insidethepadres.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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Some of the best scouts in baseball have worked for the Padres. One of them, Damon Oppenheimer , now has more World Series rings than he does fingers on one hand --- one for the thumb coming on Wednesday when the Yankees thumped the Phillies. Number five was especially cool for Oppenheimer, New ...
joeposnanski.com - 16 days ago
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joeposnanski.com —
The following is a screed about the Yankees
payroll. If you are a Yankees fan uninterested in
a screed about the payroll, don’t read it. You won’t enjoy it. Go out, buy a championship T-shirt, reminisce about this great team, enjoy the ...
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The Yankees Payroll
bizofbaseball.com - 15 days ago
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bizofbaseball.com —
Should talk of a salary cap be about
the Yankees, or a far broader topic? As soon
as the Yankees won the World Series, the conversation broke into a chorus. There had been discussions about it before, but once the moniker “27th World Series Champion” was attached to the Bronx ...
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Reasons for Not Having a Salary Cap in MLB Are Numerous
torontosun.com - 14 days ago
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Laird goes deep twice in the desert
River Avenue Blues —
... Tom Krasovic has a cool little piece on Damon Oppenheimer, so make sure you check it out. It’s pretty amazing to see how many former Padres’ scouts are holding down major front office jobs around the game, D-Opp included. ...
Around the Mission: 11/6 Padres Links
Gaslamp Ball —
... have reached its end.
Hundley has surgery on hernia Hundley also is scheduled to get married early next month near his Arizona home.
Making the Grade: Defense | padres.com: News "Making the Grade" is a four-part series analyzing the performances of various units of the 2009 San Diego Padres. Today: Defense. Previously, starting pitching (Oct. 28), bullpen (Oct. 30) and offense (Nov. 3). Defense grade: B
insidethepadres: San Diego and the Bronx Some of the best scouts in baseball have worked for ...
Praise For Damon Oppenheimer
WasWatching.com —
There’s been some post-world-series features recently highlighting the work of Damon Oppenheimer. First from Tom Krasovic -
Some of the best scouts in baseball have worked for the Padres. One of them, Damon Oppenheimer, now has more World Series rings than he does fingers on one hand — one for the thumb coming on Wednesday when the Yankees thumped the Phillies.
Number five was especially cool for Oppenheimer, New York’s vice-president of scouting since 2004, because players he drafted such as Joba Chamberlain , Phil Hughes, Brett ...
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