Victor Martinez
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State of the Disabled List
Jason Martinez, of the remarkably comprehensive website MLBdepthcharts.com , tweeted a keen observation on Sunday: According to my calculations, there are 166 players on the DL. #Padres lead league with 14. #Rangers…
Last Year's Best Roster Additions
The final days of December are just a bit past the midpoint of baseball's hot stove season. Many big purchases have been made, while a few marquee prizes still shine in the sales brochures produced by their agents. This…
Contact and Power in the Postseason
There are four playoff games today, which should be great fun to follow. In anticipation of the excitement, we thought it would be fun to check in on the players in the postseason to see which batters have the lowest…
Strange Findings in WAR
While calculating the average Wins Above Replacement scores as research for our upcoming AL MVP race post, we stumbled across a peculiar comparison between Boston's ace, Josh Beckett , and former Boston pitcher, Justin…
Victor Martinez, Bo Diaz, & Catching 101
This morning, Ignacio Serrano of El Nacional newspaper in Venezuela broke the story that Victor Martinez was leaving Boston to sign a 4yr/$50 million deal with the Detroit Tigers. There is some confusion that V-Mart…
Hot Stove Notes: Benoit, Nishioka, Red Sox
As we showed during last week's unveiling of our Top 100 Free Agents post, we thought very highly of the Tigers' new relief pitcher extraordinaire Joaquin Benoit. $16.5 M buys a lot in Detroit We listed him at #12,…
The Best Free Agents
W're working on a few things over here including: a revised Game Score formula that sort of feels more right, with IFFB data our look at 1973 awards Mark Prior Sandy Alderson's next move I'd think that at least two of…
Derrek Lee's Replacement
Chicago Tribune’s Paul Sullivan mentions in his piece from yesterday’s paper that most people believe Derrek Lee will be playing elsewhere in 2011. Sullivan cites “ his age, his numbers and the fact the Cubs need a…
Fantasy Baseball: Catchers
We're coming to you live from a coffee shop/bar in Valdelagrana, Spain . Keeping up with our tab has us at one cafe con leche . Per the request of a new, loyal reader, we are beginning our series of fantasy baseball…
Mark? This is Theo...
My written response to this rumor is a bit late, as I first heard it on Sunday... from the very end of Nick Cafardo's lengthy Sunday column ... At this time of year, one takes trade information with a grain of salt, but…
Back from Jamaica
Sorry for the long delay since posts. We went on a "scouting" trip to Jamaica and just got back last night. We will try to be more proactive to announce the potential for a longer-than-usual break. There is a lot to…
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