New ballpark sparks questions for Twins in 2010
Peter Gammons...80s, businesses bought up tickets to keep the Twins in Minneapolis, and in the 21st century, owner Carl Pohlad agreed to have them contracted. That said, we may never have had two consecutive nights of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009
Three Strikes: If you're scoring NLCS at home …
Jayson StarkSTRIKE ONE -- ALL-OR-NOTHING DEPT. Something happened in Game 3 of the NLCS on Sunday that has happened only one other time in postseason history: ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009
Saunders proves he belongs
...Feliz 3.21 .214 .379 Derek Jeter 3.20 .313 .393 Eugenio Velez 3.19 .232 .354 Carl Crawford 3.15 .287 .397 Yuniesky Betancourt 3.15 .290 .402 Erick Aybar 3.10 .298 .375...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 05, 2008
Will Smoltz last beyond '08?
...Phil Dumatrait, Pirates: He takes over for Matt Morris in the Pittsburgh rotation. • Shane Victorino...Rays have a lot of really good players -- Carl Crawford, B.J. Upton, Carlos Pena, James Shields...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2008
Sabathia peeks into the archives
C.C. Sabathia and Indians pitching coach Carl Willis pulled out some old photos recently, old-fashioned still shots. Willis thinks that what they saw...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 27, 2008
Bonds a victim of collusion?
...Reinsdorf, George Steinbrenner, Fred Wilpon, The Tribune Company, Carl Pohlad and David Montgomery were all part of...that players like Kirk Gibson, Tim Raines, Jack Morris, Ron Guidry, Andre Dawson etc. couldn't help...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 02, 2008
Season-opening letdown
It was a long and brutal winter in baseball, a time when the most-discussed figures in the game were George Mitchell, Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 25, 2008
Not all big deals are bad deals
Some players in the game are forever viewed through the lens of their contract. As they are signed, the debate begins about whether they are worth the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 09, 2008
Votes for five Hall candidates
The Hall of Fame voting packet is contained within a thick brown envelope, which, this year, is closed with the help of a couple of pieces of Scotch t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2007
Rays look like a future force
The odds of the Tampa Bay Rays winning the AL pennant are 75-1, and their six-player trade with Minnesota and impending two-year signing of Troy Perci...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 29, 2007
Johan, updating the top-25
Eric KarabellThe Minnesota Twins either are or are not shopping Johan Santana, which is of course a rather big deal in baseball, but in fantasy, not so much. I thi...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 28, 2007
September Stings
There is not enough time left in the regular season to heal. If you are hurt, well, you just have to play in pain. Some injuries which may manifest th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2007
Vital judgment in AL wild-card race
Third base coach Carlos Garcia knows that a decision he made was pivotal in the Mariners' loss to the Yankees, as he told Geoff Baker. To review: Seat...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 05, 2007
Signing day results in big payoffs
In the end, Jim Callis of Baseball America writes, 14 first-round picks signed for more money than the slot recommendations given by the commissioner'...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 16, 2007
Some division deals make sense
The Dodgers and Giants did something they hadn't done in 22 years: They made a trade, with Mark Sweeney going to Los Angeles for a player to be named ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2007
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