October 2011 Archives

By now you know that the Giants have re-signed Javier Lopez to a two-year $8.5 M contract and exercised Jeremy Affeldt's $5 M option for 2012. That's a lot of scratch for middle relief, and the first reaction from anyone...
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The best baseball season was 2010, of course. But I'll take off my orange-colored glasses for a moment. Look what's happened this year: - Two of the most improbable stretch runs ever, culminating in The Best Day in Baseball History....
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It's been a while since I've done one of these, despite my best intentions to return the Rotation to a monthly schedule. Previous Rotations are lined up one after another on this page. No fifth starter for now; we'll see...
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This is going to sound like petty hometown homerism, but fercrissakes, how could Ryan Vogelsong not win National League Comeback Player of the Year? Let's have a peek at the MLB.com coverage: [Lance] Berkman, 35, recaptured the form he showed...
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So the man who un-broke Boston's heart is leaving. After nearly a decade of running the Red Sox baseball operations, Theo Epstein is taking the same job with the Chicago Cubs, if reports are accurate. (No doubt they are.) His...
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No, it's not the sequel to "The Book of Mormon" or a Mitt Romney vacation, it's the reason I haven't blogged since the end of the regular season. I'm taking a breather during the league division series to clear my...
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