Ten years ago, professional baseball player Randy Winn had maybe his best moment in sports. The neat part was, it had nothing to do with baseball. And Winn certainly didn’t expect to do anything memorable. No, he was just going to watch a basketball game in his home town of Los Angeles. He had tickets […]

10,000 days ago, one of baseball’s more underrated talents did one of the coolest things a player could do. On Aug. 31, 1984, Buddy Bell belted a walk-off grand slam to cap an impressive rally for his Texas Rangers. On that day, Texas hosted the Milwaukee Brewers, and things didn’t go the home team’s way […]

Part of the Rockies’ return package for Seth Smith is right-hander Guillermo Moscoso, who made 21 starts for the Athletics in 2011. Moscoso had some cups-of-coffee with the Rangers as a reliever in 2009 and 2010, but last year was the first time we got a good look (128 innings) at what Moscoso he has […]

Hall of Fame vote is frustrating. Something is wrong with either the procedure or the people involved in the voting. This became clear when Barry Larkin’s deserving, and late, induction became a second tier story to who did not make it and the ongoing assault about the role of steroids or PEDs*. * For the […]

From now until the middle of February, THT Forecasts will be adding commentary (analysis, opinion, information) to at least a thousand players’ cards. We’ve thus far made available commentary for ~40 players on both the Red Sox and Athletics. We will also post announcements in the near future regarding features added to Forecasts (hopefully including […]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of one of the worst free agent signings in baseball history. On Jan. 16, 2002, the Texas Rangers ownership opened up its pocketbooks to give a gaudy five-year, $65 million contract to starting pitcher Chan Ho Park. At the time, it was one of the richest contracts ever given a […]

Doing a little research in preparation for doing the comments on San Francisco Giants players in this year’s THT Forecasts (yes, Greg, I will make the deadline!), I stumbled across a nugget of very interesting trivia. Brandon Belt put together the following batting line in his partial major league season with the Giants in 2011: […]

Brian Cashman had the whole of the baseball world out of the loop for the past several months, showing fleeting and passive interest in some free agent pitchers and bluffing his contentment with a flawed rotation. Fear no more, Yankee fans. The mystery has been unveiled. Jesus Montero, the Yankees’ top prospect, has seemingly always […]

Philadelphia general manager Ruben Amaro, Jr. and super-agent Scott Boras are having a skirmish of words regarding the Phillies’ non-signing of closer Ryan Madson. Boras seems to be saying the Phillies reneged on their offer of $44 million over four years, while Amaro says, “there never was an agreement.” Obviously, since Madson is now a […]

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