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, [...]
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Justin Masterson helped the Indians to crawl 1 game closer to the Tigers for the AL Central divisio when he beat the Red Sox for the third time last night. Masterson was originally a Red Sox- but was traded in 2009 for Victor Martinez. Martinez is now a Tiger. Masterson also helped the Yankees step [...]
On this date in 1910, the Chicago White Sox lost 2-0 to the St. Louis Browns (who in 1954, would become the Baltimore Orioles) in the first ever game at Comiskey Park. The park, which seated a then record 29,000 fans, was originally named White Sox Park, before being renamed Comiskey Park three years later. [...]
We’re going way back with this one. One this date in 1888, the first publication of Ernest L. Thayer’s poem Casey at the Bat, perhaps the most famous baseball poem ever written (I’d say it depends on whether John Fogerty can be considered a poet) appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. For those not familiar [...]
Amalie Benjamin writes a piece this morning about the Red Sox starters and the improvement coming from the rotation over the last several games. Its still way early to determine whether the better control and the deeper inning count is a true trend for 2009 or just a fluke in this stretch of games. If [...]
