Fire Joe Morgan has a couple of amusing posts regarding Wallace Matthews columns, the first responding to Matthews' take that the Yankees are winning because Jason Giambi is on the disabled list, the second addressing today's column, which attributes the Yankees' failure to win World Series titles lately to the Yanks replacing Scott Brosius and the Charlie Hayes/Wade Boggs platoon with Alex Rodriguez, and opining that the Yanks need to replace ARod with the likes of Mike Stanton, Jeff Nelson, and David Weathers.
John Barten has week 10 of the BTB Awards up...
The Hardball Times looks at the success rate for high school pitchers, and includes the little tidbit that "high velocity" righthanded pitchers were, as a group, more successful than any other group of high school pitchers looked at. The list of examples of 2007 draftees in this category included Blake Beavan and Michael Main...
Bugs and Cranks offers the all-time "Lead Glove" awards...two former Rangers, a former Aggie, and the son of a former Ranger make the cut...