Yesterday’s link to a free agent list isn’t as good as today’s list to the Type A and Type B Free agents from MLB Trade Rumors. This list gives a good idea of each player’s value, but I have to say that it also reveals what kind of season a few players had.  For example, [...]

I couldn’t imagine anything this spring as depressing as seeing the Mets play, at least as spring training got underway.  (Actually that is quite an exaggeration as you will note I never went to see the Astros play.)  But since so many readers here are Mets fans, I knew I couldn’t return north without at [...]

So bear with me here… this post is going to cover a lot of territory so hang on.
If you didn’t know who John Mayberry Jr. is before yesterday, you now do if you were watching the FOX game anyway.  You may still not know who his father is, due to the FOX gaff of showing [...]

Great piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution from Carroll Rogers about Derek Lowe’s off day work-out schedule.  Here’s a quote from Matt Diaz in the piece:
“(John) Smoltz was like that,” Diaz said. “A lot of pitchers that eat up a lot of innings have the same mentality, and that’s they’re going to work harder on [...]

OK, folks, so I was wrong about Derek Lowe and the Mets. I guess Scott Boras wiggled around the question about whether the Braves can win when advising the ex-Dodger, and the Mets still had a pretty good fall-back plan, perhaps even a better one for their purposes with Perez having some effectiveness against the [...]