Crazy or optimistic: Davis is pissed at himself that he didn’t hit over .300 in the majors last summer? I think it’s awesomely crazy. Man I love that dude.

Didn’t see this before I posted.

Even if the Tigers paid 100 freakin’ percent of his salary that’s a bad idea.

for last year’s team, with Nelson Cruz instead of Milton Bradley?

it would be a huge boost to our bullpen. If both of them are productive, we have five legit late inning guys in place.

There is still a lot of offseason to go (despite what the calendar says) with so many big names still on the board. I think this team still has a couple of moves to make that can only be made when some more guys are off the board.

Would be a pretty solid addition. He is definitely a low risk, high reward guy. He was a decent (albeit a little lucky based on tRA) reliever before he got hurt and probably wouldn’t cost that much. I think the same could be said for Turnbow, although he has been pretty unlucky some seasons.

I think adding the likes of Turnbow, Cordero, etc is a good way to build a bullpen. They don’t cost a lot of money. If they make the team, they won’t be blocking any integral young players, only the likes of WIllie Eyre, Josh Rupe, Kason Gabbard, Joaquin Benoit, or maybe Warner Madrigal. And, we have some injury concerns in our pen with Benoit/Wilson/Rupe, so the more depth, the better.

I think adding veterans with a high upside for the bullpen isn’t that big of a deal, unlike say adding a Pedro Astacio or Jason Jennings who takes away innings from one of our young starters.

I also saw that the Rangers are seriously interested in Ohman, according to Sullivan. I wouldn’t mind adding him, provided the deal isn’t prohibitively expensive. He has put up some decent seasons and would probably be an upgrade over say Kason Gabbard.

we’ve hit the big time.

just never got around to posting it yesterday, though they always get the actual website name wrong “lonestarbaseball.com”

all in all i think cj-gate was blown way out of proportion

A decade of specifically looking for it has produced a sort of confirmation. However, you’d also think that acclimation by hitters (and observation by hitting coaches) may have an effect over time. As well as the pitchers’ own contribution or lack of contribution to wiser pitch selection to counter such scouting and preparation by opponents. Will be interesting to see a refined study of the effects of continuous conditioning (given the other variables still play a part).

By over 80 innings.

Didn’t like them leaking before the official unveiling (whenever that is).

the supposed alternate red uni or something?