Next Thursday SNY will be airing a special on Ralph Kiner at 7pm. Newsday’s Neil Best reports that among those interviewed are Tom Seaver, Keith Hernandez, Tim McCarver and Kiner himself. Rumor has it that you will hear about his date with Elizabeth Taylor. Although I criticize the network for their lack of programming, when they do produce [...]

The Mets needed a slugger. Since a bad hip ended Carlos Delgado‘s career in 2009 the Mets have lacked a legitimate cleanup hitter. Carlos Beltran and David Wright were thrust in that role in 2009, neither of which profiles well in that spot. The Mets best offensive teams had Beltran third, Delgado fourth, and Wright [...]

Interesting blurb from a blog in the Belleville News- Democrat earlier today: Even last year the Yankees were rumored to have been the monkey wrench in the Matt Holliday works. While they publicly said they weren’t interested in the slugging outfielder, reports after the fact indicated that New York offered a short term contract for [...]

I am all for players receiving the most money they can get from baseball. Although many, if not all, can’t comprehend salaries in the seven figure range, these are individuals who work hard at a skill that that employs only 750 people at a given time. It comes down to simple supply and demand. There [...]

Every baseball fan in the world knows the name of Scott Boras. For those not acquainted, Boras is not a flame-throwing lefty out of the pen or a baseball-demolishing power hitter. No, he’s simply an agent. But unlike other agent, who normally ply their wares behind the scenes, get the best for their clients quietly [...]

Earlier today there was speculation about whether the Yankees still are interested in bringing Johnny Damon back to play leftfield. After all, he is sitting out there with a seemingly dried up market that even the great Scott Boras can’t overcome. It sounded like the answer is “no” by the conversation Chad Jennings had with [...]

Great show tonight as I am joined by a new guest. Tom Hannon of Backyard Ball will talk about his website, Backyard Ball, which chronicles rules, stories, and guides to playing wiffle ball. I will give my thoughts about the election of Andre Dawson to the HOF, Matt Holliday/Jason Bay contracts, and update the listeners [...]

So while I am on record as preferring neither option to Jason Bay or Matt Holliday, I feel a lot better about the Bay deal after news came of Matt Holliday’s seven-year, $120 million contract yesterday. Put it this way- I think the preponderance of evidence shows Matt Holliday to be a better fielder than [...]

Count me surprised that Scott Boras scored a long term deal for Matt Holliday. All winter we were told by baseball people that Holliday would “max out” somewhere in the 6 year/$105 million dollar range. There was a thought the Red Sox offer, for $82 million dollars, was where Holliday’s market stood. Scott Boras didn’t [...]

Bryan Hoch on MLB.com wrote recently that the Yankees might be bluffing with their left field scenario. We can debate if Brett Gardner or Jamie Hoffmann will really be in left field on Opening Day (I tend to think it’s a lot like after the ’05 season, when they insisted that Bubba Crosby would be [...]

Who will bat fifth for the Yankees? It was a point brought up by one of the comments on the site. I speculated about the Yankees lineup over a week ago that Jorge Posada would be the guy to protect Alex Rodriguez in the lineup. Posada fits the criteria, but last year he only played [...]

Earlier today the Yankees pulled off a trade with Atlanta, not for Derek Lowe, but former Yankee Javier Vazquez. This is the type of pitcher the Yankees rotation needs. He can give you innings, misses bats, and has only a year left on his contract. This trade also can be viewed with skepticism. There is [...]

I was surprised to hear a loud contingency of Yankees fans on talk radio upset about the Nick Johnson signing. I think he fits everything this lineup needs out of a #2 hitter. I heard some make the argument that Hideki Matsui would have cost a half million more and could DH like Johnson. That [...]

Former big league GM Jim Bowden now has a radio show on XM and occasionally “tweets” his thoughts about free agency. Today he brought up the possibility the Yankees are indeed in on Matt Holliday despite popular opinion. Obviously Bowden must have sources since he was a league insider, but all reports to date are [...]

C’mon, Omar Minaya, close the deal with outfielder Jason Bay.  Lock him up, add him to your roster and give Mets fans something to cheer about. You watched as the Phillies went and got what they needed, trading both prospects and pitcher Cliff Lee to land Roy Halladay. This is the team you are chasing [...]