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Back to .500+, In Spite of Themselves
Don’t look now, but the New York Mess (er, Mets) are (drumroll, please) back to a game over .500. They got there at the expense of their number one National League East nemesis. And, they got there in spite of their own most arduous obstacle. Themselves.
No one wants to go quite so far as to […]
“It’s Weird Leaving These Guys”
He’s all but confirmed it himself, in a text message to ESPN’s Amy K. Nelson. (”I’m great, excited. It’s weird leaving these guys.”)
C.C. Sabathia—pending medical paperwork swapping on all sides—is going to Sudsville for outfielder Matt LaPorta (the Brewers’ first-round pick last year) and, reportedly, a pair of minor league pitchers (said to be Rob […]
Start Scratching Your Heads . . .
Here’s whom the fans voted to start the All-Star Game, with those who should have been starting in parentheses with a quick justification, and a rather distinct whiff of Boston and Chicago in the wind:
AL
1B–Kevin Youkilis, Boston. (No argument, really.) 2B–Dustin Pedroia, Boston. (Ian Kinsler, Texas: he’s earned the start, Pedroia should still be […]
POLL: NL All-Star Game Starter
First of all, my apologies for not getting a full column up as scheduled on Friday; preparations for a trip ate into my time that day.
With that out of the way, I introduce to you the new poll question.
If you were National League team manager Clint Hurdle, which pitcher would you send to the hill to […]
Senator Flood
Dred Scott in spikes, as George F. Will so memorably analogised Curt Flood, would have been seventy years old in January. With chemotherapy weakening him enough to lure fatal pneumonia, despite a 90 percent survival opportunity afforded him by his doctors, the man who led baseball’s reserve clause toward the quicksand died at 59.
There are […]
A Whole in the Head
Nobody put in a waiver claim on Shawn Chacon come Monday, and the Houston Astros released the ho-hum pitcher, whose career of occasional excellence and more frequent mediocrity wasn’t exactly designed to persuade people he was worth the prospect of turning another front office official into floor wax at the least drop of dispute.
Naturally, the […]
After a two-month-long slump, Nick Swisher (30) is finally settling into his new Chicago home (sldownard/flickr.com)
Not Swishing Anymore
On January 3rd, 2008, the A’s and White Sox consummated the first baseball trade of the new year, when Oakland GM Billy Beane agreed to send Moneyball posterchild Nick Swisher to Chicago, in exchange for minor league pitchers Gio Gonzalez and Fautino De Los Santos, as well as outfielder Ryan Sweeney.
The trade was the A’s […]
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