If there was ever a player poorly served by fixation with the batting average stat... Exactly two months after signing a minor-league deal with the Washington Nationals, Mike Cameron has decided to call it a career, according to the club. Cameron appeared to be a possibility as a center-field...
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Looking forward to baseball, and remembering Dave Niehaus.
I've been paying a lot of attention to this, and like Rob, I'm delighted -- even though it's a rare deal within the same division. This seems to be a.
Cliff Lee would sure look pretty in a Reds uniform...
I, for one, am delighted by the decision to trade a bag of moldy Fritos for Milton Bradley. I appreciate that Bradley rather goes beyond the typical "difficult player" tag,.
Yeah, there are better players out there, but it's still another remarkable accomplishment by a remarkable player. Zumsteg, before the fact:--I would love to see Ichiro! get his 2,000th MLB.
Washburn to Detroit, LHPs French, Robles to Seattle.Unlike my snap assessment of the last major trade made by the Mariners (which Scott and I initially disagreed on) this one makes perfect sense for a selling club. While the two pitchers coming Seattle's way are probably...
Like Neyer, and unlike the Daves Brockington and Cameron, I'm inclined to think that the Wilson/Snell trade is a good one for the Mariners. (In fairness, neither of them knew.
Wilson and Snell to Seattle; Clement, Cedeno, Pribanic, Lorin and Adcock to Pittsburgh.I'm now no longer sure that Jack Z. can cure cancer, solve the Middle East, or work out.
Performance this year notwithstanding, this is a beautiful picture for any Mariner fan:
Perhaps Scott will have something to say about this deal from the other side. I've got some mixed feelings about it, but I think it's a small net positive for.
Dave Cameron asserts that the Bedard-for-pretty-much-every-decent-prospect-the-Mariners-have-recently-produced deal is "[i]n terms of results...easily the worst trade in franchise history." As stated, I think this is clearly wrong. Jones had a pretty.