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Topps T206 To Include More On-Card Autographs
Sports Card Forum | November 21st 2009 by Michael Silvia
Although the 2009 Topps T206 Baseball selling information solicited autographed cards featuring stickers, Topps is pleased to announce that 80% of the autographs in the product are signed on-card. Topps T206 (100th Anniversary Ed.) just shipped and g read more
Jose Contreras Seeking to Play in Japan
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker reports that Jose Contreras is seeking employment in Japan. There was a report of Contreras reaching out to the Hanshin Tigers earlier this week, but the rumors hold more weight now that we learn his 16-year-old son is h read more
Astros Sign RHP Jose Valdez
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Astros signed RHP Jose Valdez to a minor league contract. He was also added to Houston’s 40-man roster. Valdez, 26, was 3-2 with a 3.43 ERA in 43 relief appearances between Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre in the Yankees orga read more
Roy Halladay ‘Not Inclined’ to Sign with Toronto
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Blue Jays President and CEO Paul Beeston told the New York Post that Roy Halladay is “not inclined” to re-sign with Toronto. “We would like to sign him, he is an original Blue Jay and we have never had a pitcher as good as him,̶ read more
Johnny Damon is Priority No. 1 for New York
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Ken Davidoff reports that the Yankees’ priority right now is Johnny Damon, with Hideki Matsui on the back-burner. Even though Matsui turned heads in the World Series, Damon is the better property going forward considering he can hold his own in read more
Aroldis Chapman has New Agents
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Jorge Arangure of ESPN tweets that free agent Aroldis Chapman is now represented by Randy and Alan Hendricks. Chapman’s previous agent was Edwin Mejia of Athletes Premier International. Other clients of the Hendricks brothers include Kendry Mor read more
Red Sox Looking to Alternatives to Jason Bay
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
The Red Sox are “looking hard at alternatives” for Jason Bay, reports Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated. It’s been known for a while now that Jason Bay has rejected a four-year, $60 million contract from the Red Sox, preferring to te read more
Cubs ‘Foolish’ if Traded Starlin Castro to Detroit
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Phil Rogers says that many in the Cubs front office feel it would be “foolish” to trade prospect Starlin Castro to Detroit for Curtis Granderson. Castro has quickly established himself as the best Cubs prospect after his showing in the Ar read more
Giants Showing Interest in Nick Johnson
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
The Giants may be interested in first baseman Nick Johnson. Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle notes that Johnson is “loved” by manager Bruce Bochy and would fit GM Brian Sabean’s philosophy of chasing after “second read more
Royals Re-Sign CA Vance Wilson
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
Royals resigned catcher Vance Wilson to a minor league contract. Wilson missed the beginning of spring training with a right elbow injury. The 36-year old batted .270/.342/.461 in 229 at-bats for Double-A Northwest Arkansas. He’ll compete for a read more
Padres Meet with Adrian Gonzalez’s Agent
Taters and Gophers | November 21st 2009 by Ryan Gaydos
New Padres general manager Jed Hoyer had a “cordial” meeting with Adrian Gonzalez’s agent John Boggs on Friday, Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com reports. “There wasn’t any kind of negotiating or exchanging of numbers or anythi read more
Nov 20 – Sanity Checks In: Less Off Days Coming in Playoffs
Friday Nite Yanks | November 20th 2009 by Tom Wolfe
Courtesy of Lohud.Com Yankee Blog (New York, NY) – Finally baseball management is listening! See this story from Lohud.Com Interesting story here about Bud Selig saying he will attempt to reduce the number of off-days during next year’s p read more
7 Protected from Rule 5 Draft
Pending Pinstripes | November 20th 2009
7 Yankees were protected from the Rule 5 network today: Austin Jackson-OF Hector Noesi-RHP Ivan Nova-RHP Romulo Sanchez-RHP Reegie Corona-IF Eduardo Nunez-IF Kevin Russo-IF Apparently the Yankees dropped Shelly Duncan to AAA so they'll read more
Confirman juegos de grandes ligas en PR 2010
Maxwell Reyes | November 20th 2009 by Maxwell Reyes
San Juan, (EFE).- La directora del Departamento de Recreación y Deportes de San Juan, María Elena ‘Mari’ Batista, confirmó que el estadio Hiram Bithorn de la capital puertorriqueña celebrará juegos de Grandes Ligas en el 2010. Bati read more
Selig promises Royals an All-Star Game
Daily Briefs | November 20th 2009 by Chris
It looks like the K is all but announced as the site of the 2012 All-Star Game. The MLB Owner's meeting just wrapped in Chicago, and Commissioner Bud Selig hinted that Kauffman Stad... read more
