 What does an 84mph fastball get you these days? Well, it puts your job on the line if you are one B.J. Ryan. Toronto’s manager Cito Gaston is watching Ryan closely, and if he does not improve vastly over the next week, you can bet your sweet ass that Scott Downs will start the year working the ninth for the Blue Jays. Granted, Ryan is not a flame thrower to begin with, as la...
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 This Jay Cutler situation got me to thinking. Who was the last QB that whined and pouted himself to another city? Oh, wait it was John Elway refusing to play for the Colts which eventually landed him in Denver. Broncos fans got a great QB while the Colts languished in the basement of the NFL until Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy came to town.
How ironic that so many years later the city of Denver i...
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It’s been 16 days since we last discussed Mat Gamel’s progress. Gamel quickly became one of our favorite prospects last season, and he is not disappointing in 2009. Dude is raking for a .392 average, and a paltry 1.256 OPS. Mat has knocked home 26 runs and crossed the plate 18 times himself. Through 20 games and 74 at-bats, seven times he has taken a pitch and placed i...
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Well it looks like the Atlanta Braves have decided to go forward with Jordan Schafer in center this season after they traded the other leading candidate, Josh Anderson, to Detroit yesterday. In exchange the Braves get a 25 year old bully prospect named Rudy Darrow. I know absolutely nothing about Darrow, other than that he wears his glove on his left hand and he will be start...
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Yeah, it kind of has to be. With this being the final week of Spring Training, the Phillies got one last look at Chan Ho Park yesterday, and he did not disappoint. Park struck out seven over 5.2 innings of work while only allowing one earned run to cross the plate. This puts Park at a 2.53 ERA with a 25:2 K:BB ratio over 21.1 innings. Compare that to J.A. Happ’s 3...
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John Smoltz’ Boston Red Sox squared off against the Braves yesterday. Smoltz, who spent the afternoon golfing with Tiger, stopped by the Braves’ clubhouse to visit. As expected, there were no fireworks and Smoltz was welcomed by his old teammates with open arms....
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Will Ohman finally has a team. On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed the lefty reliever to a one year deal. Here is the kicker, it’s a minor league deal with an April 14th deadline for Ohman to be in the Majors or he can opt out and sign with another club. There really are no fantasy implications here as Ohman is not going to close games for the Dodgers....
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The Phillies did exactly what I said they would earlier today, and haveofficially named Chan Ho Park as their fifth starter. No word on Happ, but Amaro did say that he is battling with Gary Majewski, Taschner and Bobby Mosebach for the two remaining spots in the bully.
In other Phils news, they released Geoff Jenkins today. This is no surprise either, as anyone who is na...
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 Gonzalez leaving KC for a chance at a Super Bowl run in another city might have been a bit premature.
Chiefs GM Scott Pioli has recently stated Gonzalez has no immediate intention of leaving the new-look Chiefs. This from the Kansas City Star:
"He has not idicated to me that he wants to be traded," Pioli stated. "I don’t want to get into any other specifics of the conversations because thos...
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Jordan Schafer is making his case to be the starting center fielder for the Atlanta Braves this coming season. Through 53 at bats, Schafer is raking for a .396 average and he boasts an OPS of 1.014, despite only going yard a single time this Spring. Since these are only Spring Training stats, I’ll keep my enthusiasm for Schafer tempered, but should he win the starting job I’ll cer...
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