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 [...]
Filed under: The Crystal Baseball by The Baseball Index
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Last week for MLB Daily Dish I took a look at the remaining “Buy-low” free agents. One of those buy-low free agents was former Detroit Tiger flame thrower, Joel Zumaya. Despite his litany of elbow injuries, I thought a team would be wise to take a chance on him. Reports had a number of teams [...]
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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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Of all the places we thought OF Jason Kubel would sign, Arizona would be the last place. After all, the Arizona Diamondbacks already had three quality outfielders in Gerardo Parra, Chris Young, and Justin Upton. But the Diamondbacks didn’t feel as comfortable with their outfield as everyone else did because Arizona signed Jason Kubel to [...]
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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. [...]
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With OF Josh Willingham added to the fold to go along with Jamey Carroll and Ryan Doumit, let’s take a look at the Minnesota Twins’ projected starting lineup come Opening Day 2012. 1. Denard Span, CF 2. Jamey Carroll, SS 3. Joe Mauer, C 4. Justin Morneau, 1B 5. Josh Willingham, LF 6. Ryan Doumit, [...]
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