2011 Pre-Season Preview: AL East – Tampa Bay Rays
March 30, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment
CF BJ Upton Tampa Bay Rays (2010 record: 96-66) Everyone thinks the Rays will take a significant step backwards in 2011, but I am not so sure those people are right. Tampa is one of the best-run organizations in baseball, and I think they have the young horses needed to minimize the impact of the […]
2011 Pre-Season Preview: AL Central – Detroit Tigers
March 27, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment
Tigers 1B Miguel Cabrera Detroit Tigers (2010 record: 81-81) The Detroit Tigers finished the 2009 season tied for first place in the AL Central (86-76) after having relinquished a seven-game lead to the Minnesota Twins during the last four weeks of the season. They then lost a one-game playoff in The Metrodome in 12 innings, […]
Rafael Soriano, Brian Wilson Dominate Goose Gossage Award Voting
October 21, 2010 by Seamheads · Leave a Comment
For an inaugural vote, it wasn’t much of a contest. Tampa Bay closer Rafael Soriano and San Francisco closer Brian Wilson handily won the Baseball Blogger Alliance’s first-ever Goose Gossage Award, handed out to the best reliever in each league. Soriano and Wilson, besides leading their teams to the postseason, posted numbers that well-distanced themselves […]
