Archive for December, 2008

Top 25 Seattle Mariners Prospects for 2009

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Offseason 2008/2009 Here are my top 25+ Seattle Mariners prospects as of today.  I will try to post updated lists several times a year: offseason, early season, post- draft and International Signing Day, and perhaps a few in between. I received some good input from Rob T. on this as well, and he’ll be co-authoring [...]

Shawn Kelley

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

2008: Level G IP H ER K BB ERA A 8 7.2 10 3 12 2 3.52 A+ 12 12 8 0 12 3 0.00 AA 29 42.2 31 10 44 17 2.11 VWL 13 14.2 14 6 21 2 3.68 Total 62 77 63 19 89 24 2.22 I’ve noticed that some fans are [...]

Mariners-Yankees Talking Trade?

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Update, 7:50 pm: It would appear that I was duped on this one. I haven’t found anything in the ESPN Radio archive and no one in the biz seems to know anything about this.  I’m still waiting for an email reply from Gammons, but for now I’m willing to say that this is a fake [...]

False Hope

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

From Kirby Arnold: If there’s still a need in left field when spring training begins, LaHair knows just who can fill it: himself. LaHair played several games in left field during his first pro season with the Everett AquaSox in 2003 and a few dozen more the next year at Class A Wisconsin while the [...]

Buying Championships

Friday, December 26th, 2008

The New York Yankees’ wild offseason spending spree this Winter has led to a lot of peopling moaning about how Major League Baseball should implement a salary cap the way the NFL and NBA have. I would like to state for the record that I am strongly against a salary cap for MLB teams. The [...]

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