• mccoey01: Keep an eye on Phillies' Dominic Brown. This kid's gonna be good....

In September, 2008, Sarah wrote a post for MLB Trade Rumors speculating that the Braves might trade Jeff Francoeur to the Royals. She wasn’t the only one. Joe Posnanski and the AJC’s David O’Brien also said Frenchy would end up in Kansas City. The speculation made sense. Frenchy never lived up to the hype in [...]

The adjective “gritty” seems to be one of the highest complements one can pay to a baseball player. It implies a player who shows up every day, battles through injury, and is willing sacrifice the body to win. The kind of player who runs into walls and is not afraid to get his shirt dirty [...]

I don’t have cable, so I don’t watch Baseball Tonight or Sports Center. But I do have an MLB.tv subscription, so I get to watch most of the Phillies games and a fair number of other games, too. And I read about baseball. A lot. And, like many guys, I spend an unhealthy amount of [...]

It’s been an interesting two months or so as a Met fan blathering off into the blogosphere. Not only has the team (this weekend notwithstanding) been playing better than expected thanks to good/lucky pitching and solid defense, the Mets brass have been, well, logical. Rewind back to Opening Day and maybe you’ll understand. When the [...]

Before Braves management hastily muzzled Chipper Jones yesterday afternoon, the third baseman and Hooters aficionado strongly suggested that he would be retiring at the end of this season. Chipper has long said that he would hang up the cleats once he felt he was unable to significantly contribute at the Major League level. After looking [...]

Having had several hours to think it over, I’m just going to go ahead and say that Bud Selig needs to reverse Jim Joyce’s call that took away Armando Galarraga’s perfect game. He has the power. Commissioners basically have unlimited power over the game. He has every reason. Right now everyone in the baseball world [...]

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    • » mccoey01 Keep an eye on Phillies’ Dominic Brown. This kid’s gonna be good.
    • » scobo What about Granderson?
    • » Max Just fire him already. Check out www.thefantasybaseballguru.com leave comments ask qs and follow TheGuru on...
    • » Kris I am mystified by the divergent opinions on Dan Haren. His peripherals say that he is indeed one of the elite,...
    • » Paul Moro Dave, there is every indication that he will “figure it out”. In fact, there’s not much...

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