Adrian Beltre signed with the Rangers for five years plus one contract year. Hopefully, El Senator can turn the local economy around in 2016, until then don’t expect roads to be paved or new schools to open. “We just don’t have the funding right now for more than 17 home runs.” That’s Beltre next October […]
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Can you believe that the BBWAA gave our blog voting rights for this year’s MLB Hall of Fame ballot? Just kidding. They haven’t made a decision that ill-informed since, um, electing Jim Rice and Andre Dawson. But I’m going to pretend we have a vote this year and explain the decisions on our ballot. Here is some […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Kansas City Royals 2010 Minor League Review Overall farm rankings via Baseball America (2010) 2010 (17) | 2009 (11) | 2008 (24) | 2007 (11) | 2006 (23) | 2005 (28) | 2004 (19) Record of Major and Minor League Teams MLB: [67 – 95] AL Central AAA: [81 – 63] Pacific Coast League – […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is the 6th post in a series on the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot. My first post on Jeff Bagwell covered the criteria I am using for analyzing HOF players. The next four posts covered Bert Blyleven, the middle infielder trio of Alan Trammell, Barry Larkin, and Roberto Alomar, Edgar Martinez, and Tim Raines + Mark McGwire. In […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is the 5th post in a series on the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot. My first post on Jeff Bagwell covered the criteria I am using for analyzing HOF players. The next three posts covered Bert Blyleven, the middle infielder trio of Alan Trammell, Barry Larkin, and Roberto Alomar, and Edgar Martinez. The next two players on […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?I tend to go for safe starters in the front of my staff. Last year, I had F-Her and Oswalt anchoring my pitching staffs. Then I’d grab a guy like Jonathan Sanchez around pick 200 because he had upside. He had downside too. Wild, can’t-hit-the-broad-side-of-a-barn downside. I mention this because Edinson Volquez can have the […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is the 4th post in a series on the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot. My first post on Jeff Bagwell covered the criteria I am using for analyzing HOF players. The second and third posts covered Bert Blyleven and the middle infielder trio of Alan Trammell, Barry Larkin, and Roberto Alomar. The next player I’d […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is the 3rd post in a series on the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot. My first post on Jeff Bagwell covered the criteria I am using for analyzing HOF players. The second post covered Bert Blyleven. The next players I’d have on our ballot are three middle infielders: Alan Trammell, Barry Larkin, and Roberto Alomar. […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is the 2nd post in a series on the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot. My first post on Jeff Bagwell covered the criteria I am using for analyzing HOF players. The next player on our hypothetical ballot is Bert Blyleven. WAR Totals: 145.1 Peak-Adjusted WAR – 90.1 career WAR + 1 MVP seasons (+10) and 9 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is the first in a series of posts reviewing players on the 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot. Here is some background on how I analyze players for the HOF: Much like the Earth and many a good joke, the views on Hall of Fame worthiness have two poles. The first pole is the […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Yes, I will continue to call Brandon Allen a fantasy sleeper every year until he breaks out. I will also continue to say his name sounds like a furniture store. I’m just having a hard time writing off this mollywhooping, two-hundred and thirty-five pound behemoth that had an OBP of .405 in Triple-A last year. […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?New York Yankees 2010 Minor League Review Overall farm rankings via Baseball America (2010) 2010 (18) | 2009 (15) | 2008 (5) | 2007 (7) | 2006 (17) | 2005 (24) | 2004 (27) Record of Major and Minor League Teams MLB: [95 – 67] AL East AAA: [85 – 56] International League – Scranton/Wilkes-Barre […]
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