As many people around baseball expected Richie Sexson was released today by the Seattle Mariners. He was hitting a dismal .218/.315/.381 with 11 homeruns and 30 RBI’s. It will be interesting to see if a contending team will take a chance on Sexson. I think this is the begining of the Seattle Mariners fire sale. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘27 Outs’
July 10, 2008
General Managers Possibly on the Hot Seat
So far this season we have seen Wayne Krivsky and Bill Bavasi get canned. Most of the General Managers in baseball right now seem pretty secure but there are a few guys on the hot seat.
Omar Minaya: The Mets have been surrounded with the drama this year. Everything from Gary Carter calling the Mets to [...]
July 10, 2008
NL West – Trade Deadline
The National League West is by far the worst division in baseball. I am going to share with you what I think each team needs to do before the trade deadline.
Arizona Diamondbacks: They got out to a smoking hott start in April and have fallen off ever since. Their young guns such as Justin Upton, [...]
July 9, 2008
Making Sense of Recent Trades
In the past 48 hours we have seen CC Sabathia and Rich Harden dealt to contending teams. With this we have seen a total of 8 prospects traded for these 2 guys. Sabathia was the 2007 Cy Young Award winner and was basically given to the brewers for 1 big prospect in Matt LaPorta and [...]
July 4, 2008
What is going on in the NL West?
What is going on in the NL West? If you follow baseball at all you will know that the NL West does not have a team over .500. The Diamondbacks started boiling hot and looked like they were going to run away from the division. Then we have the defending National League Champion Colorado Rockies. [...]
July 3, 2008
Clayton Kershaw optioned to Double A
Today the Dodgers announced that Clayton Kershaw would be sent down to Double A Jacksonville and activated Hiroki Kuroda. Dodgers skipper Joe Torre said “We made the move, not because he wasn’t handling it, but we’ve got pitchers coming back.” But Kershaw did not seem to accept the Dodgers reasoning behind the move. He said [...]
June 30, 2008
Baseball Traditionalist Need to Unify With Sabermetrics
The sabermetric charge lead by Bill James and Baseball Prospectus have opened the eyes to different statistics such as On Base Percentage and VORP(Value Over Replacement Player). Many baseball traditionalist have rejected sabermetrics and its followers due to the traditional ways of scouting and many baseball traditionalist have argued that they already use statistics to [...]
June 30, 2008
A Week in Review
Lets see this week started out with some more interleague play which all the players seem to despise. Then we see the Umpire in Kansas City this week have to leave the game due to being struck with a broken bat. We also umpire Brian Runge bump Mets skipper Jerry Manuel and be suspended for [...]
June 30, 2008
Dodgers NO HIT but WIN!
Yes, you read correct the Dodgers were collectively no hit by the Angels Saturday night even though the Elias Sports Bureau does not consider that a no hitter due to the Angels only pitching 8 innings. Nevertheless the Dodgers did not have a hit and still won the game. Matt Kemp reached base via an [...]
June 27, 2008
Maple Bats
Due to the high volume of maple bats breaking. Major League Baseball is further looking into the risks that maple bats have opposed to ash bats. Looking at the bat situation is a must for Major League Baseball. It is a shame that it takes people getting hurt like the umpire the other night in [...]
