Rudy Jaramillo is generally considered the best hitting coach in baseball and one of the reasons why kind of shocked me:
That communication ability is enhanced by his fluency in Spanish, making him the majors’ only bilingual hitting coach — and one reason Alfonso Soriano said he loved working with him.
Italics mine. There’s only one bilingual [...]
John Donovan write’s up the great Cot’s Baseball Contracts, the go-to online source for everything you want/need to know about what players are making what. Jeff Euston, the guy behind Cot’s, really, really needs to consider a redesign or something. Love the info but the presentation is pretty awful. Give me some tables or something [...]
My thoughts on the hearing today, as told by John Cole:
I simply am stunned that our Congress, who has rolled over and played dead and abdicated every opportunity for meaningful oversight of this administration, actually is making a stink about Roger Clemons and steroid use and the NFL tapes.
Stunned. I really don’t know what else [...]
Seth Mnookin has a bit of a thing about Murray Chass, the NY Times sports columnist. Usually when Seth, who I enjoy tremendously, writes about Chass on his blog (The Feeding the Monster Blog, a great read for baseball fans generally and Red Sox fans specifically) I skip over it as I only need to [...]
This is not a surprise: Sam Perlozzo has been fired. I’m not the biggest Perlozzo fan but I’m not sure exactly what he could have done differently, its not like he was working with the Red Sox’s roster here. Our high-priced bullpen has been awful, our hitters can’t hit generally and can’t hit for power [...]
Freddie Bynum started in center field for the O’s yesterday. The WaPo has a little notebook accompanying the game story about Bako, Bynum and Gomez starting yesterday that includes this tidbit:
An infielder by nature, Bynum said he has grown accustomed to roaming the outfield grass and that he preferred playing the role of traffic cop.
“I [...]
Went to the Nats game last night and on the way out was handed a free sample bottle of Diet Lipton White Tea Raspberry. It is, in a word, awful. I do not recommend, not even to your worst enemy.
Why not try some of my ice cold RSS feed?
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