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Fantasy Basketball Top 100 Rankings: 1-50
The NBA free agency period begins in less than 24 hours, and I'm rushing to finish line to get out a Top 100. Writing a comprehensive ranking has never been more complicated. Normally, there's like a two-month buffer from when the last major free agent signs to when the season begins, but this...
Trades, Free Agents, and Rule 5 Selections in Franchise History
Alex Anthopolous recently re-stated that, while he is exploring all possible free agents, he would "exhaust [all possible trades] first before delving into free agency." It appears that Anthopolous' mantra is to focus on trades rather than free agency to improve the Blue Jays. As a prelude to the...
Who Might Pursue Adrian Gonzalez And Heath Bell?
We're back this morning with some Tuesday Trade Talk, a look at some of the potential and actual wheeling and dealings going on in the baseball word. Who Might Pursue Adrian Gonzalez And Heath Bell? As GM Jed Hoyer mentioned on a San Diego radio station last week, the team will be willing to listen...
Some Saturday Slices: Iwakuma, Free Agency, McCarthy, Olsen
No, they're not slices of pizza or pie. They're slices of knowledge, accompanied with some of my thoughts! Not that exciting, I know, but I thought it was more accurate than, "The Sexy Saturday Spectacular." Let's dive into some things that are going on around the league and fill some time on this...
Saturday Rockpile: Rockies interested in an impact bat?
Rockies' Tulowitzki covers the bases about season, future - The Denver Post I'm quite certain that nobody can accuse Troy Tulowitzki of not being passionate about winning, nor the game as a whole. While that's probably not the case with anybody else on the Rockies, either (although some will debate...
Crisp Rumor Hardly Fresh
It's not even Thanksgiving yet, and it's already beginning to seem like the daily White Sox rumors are simply those that have trotted out in the past. Today, it's Coco Crisp, no longer as a not-living-up-to-his-contract CFer on the trade market, but as a just-coming-off-of-two-shoulder-surgeries...
Friday Rockpile: Free agency filings begin; no surprises for the Rockies
Rockies zero in on going the distance - The Denver PostRenck offers three steps for the Rockies to make it to the World Series: Win the west and have home-field advantage, have Ubaldo Jimenez become a #1, and takes pitches and strike out less (especially Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler, and Chris...
Extending the Discussion
Scott Merkin poses a question we all had at the beginning of the off-season but have backed off with all the talk of payroll ceilings; will the White Sox reinvest their massive payroll cuts (more like 10%) into the team in the form of extensions? Kenny Williams was his usual dismissively combative...
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