J.D. Martinez Stays With Red Sox For Now When J.D. Martinez signed his five-year, $110 million contract with the Boston Red Sox two years ago, it included multiple opt-outs, the first of which came this offseason. Martinez could continue with his current deal, which will pay $62.5 million over the next three seasons, or take…
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 11-5-2019 Pittsburgh Press, November 5, 1919:PROBING SERIOUS CHARGES Owner Charles A. Comiskey, of the Chicago Whitesox, and the members of the National commission, are quietly investigating scandalous stories involving the American league champions in the recent world’s series. A Chicago sporting writer the other day published a bitter…
DetailsHanwha Eagles Re-Sign Warwick Saupold With apologies to Warwick Saupold fans, the time isn’t yet right for a stateside return. The Aussie hurler has agreed to another year with Korea’s Hanwha Eagles, as Yonhap news reports. Saupold will take home $1.2MM in total earnings, with the possibility of another $100K in incentives. That’s a nice…
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Chase Anderson Brings An Improved Cutter to the Blue Jays Yesterday, the Toronto Blue Jays added former Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Chase Anderson to their pitching rotation in exchange for first base prospect Chad Spanberger. Anderson, who had an $8.5 million dollar club option in 2020, was probably not an option for the Brewers to…
DetailsWhitaker, Evans, and Munson Get Long-Overdue Turns on Modern Baseball Ballot “What about Whitaker?” That question, which has been on my mind for nearly two decades, came to the fore two years ago when longtime Tigers teammates Jack Morris and Alan Trammell, both of whom spent 15 often contentious and sometimes agonizing years on the…
DetailsMLBTR Poll: Free Agent Corner Outfielders It has long been evident that this year’s free agent market would include some notably youthful corner outfielders. Our just-released top 50 list reveals MLBTR’s collective thinking on the subject, though we certainly discussed a wide range of possibilities with respect to each of these players. And there’s often good…
DetailsATM Cards? Who Needs ’Em! Paul Simon tells the story about how pissed off Joe DiMaggio was at him about “Mrs. Robinson.” Simon says he’d heard that Joltin’ Joe was bothered by the song, maybe even to the point of legal action. “What I don’t understand,” DiMag said, “is why you ask where I’ve gone?…
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