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Podcast: Neyer on Fantasy Focus
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotNate Ravitz is joined by Rob Neyer and they discuss the MLB draft , Brad Lidge going on the DL and Rob's take on the new Yankee Stadium...
Blog | June 10, 2009News Flash: Baseball isn't Football
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...draft is taking place during primetime and will feature Twitter updates of picks. While I commend the notion, it simply ain't gonna happen. There's pretty much zero chance the MLB...
Blog | June 09, 2009When drafting pitchers, beware
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotTom Boswell offers some stark numbers about the draft: Since the MLB draft began in 1965, there have been 246 hitters who were chosen in the top...
Blog | May 06, 2009Best and worst No. 1 picks of all time
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comWith A-Rod, Junior and Chipper leading the way, we take a look at the best -- and the worst -- No. 1 picks in the history of the draft.
Story | Conversation | June 04, 2008
Usually a long road to The Show
Rob Neyer, ESPN InsiderWe shouldn't expect the baseball draft to be something that it's not -- like the NFL or NBA -- and cannot be.
Story | Conversation | June 07, 2006
Are Pirates trying to win?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...of dollars that a club spends in the Draft and in free agents and international signings, the...loans a highly rational action? As long as Major League Baseball allows ownership groups to buy franchises...
Blog | December 03, 2009Remaking the draft (or not)
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...those things haven't directly impacted current players in the past, either. Yet the draft wasn't changed despite MLB's efforts to do exactly that. The problem has always been that the players...
Blog | November 10, 2009Rich teams cleaning up (again)
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotBob Nightengale on MLB's money problem: Baseball organizations have been...to get more money and hard slotting for draft picks. Sure, hard slotting would presumably help the...
Blog | September 05, 2009Fixing what ain't (necessarily) broke
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn The New York Times last weekend, Dan Rosenheck wrote about proposals to change the draft. Money quote: The real reason the anti-Boras rants pick up around draft time is that he...
Blog | August 28, 2009Jays prospect still beating odds
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...quot; --snip-- There were 1,453 names called in the 50 rounds of Major League Baseball's 2007 June Draft. Amazingly, Tim Collins was not among them. Actually, maybe it's not...
Blog | August 20, 2009Moneyball (the movie) lives! (sort of)
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...by employing a sophisticated computer-based analysis to draft players. Soderbergh's draft and production plans...though, is coming up with a script that Major League Baseball will approve. Because the movie can...
Blog | July 09, 2009Brewers holding prospects this time
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotMLB Rumors' Drew Silva on the prospect of...postseason, and they picked up a couple of draft picks when said pitcher signed with the Yankees...
Blog | June 23, 2009Must Nats sign Strasburg?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotFrom MLB Trade Rumors: Tracy Ringolsby of FOX Sports suggests the Nationals have "absolutely nothing to lose with this draft," and says they win whether they...
Blog | June 11, 2009Draft unfair ... but lucrative
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...According to multiple team sources, several of the draft's best high school players blew them...Miller, previously believed to be signable for around MLB's bonus recommendations, is asking for $4...
Blog | June 09, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...baseball teams be permitted to trade -- or even sell -- draft picks? The libertarian in me thinks so. The rest of me doesn't. MLB Insights' rtcampbell agrees with my inner libertarian. &bull...
Blog | June 03, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
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