Rafael Soriano’s pre-Tommy John surgery scouting report had him throwing a 96 mph 4-seamer. Well, it’s a couple years post-op, and Rafael’s got every one of those 96 mph back.
He was always a fastball/slider pitcher, and at 96 that’s probably good enough to be a very effective 8th inning man. But you’d love to see [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Rafael Soriano Is Back
JJ Putz Should Be Closing: JJ Putz Scouting Report
The interesting thing about Eddie Guardado’s career as a reliever is that he was actually pretty bad over his first eight seasons. Until his 45 save campaign in ‘02, Eddie had never posted a sub-3.5 ERA. He was just your average, 90-92 mph fastball, left-handed reliever. Then, in 2000, his ERA started dropping. He went [...]
April 30th, 2006 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
Darius Miles Interview - He Likes The Sauce
You’ve simply got to read the full Darius Miles interview, but I give you this tease…
Yeah, you probably smelled liquor on me before. But it’s not like I’m at practice drunk. I’m totally focused. I don’t care if you come to practice and take shower, once you go to practice and start sweating, its going [...]
Young, Young, And Dangerous: Delmon Young Bat Toss Video Clip
I have a feeling a lot of people are gonna be Googling this one, so here it is: you’ve got the Pawtucket call, the video clip, and the Durham call of the now infamous D-Young bat toss.
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There’s a lot of back story on Delmon, but the gist of it is he’s [...]
Angel Guzman Debuts At 96 mph
Angel Guzman - he of the torn labrum, strained forearm, and fractured elbow - made his major league debut yesterday for the Cubs. For all the wear-and-tear on this guy he’s still only 24 years old.
Angel worked at 92-96 mph with the fastball, and threw in some good curve-balls and sliders. I didn’t see [...]
Baseball Superstitions
Came across this interesting post on some of the best baseball superstitions, thought it was worth the read.
April 23rd, 2006 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
Who Is Dr. James Andrews?
After watching AJ Burnett land on the 15 day DL with yet another bout of elbow trouble I realized that first of all, this could be one of the most expensive doctor visits of all time ($55 million is riding on it) but my curiosity actually picked up more on the fact that for as [...]
April 23rd, 2006 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
Joel Zumaya Scouting Report: Hammer Time
They call Joel Zumaya, “Zoomer.” Right now the 6′2″, 210 Zumaya - pronounced zuh-MY-AH - is working the 8th inning for the Tigers, but in a few years he’s gonna be some team’s closer. Right now it all depends on how Fernando Rodney and Todd Jones hold up. Because if they stumble, Zumaya’s ready.
Joel, who’ll [...]
Brad Hawpe Must Be Good, He Plays In Colorado
At 6′3″, 210, Brad Hawpe’s got a power-hitter’s body. He’s got a career .317 minor league average, and a career .547 minor league slugging percentage . He’s even got a decent 317:194 K:BB ratio.
So is he for real? Well, in ‘04 he went .322/31 HR/86 RBI for AAA-Colorado Springs. In ‘02 he went .327/22/97 [...]
The BB of Daniel…Cabrera
Here’s the way it usually works: a young power pitcher makes his MLB debut and posts a 1:1 K:BB ratio. The next year he picks up a few more Ks and loses some BBs. Year 3: he widens the gap and his WHIP falls into the 1.30 range. In year 4 and beyond, he reaches [...]
April 15th, 2006 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
Reggie Bush Videos
Since I notice in our logs that lots of you come here looking for Reggie Bush highlights and I don’t think the New York Times video link is working anymore, I’ve got no problem directing you to a site where you can get a couple of videos…Sit back and enjoy, this kid has so much [...]
April 8th, 2006 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
MLB Baseball Contracts
Here’s a good blog if you’re interested in seeing the contract information available about your favourite MLB team. Can’t verify the accuracy of it, but it seems pretty interesting. Check out Cot’s Baseball Contracts.
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April 8th, 2006 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
Daisuke Matsuzaka - Taking The Chance
Following up on my last post about why your league should have a minor league draft, I thought it would be pertinent to discuss why I chose to take Daisuke Matsuzaka in the second round of my Fantasy Baseball league’s minor league draft this year.
While it is true that the World Baseball Classic MVP will [...]
Your Keeper League Should Have A Minor League Draft
This past weekend just prior to the opening night of the 2006 baseball season was my keeper league Fantasy Baseball draft. It’s the 5th year of our league and we are up to 14 teams after allowing a new team in last year (though we didn’t charge an expansion fee and even had a very [...]
April 6th, 2006 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
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