The Chicago White Sox have signed OF Kosuke Fukudome to a one-year, $1 million contract with a club option of $3.5 million for 2013. Fukudome hit .262/.342/.370 with eight HR’s in 603 PA’s with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians in 2011. For one million boxes of ziti, this is a pretty good pickup for [...]
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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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I am sure Carlos Quentin was just chilling in his house getting ready to trip the night fantastic on New Year’s Eve and not having a care in the world. Then at about 2:00 EST, he gets a call saying he has been traded to San Diego and just like that, everything changes. Quetin was [...]
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There’s nothing worse than being a fan of a team that is perceived to have no game plan. You always feel your team is going in 1,000 different directions. Now, I am sure Chicago White Sox GM Kenny Williams had a game plan going into this offseason. What that game plan actually is, White Sox [...]
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The Miami Marlins aren’t messing around this offseason. They got their closer (Heath Bell), they got their offensive player (Jose Reyes), and now they have landed their starting pitcher. According to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com, the Marlins have signed LHP Mark Buehrle to a four-year, $58 million contract. That’s one more year than anyone thought [...]
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Now that the regular season is over, let’s look back at some of the preseason bets I made (I didn’t actually lay wood on these, just more for fun). I do these every year. In 2009, I was right on 64% of these and last year, I sh^t the bed at 48%. Hopefully this year [...]
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