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Coco Crisp Now A Royal…, written 3 days ago, A trade that hass seemingly been brewing for the last two years finally happened. This morning, according to ESPN, the Kansas City Royals picked up the leadoff hitter they had been seeking, acquiring center fielder Coco Crisp from the Boston Red Sox for...

Reds Can't Resist NLC Rejects, written 6 days ago, Last week the Reds announced that Cam Bonifay and Mike Squires would join the front office as special assistants to GM Walt Jocketty. At the same time, they announced Jamie Quirk as a professional scout. Bonifay comes to Cincinnati via Pittsburgh, w...

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Tonight?s Questions, written 2 days ago, Hey kids, man is free at the instant he wants to be. WHY doesn't Chase Utley just get a new titanium hip like my Gramma? Those things are unbreakable. IS Rafael Furcal about to become an Athletic? Well, he's already athletic but I'm sayin' maybe he'll...

CBB Top 50 Countdown: Number 34 Tommy Medica (Santa Clara), written 2 days ago, The CBB continues our countdown to the 2009 College Baseball season with our Top 50 players to watch. We will be providing one player each day (Monday-Saturday) until we reach number 1. We continue the list today with ju...

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Rule 5 Draft for Dummies, written 2 days ago, I'll be the first to admit that things like arbitration the rule 5 draft and collective bargaining confuses me, sometimes to no end. That being said if I get any part of this wrong please call me on it.  The rule 5 draft is named for its rule number in ...

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Dayan Viciedo Signed by the White Sox, written 2 days ago, Dayan Viciedo, a 19-year-old Cuban baseball prospect, signed an $11 million contract with the Chicago White Sox. Viciedo had recently defected from Cuba and was living in South Florida. Viciedo will likely play third base for the White Sox, ...

Lincecum Always a Mariner (Harwich, Not Seattle), written 5 days ago, Only in baseball. An awkward, slim little pitcher who broke records in the Pac-10 conference for an unremarkable college team, the Washington Huskies, went on to pitch for an unremarkable Cape League team, the Harwich Mariners. ...

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Mike's Baseball Rants: The Parade, written 3 weeks ago, I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. Ebenezer "Scroogie" Scrooge in "A Chrsitmas Carol"

Humbug Journal: Kerry Wood Moves On, written 1 week ago, Once I began, there was no turning back. Each day, I'd leave the school and walk outside To a portable, a classroom-sized shack Where the fourth graders learned to long divide.

Hardball, written 3 days ago, Oh crap, I've been discovered. I am indeed Keanu Reeves...gnarly!

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2009 Hot Stove Updates - Part One, written 1 day ago, This is the first installment of a weekly series reporting on Major League Baseball's off-season, The Hot Stove League. I will continue reflecting on trades that go down, as well as Under the Radar columns, and pretty much the same stuff that I w...

Tigers Add To their 40-Man Roster, written 2 days ago, The Tigers added five players to their 40 man roster today. These players are now protected from the Rule 5 draft and will stay with the organization. Who knows, they may have just held onto the next Johan Santana.