Blogging the Offseason: Toronto Blue Jays
SimonOnSports | November 20th 2009
Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here. Today's team NL is the Toronto B read more
Derek Jeter’s Hottest Girlfriends
LestersLegends.com | November 20th 2009 by LestersLegends
Derek Jeter has broken the hearts of women almost as much as he has Red Sox fans over the years. In honor of his great taste in women, here’s a look at some of the hotties he’s dated over the years. Jessica Alba Jessica Biel Adriana L read more
Shuffling The Deck Chairs At Wrigley
The City - A Golden State Warriors Column | November 19th 2009
Aaron Heilman was a Chicago Cub for 296 days. It didn’t go that well. Meanwhile, it looks like John Grabow is coming back – for $7.5 million over two years. Which is why I’m glad my 2-year-old is a lefty. read more
Shuffling The Deck Chairs At Wrigley
The City - A Golden State Warriors Column | November 19th 2009
Aaron Heilman was a Chicago Cub for 296 days. It didn’t go that well. Meanwhile, it looks like John Grabow is coming back – for $7.5 million over two years. Which is why I’m glad my 2-year-old is a lefty. read more
Keith Lieppman, Charlie Montoyo Deemed Exceptional Instructors &a…
period forcing atmosphere retreat concerns | November 19th 2009 by scaffeldfa
Oakland Athletics Director of Player Development Keith Lieppman, and Durham Bulls Manager Charlie Montoyo have been named the recipients of the second annual Sheldon “Chief” Bender, and Mike Coolbaugh Awards. According to MILB.com , they will be read more
Minnesota Twins: Jason Kubel's Long Road Back Leads to the Top
period forcing atmosphere retreat concerns | November 19th 2009 by scaffeldfa
Jason Kubel is finally where he belongs, at the top. After a career-best season in 2009, Kubel, 27, proved to be one of baseball’s premier designated hitters, while working at a considerably lower rate than many of his contemporaries. At this read more
Cy Youngins
Personal Foul | November 19th 2009 by Rachel
The Baseball Writers Association of America have awarded Zack Greinke, 26, and Tim Lincecum, 25, with the Cy Young awards for their respected leagues. Kids these days… they can pitch that baseball pretty well. To no one’s surprise whatso read more
Some MLB teams lost money in 2009
SportsSoundOff.net - The Place to talk Sports | November 19th 2009 by Jason N.
photo taken from dougroyal.com Well, MLB commissioner Bud Selig said that some baseball teams lost money in 2009. I guess he will be blaming it on the recession. Wow, I feel so bad for the owners. Maybe they should take a look at the prices they are read more
Loving the New Remetee Black Dahlia Jacket!
Luello - Fashion meets lifestyle | November 19th 2009 by luello
Everyone is crazy about our new Remetee Black Dahlia jacket… check it out on MLB star oufielder (and Remetee creator) Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers. Also check out Brett Rogers rocking the same threads… great style minds think alike read more
The Vernon Wells Contract is Remarkably Bad
SimonOnSports | November 19th 2009
I think we all have heard that Vernon Wells has a bloated contract and that he is incredibly un-tradeable. This morning I decided to take a look at just how bad the remainder of Vernon Wells contract is, and well its really really really bad. Ver read more
A Free Agency’s Eve Update on Milton Bradley
Tampa Bay Rays Fan--The Best of the Rays from across the web | November 19th 2009 by thomas gemkow
BNightengale: #mlb The Tampa Bay #Rays have become the clear-cut favorite to acquire Milton Bradley This seems to indicate there was a time when the Rays weren’t the front runner to acquire Bradley. Everything that can be written about this p read more
Your NL Cy Young Winner Is Tim Lincecum
No Guts, No Glory | November 19th 2009
Make that two in a row for Tim Lincecum, as he is crowned the Cy Young Winner for the NL. Of the 32 ballots submitted by two writers in each league city, Lincecum (15-7, 2.48 ERA) was listed first on 11, one fewer than the St. Louis Cardinals’ Ada read more
The Most Important Player on the Hot Stove Debate – Adrian Gonz…
The Sports Debates | November 19th 2009 by The Sports Debates
Read the arguments from Bleacher Fan and Loyal Homer about which player they believe is the most important on this off-season’s MLB Hot Stove. View This Pollsurveys If you are a Chicago Cubs fan like me, you live for Hot Stove and Spring read more
The Most Important Player on the Hot Stove Debate – The Man of…
The Sports Debates | November 19th 2009 by The Sports Debates
Read Sports Geek’s argument and Loyal Homer’s arguments about who will be the most important player on the hot stove during this MLB offseason. View This Pollsurveys Following the historic collapse of the Detroit Tigers during the final read more
Playoff Blues
The Bush League Report | November 19th 2009
This last MLB season’s playoffs brought a whole new set of problems before the commissioner. The first one that people noticed and began talking about was the schedule. We all know the main reason that MLB schedules the way they do – mone read more
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