Sports 4 Dorks

Many have argued this winter’s relatively weak free agent class would result in an offseason dominated by trades.
Just a day after Matt Garza was swapped for Delmon Young in a former top prospect super-trade, another former top prospect was traded, this time the Mets’ promising outfielder Lastings Milledge.
The Mets sent Milledge to the Nationals today […]

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A couple of moves since last we spoke:
The Houston Astros signed Kazuo Matsui to a 3 year deal worth around 15 million.
Troy Percival signed a 2 year deal with the Tampa Bay Rays for 8 million with a chance to earn 12 million.
Lastings Milledge was traded from the New […]

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Breaking Down The Blockbuster
With the baseball world buzzing over Johan Santana trade scenarios and the annual Winter Meetings just days away, the Twins made an unexpected big splash Wednesday by sending Matt Garza, Jason Bartlett, and Eduardo Morlan to the Devil Rays for Delmon Young, Brendan Harris, and Jason Pridie. In one move new general […]

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Studying The Santana Menu: New York Yankees
When it comes to teams potentially being in the mix for Johan Santana, the two keys are money and young talent. Any team trading for Santana would be doing so with an eye toward locking him up to a long-term contract extension that figures to approach $150 million […]

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Link-O-Rama
Thanksgiving gave me an excuse to take Friday off, because tryptophan-powered blogging can be dangerous. However, since my “bookmarks” folder would get completely out of control if two weeks pass between Link-O-Rama entries, here’s a special Monday link dump for your enjoyment.
This blog has been around since August of 2002, which seems to me […]

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Report: Angels Sign Hunter
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Angels have signed Torii Hunter to a five-year contract worth $90 million. The move comes as a shock for several reasons, not the least of which is that the Angels handed center fielder Gary Matthews Jr. a five-year, $50 million contract last offseason and […]

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Twins Notes: Clark, Rincon, Hunter, and Christensen

Last month in this space Tony Clark was suggested as a “pending free agent who the Twins could potentially go after” and now Official Twins Beat Writer of AG.com LaVelle E. Neal III reports that the team is indeed interested in him. Here’s what I wrote about […]

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Top 40 Minnesota Twins: #17 Earl Battey

EARL JESSE BATTEY JR. | C | 1961-1967 | CAREER STATS

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Top 40 Minnesota Twins: Link List
Here’s the full list of completed write-ups for my ongoing “Top 40 Minnesota Twins” series:
- #17 Earl Battey- #18 Rick Aguilera- #19 Dave Goltz- #20 Camilo Pascual- #21 Gary Gaetti- #22 Zoilo Versalles- #23 Cesar Tovar- #24 Shane Mack- #25 Brian Harper- #26 Eddie Guardado- #27 Larry Hisle- #28 Tom […]

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Link-O-Rama

Pitcher-turned-writer Carlos Gomez spent the past year breaking down pitching mechanics in articles for The Hardball Times and Baseball Think Factory, and then parlayed that work into a scouting job with the Diamondbacks.
I’m very sad to report that former Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com Elisha Cuthbert has made a terrible, terrible mistake. At least […]

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