Carlos Beltran is a Giant.  With injuries to Buster Posey and Freddy Sanchez the team needed to add some strength to the line-up, and they did it.  And while this Henry Schulman article implies this isn’t usually Giant’s GM Brian Sabean’s modus operandi when it comes to the deadline, Sabean had to make his current [...]

The Mets are in the throws of their GM search, seemingly looking under ever stone- the highly touted up and comers and the tried and true baseball names.  Sandy Alderson is one of the later, who will meet with the Wilpon’s at the end of the week. Alderson is doing this as a favor no [...]

Yesterday, Tim Lincecum won his second Cy Young in his first two years in the majors.  At the Writer’s dinner last year, everyone kept wondering who the teenager on the dais was, until of course they introduced Tim Lincecum. 
Lincecum is a bit of a surprise, it seems, since he didn’t garner the most first place [...]

In any other business besides baseball, long-term thinking is more important to the health of the company.  Those in the front offices of baseball will also tell you that they think long-term.  Or at least they did in a survey I conducted in 2008.  The problem though is that in other businesses long-term is defined [...]

I love it when those around a team can be positive, and it is always the right move when talking to the media.  A GM that say “We have no chance” should quit or be fired that day.  That makes this Henry Schulman article something that we have to take with a grain of salt.  Still, [...]