Last week we kicked off our “Key” player series with a look at the “Key” player for each National League East team. We will continue the series this week starting with the National League Central. Chicago Cubs – Ryan Dempster: The Cubs don’t have too many players with value on their current roster, but Dempster [...]
Pittsburgh Pirates’ manager Clint Hurdle announced today that LHP Erik Bedard will start for the Pirates on Opening Day against the Philadelphia Phillies. This is quite the interesting choice considering Bedard has a 6.23 ERA this spring and has walked five guys in 8.2 innings. My guess here is that the Pirates are trying to [...]
Boy oh boy. No matter what the Pittsburgh Pirates do, they just can’t catch a break. It was reported yesterday that newly acquired A.J. Burnett fractured the orbital bone in his right eye, but would miss only two-to-four weeks. Today, Peter Gammons is reporting that Burnett will most likely be out eight-to-10 weeks. Eight-to-weeks would [...]
The long awaited deal between the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates involving A.J. Burnetthas been completed according to Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Here is the breakdown of the deal… Pirates receive Burnett and will responsible for $13 million of the remaining $31.1 million left on Burnett’s contract. It’s expected the Pirates will [...]
There are some things you need to do in life. You know, like taking out the trash, doing your taxes, or being forced to watch Beverly cry like a mealy little mouse on Top Chef every episode if you are a fan of the show. Then there are things you need to do like writing [...]
With spring training right around the corner and all of the major free agents signed and ready to go with their respective teams, I thought it would be interesting to see which teams have positioned themselves for a playoff run in 2012. Obviously things are going to change from now to Opening Day, but it’s [...]
