by evan brunell | Nov 10, 2008 | Atlanta Braves, Dewon Day, Junichi Tazawa, New York Yankees, Virgil Vazquez, Yu Darvish
As has been common knowledge, 22-year old Japanese pitcher Junichi Tazawa requested that the Japanese pro league, Nippon Pro Baseball, not draft him in the amateur draft, allowing him to jump to the major leagues immediately. Now that the NBP has officially acceded to...
by evan brunell | Nov 9, 2008 | Quick Post
Folks, You may or may not know this, but I also write for MVN Outsider, the staff page of MVN. Over there, I’ve been doing a series of ‘Being the GM’ and today it was the Red Sox‘ turn. Check it out, let me know what you think. While...
by evan brunell | Nov 9, 2008 | Jason Varitek, Quick Post, Trivia
Jason Varitek has the most ever postseason homers as a catcher. How many did he hit? HONOR CODE: No search engines. WINNER GETS: To submit a featured community post. Register for an account, click PUBLISH A POST in the sidebar, and write your article. I’ll take...
by evan brunell | Nov 7, 2008 | Brian Fuentes, C.C. Sabathia, Chicago White Sox, Clay Buchholz, Coco Crisp, Colorado Rockies, Francisco Rodriguez, Hideki Matsui, Jake Peavy, Jason Varitek, Javier Vazquez, Julio Lugo, Mark Teixeira, Matt Holliday, Mike Cameron, Mike Lowell, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Nick Swisher, Paul Byrd, San Diego Padres, Will Ohman
Lot of twiddling our thumbs right now as we wait for the free agent season to officially kick off. Let’s take a whirl throughout the rumors in baseball and see what’s going on… Out west, the San Diego Padres are committed to trading starter Jake...
by evan brunell | Nov 6, 2008 | Dustin Pedroia, Quick Post
Dustin Pedroia, the diminutive second baseman of the Boston Red Sox, notched his first Gold Glove Award today. It was the only Gold Glove a Red Sox player won, a year after Kevin Youkilis took home the hardware. His closest competition was Mark Ellis of Oakland, and...
