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Out of Left Field: Did the Dodgers Make Suckers of the Red Sox? by Matthew Kory

Source: Baseball Prospectus

A narrative about last August’s Red Sox and Dodgers trade has grown up, certainly in Boston and to a lesser extent in the national press. Essentially, the Dodgers foolishly helped the Red Sox by taking a bunch of expensive gar ...
Full article at: Baseball Prospectus  More like this  5 days ago, 5:48am CDT

This Date in Mets History: May 13 — Bobby V. turns 63, Rickey gets released

Source: Amazin' Avenue

Yesterday, we remembered Yogi Berra, the second manager to lead the Mets to the World Series, on the occasion of his 88th birthday. Today, Bobby Valentine, the most recent man to achieve the feat turns another ...
Full article at: Amazin' Avenue  More like this  1 week ago, 12:51pm CDT

30th anniversary: Reggie’s 2,000th K

Source: The Hardball Times

Posted by Chris Jaffe Thirty years ago today, a new club began in baseball, the 2,000 strikeout club. Sure, many pitchers had achieved 2,000 Ks, but in 1983—for the first time ever—a batter struck out for the 2,000th time. It was on May 13, 1983, ...
Full article at: The Hardball Times  More like this  1 week ago, 2:18am CDT

Ryan Lavarnway: Future Boston Red Sox Catcher Needs To Start Now

Source: Rant Sports

To say fans are somewhat nervous about the situation between quarterback Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears is a tad overblown. Though Cutler is in the last year of his current contract, very few people have a problem with the team ...
Full article at: Rant Sports  More like this  1 week ago, 11:04pm CDT

This Date in Mets History: May 11 — Mets celebrate Mays Day, Seaver wins 100th game

Source: Amazin' Avenue

The Mets were rather active on this date in 1972. On the field, the team split a day-night doubleheader at Shea against the ex-pat Dodgers. In game one, Tom Seaver tossed eight innings of one-run ball to earn his fifth win of the season and t ...
Full article at: Amazin' Avenue  More like this  May 11 2013, 11:53am CDT

Jon Lester Pitches The Best Game of His Career

Source: American Spectator

Last month, I predicted that Boston Red Sox lefty Jon Lester would win the 2013 AL Cy Young Award after a terrible season under Bobby Valentine last year. Lester went 9-14 with a 4.82 ERA in 2012. On Friday ...
Full article at: American Spectator  More like this  May 10 2013, 11:32pm CDT

The lessons of the Dodgers' and Blue Jays' massively expensive failures

Source: The Week

$334 million doesn't go as far as it used to. Last offseason, as most baseball teams refused to shell out big bucks for free agents, two teams — Toronto and Los Angeles — went for broke. The Blue Jays (2013 payro ...
Full article at: The Week  More like this  May 10 2013, 9:15am CDT

BTIG Counts Down to 2013 Commissions for Charity Day

Source: Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BTIG LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading and related brokerage services, will host its 11th Commissions for Charity Day on Tuesday, May 14, 20 ...
Full article at: Business Wire  More like this  May 10 2013, 8:26am CDT

John Lackey throws it away for sagging Red Sox

Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

BOSTON A month ago, the Red Sox were being compared to the best and brightest Boston teams of the past. Here in May, the comparisons are more recent, like the Sox of September, 2011 or the Bobby Valentine model of last season. They lost another mess ...
Full article at: Worcester Telegram & Gazette  More like this  May 10 2013, 4:10am CDT

Strauss: TLR insists he's not available to manage -- anywhere

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thursday afternoon found Tony La Russa inside his East Bay home cleaning cat pans and doing due diligence on the previous night’s ineffectual use of instant replay by an umpiring crew in Cleveland. Much of La Russa’s post-managerial respo ...
Full article at: St. Louis Post-Dispatch  More like this  May 10 2013, 12:24am CDT


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