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The New & Improved $100 Project

 Today is June 23rd, the first day of the new and improved $100 project.  For those of you who are new to this blog, I underwent a personal challenge a couple of years ago to put my money where my mouth is … Continue reading

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6/21 Player of the Day: Wilson Ramos

It grinds my guts to give this award to the guy that capped off tonight’s ugly loss by my Seattle Mariners.  Ramos hit a game-winning three-run homer off of M’s reliever David Pauley to cap a five run ninth inning comeback … Continue reading

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6/20 Rookie of the Day: Ivan Nova

Yankees sinker balling rookie Ivan Nova twirled a marvelous eight inning gem against the mighty Cincinnati Reds lineup last night allowing just one run on four hits while striking out seven.  Even more impressive is the fact that Nova did … Continue reading

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Rookie of the Day: Cord Phelps

Hey everyone! I’ve been busy this weekend having a garage sale in the rain and preparing for a four-legged addition to our family.  Regrettably, I haven’t found much chance to sit down and tap out any more baseball stuff to … Continue reading

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Tampa Bay Top Prospect Matt Moore Tosses No-No

  Montgomery Biscuits left-hander Matt Moore gave himself an early birthday present last night.  The Tampa Bay Rays’ top pitching prospect, who turns 21 on Saturday, tossed a no-hitter against the Mobile Bay Bears, a AA affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.  … Continue reading

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Carlos Carrasco Turning the Corner in Cleveland

  I watched a bit of the Yankees/Indians game the Monday night on ESPN when Carlos Carrasco pitched seven shutout innings in Yankee Stadium against the Bronx Bombers. Carrasco loaded the bases in the first and allowed a couple of runners … Continue reading

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Oakland A’s Chris Carter Back on Track in Sac

Click here to see the Chris Carter 1/1 Superfractor auction! Oakland A’s 1B/OF/DH monster masher Chris Carter has finished his rehab stint at High-A Stockton (three HR in six games) and rejoined his teammates at AAA Sacramento on Monday night where he singled, … Continue reading

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Editor’s Note: Strike McAllister, Add Mesoraco

Hey, even often I make mistakes. Those of you who have been reading my Coming Soon series over the past couple weeks please take note, as I would like to make a change.  For those of you who haven’t read … Continue reading

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Dustin Ackley To Be Promoted?

I was taking my daily stroll through the minor league box scores when I happened upon the results of the Tacoma Rainiers and Sacramento River Cats game.  Immediately I became aware of the change. Michael Saunders batted leadoff and Sean … Continue reading

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Coming Soon #2: Dustin Ackley

I am a devout reader of Ron Shandler’s annual Baseball Forcaster, and the statistiacl analysis that he and the rest of the Baseball HQ staff does is, in my mind, second to none.  However, I literally laughed out loud at … Continue reading

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