Join me at 6pm as I recap the Carlos Beltran/Zack Wheeler deal, talk about the Yankees losing Ubaldo Jimenez to Cleveland, and my thoughts on Brian Cashman standing pat at the deadline. Mike Newman of Scouting the Sally will be my headline guest as he gives us his first hand report on Wheeler and his [...]

During the winter of 2007-2008 the Yankees passed up on Johan Santana because they didn’t want to part with Phil Hughes. That deal didn’t haunt them in the long run as CC Sabathia has proven to be a better investment, and cost just an expensive free agent contract. Hughes was a big part of the 2009 championship team as he [...]

Now that Ubaldo Jimenez is officially a member of the Cleveland Indians let’s take a look at the haul Dan O’ Dowd received for his ace. Is it the “Herschel Walker type deal” he demanded just a few weeks ago? As first reported by The Denver Post, the Rockies will receive a package of four players: left-handed pitcher Drew [...]

A couple of interesting tweets that may give us a clue as to where the Yankees focus is at the trading deadline #Yankees, like all teams, have scouts everywhere, but who is where is always key, and trusted Bill Livesey is watching #Padres relieversless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyJoel ShermanJoelsherman1 Sherman [...]

Before the season I had some fun with numbers and wrote this about the Mets offense using Baseball Musings Lineup Analyzer: The Lineup Analyzer spit out the following as the most productive Mets lineup: Jason Bay David Wright Brad Emaus Ike Davis Carlos Beltran Jose Reyes Angel Pagan Pitcher Josh Thole The tool also projects this type of lineup would [...]

Every Friday we look at Independent Baseball. Today, I take a look at the now defunct Northern League, which is arguably where independent baseball began. Both the Northern and Frontier Leagues were born in 1993, but it was the success of the Northern League that paved the way for other independent leagues to crop up [...]

Update: The Rockies were scouting Edinson Volquez minor league start on Wednesday so I wonder if he could be the “major league caliber” pitcher in a possible deal. A source told me earlier today that Cincinnati may be the favorite to land Rockies ace Ubaldo Jimenez. We reported yesterday that Colorado requested Jesus Montero, Austin Romine, and [...]

Earlier in the week Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik told ESPN New York that he doesn’t have any intention of trading Felix Hernandez despite the Mariners owning one of the worst records in baseball. He went on to say that ”You can say nine guys. You could say 12 guys. What does it matter? The deal is we have [...]

Very sad news out of Rancho Palos Verdes, California as former Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu committed suicide. TMZ is reporting he hanged himself to death. Irabu was certainly a disappointment with the Yankees when you consider the hype he came with to the States. He never lived up to the “Japanese Nolan Ryan” billing that was given to him [...]

The Yankees are still exploring a trade for Colorado ace Ubaldo Jimenez. According to a source, Dan O’ Dowd has excluded Manny Banuelos from the negotiations and has asked for a package of Jesus Montero, Austin Romine, and two pitchers. One of those arms could be Dellin Betances. The reason for the inclusion of both [...]

The Mets signed Carlos Beltran on January 5th, 2005 to a 7 year/$119 million dollar contract. Did the Mets get their money’s worth? Some fans would say no, mostly citing the called third strike in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS. Fangraphs, however, tells a different story. Using Wins Above Replacement converted to dollars, Beltran provided the Mets with [...]

Although it’s not official the Mets should be acquiring San Francisco’s top pitching prospect, Zack Wheeler, for Carlos Beltran and approximately $4 million dollars in cash. You can’t criticize the deal from either side as both Sandy Alderson and Brian Sabean did what is necessary to better their organizations. Alderson had the best available bat in the marketplace [...]

Several days ago rumors started swirling on the internet about the Seattle Mariners having their key scouts looking at the Yankees top prospects. In that this occurred only days after the Ubaldo Jiminez rumors hit, and combined with the fact that Seattle has a lack of any other quality players that the Yankees could possibly [...]

Many thought CC Sabathia was headed to a perfect game last night. Thoughts of David Cone‘s perfecto in 1999 had to come to mind since it was under a similar scenario where the performance was delayed by rain. When it was all said and done, maybe a more appropriate comparison was June 17th, 1978 when Ron Guidry struck out 18 [...]

I called Carlos Beltran a “potential Hall of Famer” in an article yesterday. That brought some questions that I figured I would answer this morning. Is Beltran headed for the Hall of Fame? Going into this season he’s had six seasons that I believe are Hall worthy (’01,’03, ’04, ’06-’08). Diving deeper into his advanced statistics he is [...]