“I have forgotten the sun,” one team official texted yesterday from a secluded suite high above the sprawling central Florida complex “where dreams come true”. So have the rest of us—Florida has spent the Winter Meetings trying to freeze us into skepticism about its nickname. Now it is Thursday morning. Team officials and media and […]
It’s still the pitching, stupid.
A quick addendum to the earlier article about potential starting pitching targets: I asked Jon Daniels if—after the acquisitions of Doug Fister and Mike Minor—any position players were starting to creep up the priority list. Despite recent rumors that the Rangers might be interested in Carlos Santana, Daniels said that pitching was still the first, […]
It’s not stealing signs if you buy them.
When your minor league players aren’t protected by the MLBPA and make about as much money as a carnival worker, you have to expect that some of them are going to occasionally sell off some gear to pay for whatever it is that these minor leaguers want to buy. Food? Soap? Who knows? At any […]