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Chris Davis, Return on Investment, and the MLB Most Valuable Player Award
When Major League Baseball hands out its Most Valuable Player award, there is plenty of debate over what it means to be valuable. Some people prefer old-school stats over sabermetrics, and some people prefer a defensive stud to a power hitter. Rarely does anyone talk...
Is Scott Kazmir Worth the Gamble?
Scott Kazmir is one of the most interesting pitchers on the free agent market this off-season. Kazmir was a mainstay of the Tampa Bay rotation from 2004, his rookie season, through 2009 when the Rays traded him to Los Angeles. Kazmir was absolutely filthy in 2009 for...
MLBTR Predicts Where Their Top 50 FA Will End Up
Recently MLB Trade Rumors has released its expectations of where they believe their top 50 free agents will land. According to MLBTR, the O's will sign two of their top 50 free agents: Scott Feldman and Nate McLouth.Discuss the O's free agency targets on the BSL...
Boston celebrates; Baltimore does what?
The 2013 Major League Baseball season has ended, with the Boston Red Sox beating the St. Louis Cardinals, to claim the World Series. As a fan of the Baltimore Orioles, this did not have me sleeping well last night. (You can discuss this post on the BSL Board here.)...
Should the Baltimore Orioles Trade J.J. Hardy?
The Baltimore Orioles number one priority this off-season will be to improve the starting rotation, as reported by Rock Kubatko of MASNsports.com and anyone who watched the team play this season. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of accomplishing that goal in a...
Some Free Agent Pitching Options To Consider
Over at MLBTR Jeff Zimmerman was tasked with creating a model to predict Free Agent starting pitching contracts. After a lot of disappointment, Zimmerman was finally able to create a model that relatively accurately projects the contracts free agent pitchers can...
A Hypothetical Chris Davis Trade: Moneyballing with the Oakland A’s.
The Trade A few weeks ago I threw out a potential trade wherein Chris Davis was sent to Oakland for a bevy of prospects. My original trade proposal was: BAL sends: Chris Davis (1B) OAK sends: Addison Russell (SS), Sonny Gray (SP), Dan Straily (SP), Nolan Sanburn (RP),...
Duquette speaks; Abreu signs elsewhere
Earlier this Month, I posted an article illustrating my Orioles related thoughts as the off-season was beginning for the Birds. (You can discuss this article on the BSL Board here.) I was not exactly being profound in my stated hopes that the O's would add a front-end...