Curt Young Has Plenty to Work With
Okay, so Young knows how to work with youngsters. That’s great, but how will he fare with a veteran staff in Boston?
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Free Agent Watch: Troy Glaus
He’s a big dude and is massively strong, but is also massively injury prone, and missed time down the stretch because of a knee injury.
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2010 AFL Review
It’s time to check in with some random observations from Arizona. Yes, the weather was awesome — if you can call daily temperatures in the mid-80s without a cloud in the sky awesome — but really after we get through the depression of being forced to endure such challenging weather conditions, there was some baseball to be watched. I managed to attend five games during the week before finally heading off to Sin City for some rest and relaxation (is that an oxymoron?).
Brett Myers Deserves Some Hardware
Myers came to Houston looking for a chance to revitalize his career as opposed to trying to cash in, and it worked wonders. The Astros wisely locked him up to a two-year extension in August, taking him off the market. He did an excellent job of reducing his home rate (thanks to getting more ground balls than flyballs for the first time in his career) while his strikeout rate also made a nice recovery.
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2010 AFL Roundup: Eric Hosmer is Back
The first baseman started slowly in the AFL, then began to heat up last week, but has slipped this week (0-for-13 in the last three games). Still, even if Hosmer’s AFL numbers aren’t jumping off the page (.184 BA and 476 OPS), he’s still been productive, driving in ten runs in 11 games. And considering he’s played a ton of ball this season (he was with Team USA for the 2011 Pan Am Games qualifying tournament), you’ve got to cut the kid some slack. Hosmer has returned to top prospect status, and has put himself within a year or two of the bigs along with a very nice wave of talent the Royals have on the way that may finally help turn this team around.
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Does Terry Ryan Want Another GM Gig?
While Ryan didn’t get an interview, you’d have to think if he was legitimately interested in returning to a GM post, the Mets would have wanted to talk to him. Having said that, based on reactions on the Mets’ page on Facebook, the team’s fans are quite stoked about having Alderson as the man charged to turn things around.
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2010 ALCS: Texas Pushes Through
The ten-year contract he signed way back in February 2001 expires at the end of the World Series, making Jeter a free agent. Though it’s widely assumed the Yankees will re-sign their captain, the overrated shortstop still faces the prospect of having to negotiate a new deal with the only team he’s ever been employed by.
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