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Brad Lincoln Heads to Lynchburg
Brad Lincoln has moved up to Lynchburg. It'll be interesting to see how this goes. He showed great control at Hickory, with only six walks in 62 innings, but little else--his 46 strikeouts are a bit less than you'd hope for, and his eight homers a bit more. He also got hit hard in three of his last...
Easy Answers to Obvious Questions
Bob Smizik: Why not offer Nady a long-term deal now? For the same reason it was dumb to give a long-term deal to Kevin Young. Next! Why not show the fans of Pittsburgh there is a commitment to keeping good players? Because they already did that with the Jason Kendall contract, and all...
An Interview with Ben Badler of Baseball America
With the draft behind us and with short-season leagues starting next week, I had an e-chat with Ben Badler, who writes about the minors for Baseball America. Badler's most recent work at BA includes a preview of the upcoming international signing period and a writeup on top Dominican pitching...
The Draft is Tomorrow
With all due respect to Pat, who I think is dead-on in his writing about 99% of the time, there are a number of assertions I disagree with here (like the notion that the phrase "five-tool" doesn't really mean anything, for example), but I'll just concentrate on this one: There's a couple reasons...
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