BBA Selects Kimbrel, Valverde For Goose Gossage Award‏

October 19, 2011 by Seamheads · 1 Comment

In earlier voting this postseason by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel won the Willie Mays Award for top rookie handily while the American League race for that award was much tighter. With the Goose Gossage Award, handed out to the best reliever, Kimbrel got to see how the other half lives, […]

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Catch a Falling Star

December 3, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · 6 Comments

Lastings Milledge was non-tendered by Pittsburgh yesterday. It is just another benchmark in the descent of a once promising talent that was briefly with the Washington Nationals. Jim Bowden traded Ryan Church and Brian Schneider to the Mets for Lastings Milledge during the off-season before the start of 2008.Â The rumblings of his unpopularity in […]

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