I’ve had a mini-plan (they call it a “Pinstripe Plan”) with the Staten Island Yankees for a few years. I bought one on a whim just before the NY-Penn League season started and have kept them since then, actually adding seats to my plan because my mom likes to go. The tickets are not hugely …
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I was reading the transcript of Keith Law’s Top 100 Prospect chat on the train ride home, and this specifically caught my eye: Joe (New York) Why is Gary Sanchez so low? What impressed you the most about Banuelos? What is a fair comparison to him? Klaw (1:21PM) Sanchez is low? He was 17 in …
Leo Note: This is a guest post (first ever!) about the Jeff Pearlman piece that went up on CNN.com the other day. Both Jon and I know the two “online haters” Pearlman is talking about, and Jon wanted to write about it. His blog is about Rutgers sports and it didn’t really fit, so I …
Kyle Farnsworth signed with the Rays today, which has made a lot of Yankees fans happy because of his uneven time with the team. I don’t think that it is a bad signing for Tampa as he is really there for depth (he’s something like 5th on their reliever totem pole I’d think) and he …
It was agonizing leaving off Blyleven and those for whom statistical arguments can be made such as Jeff Bagwell, Barry Larkin, Don Mattingly, Tim Raines and Larry Walker. Oh, and Alan Trammell, who should be more than an afterthought. But the Hall should be reserved for the very best of the best, not the best …