The One Thing I am trying to do at this point of the season is BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. I am really keen on getting Gavin Floyd, but no one is budging. “Buy Low” does not mean “act stupid” so I will only buy into Floyd at a discount. I’d really like to get [...] […]
Just a reminder: this AL Blog is most useful during late February, March and early April. At that time I look at playing time battles and keep up-to-date with spring stats.   I post “Spring Roto Questions” which inform roster decisions later that month (during the draft) and in the early portion of the season. Once we [...] […]
The One Thing we learned today is that despite David Huff’s stats getting officially erased from his outing tonight due to rain, Manny Acta does not have access to a neuralyzer. In Lost-speak, whatever happened, happened. Huff’s last three outings (including tonight) have been abysmal and the start before that he gave up six walks. Who [...] […]
The One Thing we learned today is that timing is everything. Koji Uehara came back from the DL today and pitched the 8th inning, setting up Alfredo Simon. I think Dave Trembley was always intrigued during the off-season in Uehara as a late-inning reliever, but he won’t have him close…yet. If this was last week [...] […]
The One Thing “was on a break” (as Ross would say) for the past few days, but is back now. In KC, we learned that Mitch Maier (pictured) will see regular at bats now that Ankiel is on the DL. Maier played in obscurity last year yet led the KC outfield in games played. He [...] […]
There was a mostly-full slate of games Thursday, with all but six teams playing. Here’s what stuck out to me from the action… ·     Considered the best defensive infielder in the Indians’ system at the beginning of the year by Baseball America, Jason Donald contributed with the bat as well yesterday. While the rest of the [...] […]
Welcome back, those of you reading this that have checking in for updates and not seeing them. The last couple of weeks have been interesting ones to say on the least, and I’ll be addressing that in a blog post here later today. I cannot say I will be 100% daily again, but that is my [...] […]
The three-day weekend is over, and it’s back to work for the majority of Americans. Baseball didn’t take a holiday yesterday, however, with all but four teams getting into the spirit of Memorial Day. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights… Yesterday, we talked about the Rookie of the Year candidacy of Cardinals’ third baseman [...] […]
Happy Memorial Day, and for those of you that either have served or have loved ones that served, thank you. Here are today’s notes from around the horn… We start things off today with Ricky Romero’s masterful performance Sunday against the Orioles. Romero did get in trouble early with leadoff batter Corey Patterson getting a hit, followed [...] […]
I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend so far, and here are Sunday’s notes from around the league. While the biggest news out of the Indians’ 13-11 win over the Yankees was Indians’ pitcher David Huff being hit in the head by a ball hit back at him by Alex Rodriguez, what should also be [...] […]