In some ways, Andy Pettitte is no different from the dozens of other free agents to start the new year without a team. Players all over baseball are waiting for better offers, and teams are searching for bargains.
Andy Pettitte was offered a one-year, $10 million deal, a 37.5 percent decrease from his $16 million salary [...]
The first episode of Prime 9 is “Best 9 Center Fielders”. Going in I figured they would mostly follow the Bill James list and not really do anything interesting or controversial (which is funny because James’ CF rankings are considered controversial).
Here is their list:
9 - Kirby Puckett
8 - Jim Edmonds
7 - Duke Snider
6 - Ken [...]
The Rays just signed Pat Burrell to a 2 year/16 million dollar deal. That is insanely cheap, and he will presumably be their DH since Crawford is a Tampa institution in Left Field and they acquired Matt Joyce to play Right Field. The lineups for the top three teams in the AL East now look [...]
The Chicago Tribune has made the ballots of all their qualified writers public for the 2009 Hall of Fame. I’ve seperated it from the big post of everything because it’s so much.
It includes my absolute favorite “bad” ballot of the year in Dave Van Dyck. Look for him bellow, here’s the listing with links to [...]
While searching around the internet for votes I missed in my big old round-up I came across Mr Corky Simpson.
Here is his ballot:
* Bert Blyleven
* Andre Dawson
* Tommy John
* Don Mattingly
* Tim Raines
* Jim Rice
* Alan Trammell
I don’t mean to be cruel to an old man (he is 88!) but how can you leave Rickey [...]
Yogi: The Life and Times of an American Original by Carlo DeVito 
Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (American Crossroads) by Adrian Burgos Jr.Bad Behavior has blocked 145 access attempts in the last 7 days.