Everyone has been talking about getting one of the Rangers’ surplus catchers, but only the Tigers have gone out and done something about it.

Jason at IIATMS interviews former Indians, Orioles, and Mariners manager Mike Hargrove. The interview focuses primarily on the accident that took the lives of Indians’ pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews in 1993 and Hargrove’s memories of it. Good stuff.

As the Winter Meetings get underway in Las Vegas, I can’t help but think how much fun it would be to sit in the Petrossian Bar with a cell phone up to my ear and exclaim loudly: “So it’s six years and $150M for Manny? This is confirmed? Wow. Who would have thunk that Theo […]

The Tribune Company could be heading for bankruptcy: The Tribune Company, which is in danger of falling below the cash flow required under its bonds, is trying to negotiate new terms with its creditors and has hired advisers for a possible bankruptcy filing, according to people briefed on the matter . . . . . […]

Taking a look at a few prospects that will provide good value for 2009.

A look at Dustin Pedroia’s future coming on the heels of his six-year extension with the Red Sox.

What are the most well rounded offensive seasons of all-time? Read and find out.

Lost in Transactions recaps the week that was, with the Braves snapping up Javier Vazquez and the Padres dumping Khalil Greene.

I’m not that good at handicapping trades right after they happened — I’m really more of a hindsight guy — but my sense of this is that the Reds may have gotten the better end of the Homer Bailey for Jermaine Dye deal. This may sound surprising in that, generally speaking, trading a 22 year-old […]

It’s official. Or at least it will be on Monday. Maddux is my favorite baseball player of all time. Despite this, I have only seen him pitch in person one time. This is a near-contemporaneous account of that one time I saw him, related in an email to my buddy Ethan in the still-drunk hours […]