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Archive for December, 2008

Market Well Dunn

Conventional wisdom would hold that a player hitting 40 home runs every year for five years running wouldn’t have trouble finding a job as a free agent. Adam Dunn posts a high on-base percentage (usually over .380) in [...]


MLB Around the Clock

On New Year’s Day, Major League Baseball will launch the MLB Network, a 24-hour baseball channel. The network is operated entirely by the league and will feature exclusive programming owned by MLB. It will be available[...]


The Empire Strikes Back

Last week’s signing of firstbaseman Mark Teixeira by the New York Yankees dealt a wake-up blow to the rest of the league; the Evil Empire is back. Long believed to be headed to Boston, Teixeira surprised baseball by ac[...]


The Manny Market

Rounding the bases during one of his Dodgers playoff homeruns last fall, Manny Ramirez must have been wondering just how much money he would bring home as a free agent. He had propelled the Dodgers from mediocrity to the[...]


Teams that will surprise in 2009

Hope springs eternal, especially in baseball. Every April, all thirty major league teams are contenders and, eventually, some surprise teams emerge from the pack. Last year, baseball witnessed the rise of the Tampa Bay R[...]


Blues Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are in a bad spot. The have the misfortune of playing in the American League East, a division loaded with three powerhouses; the Rays, the Red Sox and the Yankees. Despite the tremendous disadvantag[...]


Holy Halos

With word that the Los Angeles Angels have taken themselves out of the running for free agent Mark Teixeira, analysts are left to wonder: what are the Angels planning to do? A lack of offense has been the Achilles heel o[...]


No Tex in Beantown?

Word broke late last night that the Boston Red Sox, after meeting with free agent Mark Teixeira in Texas, have taken themselves out of the running for his services. Red Sox owner John Henry issued a simple statement to t[...]


Some win-win deals

Now that the Winter Meetings are over, general managers around MLB are busy perusing through the remaining free agents and talking with colleagues about potential trades. Most teams are focused on applying the finishing [...]


A Tale of Two Pitchers

Now that C.C. Sabathia has signed with the New York Yankees, the market for starting pitchers is expected to rapidly take shape. Two of the best free agent pitchers left are righthander Derek Lowe and lefthander Oliver P[...]


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