Baseball Historians

Welcome to the first post in a season-long blog on your beloved Orioles. As an outsider looking in (and a Cleveland Indians fan) the two things about the Orioles that stir any emotion in me whatsoever are as follows — the bald bouncer from the Je…

I guess new ownership is better then the team being gutted.  Still, as the Padres celebrate their 40th anniversary, Padres fans have a few things to be hopeful for. Jake Peavy is still with the team and it’s not like any of the other teams in th…

No Mark Teixeira.  Not much of anything.  At least not much to get excited about if you’re a Nationals fan with spring training kicking off in five days.  The Nationals resigned Odalis Perez and outside of that, the front office did little to address the problems that plagued this 100 loss team.  Adam Dunn is [...]

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…

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…

The Astros have been gutted as far as minor league talent is concerned.  Trades and some spotty drafting have done them in, but the Astros picked up a stud in the draft and there’s some light at the end of the tunnell.  Drew Sutton was the orga…

The Orioles might have had a tough season in the minors from a record prospective, but they still have some blue chips minor league players.  Matt Wieters lived up the hype and he was the top hitter in the system.  Just looking at .355/.454/.600 make…

Man is it tough being a Pirates fan.  It’s been forever since we’ve had a .500 season and even the minor league system had a tough time.  And that’s both on and off the field because while the Pirates may have gotten the crown jewel of the draft, it almost looked like we weren’t going [...]

The Giants may have finished in the cellar this year, but if you’re a glass half full kind of guy, you can take a look at the farm club and find a lot of positives.  The teams system was highly successful, but as the Giants Organization Review discusses, a lot of the top notch talent [...]

Matt Joyce made the BA Top Twenty International League prospects.  I’m not sure what the criteria is, but I’m surprised Jeff Larish didn’t make the list.  There were some 26 year olds on the list, but it looks like Joyce made it more for what he did at the big league level then anything.  He [...]