Winter Haven
January 25, 2011 by Judy Johnson · Leave a Comment
“To me, it’s like my family,” Elaine says. “Every spring, it’s like all my boys are coming home. Â All these wonderful people touch your life, and now I might never see them again.” courtesy CITYSIGHTS post cards “Earlier this spring, Sabathia had joked that he was going to ‘take a bat’ to the clubhouse […]
A Capps-i-tal Idea
April 29, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
The Washington Nationals have a negative run differential of minus fourteen, yet a winning record at 12-10. Â When they have been bad they have been horrid, but give their bullpen a lead into the late innings and they have been extra-ordinary. Tyler Clippard and Matt Capps have done it by allowing a scant three runs–two […]
Tigers Starting Rotation and the Court of Public Opinion
March 25, 2010 by Shelly Riley · Leave a Comment
Dontrelle Willis posted a win today in the 5-1 win over the Blue Jay’s in the Grapefruit League.  In a way, this scares me slightly. I was beating the Willis drum when he was signed back in winter of 2007 but it has been well documented since then about his anxiety issues, lack of performance, […]
Fresh squeezes from the Grapefruit League
March 16, 2010 by Dan Schlossberg · Leave a Comment
Making baseball predictions public is always a bad idea. Somebody always gets hot, or gets hurt, and players can stumble into hot streaks or slumps — some of them lasting a full season. Media types who predicted the Washington Nationals to revive in 2010 were greeted this spring with 11 consecutive exhibition game defeats. That’s […]
Dan’s Diary from Disneyball
March 11, 2010 by Dan Schlossberg · Leave a Comment
While liquid sunshine continues to wreak havoc with spring training schedules, there’s no better alternative than writing about baseball. These are the latest tidbits from the camps around the Grapefruit League: Andruw Jones, signed for only $500,000 by the Chicago White Sox, might turn out to be the best free-agent acquisition of the winter. Once […]
News and Notes from the Grapefruit League
March 10, 2010 by Dan Schlossberg · Leave a Comment
Like the Army, baseball is filled with Hurry Up & Wait situations. That’s especially true for writers, who arrive hours before gametime in an often-frustrating effort to pin down players or managers for interviews. There’s competition for each player, with the biggest stars commanding the most attention from media types, and a pecking order that […]
