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, [...]

Went looking for some info on the Nationals search for a skipper, and found one of the most flattering, and perhaps accurate pieces about the Yankees core of Jeter, Rivera, Posada and tonight’s starter Andy Pettitte I have seen.  Thomas Boswell writes a nice piece about the four, with some great quotes from Reggie Jackson.  [...]

David Murphy wrote that line above. Murphy wrote it for this mornings paper, in a beautiful piece about the Phillies march to return to the World Series.
For those of us in New York long enough to remember the late 1990’s (has it really been 10 years?) we remember what it meant for a team to [...]

Cano: 1 for 4 with a walk, 2 runs scored and an RBI
Swisher: 0 for 2 with a walk, Gardner 1 or 1 with a run scored
Cabrera: 3 for 4 with a walk, and a run scored
Angels:
Morales: 1 for 3 with a run scored
Napoli: 1 for 3
Aybar: 1 for 3
The bottom three may not be [...]

Just to revisit yeterday’s post after the game-
Angels bottom 3:
Izturis - 1 for 5 with w a walk and a run scored
Napoli- 0-3 replaced by Matthews who went 0 for 2 with a walk and a run
Aybar - 1-5 with a run ( and an RBI)
Yankees bottom 3:
Cano: 1 for 5 with a walk and [...]