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Girardi Gets Yankees Spot, Torre to L.A.
Yesterday afternoon Grady Little ‘resigned’ as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Joe Torree was named his successor. In this morning’s New York Post Mike Vaccaro opines about how quickly this happened. There’s lots of speculation regarding the makeup of Torre’s new coaching staff in L.A.. Rumors have included Don Mattingly, Larry Bowa and […]
ARod and the Mets?
There’s already been a lot of speculation on where Alex Rodriguez will end up now that it is a certainty that he will be on the open market. There are very strong rumors that have him going to the Los Angeles Dodgers along with Joe Torre and Don Mattingly. But here in New York it […]
Mets Free Agents
Six Mets filed for free agency yesterday. They are: Marlon Anderson Luis Castillo Ramon Castro Damion Easley Shawn Green Paul Lo Duca The obvious missing name here is Tom Glavine but that’s going to happen any day now. If I’m Mets GM Omar Minaya then Castillo becomes the immediate top priority from all the names […]
Delcos: Nay-Rod
John Delcos lobbies against signing probable former Yankee Alex Rodriguez.
ARod Opts Out
Several sources are reporting that Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will opt out of his contract and see how much he can get on the open free agency market. Though there wrre reports that the Yankees were going to try to extend his contract Brian Cashman was very clear a couple of weeks ago when […]
Sox Win!
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on their World Series championship. The Sox swept the Colorado Rockies in four games to win their second Word Series in 4 years.
Metsblog on Sabathia
Over on Metsblog Matthew Cerrone puts forth the idea that C.C. Sabathia may be a more realistic acquisition for the Mets than everyone’s off season dream, Johan Santana.
Marcus Giles: Free Agent
Marcus Giles was waived yesterday by the San Diego Padres. Though he has not had a very good last two years he would be worth bringing into spring training to compete for the Mets starting 2B job should the team end up parting ways with Luis Castillo. If Castillo goes then Ruben Gotay is the […]
Davidoff on Magadan
Ken Davidoff has a nice piece on former Met player and current Red Sox hitting coach Dave Magadan in today’s Newsday.
Reardon Freed
Some may remember that in December 2005 former Mets reliever Jeff Reardon was arrested for armed robbery after he robbed a jewelry store in Palm Beach. Last year he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was required to go to counseling for a year. Today Reardon was freed of court supervision. Doctors […]
