Yankee minor leaguers finish up winter ball
Posted by: Sam Borden - Posted in Misc on Feb 01, 2010 
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A few notes from the final minor league report of the offseason, courtesy of the Yankees:
• Juan Miranda batted .273 (12-for-44) with 10 runs and two doubles in 14 playoff games with the Tigres Del Licey of the Dominican Winter League, ranking second among all DWL postseason hitters in on-base percentage (.411). He finished the regular season batting .409 (18-for-44) with 5 doubles, 2 home runs and 11 RBI in 13 games.
• Ramiro Pena appeared in 11 playoff games with the Tomateros de Culiacan of the Mexican Winter League, batting .400 (12-for-30) with 1HR and 4 RBI. During postseason play, he ranked first in the league in batting average and on-base percentage (.500). He hit .247 (21-for-85) with three doubles and 4 RBI in 26 regular season games with Culiacan.
• Reegie Corona played in 14 postseason games with the Navegantes del Magallanes of the Venezuelan Winter League, batting .291 (16-for-55) with three doubles and 7 RBI. He hit .317 (44-for-139) with 17 doubles, 2HR and 18 RBI in 44 regular season games with the team.
One other thing that jumped off the page is the activity – or lack thereof – of Jesus Montero. It appears that Montero didn’t play in any more games since the last minor-league update, meaning that he only played in nine regular-season games and one playoff game as he recovers from a hand injury that ended his season in Trenton.
Wow – the winter leagues finish up really just prior to spring training. No rest for the weary. But looks like those guys had a successful winter season.
I hope Montero is okay. I’m wondering if his development has been thrown way off from that injury?
“Bodhisattva – Destiny Wears Pinstripes February 1st, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Boston Dave – XXVII
February 1st, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Mauer has reached 10yr extension agreement.
-MLBTR
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I, for one, think that is fantastic. It was bad enough the greedy Minny owners allowed their fans to lose Santana. Would have been even worse with the hometown hero.”
I agree
If there is any truth to Mauer signing an extension, I expect we should be holding a PARTY on this blog tonight. Anything that keeps him away from signing with Boston is a HUGE win for us.
Buster Olney now saying that the Twins and Mauer have not actually reached a preliminary agreement. Buster holding out hope that the biggest FA storyline of next offseason doesn’t get wiped out before the end of this offseason?
“160 million is the line.”
Over.
Good for Mauer if the extension news is true, and good for Pena, Miranda and Corona!!
It better be over. Why should Mauer take less than he’s worth when the Twins have money?
I don’t think the Santana issue in Minnesota was a question of greed with their ownership.
They had two issues with Santana:
1. They were concerned about his ability to hold up physically. Given the fact his velocity tailed off dramatically in the second half of his last season in Minnesota, as well as having two surgeries in a row in his 2 years in with the Mets, they may be onto something.
2. Allocation of assets. If they sign Santana, they can’t sign Joe Mauer. Even with a new stadium, they don’t have the revenues to carry 2 20+ million dollar guys on their team.
Mauer is a hometown guy. He is a legacy type of athlete in Minnesota. Santana was not. Mauer was always going to be a first priority to sign. I said 6 months ago there was no way he would ever hit free agency. Given his popularity, and a 650 million dollar publicly funded stadium ready to open, it was a slam dunk Mauer was going to get signed.
Their problem was not trading or not re-signing Santana. Their problem was getting so little in return. That’s what hurt them more than anything else.
Poor Juan Miranda. He may never actually get a chance to prove himself. Or do the Yankees think he’s more of a Shelley Duncan type, the perennial AAA guy?
He’s getting more than 160 million.
“160 million is the line.”
Over.
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I agree but I think the length will keep the AAV below 20 mil.
I hope the story is true unlike buster olney says.
Good for them if they signed him, face of the franchise right there.
Spring training please!!!
think mauer will get more that tex per year? i don’t see how he can’t
Bret the Hitman
February 1st, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Spring training please!!!
