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Prospect Peek: Jurickson Profar
A 16 year old shortstop $1.55mil international signee from Curacao, Jurickson Profar certainly brings a lot of excitement. When a player with that kind of potential makes their pro debut in low-A at age 17 and keeps their head above water it's reason to think the hype could blossom into real big...
Omar Vizquel is Official
I held off on commenting on the long-rumored Omar Vizquel signing for two reasons; one, it's pretty tough to get excited about the signing of a back-up shortstop, even if he happens to be one of the best defenders in the history of the game; and two, I wasn't going to waste the energy on a deal...
Behold, The Power of the Glove!
Now that Michael Young of the Texas Rangers has begrudgingly moved to third base, the team will give top prospect Elvis Andrus the opportunity to win the starting shortstop job for the 2009 season. But, as any team would do, they've decided to bring in a veteran as insurance in case the 20-year-old...
Is Orlando Hudson a potential solution at SS?
Nico made an intriguing suggestion the other day at the bottom of EddieVegas_NRAF's The bottom of the shortstop barrel post: that the A's should explore signing free-agent second baseman Orlando Hudson, and convert him to shortstop. WaddellCanseco did some yeoman basic research in that exchange...
Who's Left?: Center field and Shortstop
Today, we'll finally be wrapping up the 'Who's Left' series when we cover the remaining free agents at the positions of center field and shortstop. You can read the first three parts to the series, here: C/1B, 2B/3B, and LF/RF. Isolated Power vs. On-base Percentage: 2009 Free Agent Center...
Best Shortstops of 2008
Other positions: 1B | 2B | 3B | DH | LF | CF | RF | CA Like I did last year, I'm going to spend the few two weeks discussing the top ten players at each position based on 2008 performances. This year I'm using Justin's stats, which have all the nice features of the home-brewed stats I calculated...
Two Shortstops Pass in the Night
"White Sox fans are really gonna take to this guy." That was Kenny Williams (roughly, from memory) during the spring of '04 sitting in with Hawk and DJ in the TV booth of a spring training game. The player to whom he was referring was Juan Uribe. "As long as he stays back," Williams...
Adios Orlando Cabrera
Joe Cowley can rest assured that Orlando Cabrera will not be back next season, but that has more to do with his contract demands (which haven't been made public) and unwillingness to discuss extension prior to testing the free-agent waters than his play on the field. When ChiSox.com runs a headline...
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