Sports 4 Dorks

According to to ESPN’s Buster Olney, it seems that the Padres are the front-runners to land Mark Prior. The right-hander is trying to come back from injuries and regain his form of 2003 (yes, it has been that long already), where he went 18-6 with a 2.43 ERA and 245 K’s.
The Padres are playing the […]

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Using a ranking system that accounts for a players previous three season’s of work and relates those efforts to those of his peers across the five fantasy baseball categories - HR, RBI, SB, R, AVG, I have come up with a ranking of 1B for 2008. Because I did not want diminish the purity of […]

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La Velle E. Neal III runs down what he knows about the state of trade talks involving Johan Santana.  First, the leaders are the Red Sox and Yankees with several other teams kicking the tires.  He lists the Angels, Mariners and Mets. The Mets’ only chance is to include either SS Jose Reyes or […]

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Former Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler is coming out of retirement and returning to the major leagues the Boston…

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‘”I pitched through some injuries, but they checked me out and everything will be OK,” said Willis, who was hampered by forearm tightness last season. “I was healthy the last couple of weeks and I think that’s what the Tigers saw that made them interested.”‘ (ToledoBlade)

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[contributed by: Rhubarb_Runner]
Sports Illustrated magazine cover - April 6, 1992
“Little Big Man”
“Kirby Puckett of the Twins is only 5′8″, but he carries a very big stick”

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It’s a bit nuts to start looking this far ahead, but Tim Dierkes over at MLBTR posted the preliminary list, and frankly it’s fun to form meaningless wishlists. Very few stand out to me, but I’ve always been a Juan Cruz fan, he could be an interesting plug in for the bullpen if […]

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Baseball Notebook: Hot Stove League Roundup Gabe Kapler Signs With Brewers Brewers made a strange move yesterday signing Gabe Kapler to a one year contract. Kapler hit 49 of his 64 home runs in his second, third and fo…

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In his greatest move since scoping out Tina Cervasio’s spectacular rear end on NESN’s “Red Sox Weekly” (a moment of TV history lovingly captured in the screengrab above), The Papel-Bot insists that the ball with which the fi…

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According to the Kurt Radomski affidavit, obtained exclusively by ESPN.com, ‘the former Mets clubhouse attendant received a $3,500 check from former Mets All-Star Sid Fernandez, written in February 2005, six years after Fernandez last tried to pitch professionally.’
…steroids, yeah, yeah, whatever…to me, the real news here is that El Sid may actually have thought he […]

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