Archive for Free Agents

Seattle needed Chone in a bad, bad way.

John Lackey is the prime pitching free agent this year, but how much better than a later pick like Jason Hammel is he for your fantasy team?

What was the impact of the book that Billy Beane didn’t write?

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Jon Heyman has an early free-agent preview. In it he asks an unnamed agent and an unnamed GM to guess how much everyone will get. Interesting reading, but some of these predictions seem a couple bubbles off plumb. Here’s Matt Holliday (the “me” is Heyman’s guess): Agent: $147 million, 7 years. GM: $80 million, 5 […]

Gammons holds forth on the overall decline in attendance this season. This made me go “huh?” Attendance is not the sole barometer for the sport’s economy, but it represents a warning sign. We hear the bold predictions of Teixeira-like money for this winter’s premier free agents, such as Matt Holliday and Jason Bay. But in […]

He can bunt, he’s a good two strikes hitter, he can play D and he runs the bases well.

One scans the wire reports in this line of work, and sometimes the wire reports contain strange things. Like this list of remaining free agents: BOSTON (5) – Paul Byrd, rhp; Sean Casey, 1b; Curt Schilling, rhp; Mike Timlin, rhp. CLEVELAND (1) – Scott Elarton, rhp. DETROIT (2) – Todd Jones, rhp; Kenny Rogers, lhp. […]

Short answer: seems like. Historical turnover rates and their potential implications.