0 comments by TOC Locker on 11/11/2014
The Chicago Cubs apparently aren’t going to wait around for Jon Lester to make a decision, or for the Phillies to lower their price on Cole Hamels – they’re going in on an elite pitcher right now. The team is reportedly discussing a deal that would result in them acquiring NL All-Star Jordan Zimmermann from […]
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I’ve never really known anyone to get too excited about the Manager of the Year awards in either league, but the 2014 winners were announced on Tuesday. The awards won’t be leaving the mid-Atlantic region, as Buck Showalter of the Orioles and Matt Williams of the Nationals earned the honors. One factoid about this year’s winners – […]
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This would have been something else – according to a report from Adam Rubin of ESPN.com, the New York Mets attempted to bring over long-time rival Jimmy Rollins from the Phillies in a trade. Of course, the trade was blocked. The Mets, in need of a shortstop, spoke with the Philadelphia Phillies about acquiring Jimmy Rollins in a trade, […]
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In addition to the seemingly 800 things that the Atlanta Braves need to do this offseason, the club is reportedly looking for a left-handed platoon partner for third baseman Chris Johnson, whose three-year contract extension starts in 2015. Johnson slumped to a .263/.292/.361 line with ten home runs in 2014, and hit a putrid .231/.256/.314 […]
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Our free agent primer series rolls right along with a brief preview of the two middle infield positions, second base and shortstop. It’s always difficult for teams to find legitimate, star-quality talent up the middle, and this year’s free agent class is no exception. It’s so much of a mess that we’re only going to rank […]
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After dropping nearly a quarter of a billion dollars on Robinson Cano last winter, it looks like the Seattle Mariners are poised to throw some more cash around in free agency this offseason. According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, Seattle has their eyes on both Victor Martinez and Hanley Ramirez: Seeing the M’s targeting […]
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The Philadelphia Phillies desperately want to move Ryan Howard, even if they have to eat the large majority of his contract and get not much of anything in return. They may have found a suitor – the 2014 AL champion Kansas City Royals. DH Billy Butler is a free agent this winter, and Kansas City […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 11/10/2014
Jose Abreu and Jacob deGrom were named the 2014 AL and NL Rookies of the Year on Monday. Both ran away with the voting in their respective league. The 27-year old Abreu hit .317/.383/.581 with 36 homers for the White Sox, proving himself to not only be the best rookie in the American League, but […]
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We’re going to need another year to see whether or not a player will accept their one year qualifying offer. Every player that earned an offer this year declined it, continuing a three year trend since the implementation of the qualifying offer following the 2012 season. These are the players that declined. Melky Cabrera, Blue […]
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Surprise! The Mets just signed outfielder Michael Cuddyer to a two-year deal, $21 million. Double surprise! The Mets apparently have money to spend. Or at least they are pretending like they might. You see, this is a something of an annual tradition for the Mets where they sign a veteran to a short-term but somewhat expensive […]
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The Minnesota Twins are rolling out a new, gold-accented home uniform for the 2015 season, and it looks pretty nice. The pinstripes that took over the uniform in recent years are gone, banished to a home alternate jersey. The Twins’ road uniforms remain unchanged (so far) from 2014. Check out this mammoth infographic released by the […]
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The next segment of TOC’s free agent primers will move onto position rankings. We’ll have a post going up each day this week ranking the top players available at each position, with each post focusing on a different group of positions. Today, we’re going to look at catchers, first basemen, and third baseman. It’s worth noting […]
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Could the heir apparent to Derek Jeter be a Texas Ranger? Well, maybe. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Yankees are “intrigued” by Texas shortstop Elvis Andrus, who is still owed $120 million through 2022. The Yankees would have to feel Andrus is a buy-low candidate whose downturn on both sides […]
0 comments by TOC Locker on 11/9/2014
The New York Yankees have made the first significant free agent signing of the winter, re-signing outfielder Chris Young to a one-year deal worth a reported $2.5 million, plus incentives. Young started 2014 with the Mets, and was pretty awful in 88 games, hitting .205/.283/.346 with eight homers and seven stolen bases, especially when you […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 11/7/2014
The Oakland Athletics ran through the AL West in the first four months of the season, and then scraped and clawed their way into the playoffs after collapsing down the stretch. The Angels rolled all year, and coasted into the Postseason. Naturally, neither team won a playoff game. Isn’t baseball fun? Houston Astros Free agents: […]
