirates-Mets good trade match...
metsfever.blogspot.com 12/1/2008 — I think Pittsburgh would be the perfect place for Aaron Heilman to begin his starting pitching career, for you Pirates fans seeing this and checking in, not because I'm trying to dump him on you. I believe Heilman has the potential to be a solid ...
