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Rule 5 Applesauce: Marlins Shopping Spree Continues, Mets Traiding Everyone
Because the flurry of activity the other night wasn't enough, today seems likely to bring us even more to talk about here at AA as Sandy continues to fill out the roster post-Reyes. Last season the Rule 5 brought us Brad Emaus and Pedro Beato, one of whom actually beat the odds and stuck for the...
Baseball Winter Meetings End With MLB Rule 5 Draft
The Rule 5 Draft begins at 8 am CST Thursday. After it's over, most of the GM's and other baseball personnel will be heading out of Orlando pretty quickly -- especially this year, when it's been unseasonably cold there. So this morning will probably be the end of trade and free agent discussion on...
Welcome Back, James Skelton?
Remember when we in the Tigersosphere were jumping up and down and throwing things through windows when James Skelton was left off of Detroit's 40-man roster and subsequently selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in baseball's Rule 5 Draft? That outrage may have been for naught. Despite doing all...
MLB Transactions Part Seven: The Rule 5 Draft
In this penultimate article in my series on MLB Transactions for Purple Row Academy, I'll be tackling the intricacies and machinations of the Rule 5 Draft. It is called the Rule 5 (not V!) Draft because Rule 5 of the CBA details the procedures of this mechanism. It's actually not as complicated as...
The First Pick in the 2009 Rule 5 Draft?
One aspect which I enjoy about following the minor league side of the Houston Astros is that it gives me a chance to study numerous functions of a baseball franchise that I don't find much information about on the team's big league website or other outlets that focus on the happenings at Minute...
Link Dump
Ah, an old-fashioned link dump. It's been too long. Some sick freak wants to get Randy Johnson drunk and sleep with him. At least, that's how I read it. Matt Palmer, we hardly knew ye. He's gone to the Angels on a minor-league deal. For some reason, this reminded me how I was sort of pleased...
Adios, Lopez; ¡Que Lastima, Skelton!
So let me see if I have this straight: The Detroit Tigers left James Skelton off their 40-man roster, leaving him to be snatched up in the Rule 5 Draft - which he was - then subsequently decide against tendering a contract to Aquilino Lopez, thus clearing a spot that could've been used to protect...
Friday Rockpile: DePo Needs some edumacatin'
A certain pet peeve of many baseball nerds (and as a blogger I have to say this with loving familiarity) as well as baseball media has to do with an understanding that there aren't really many Roman numerals involved, anywhere in the sport. In particular, a certain December event that frequently...
Cubs Acquire RHP David Patton
Maybe the Reds paid the Cubs back for the Josh Hamilton favor. OK, that's probably a little over the top. But in an example of how this sort of thing works ("you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"), the Reds drafted David Patton, a 24-year-old righthanded reliever, from the Colorado Rockies'...
More on today's Rule 5 draftees
First, a quick look at the players joining the Brewers: Eduardo Morlan, RHP, drafted #16 in the ML phase, from Tampa Bay BR Page Morlan is a former Twins prospect sent to the Rays in the Matt Garza trade. He spent 2008 pitching for the Montgomery Biscuits in the Southern League, and posted a 3.64...
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