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M's and Cubs swap headaches
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...player who might be quite useful for a player who almost certainly will not be useful. Yes, baseball's a funny game. Silva's still a relatively young man, and might again pitch effectively someday...
Blog | December 18, 2009Reds' Harang a good fit for Dodgers
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...have started exploring a possible trade with the Cincinnati Reds for pitcher Aaron Harang, according to multiple baseball sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks. --snip...
Blog | December 17, 2009Recommending a few minor changes
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...World Series games in November. Don't delay the beginning of the season to accommodate the World Baseball Classic, build fewer off days into the postseason (the way it used to be), and schedule the...
Blog | December 17, 2009Is Commissioner Bud going to kill the DH?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...straight for the gut: Is the designated hitter rule finally on its way out with Major League Baseball? To be fair, it's premature to ask such a potentially provocative question. But thanks to Commissioner...
Blog | December 16, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...appearance in The Sporting News, nearly 35 years ago. And even then, it was just so Jamesian. * Baseball Digest Daily's Bill Baer reviews Jack Zduriencik's track record, and it's one impressive track...
Blog | December 16, 2009Red Sox spend less, win more
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...old former Gold Glover likely means the end of Bay's short tenure in Boston, though a baseball source last night said the Sox have yet to inform him he's no longer in their...
Blog | December 15, 2009At what cost, Holliday?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIt's not often that I'm nonplussed by the things that baseball teams do, or are said to be thinking about doing. I've seen a lot of strange...
Blog | December 15, 2009Mariners pulling off a heist
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...up Triunfel. And yet, they walk away with one of the five or six best pitchers in baseball. Forget that we probably only have Lee for a year. We're paying for about two months...
Blog | December 15, 2009Power shifting in AL West?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...of the rotation leads the Mariners into the postseason. For a team that hasn't sniffed playoff baseball since 2001, that's no insignficant factor. Even if Lee were to walk after that, he would...
Blog | December 14, 2009Monday Mendozas
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...just a memory and Santa Season upon us, do you really have time to be reading about baseball? If not, please let me know so I can do some shopping ... * Are you like me? Do...
Blog | December 14, 2009Top 100 players of the decade
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comAlbert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez were the clear-cut first two choices for the top 100 players of the decade; after that, the list got a little more difficult.
Story | Conversation | December 14, 2009Oakland makes push to keep A's
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...keeping the A's in Oakland on three sites near the Bay where officials believe a new baseball-only stadium can be built. As Major League Baseball continues to study the feasibility of keeping the...
Blog | December 12, 2009What happened to the FA bargains?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...bit. It's not crazy, though. I'm not ready to draw any conclusions yet, except that baseball guys still overvalue relievers who throw hard. And we're not talking gigantic amounts of money here...
Blog | December 11, 2009Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...to sweeping changes not just in the NFL, but in professional sports generally (and if you think baseball's not paying close attention, read this). * Sheesh. You'd think winning 95 games -- and going to...
Blog | December 11, 2009Is Cito Gaston on the road to Cooperstown?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...the question raised by the National Post's Jeremy Sandler: Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston is at baseball's winter meetings to meet with team brass, attend the annual manager's luncheon and sit down...
Blog | December 09, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
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