The way Josh Fields is crushing the ball lately, he really needs to be scooped up off the wire. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) It is that time of the week again and I noticed something in my Wire Troll scanning tool — the guys heating up over the past week are rookies. So, now the […]
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Tiger farmhand Virgil Vasquez deserves another chance with the big club. I found it interesting that with the Tigers missing Andrew Miller, the team turned to youngster Jair Jurrjens instead of Virgil Vasquez to start a huge game on Wednesday against the Tribe. With first place in the AL Central on the line, you would
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Now that he’s gotten off the bench, Luke Scott is playing extremely well for the Astros. (Karren Warren/Houston Chronicle) Dear RotoRob.com, I just checked my e-mail this morning and I have an offer for trade: Curt Schilling or Chien-Ming Wang and Kevin Youkilis for Ryan Braun and Matt Cain. I have A-Rod to play third
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An inability to hit righties will doom Chris Burke to a career as a part-time player. The Astros have spent most of the season struggling, but over the past week and change, they’ve made a mini push to get within shouting distance of an NL Central race that no one seems ready to take control
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Don’t throw away that autographed Reggie Abercrombie cardboard just yet; he’s earned another shot. It might be time for the Marlins to give Reggie Abercrombie another shot. After spending the season as the Fish’s fourth outfielder in 2006, Abercrombie was farmed out to Triple-A Albuquerque a couple of months ago after struggling to a 579
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Did you happen to catch J.J. Putz’s outing on Saturday? Not only did he serve up a gargantuan grand slam to Josh Fields that pulled the Sox within one, but he wasn’t fooling anyone in this outing. Even the outs were smoked. Now, there’s probably no reason to worry about Putz at all, but with
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Apparently, when we reported last week that Japanese outfielder Kosuke Fukudome’s injury could affect his ability to become a free agent next year, we jumped the gun. Thanks as always to Tim McLeod for passing along a news item that sheds more light on the situation. It turns out that a special exception that was
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