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Written by Nick Shlain
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
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 Edward Salcedo = Steal There are many different ways to build a baseball organization. The smartest way is to stockpile good, young talent in your farm system. There are different ways to obtain this good, young talent: the Amateur Draft, the Rule V Draft, Trades and Free Agency.
Another way is through International Free Agency. See, instead of having a draft with all of the players from overseas, it’s just widespread Free Agency in which any team can just sign all of the best players if they wanted to. If I were a MLB GM, I’d be all over this thing.
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
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 7.90 ERA Dominant? Awards are nice, but they don’t mean everything. I’ve heard many media members cite awards as a way to let us know that the player is qualified for something. I think this is pretty stupid, seeing how the Baseball media routinely gets the Gold Glove and MVP awards wrong.
Anyway, over the past week the Boston Globe’s Gordon Edes and YES’s Michael Kay have both cited Josh Beckett’s 2003 World Series MVP award as evidence that he “dominates” the Yankees.
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
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The Tigers recently called up their top position player prospect Cameron Maybin (you may have heard). Maybin is said to be a lot of things, we’ll cover his strengths and weaknesses in this Prospect Profile. Maybin projects as a 5-tool player and will be a mainstay in the Tigers outfield for years to come.
The ’07 version of Baseball Prospectus (aka the Baseball Bible) said Maybin has rare 30-30 potential and plays like Eric Davis. They were so high on Maybin that they projected him to be more effective than Craig Monroe this year (and they did that before the season).
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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All is not well with the Tigers with the injury to Gary Sheffield, who will miss the entire home stand. But, hope is far from being lost. I still believe that the Tigers can win the Central Division. I picked Cleveland before the year, so I'll stick with my pick.
Why can the Tigers win the division? Very simple: pitching.
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Written by Nick Shlain
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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My next blog will be the first blog where I don’t start off with, “Well, haven’t written a blog in a while.” Anyway, I’ve noticed how in the baseball off-season we all talk about trades and signings, now it’s time to look back. I’ll be doing that in a few blogs and I’ll call this series “GM Review.”
Okay, today we’ll do one signing (Barry Zito) and one trade (Randy Johnson).
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