U.S.S. Mariner

I gotta go with Dave on this one; signing Gary Sheffield is never a bad decision. It’s particularly not a bad decision if you’re the Yankees, because you have the money to do it and the resources to make another move (like adding Beltran) as well. But hey, wouldn’t Sheffield have looked nice in left [...]

I’m sorry, but I really can’t call the signing of one of the five best hitters in baseball to a 3 year contract either a mistake or a bad decision. Do the Yankees have defensive problems? Sure. Are they old? Yep. Does that prevent them from putting up 1000 runs next year? [...]

However, here’s the other problem, as I see it: Sheffield is a huge, huge bat in that lineup. He’s a no-kidding five, six wins up from what they ran out there last year as a RF unit. And from what limited defensive stats I have in front of me, he’s essentially a wash in defense [...]

Peter Gammons is reporting Gary Sheffield’s going to sign with the Yankees. As I noted before, this is good and bad news: the Yankees offensive attack gets much better, but at the cost of even worse defense or down the road making further deals that would result in Nick Johnson (and possibly Soriano) being punted, [...]

Thanks to some reader e-mail, I tracked down a few more names for the Big Board courtesy of the M’s official site: Bucky Jacobsen, Ryan Balfe, Matt Boone, Brian Moon, Josh Hoffpauir, Ivan Reyes, Sam Goure, Rick Guttormson and Julien Tucker. I’ll get all nine of them on in the next update sometime this week. [...]

Third chapter of The Fix is up.
Also, I’m starting to finally assemble M’s links on the left-hand sidebar. I’m going alphabetically for now, corporate and then personal, but knowing me I’m going to spend a couple hours coming up with some kind of super-complicated formula to rank them like
content quality rating * content frequency = [...]

One of the things I realized last night is that the Ibanez signing means that the Mariners have now blocked Chris Snelling, Official Mariners Prospect of the U.S.S. Mariner. Snelling’s a left-fielder, and with Ibanez inked to a needlessly long and lucrative (for Ibanez) contract, the only position that’s likely to be open for the [...]

I squeezed three quarts of stock out of that turkey carcass. Woo.

Try 2,827.1 miles, Jason. But yes, thanks to the goodness of people (and my irresistable charm, no doubt), my biggest concern was figuring out how to not offend the people whose invitations I had to turn down. Choosing between good friends, great friends, and people who consider you family is harder than one [...]

That’s what I get for speaking too soon, I suppose. Here’s a weird story out of Everett — apparently somebody has been scamming Ryan Franklin and his older brother Jay.
Gotta go check on my turkey stock.