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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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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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PPR Mailbag: Chris Carter and Brett Wallace

  I plucked these questions from a previous comments thread and thought they would make great mailbag discussion questions. Feel free to add your input and thank you Eric for the questions. Question: Does Chris Carter have any future at … Continue reading

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6/28 AA Minor League Report

Oakland A’s 1B of the future Chris Carter continues to pound the baseball, going 2-3 yesterday with his 13th HR six runs batted in and two runs scored.  I predicted at the beginning of June that Carter was due to … Continue reading

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Trevor Cahill and Brett Anderson: Closing in on a Roster Spot

              The Oakland A’s made a concerted effort this offseason to shore up an offense that was one of the worst in all of baseball in 2008.  Highlighted by the trade for Colorado Rockies All-Star OF Matt Holliday, … Continue reading

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Top 20 RHP’s for 2009 **Part 1**

Amidst all of my spring training reports, content writing for Hot-Prospects.net, and life outside the blogging world, I had put the Top 20 prospect reports on the back burner.  Well, we are back on track and this segment will feature … Continue reading

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Top 20 Shortstop Prospects for 2009

After working on this crop of shortstops, I came to the realization that this bunch is extremely difficult to figure out.  With the exception of a few players, many of the top 20 (and those on the outer fringes of … Continue reading

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Oakland A’s Send Matt Murton to the Rockies

   Yesterday, the Oakland Athleteics dealt 27 year old OF Matt Murton to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for speedy 2B prospect Corey Wimberly.    On the surface, this deal seems quite minor, yet it could show us just a little … Continue reading

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Top 20 Second Base Prospects for 2009

When I started brainstorming this list, I thought that it would be full of stinkers.  Second basemen have historically been nothing more than mediocre infield prospects who couldn’t cut it on the left side of the infield.  However, players like … Continue reading

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