Those folks at Baseball Prospectus never tire of trying to get it right, and even though they are taking some heat for releasing poorly checked information, they are doing a nice job of working to keep updating it. I mentioned a few things that seemed suspect in their PECOTA standings for 2010- like the Nationals [...]
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Very sweet story about Nick Adenhart’s younger half-brother who is also a budding pitcher for his high school. Lyle Spencer speaks with Henry’s coach about the young man, and how gracious the Angels have been to him. Worth a read on this cold morning.
Interestingly, Hideki Matsui’s agent, Arn Tellum has written a short piece for the Huffington Post, basically explaining the one year contract Godzilla signed with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this week. The piece is very pollished, and without sharing any blame clearly explains how hard it was for Matsui to leave the Yankees, but [...]
I wish these sorts of days came on Monday, but I guess that’s when most of the reporters are gathering all these tidbits after watching football all day Sunday. Nonetheless, here are a few tidbits from around the league, with links to deeper stories and details.
The Angels and Dodgers are in the hunt for Roy [...]
As I have written about time and time again, one of the big keys in any business deal is figuring out what types of decisions should be short-term and which should be long-term. Too often in baseball circles, long-term is thought to be 2-3 years. That is not long-term.
Yesterday, Tony Regins’s contract was extended, and [...]
The parade through the canyon of heroes is not far from starting- a very exciting event in New York, but elsewhere, in baseball 2009 is over.
Free Agency began yesterday, and the numbers of players exercising that option was big. What’s also interesting is the number of trades and signings that are already happening. Last year, [...]
