Vernon Wells has been the subject of many trade rumors lately, but up until today I had taken them all as just that, rumors. However the Star-Ledger is reporting that the Jays "made Wells available" on Thursday and that Omar Minaya managed to fit in a quick conversation about Wells with Jays' GM J.P. Ricciardi before the … Read more »
With the Winter Meetings having occupied the minds of most baseball bloggers this week, I thought it might be nice to post something totally unserious just to remind ourselves that at it's heart, baseball's best quality is that it's fun. With no futher ado, I present The Fenway Bird, a funny series of photos from a Boston game … Read more »
First he lost Lilly. Now it appears that J.P. Ricciardi and the Jays have also missed out on righty Gil Meche. So much for J.P.'s confidence that he could reel in both pitchers. Where does this leave the pitching desperate Jays on the last day of the Winter Meetings?Earlier this week, Ricciardi mentioned Jeff … Read more »
Ted Lilly is getting some tremendous attention at the Winter Meetings. I agree with the comments over at MLB Trade Rumors: the market for pitching this off-season is ludicrous. Lilly is good, but he's not worth $12 million/year. I am kind of hoping that J.P. loses out on Lilly and then pursues another arm. There's something … Read more »
I was pretty surprised to hear last week that the Padres were a frontrunner to acquire the services of Manny Ramirez. San Diego needs bats, true enough, but I just didn't think that they could put together a package that would satify Theo Epstein while simultaneously not ravaging the Padres' farm system. Also, I'm not eager to see Jake Peavy … Read more »
"People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager." – Larry Goetz, umpire, on why managers should be thrown out before players