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The third installment of the Hardball Times preseason preview is now finished. There’s a little bit of self-promotion here because I wrote the Tigers section. You can check out all of the details by clicking on the link.
Hardball Times Season Preview 2009

Here’s more then you probably ever wanted to know about Tigers future closer in waiting, Brandon Lyon.  Good stuff, and it’s just part one.

Ricky Nolasco must be happy with his $2.4 million deal.  He avoided going to the table and he’s set for a big year.  Now Nolasco has his eyes set on another goal, and that’s becoming the Marlins opening day starter.  I like the idea, and…

Jon Papelbon is fresh off of his one year, $6.25 million deal but he’s recently come out and said he’d like to talk about a long term deal.  He admits there’s risks but then he also said he liked rolling the dice.  At this point, th…

John Danks turned out his chance to plays in this years World Baseball Classic.  I have to commend the decision and while I really enjoyed the inaugural WBC, I didn’t like what it did to some of the guys (just look at Jake Peavy’s numbers …

The baseball season never sleeps.  If it’s not free agent signing season, it’s awards season.  If it’s not winter ball season, it’s arbitration season.  Anyway, the Reds have two guys to take care of  in the next couple of weeks because Edwin Encarnacion and David Weathers both filed for arbitration.
Edwin had his breakout year last [...]

Okay, it’s been a while.  Here’s what the top ten baseball books look according to this site’s new year… 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 9) 10) You can definitely tell it’s Annual season, although I was surprised Moneyball found …

The votes are in for the Hall of Fame and congratulations to Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice.  I like the way things are working out and while I’m not a huge fan of Andre Dawson (Tim Raines anyone), the fact that Bert Blyleven is on the cusp is a good thing.  Next year’s class will [...]

The Athletics signed Jason Giambi to a one year, $4 million dollar deal today that brings Giambi back to the team where he had his best seasons.  If he hits 525 and 550 plate appearances, he’ll earn an additional $250k for each benchmark so if…

Well, my new favorite player didn’t even become a Red as my hopeful signing, Pat Burrell, signed a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. It was a nice little deal for the Rays too and you wonder why the Reds didn’t jump. You’d think with a veteran manager (Dusty Baker) and a top [...]