Trying to Avoid a Sweep

Baseball Transactions - Sunday

Dave Rouleau posted 6/9/2008 from blog.baseballdigestdaily.com

Atlanta Chipper Jones - Right quadricep, day-to-day. Boston Jacoby Ellsbury - Wrist injury, day-to-day. Cleveland Brian Slocum - Optioned to Buffalo (AAA). Jeremy Sowers - Recalled from Buffalo (AAA). Colorado Ryan Speier - Missed 23 games (rotator cuff). ...

Gangsta Tilt

Hugging Harold Reynolds posted 6/9/2008 from huggingharoldreynolds.blogspot.com

Last week the Tampa Bay Rays made prep shortstop Tim Beckham the #1 pick in the MLB draft. The question that was immediately on everyone's mind is whether his inability to put a hat on straight will affect his ability on the field, or will he join an illustrious fraternity crooked-hat-wearing all-stars, who care not how goofy they look.

How Convenient…

RockKing posted 6/9/2008 from www.waitingfornextyear.com

Jun 6 The Associated Press reports Cleveland Indians DH Travis Hafner (shoulder) will start hitting this weekend. ***** File this under “Things you wish occured two months ago.” …

Enough With This Betacourt Character

RockKing posted 6/9/2008 from www.waitingfornextyear.com

Tigers 8, Indians 4 (box) Unreal. You have a guy who was one of the best relief pitchers in all of baseball last season getting smacked around only a year later like he’s dating the late Ike Turner. Don’t be fooled by the fact that Masa Kobayashi took the loss in yesterday’s game. If you weren’t [...]

When Pitchers Were Hitters

Peter@BaseballReflections posted 6/9/2008 from baseballreflections.com

Before there was the DH, all pitchers HAD to hit and there were some greats, if you can remember. I recall someone by the name of Ruth who came up in the Boston organization as a starting pitcher. We all know what happened to George Herman Ruth once he was traded to NY and transitioned