2010 Offseason Review: AL East

AL East
Baltimore Orioles
Key losses- Chris Ray, Danys Baez
Key additions- Kevin Millwood, Garrett Atkins, Mike Gonzalez
Off-season grade- C+
Justification- Kevin Millwood provides some leadership for the Orioles young staff. He’s also very durable and that should keep the young staff from pitching too many innings. Garrett Atkins is a nice low risk/high reward signing. Mike Gonzalez stabilizes [...]

Players on the Market in 2010

The 2009-10 off-season has been a rather dry market. There have been very few heads popping headlines, other than the expected Roy Halladay trade, the re-signing of Matt Holliday and John Lackey joining Red Sox Nation.
So will the 2010-11 off-season give us more stories?
There are a few more bigger names becoming free agents, but how [...]

Tampa Bay Rays Top Ten Prospects for 2010

1) Wade Davis-SP
Outstanding stuff. Power stuff. Strike out stuff. Here’s a guy that could definitely be the ace of a real good rotation- it’s all about command and harnessing what he has at this point. He should be in the rotation full time come June 2010. The reason I say that is- Tampa might want [...]

Looked Over? Offense Outweighing Defensive Performance

Outside of some questionable Gold Gloves winners I have no major problems with the winners of the post-season awards. There was a slight problem I had with the voting however. I noticed that both Chase Utley and Ben Zobrist finished 8th in the voting for their respective leagues. These two were arguably the 2nd best [...]

Carl Crawford on the Blocks?

Carl Crawford’s option for 2010 was picked up by Tampa Bay for a little more than 10 million. That is quite a bit of money for a team that flat out does not spend money, which is why Tampa’s C.C. could be traded in the upcoming months. This winter is again going to be one [...]