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Friday Rockpile: Free agency filings begin; no surprises for the Rockies
Rockies zero in on going the distance - The Denver PostRenck offers three steps for the Rockies to make it to the World Series: Win the west and have home-field advantage, have Ubaldo Jimenez become a...
2010 Yankees Center Field Showdown: Melky Cabrera vs. Brett Gardner vs... Cody Ross?
In a recent Pinstriped Bible blog posting, Steven Goldman argued that while Melky Cabrera might be adequate for the moment as the starting center fielder for the Yankees, that the club should lo...
The Incredible Significance of Ryan Langerhans: A Brief Reflection
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Ryan Langerhans #0 / Right Field / Seattle Mariners Height: 6-3 Weight: 230 Bats: L Throws: L Born: Feb 20, 1980 <!-- END WIDGET --> As you'v...
Extending the Discussion
Scott Merkin poses a question we all had at the beginning of the off-season but have backed off with all the talk of payroll ceilings; will the White Sox reinvest their massive payroll cuts (more like...
Book Review: A Well Paid-Slave
As today we honor a man who stood up for the rights of everyone, I felt it would be the perfect day to review a book about the man who stood up for the rights of baseball players, and athletes everywh...
Could The Mets Sign Lowe AND Perez?
After they patched a couple of gaping holes in their bullpen, the Mets turned their attention to the starting rotation and smart money had them targeting either Derek Lowe or incumbent Oliver Perez. A...
How Free Agency Is Cheapening The "Team"
My problem with the Yankees' recent X-Mas shopping is that the team now favored to win the AL East in 2009 isn't really the Yankees; it's a bunch of guys the Yankees added because the team they had bu...
Tuesday Rockpile: The Waiting Game
Brian Fuentes has until this Sunday to accept or decline the Colorado Rockies' offer of arbitration. Fuentes could make $10M on a one-year deal if he accepts and wins his arbitration case, but does an...
Mets Arbitration Decisions
Midnight tonight is the deadline for teams to offer salary arbitration to their own free agents, of which the Mets have eleven: Oliver Perez Luis Ayala Pedro Martinez Moises Alou Damion Easley ...
Marvin Miller and the How Free Agency Came to Baseball, Part II
In Part I we looked at the history of labor unions in baseball, and the changes that Marvin MIller wrought in a short team as the president of the Major League Baseball Player's Association. Today, we...
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