When a team drafts the General Manager’s son in the fifth round in a huge reach like the White Sox did for Kenny Williams, Jr. in last year’s amateur draft, you should be amused and make cracks about nepotism.
When the same team does the same thing for the General Manager’s OTHER son in the following year… Man, you just have to applaud the size of their balls. They’re HUGE.
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November 8, 2009 - 12:25 pm
Here we go again. Time for another edition of our semi-annual “What They Need” series, where we play GM for all 30 teams. As usual, we’ll be suggesting subtle tweaks for some squads, and major overhalls for others. There’s already movement going on in the Hot Stove front, so there’s no time to waste!
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September 3, 2009 - 11:20 am
The 2003 Los Angeles Dodgers had one of the greatest pitching staffs the game of baseball has ever known. At the height of the steroids era, in a season when 104 players would test positive for performance enhancing drugs, the Dodgers hurlers posted a 3.16 ERA, good enough for an insane 128 team ERA+, and [...]
August 31, 2009 - 11:19 am
Okay, so at a time when most people are debating whether or not the Washington Nationals can even break .500 next season, this is going to sound more than a little crazy, but I think the Nats have an outside chance at contending next season.
I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but I am saying [...]
June 29, 2009 - 9:30 pm
We here at Umpbump have done quite a few all-time teams. We’ve also cataloged quite a series of Hot Baseball Wives. In this post, I will attempt the acrobatic feat of bridging the twain. Yes, reader: The All-Hot Team.
For reasons of attention span, or specifically, the lack of it, I am focusing on current major [...]
June 15th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
The White Sox nepotism isn’t limited to sons of Kenny. Harold Baines Jr. was selected by the Sox in the 45th round, his father is of course the former Sox player and current first base coach, Harold Baines. Grant Monroe was selected in the 46th round and he is the son of Sox adviser Larry Monroe. In the 48th round Matthew Little, son of White Sox advance scout Bryan Little was picked up by the South Siders. I’m sure Kenny was disappointed when the Dodgers swiped Kirby Pellant out from under his nose in the 38th round as Kirby’s Dad, Gary Pellant, is also a Sox scout.
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June 16th, 2009 at 5:39 am
yikes, thanks for sharing, melissa, that is pretty amazing. I mean, it’s true that most of those kinds of pics don’t pan out, but there are always exceptions (Mike Piazza, etc.), so while one pic might be wasted on a nepotism choice with little chance of harm, wasting that many seems pretty stupid.
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June 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
The Red Sox also drafted Yaz’s grandson, I believe. Don’t know what round. Too lazy to look it up.
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