02-17-2014, 08:29 PM | #401 |
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O's sign Ubaldo Jimenez. 4-years, $50 mil.
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02-17-2014, 11:04 PM | #402 |
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I wonder if Gary throne will call homers he gives up Ubaldo bombs now that he works for the WWE
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02-21-2014, 12:04 AM | #403 |
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Braves lock up Andrelton Simmons for 7 years, $58 million. They're on fire locking up these young guys.
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02-21-2014, 03:13 PM | #404 |
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Now they just gotta win when it counts.
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02-21-2014, 04:22 PM | #405 |
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An Atlanta sports team winning when it counts!?!?!
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02-21-2014, 04:50 PM | #406 |
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Yeah, that's asking too much eh Boomer?
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02-22-2014, 12:05 PM | #407 |
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Nelson Cruz to the Orioles. 1 year, $8 million plus incentives.
Jesus...and he could have had $14 million if he took the Rangers' qualifying offer. |
02-22-2014, 12:14 PM | #408 |
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Most orioles fans didn't want him, but for $8 he can be the DH and smack 30 HRs and we'll all be happy.
If he plays well it'll only be 1 year anyway.. |
02-22-2014, 10:15 PM | #409 |
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Orioles are still supposedly after Ervin Santana. If they can pull it off they'll have the best rotation for an orioles club this side of the year 2000
Tillman Jimenez Santana Chen Gonzalez/Norris Even without Santana I kind of like it. |
02-23-2014, 05:41 AM | #410 |
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02-23-2014, 09:22 AM | #411 |
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Yankees sign Andrew Bailey to a minor league deal with a boatload of incentives in it.
Won't be ready to go until mid-may. But if he can bounce back, it'll be a huge boost to the bullpen. Since Cashman hasn't done nothing to rebuild it so far. |
02-23-2014, 10:39 AM | #412 |
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I don't believe so. Stephen Drew is though...and he's not training at Boras' ST complex until he signs somewhere. He's still looking for a multiyear deal which is ludicrous at this point.
I'm betting he signs somewhere for around the $8 million Cruz got...and the Mets will still cheap out of paying the price. |
02-23-2014, 11:50 AM | #413 |
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That's a pretty average rotation imo
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02-23-2014, 01:45 PM | #414 |
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Wouldn't expect anything considering him and Hanrahan managed to make Aceves look great in comparison for the closer spot on the Sox.
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02-23-2014, 02:43 PM | #415 |
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Which tells you all you need to know about O's starting pitching over the last 14 years.
Guys like Jose Mercedes, Calvin Maduro, Willis Roberts, Travis Driskill, Omar Daal, Eric Dubose, Kurt Ainsworth, Kris Benson (and his wife), Brian Burres, Radhames Liz, Garrett Olson, Rich Hill, Henricus VandenHurk (only started 3 game, but the name..), Jo Jo Reyes and Chris Jakubauskas. The best pitchers the Orioles had over that stretch were probably Rodrigo Lopez, Erik Bedard (traded for Adam Jones and our current best Pitcher Chris Tillman), Jeremy Guthrie and Sidney Ponson. Bedard was good enough to con the Mariners out of 3 good players, the rest of them probably wouldn't have been starters anywhere else. |
02-23-2014, 04:54 PM | #416 |
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Droford's trip down memory lane made me look at Mets pitching staffs from past years. I've had high hopes for the Mets rotation (even without Harvey) for quite some time, but in actually looking at it this might be the best Mets rotation since I started watching baseball. Mind the bar is pretty low as they've sucked for most of my life, but while they've usually had a legit ace or even a really good 1 and 2 starter, usually everyone else in the rotation is mediocre at best. This year I really love their 1-4 and I'm not sure I've felt that way headed into a Mets season before. Even the 2006 Mets team I loved really had a pretty bad rotation that was bailed out by a great lineup and a killer bullpen.
Wheeler has electric stuff. Niese is dependable and should be better than last year without the nagging injury he worked through. Gee was one of the best pitchers in the NL from late May and on last year. Colon is old and fat but he has a rubber arm and can still go, going to the NL will only help him as long as he doesn't spontaneously combust trying to run the bases. I'm pulling for Mejia for the 5th spot but it'll probably be Dice-K, either way it shouldn't matter as Syndergaard should be up by July. I'd put that rotation right up there with some of the top ones in the NL. They're the least of my worries. They should keep the team in most games, the question is whether or not they'll score enough runs. Everything beyond 2-4 in the lineup is a massive question mark, and even that is being generous to Granderson who I like but the potential is still there for him to be underwhelming. |
02-23-2014, 04:57 PM | #417 |
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It speaks volumes to me about how the Mets view the future of their rotation that a bunch of their quality SP prospects are going to work out of the bullpen in spring to see how they handle it because it'll be their only real shot at making the bigs in this organization. Hopefully Sandy sacks up and trades some of that depth for a big bat at the deadline if they can hang around contention that long.
