Is it just me, or is the Padres’ strategy of building through trade rather than via free agency this winter starting to make a lot of sense? Omar Vizquel at 3 years for $12.25M? Cristian Guzman at 4 years for $16.8M? (And aren’t you glad we have Khalil Greene!) The Phillies re-signed Cory Lidle yesterday [...]
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Dusting the Bookshelves: BBBA 1995
Before we get started, there is an excellent article on baseball blogging and bloggers called The Disposable Baseball Blogger over at Dodger Thoughts. I tend to get a bit uneasy when the folks reporting the news become the news, but Jon has done a nice job of addressing the subject. If you’re at all interested [...]
Metasnort: Forests and Trees
When I first started Ducksnorts back in September 1997, I did so primarily as a way to learn HTML and web technologies. Seemed to me like these would be useful skills to have in the job market. Writing about baseball was just an added bonus. Back then there was no such thing as a blog [...]
Geeksnort: Firefox Extensions
No baseball content today. I’m too busy playing with Firefox extensions. I’ve become totally obssessed with the Web Developer extension, which lets you swap out style sheets on the fly, turn images on/off, outline table cells, resize the browser window, validate HTML while viewing source, and a whole lot more. Too cool. It also inspired [...]
What’s Next?
I’m trying to play along with the Padres this winter and think of what kinds of moves they could make. Unfortunately, all indications are that there won’t be a lot of changes. Patience will be key for Padres (Padres.com). One of the goals of moving Terrence Long was to open up playing time for Xavier [...]
Too Sexy for a Title
Too sexy? Too lame is more like it. Anyway, here is what a couple of Royals blogs are saying about Monday’s trade: Royals Nightly doesn’t like it Royals Baseball does Everything really hinges on how well Dennis Tankersley does. If he blossoms, this could be a terrific deal for the Royals. Oh, and for any [...]
Greene, Bay, Bukvich, May?
The votes are in, and former Padre Jason Bay has won the NL ROY Award. I think the writers got bailed out to a certain degree by the fact that there were two very worthy candidates this year. The fact that Bay won it so convincingly over Khalil Greene suggests that the writers still don’t [...]
Clearing the Virtual Desk
The Chargers aren’t really my team. I was pretty hardcore during the Air Coryell and Boss Ross years, but ever since Ross left I haven’t had a great deal of enthusiasm (or even sympathy) for the Bolts. I don’t want to be a bandwagoner, but I’m happy (and shocked) that they’re doing so well right [...]
Jason Kendall: Another Story That Won’t Die
About halfway down the page of a recent Baseball Prospectus chat with Chris Kahrl there is an item that caught my attention. Okay, it caught Charlie Wilmoth’s attention and Charlie’s comment caught mine. The question has to do with Sean Burroughs and whether he might be a candidate for a deal to the Pirates for, [...]
Padres Off-Season: Relief Pitchers
Trying very, very hard to keep politics out of this site. A few quick notes, then we’ll get on with life: Geologically speaking, 4 years isn’t a long time. The Earth was here well before we arrived, and it will be here well after we’re gone. God bless the Earth. Not that any other state [...]
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