Archive for October, 2007

The Arod sweepstakes – part II

October 31, 2007

Continuing yesterday’s post regarding the why’s and why’s not for baseball teams to pursue Arod, I will move to the NL Central.
 Chicago Cubs:
On the field: The Cubs haven’t won a World Series in, well, everybody knows how long.  So there is a definite reason to add another player to increase competitiveness, coming off a playoff [...]

The Arod sweepstakes

October 30, 2007

Okay, so I haven’t blogged in four months, almost five.  I’ll do better now, or at least after I’m done applying for grad school in early December.  But it’s the winter, at least in baseball terms, so there are many interesting things going on with roster construction.
 Alex Rodriguez is of course the big story, as he’s a [...]