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02-23-2014, 05:19 PM | #418 |
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Yankees lock up Brett Gardner. 4-years, $52 mil. Goes into effect in 2015.
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02-23-2014, 06:32 PM | #419 |
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greinke made some comment yesterday about not being excited to play in australia. caused something of an uproar here. kinda get his point (gonna be a tad disruptive to cut spring training short, fly 16 hours x 2 etc to start off the season) but he probably could have worded it better. specially given the cash people are paying through the nose here for a ticket
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02-23-2014, 07:33 PM | #420 |
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Debating taking one of my vacation weeks for opening day, and just going to like 6 Tigers games (opening the season hosting the Royals then Orioles), just feel like I'd probably get angry with myself if I wanted to use that week elsewhere in the year. But ehhhh fuckit, it's baseball. Woo!
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02-26-2014, 07:06 AM | #421 |
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Ozzie "The Wizard" Smith wants the Federal Government to make Opening Day a national holiday. He got his 100,000 signatures with the We The People petitioning program and Obama has to review it. This also got backing by Budweiser.
I'm for this. Massachusetts shuts down for Patriots Day. BoSox play a 10 a.m. game. IT AIN'T FAIR! |
02-26-2014, 07:26 AM | #422 |
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It won't get approved.
That being said I've already requested and got the day off. Strongly considering actually going to Citi Field for it. Tickets are expensive as balls, but I've always wanted to go to an actual season opener (only have gone to the home opener in the second week). This is the 4th time in the last 5 years the Mets are opening at home, so they're probably due for a stretch of starting on the road the next few years. |
02-26-2014, 08:37 AM | #423 |
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I went to a few Opening Day games at the Vet (when the team(s) were terrible and tickets were super cheap lol). Always a good time.
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02-26-2014, 01:46 PM | #424 |
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Angels avoided arbitration and signed Mike Trout to a 1 year, $1 million deal. Both sides are also still working on getting an actual multi-year deal finished in the near future.
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02-26-2014, 03:01 PM | #426 |
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Opening Day starter Jon Niese heading to NY for an MRI on his left shoulder. Oh for the love of christ....
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02-26-2014, 04:39 PM | #427 |
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Pirates with the comeback win! Now off to watch the Dodgers/D-Bags. God I'm so happy. Wrestling Network and baseball back in the same week....Im in a constant state of orgasm. #Dehydrated
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02-26-2014, 09:04 PM | #428 |
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was going to go to Cubs Park tomorrow, but it's on WGN. So meh.
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02-26-2014, 10:08 PM | #429 |
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I'm going Tuesday
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02-27-2014, 01:20 AM | #430 |
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Is Russell Wilson playing baseball?
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02-27-2014, 01:53 AM | #431 |
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I think he's just going to work out. I doubt he's going to dual sport it. Would be pretty cool though.
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02-27-2014, 09:43 AM | #432 |
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Carl Pavano retires.
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02-27-2014, 09:55 AM | #433 |
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Heard Pete Gammons say he's going to watch him play within the next week. I think a Super Bowl winning QB is really going to kick the tires in minor league baseball.
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02-27-2014, 12:19 PM | #434 |
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he's supposed to be suiting up for the Rangers game today.
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02-28-2014, 03:05 AM | #435 |
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Toldeo Mudhens will be wearing these on May 30th |
03-01-2014, 03:09 PM | #436 |
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LOL @ this stupid "Face of MLB" contest MLB was running on Twitter. A's fans hijacked it in favor of Eric Sogard, who got past guys like Buster Posey and Jose Bautista en route to facing David Wright in the finals. Sogard had like a 42k vote lead when Wright had a mysterious surge of votes, many of whom came from South Korea on what appeared to be robot accounts.
It's almost as if MLB rigged their own farce of a contest to prevent Eric Sogard from winning. |
03-01-2014, 03:28 PM | #437 |
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MLB's authority only views Eric Sogard as a B+ player.
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03-03-2014, 04:29 PM | #438 |
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O's rumored to be closing in on a minor league deal with Johan Santana.
Might end up as a reliever. |
03-05-2014, 02:00 AM | #439 |
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In Norfolk (AAA )
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