Possible Twins free agent targets

Now that the free agency period has gotten underway with some Wednesday & Thursday signings the rumor mill is generating some well-educated guesses countered by some outright fairy tales – and not always in equal amounts. I only wish to stick to well-educated guesses…even though Joe Crede was not offered arbitration that does not mean [...]

MLB All-Decade team (2000-2009)

I read a story at the Yahoo! blog Big League Stew earlier today (Yankees core provides foundation for our all-decade team) and I had such a hard time agreeing with most of the choices I found it necessary to create one myself. The criteria they used for their selection process was a bit dubious and [...]

MLB arbitration offers up some surprises

I’m assuming that nearly all of the arbitration offers that will be made have been sent to the players’ agents and then notified themselves by now. A few real surprises among the expected offers:
Catchers:
Rod Barajas came as a surprise to me – I fully expected the Jays to take a pass. Probably the lack of [...]

Arbitration offer predictions to MLB free agents – Type A & B

Bengie Molina (A) – No
Billy Wagner (A) – Yes
Chone Figgins (A) – Yes
Darren Oliver (A) – Yes
Jason Bay (A) – Yes
Jermaine Dye (A) – No
John Lackey (A) – Yes
Johnny Damon (A) – No
Jose Valverde (A) – No
Kevin Gregg (A) – No
LaTroy Hawkins (A) – Yes
Marco Scutaro (A) – Yes
Matt Holliday (A) – Yes
Miguel Tejada (A) [...]

Twins can put a wrap on ‘09

Any thoughts the Twins (or fans) had of the team making the post-season can definitely be forgotten. Though it’s still ‘in fashion’ to read both local & national sports writers stating the team is only out of first place by four (no five, no – six!) games and can rebound that’s a really hard sell. [...]

15 years later: The players’ strike & the Montreal Expos…what might’ve been

Wednesday of this week marked a day that all baseball fans would like to have seen never happen. At midnight on August 11, 1994 Major League Baseball players went on strike, having been unable to come to an agreement with owners over fiscal concerns. Both sides were inflexible during the debacle that would eventually lead [...]

Predictions

Well, certainly enough of the season has been played for me to make some reasonably good guesses as to who will be the award winners at the end of the year. Here they are:
Cy Young -
AL – Zack Greinke, KC. Although he’s had a few shaky outings the past few weeks he’s still a lock [...]

Twins Trivia Question – 8/2/09

Q: Which Twins player recorded the first official hit in the Metrodome during regular season play?
As usual leave your answer in the comments section and I’ll email you to let you know whether you’re correct or not.

HoF election disappoints again!

Once again the MLB Hall of Fame voters did not fail to disappoint the majority of baseball fans neglecting to elect either Bert Blyleven or Andre Dawson. The merits of each of them are the subject of much debate among both voters and fans but I can’t see any reason for any disagreement about giving [...]

Trio deserves election to the Hall of Fame

This Monday at 1 p.m. CST there is absolutely no doubt that you’ll hear the announcement that Rickey Henderson has been elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. He’s a shoo-in, a solid lock, odds on favorite, and whatever other superlatives you care to throw out there. And unquestionably he deserves to be [...]