There are a lot of things you can buy for $32MM. You can buy this Miami Penthouse for $22MM and have $10MM left over for furniture, you can buy Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Zambrano and Carlos Marmol for 1 year or if you are a really big racing fan you can buy Jeff Gordon. But for the [...]
It was reported by the Detroit Free Press that the Detroit Tigers have signed free agent pitcher Brandon Lyon to a 1 year, $4.25MM contract and will compete for the team’s closer role. While agree signing Lyon might help the Tigers improve their 27th ranked bullpen (they need all the help they can get), I don’t [...]
I woke up this morning and turned on the MLB Network to watch their “Hot Stove” program. During the show Harold Reynolds said the Twins had the best home-field advantage not only in baseball but in all of sports. That is a pretty bold statement. Now I am not sure if I agree with the [...]
The New York Mets taking a page out of the Boston Red Sox book of signing “low-risk, high-reward” free agents, today signed pitcher Freddy Garcia to a minor league contract. I like this signing by the Mets for a couple of reasons: 1. You can never have too much pitching. In this day and age [...]
Yesterday around 3:30 my coworker Pete screamed “Nooooooooooo.” This meant 1 of 2 things. Either someone in our office was sending him an unnecessary email or something happened in the world of sports he didn’t agree with. Unfortunately for Pete both probably happened but for the purposes of this post we will concentrate on the later. [...]
Bud Selig has done a lot of good things for the game of baseball since he became acting commissioner in 1992. Selig realigned the divisions, introduced the Wild Card, helped baseball get through the strike of 1994 and was instumental in formulating a revenue sharing model. However, Selig has done a couple of things over the [...]
