"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby
"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off." Bill Veeck

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Baseball Free Agents...and expensive one's too

Yahoo's Jeff Passan tracks all the baseball free agents each off season, and his blog is one of the best and quickest ways to keep track of how (too few) smart and how (too many) stupid MLB General Managers continue to be.

Here is a sample of some of my favorite Passan player comments:

-Erik Bedard - SP: The new Mark Prior

-Justin Duchsherer - SP/RP: The Erik Bedard of right-handers.

-Nick Johnson - DH: The Justin Duchscherer of hitters.

-Mike Hampton - SP/RP: Patron saint of Harden, Bedard, Duchscherer and Johnson.

-Henry Blanco - C: The baseball Twinkie: fat, white (or at least Blanco) and somehow able to survive for a number of years beyond his expiration date.

Meanwhile, it really is beginning to look like a PR disaster looming in the Bronx with Jeter. It could be a lot of fun watching this play out?

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