The signing deadline for players selected by MLB organizations in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft has passed. On Thursday, I looked at which players had yet to sign, including Buster Posey, who was predicted to garner a rather large $7.5 million bonus. It turns out that he received much less: $6.2 million. The bonus is […]
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As Zak Kurtz pointed out earlier today, tomorrow is the signing deadline for those players selected by MLB organizations in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft. Besides Pedro Alvarez, many early selections remain unsigned with the deadline looming over their heads. Some will be content to forego signing with an MLB club and will attend a […]
It is now August 14th. The deadline to sign a 2008 MLB draft pick is tomorrow and the Pittsburg Pirates million-dollar prospect, Pedro Alvarez, has still not signed an official contract with the Pirates. Scott Boras’s client was the second overall pick in this year’s MLB Draft. If Pittsburgh does not work out a deal […]
Should Boston fans really be upset with Manny Ramirez? The guy sure bitched a lot about the city in the past few years, but was there another reason for Manny’s move to Los Angeles? This other reason is so important that MLB has launched a full investigation into the background of the trade. Manny Ramirez […]
Today is the first day of August. Fall approaches, but so does the signing deadline for teams to lock up players that were selected in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft. We are only fourteen days away from knowing which unsigned players will be returning/first going to college and who will forgo the college experience in […]
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With the today’s Major League baseball trade deadline looming, Barry Bonds is still a free agent. Yes, Barry Bonds, possibly the greatest player of our generation, if not the greatest player in the history of Major League Baseball, cannot find work. Bonds led the major leagues last year with a .480 O.B.P., a 1.045 O.P.S. and […]
Instead of waiting until the team came home to meet his new teammates, Sabathia and his agent, Brian Peters of Legacy Sports, decided he should meet the Brewers on the road and hang out with them in the dugout. That initial meeting must have gone great, as CC has now helped lead the Brew Crew […]
Quote from the Mercury News: “[Barry Bonds] has nothing to prove there,” Jeff Borris told the Associated Press. “He doesn’t need to go to an independent team and hit two home runs a night hoping to get attention to prove that he still has the skills that would warrant him playing at the major league […]
I really did not want to get involved in the whole nasty A-Rod divorce. It is not our business to dip into such topics around here; I was going to leave it to sites like Deadspin to make sure that the public knew every place that Rodriguez took Madonna. But then came word that A-Rod’s […]
Not too long ago, I wrote about the deal I secured for my sports Artist, Alvin Fall, with the Tampa Bay Rays. Two days ago, Alvin met up with Carl Crawford during BP at Tropicana Field. I wanted to share some of the pictures of Carl Crawford posing for a picture with Alvin and signing […]