On Friday, we took a very early look at some National League postseason predictions, so it’s only fitting that we take a look at some early American League postseason predictions. American League East 1. Z – Tampa Bay Rays: A full year of Matt Moore and Desmond Jennings and Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, and David [...]
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Boston Red Sox right fielders were among the worst in baseball in 2012. One of the main reasons why was because they had the Ghost of J.D. Drew manning right field for most of the season. When Drew wasn’t in right because one of his 900 injuries were acting up, the Red Sox had Darnell [...]
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In the NBA, we see sign-and-trades happen all the time during the offseason. In Major League Baseball, we hardly see it at all. I think the reason being there is no salary cap for a GM to try to manipulate. However, I think we saw a pseudo sign-and-trade happen this offseason in the world of [...]
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When Josh Reddick was traded to the Oakland A’s last week in the Andrew Bailey deal, it was widely assumed that Ryan Kalish would be a candidate to win the starting right field job for the Boston Red Sox. Well, that’s not going to happen any time soon. Kalish told the Boston Globe late last [...]
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Once the Boston Red Sox lost Jonathan Papelbon to the Philadelphia Phillies, it was pretty clear they weren’t sold on Daniel Bard becoming their closer. Boston even went out and acquired Mark Melancon from the Houston Astros, but I don’t think anybody thought Melancon was going to close games in Boston. With a spot still [...]
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With spending time with family this weekend because of Christmas Eve and Christmas, there wasn’t much time for posting. You combine that with not much going on in baseball, it made for a very slow weekend. However, that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some things going on. Let’s do our version of a weekend update. Jason [...]
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