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 [...]

There’s still some name players available

It wasn’t at all that surprising to read yesterday about the latest free agent signing, this time by the Oakland Athletics. Officially supplanted by Mark Teixeira at first base former New York Yankee and one time near pariah Jason Giambi, though he would still hold value as a DH, is odd man out because Hideki [...]

Some real gems still available on the market

The Tampa Bay Rays signing of Pat Burrell Monday came as a bit of  a surprise to me as I’m sure it did many others out there. To my knowledge Burrell’s name hadn’t been mentioned in the same breath with Tampa during the entire Hot Stove season. When the Rays announced the signing it wasn’t [...]

The free agent saga continues

Yesterday I made some interesting but very easy to make free agent signing guesses. Now for some picks that are a bit on the bold side. As I mentioned in an earlier post I still say Manny is a great fit with the Giants and I think they come up with the cash to get [...]

Silly season is in full swing and only getting better

Last year I made some predictions about where a number of the free agents would land and those predictions varied from the relatively safe to the both brave & bold to the wildly off the mark. I made the easy call that A-Rod & Mariano Rivera would both stay in New York and they did [...]