Yoenis Cespedes Signs 4-year, $36 Million Deal With Oakland A’s
The news broke this morning that Yoenis Cespedes, a Cuban defector, signed a 4-year Major League contract with the Oakland Athletics for $36 million. He will make $6.5 million this year, $8.5 million...
View ArticleWhat are the Odds?
Even Neftali is shocked the Rangers aren’t 100% locks for the playoffs yet. At this point in the MLB season, exactly 10 teams have better than a 50% chance of making the playoffs according to ESPN....
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Stock Watch: Starlin Castro Must Go
It’s really interesting writing this Stock Watch update each week. I start off with no clue of who I want to write about. After digging through the data and looking at a few different statistics, the...
View ArticleIn Focus: NL Rookie of the Year Candidates
Wade Miley If you want a good idea of which NL Rookie has the highest Q Score, then you probably have not watched much baseball this season. Media darling Bryce Harper has absolutely owned the...
View ArticleRandom, Possibly Intriguing, Mostly Useless Information
The Major League Baseball season is winding down and as I was thinking about what to write I was drawing a bit of a blank. So, as I often do when I am bored, I started looking through baseball...
View Article10 Bargains in the Playoffs
Cha-ching! Spending big money on player contracts comes with no guarantee of success or even an assurance that the money will be well spent. In some cases going big pays off (see “Yankees”), and for...
View ArticleHow Do You Spell Relief, Jim Johnson?
Jim Johnson eclipsed the 50 save mark this season and, as the only reliever in the majors to do so in 2012, also led the majors in saves. Now, 50 saves in a season is impressive to some degree, no? No....
View ArticleBelieve It Or Not
That’s right folks, it’s time for a bit of “Believe it or not?”! Excited? No? What’s that? You have no idea what ”Believe it or not?” is, exactly. Oh. Well, then allow me to elaborate here. “Believe or...
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