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Depth Chart, circa Spring 2011: Position Players
I've never quite understood the term "position player." "Pitcher" is also a position, isn't it? So I'm not sure what distinction this makes. I've been championing the term "no pitch 'ems" for years, but so far: no luck. Here's volume two of my attempt to take a non-family-metaphor-based snapshot of...
Early Worries
Almost three years ago to the day, I wrote up early season Worry Power Rankings. It's kind of funny to revisit them now -- half of the players on there had already passed "worry" on their way to "decay", and it's funny to think that there was a point when some of us were wondering if Barry Bonds...
Community Projection: Edgar Renteria
From PC World’s 25 worst tech products list: 13. Edgar Renteria’s two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants. Look, we know the Giants needed a shortstop, but why did they bid against themselves? Awful deal. We’ll be surprised if the team is still intact and/or solvent by...
Edgar Renteria is a San Francisco Giant
I'm really surprised by the backlash to this one. It's a done deal, and some folks are just freaking out. For a three- or four-year deal? Oh, yeah, storm the administration building and march in the quad. For a two-year deal? Low-risk, medium reward. The concern of the freaker-outers, distilled...
Breaking the Site's Deafening Silence on the Subject of Edgar Renteria
A funny thing happened between this post decrying the possibility of an Renteria-indebted Giants team, and the false-positive news that Renteria signed for two years. Surprise of surprises, I kind of liked the idea. Oh, sure, by most accounts, Renteria's fielding has declined. His range, if you...
Deal Or No Deal? The Washington Nationals Get Into Today's Free Agent Roundup.
Strange things are afoot already this Winter...As I checked my usual online sources throughout the day to see what if any news about the Nationals had broken over the wires, I kept reading stories which hours later were countered with denials, ending the evening with Washington getting in on the...
Edgar Renteria or Orlando Cabrera? On my San Francisco Giants?
The horrifying, soul-masticating postscript to yesterday’s post about Rafael Furcal: Jeff Lane, the agent for shortstop Edgar Renteria, said Monday that he expects San Francisco to make his client "some kind of formal offer" this week. Lane said that Renteria, a career .290 hitter, has drawn...
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