by shawn medeiros | Nov 10, 2008 | Quick Post
According to SI.com, the Colorado Rockies have traded their All-Star outfielder, Matt Holliday, to the Oakland A’s. It is not known at this time who Colorado will receive in the trade. Oakland owner Lew Wolff has recently told confidants he’s tired of...
by evan brunell | Nov 10, 2008 | Brad Mills, DeMarlo Hale, Quick Post
The Seattle Mariners are kicking off their managerial search by interviewing seven people. Two people are currently Boston Red Sox coaches: bench coach Brad Mills and third-base coach DeMarlo Hale. Mills, teammates with Terry Francona in college and the Montreal...
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...
by shawn medeiros | Nov 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Just some quick notes to get your morning started. First, trust me when I say this, but my Top 50 Free Agents is probably my favorite piece that I do all year and because of that I get way too fussy about it. Because of that, a general state of depression after the...
by evan brunell | Nov 5, 2008 | Junichi Tazawa, Kenshin Kawakami
The Boston Red Sox are hot on the tails of 22-year old Junichi Tazawa to join the club, but there’s another Japanese pitcher out there that may end up serving as the Sox’s No. 5 starter in 2009. Kenshin Kawakami, 34, is a free agent (meaning no posting...
by evan brunell | Nov 4, 2008 | Jason Varitek, Jorge Posada, Quick Post, Scott Boras
Jason Varitek and Jorge Posada are of similar age. Both are catchers. The similarities stop there, but Scott Boras said he thinks Varitek is worthy of a four-year, $52.4 million commitment, which is what Posada got last year. Yeah, that worked out well… dude...
