In the last few days, a couple of smallish milestones have been reached, interestingly both have been in Texas.
First, Omar Vizquel matched Luis Aparacio’s hits total as most by a Venzualen born player.  Vizquel’s OPS was slightly lower than Aparacio’s, but his fielding percentage was much higher.  Henry Schulman writes a great piece about what [...]

Today was my first visit to Lee County and Hammond Stadium, spring home of the Twins. The funny thing is the Twins always remind me why I like baseball.  When ever you see the Twins in spring, you see them take infield practice, or play pepper or some old school  bit of work that most [...]

Brian Cashman may not have secured his pitcher yet, but he solved the one missing piece in his line-up… that of Jorge Posada by trading for one of the other premier catchers in the league in Pudge Rodriguez.  Additionally, he didn’t give up a single prospect for the rental of Pudge for the remainder of [...]