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Yanks Have 3 of the Worst Contracts in the Game?
Looking only at active contracts, Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors came up with a list of the 45 worst. There are several teams with 3 contracts listed, and that's how many the Yanks have: Jorge Posada, Yankees. Four years, $52MM ($13MM per year). Signed November of 2007. Hideki Matsui,...
Thinking About the Nature of Bench Players and Moving Xavier Nady
Now that Junior has returned to the Mariners, can we expect to hear about more conversations between Frank Wren and Brian Cashman? While our SBN sister-site expects the Braves to move forward with the pieces they've got, I expect the two sides to do more than just kick the tires. The truth is, I...
Thinking About Japanese Pitching
NYTimes: “Darvish has better control than Matsuzaka,” Yoshii said. “You’d be hard-pressed to find an example over the course of a season where he got knocked out on walks. He has exceptional control of every pitch known to man except a knuckleball. Simple economics...
The (Still) Young Guns
The NYTimes is focusing on the youth of Phil Hughes and IPK in a story today. I'm particularly interested in a passage detailing what Hughes did to prep for the coming season: After losing Hughes to injuries for much of the last two seasons — a hamstring and an ankle in 2007, a...
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