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The year was 2002, I was attending my first Devil Rays Spring Training in St. Petersburg, Florida . I was watching the Devil Ray players come through the gate from the players area. At the time I barely knew any of these young players. An older gentleman I met that day was from New […]

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Early on in the baseball career of Barry Bonds, he was known as one of the Pittsburgh Pirates Killer B’s. With the numbers Bonds was putting up on scoreboards throughout Major League Baseball for the Pirates in the early 90’s , he won two National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, and was proving […]

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The year was 2003. Lou Piniella was starting his job as the skipper of the Tampa Bay “Devil” Rays. He took two youngsters in Carl Crawford and Rocco Baldelli and made them starters on his club. The thing about Rocco and Carl is that they never really had the On Base Skills, but never […]

Filed under: American League, Cubs, Great Players of Past, Projections, Prospects, Rays, Rookies, Yankees | 1 Comment »

This is the second in the series of the baseball bloggers who have had a great impact on the vibrant baseball blogosphere that you see on the web today. In the first installment , Aaron Gleeman was profiled. Now, on to the story of baseball blogger Rich Lederer.
This blogger I am about […]

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The 2007 Hall of Fame voting has come and gone with the selections of Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn as first ballot Cooperstown Hall Of Famers as expected. While these two players are a breed of players we won’t see much of in the future as players who played for the same […]

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You have have probably seen Marc Normandin’s work at places like Beyond the Boxscore, Baseball Digest Daily, and Baseball Prospectus. Mr Normandin was nice enough to take some time out to answer a few questions
The Upton dilemma has been played out for years whether he can play SS in the Major Leagues. […]

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Do we trade the face of the franchise? Looking back it was both Carl Crawford and Rocco Baldelli as rookies that were punched into Lou’s lineup card out of spring training. Early signs were that they were comparing the young Baldelli who was flirting with a 300 batting average with the great Lou Dimaggio. […]

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