Sad, but true:Kansas City Royals - Acquired Nothing from the Seattle Mariners for P Daniel Cortes, P Derrick Saito, and the right to not have IF Yuniesky Betancourt on the team. The Royals clearly overpaid here. 28 other teams have also acquired the rights to...
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Yep, nothing will address the fact that your team is running 4-6 replacement-level players a night out there like adding an OF with a lifetime .308 OBP and mediocre power..
Before reading this story I'd heard of Steve Dalkowski, but I didn't realize his stats were so unique, or that his life story was so grim. Here are his career.
Posnanski/James and Neyer discuss, at the usual high level...
I want to take the opportunity to reiterate one of Lawyers, Guns and Money's core, foundational beliefs: That Raul Ibanez will never amount to anything.
Recently in comments somebody noted with regret that Stephen Strasburg would be wasted as a superstar on a bad team; using the (probably not very good) example of Brien Taylor,.
Via Mr. Trend, we read of this morbid collection of stories about people killed in baseball-related injuries. Trend is right to wonder why the article fails to mention Ray Chapman (or a this more recent echo), but I was more surprised to learn that[i]n the...
Is Daniel Murphy the poor man's Dave Madagan, or David Segui without the defense and steroids? Either way, can the Mets really pretend that the guy can be a regular.
Performance this year notwithstanding, this is a beautiful picture for any Mariner fan:
The answer, of course, is "no." While it's true that Theodore Roosevelt favored spelling reform, one assumes he wasn't thinking of his own name as a candidate for revision. This wouldn't have happened if the team still played in Montreal.
Moralistic hand-wringing about steroids is frequently accompanied by somewhat extravagant claims about the dramatic impact they have/had on individual player performances and the game itself. In the thread below, we.
The only thing I can say about the Manny story is that at least it's better than the ever-so-fascinating speculation about whether the 26th-best QB in the league will one.