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 [...]
It was never a matter of if the Colorado Rockies would trade OF Seth Smith, but when? With the signing of Micheal Cuddyer, the Rockies had a crowded outfield and no longer had any room for the former Ole Miss QB. The Rockies have been looking for a trade partner for Smith for a while [...]
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 [...]
The Colorado Rockies have signed 3B Casey Blake to a one-year, $2 million contract according to Thomas Harding of MLB.com. Blake can earn an extra $1 million in performance based incentives. Blake was limited to just 63 games last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers because of a back injury. In those 63 games, Blake [...]
Colorado Rockies’ GM Dan O’Dowd has been in search of a right-handed bat to compliment SS Troy Tulowitzki since the beginning of the offseason. On Friday, after dancing with a couple of people, he finally found the one he wanted to take home. The Rockies signed OF Michael Cuddyer to a three-year, $31.5 million contract. [...]
One of the aspects I love about baseball’s offseason is when the most random player becomes a hot commodity on the open market. Latest case in point: Michael Cuddyer. Cuddyer has a career 14.6 WAR in eight full Major League seasons, but yet he has been one of the more popular players this winter. Right [...]
