Match made in hell: Barry Bonds and the Marlins

I expect some team, the trade deadline having passed, to sign Barry Bonds. It could be the Diamondbacks, who missed out on Texeira. Perhaps the Rays, who didn’t get Bay or Dunn. Maybe the Mets, who also missed out. But more than any team, I think Barry makes perfect sense for [...]

OMFG, Bud Selig! Move the All-star game to Wednesday!

A very quick post, because I’m the worst blogger ever.
Last night’s all-star game nearly either saw position players pitch, or nearly ended in the second tie this decade. People are proposing all kinds of rule changes to prevent such a future occurrence, or berating pitchers, managers, training staffs, and general managers for making their [...]

2008 Preview: New York Mets

Over the next 30 days (give or take a day or two around the beginning of March) I am going to offer an offseason assessment and 2008 prediction for each team. I’ll start with the Senior Circuit, go from East to West, and then move onto the Junior Circuit (also known as where all [...]

The Arod sweepstakes – part II

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

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 [...]

Well that was a bit of a shock

Mike Hargrove resigned today.  While I had predicted him to be fired, I admit I wasn’t expecting him to quit in the middle of a huge winning streak.  I’ll take half-credit for that.  He left mid-season, but seemingly willingly (as opposed to someone resigning to save face.)

Sam Perlozzo was the first to go

The Baltimore Orioles have fired Same Perlozzo.
While I was wrong that Sam would last until September,  I am one-for-one so far in my managerial firings prediction.  I suppose it’s wrong to gloat over somebody losing his job, but I have always enjoyed being correct.  I’m a little nervous that Mike Hargrove will make it to [...]

Draft advice: Don’t take a catcher

In just a few hours the MLB amateur draft will commence.  Unfortunately I will not be home to watch the inaugural telecast on ESPN2, but I’ll at least listen over the internet at work.
 At any rate, the draft is an incredibly important day for each and every baseball franchise.  Even the Yankees and their seemingly [...]

It’s time to play “Blame the Manager!”

Really, that’s been going on in New York for a month with Joe Torre, and people waiting for him to be fired.  That is incredibly unlikely to happen this year, and if it should occur, it will not happen until after the Yankees are eliminated from the playoff race.  (I don’t think that will happen [...]

Coaches

This has been a thought of mine for a couple years now of how the first thing I would do if I ran a baseball team.  I mentioned it to Steven Goldman of BP at a book signing a couple months back, and he was really receptive to the idea, but had never heard of [...]