The Reds have extended and restructured Scott Rolen’s contract making their need to make a trade to shed payroll a little less immediate.  They still might trade Aaron Harang, but they can also now afford to wait until spring training when he can prove he is healthy and can pitch.  This article has the details.
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Now that I am back up and running, just want to send you off quickly for a short piece about the Mike Lowell trade and how a team could talk about a guy for a month without knowing there was something wrong with him that would kill the deal.  This Pete Abraham blog piece shares [...]

I am having some technical problems with my Internet today, and having trouble getting a real post up.
Until then, check out this New York Times blog post about what the Yankees signing Nick Johnson means for the team. Remember Yankee fans, you used to love Nick when he came up with the team.

A couple of days ago, I wrote about Seattle having to overpay a free agent to play in the Pacific Northwest.  As I noted, there are plenty of reasons for that, far from other teams, and far from warm weather homes, very little National media coverage etc.  But every now and then all of those [...]

Every Friday we feature one of our fans over on the message board who offered up some insight or had something interesting to say in the past week. Well, to show you what kind of interesting things get talked about over there, this weeks featured fan is SoxFan1, who was able to give our number [...]