Hello Rene Rivera! December 2nd, 2008 In case you missed it, Omar made his biggest splash of the off-season (next to the Fernando Tatis deal that is) by inking free agent catcher Rene Rivera to a 1-year contract. Who’s Rene Rivera you ask? Oh, well he’s the 25-year old catcher who hit .227 in 53 at bats with Seattle last year. …
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Selig downplays '09 expectations
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, whose sport is coming off a record year, downplayed expectations for the 2009 season, saying the game is no longer recession-proof with too much uncertainty to predict attendance or revenu…
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CNN “Hologram” Tech Co. Gets Acquired for Sports Stats
Don’t call it a hologram! At least not with our commenters in attendance. Israeli startup SportVU, which makes “automated ID and motion capture technology” and was behind CNN’s sorta cool, mostly weird “beaming in” of its correspondents during Election Night coverage last month, was purchased by STATS, the companies announced today. …
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ASK THE ZONER: KERRY WOOD
Valued reader Schmidty asks in the comments section: “Why did the Cubs not offer arbitration to Woodsie? Is the specter of him coming back for one year if he took it THAT bad? He’s a Type A free agent and when signed elsewhere would have at least gotten the Cubs a high draft pick to help rebuild …
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Will the Mets public collapse cost them money in the free agent process?
Commenter Kerel Cooper (who runs his own blog at OnTheBlack.com) brings up something I have not touched on yet: Whether or not the Mets public collapses over the last two years, mostly due to the faulty bullpen, will cost them as they try to rebuild and tweak what is left. …
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Buying Baseball Cards Sight Unseen
The odd phenomenon of sports collectors purchasing packets � even boxes � of cards they never intend on opening.…
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Japanese schoolgirl signs pro baseball contract
TOKYO (AP) -- A 16-year-old Japanese girl signed with a regional baseball team Tuesday, becoming the country's first female professional baseball player....…
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Arbitration Potpourri
Time is more scarce than usual these days. I want to comment on the arbitration offers and non-offers that were decided yesterday. Thanks to MLB Trade Rumors, I’ve got a quick list to go on. Below, I list the players, their expected marginal revenue products (MRP) for 2009 (which ought to approximate their value on a one-year contract), and a brief comment. …
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