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It’s getting closer!!!
looks like the sox won’t be getting their grubby little hands on Mauer and may be forced to overpay an ageing Vmart next offseason. Meanwhile the Yankees system is loaded with catching talent…I love it.
Either way, it’ll be unbearable!
“Boston to trade for Mauer!”
“Boston to trade for Adrian Gonzalez!”
Neither team has a reason to trade with Boston…not to mention that Boston has very little to offer in return.
Even if Boston is able to trade for Gonzalez next year, I don’t see how they keep him from testing the market.
Mauer is great but my reservation about giving him 20 million a year is that the minute he stops catching he no longer is worth that kind of money.
If you think he can catch for 10 years and put up 2009 numbers every year over that time then you give it to him but I don’t see that happening and I think the power we saw last year isn’t neccesarily going to be the norm for him.
That said I hope he re-signs with the twins. He’s a great player and it would be great for the game to see a smaller market team keep their biggest star for a change.
Boston has a top-10 farm system, they have plenty to offer for Gonzalez.
The Padres shouldn’t trade him though.. unless they are getting 3-4 of Boston’s top prospects.
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Ohhhh, goatee.
Not even my second thought.
That was Greatest Of All Time and that didnt work either.
Then I gave up because I figured I was on the outside of an inside joke.
Buster Olney says Mauer deal inaccurate.
GB7,
But that didn’t stop espnews from running a clip of A-Gonz hitting a homerun with voiceovers talking about Boston keeping tabs on him. Point is, there was nothing to talk about, but there espn is pushing its own Boston-driven agenda.
I’m not as paranoid as some of the others here about it, but that particular preview of things to keep an eye did support their theories.
The Mauer deal gives Boston all the reason they will need to give Varitek a 5 year extension.
Mauer is re-upping with the Twins.
Whether its today, tomorrow or in ST, that deal will be done prior to Opening Day.
A Top-10 farm system doesn’t mean much. Its about trading for major league-ready players, which the Red Sox don’t have at the present time, to get a guy like Gonzalez.
If they had those kind of players, and Jed Hoyer (Padres GM, who came from Boston), would know who they are, they would have made the deal at the Winter Meetings when they put the full court press to try and get him.
Blake,
Mauer has won 3 batting titles already. If he catches for 5 more years, which is easily attainable, and played 5 years at first base, his offense alone covers that deal.
He’s one of the 10 best players in the game. Now, he will be paid like it.
Damon/Boras shooting for Tigers. Don’t think the Tigers are biting as per hotstove.com
10 years 200 mill?
Poor Damon. He’s in a tough spot. There was really only one team for him. How could they not see that his splits were going to scare off teams? Notice they’re not pushing for any NL teams either?
Did Joba ever come on the radio? I’ve been listening to the WFAN, but I’ve only heard them talking football and Rex Ryan’s vulgarity.
boddhi -
I just got an e-mail that expounds the medicinal qualities of honey and cinnamon. Should I take with a grain or salt, or is there some truth to it?
As for Mauer being worth the money over the life of the contract – I would liken it to Derek Jeter. Of course he is.
SJ,
I agree he’s one of the best players in the game but if he’s not catching those last five years and settles into a high average, 15-20 HRs a year hitter that can’t run or play a impact position defensively hen one could argue he may be overpaid the last years of the deal.
Now that may never happen and he may be able to catch longer than that, or they may be fine overpaying in the later years to get get his peak years.
I think Mauer is amazing, I’m just looking down the road a bit and giving an alternate arguement. I’d take that chance if I’m the twins because he is their franchise.
Joe Mauer’s contract will pay for itself in Minnesota.
Put it another way….
If they let Mauer go, their new stadium becomes a ghost town and baseball is essentially over in Minnesota.
The Twins can’t afford that risk
With the new stadium, they can afford Joe Mauer.
Its that simple.
SJ44
Or you could say, with the new stadium they can’t afford NOT to keep Joe Mauer.
Blake,
Power comes later with some players. If Mauer isn’t catching everyday, and decides to look to pull the ball more, he can easily hit 30 HR’s a season.
His overall value as a hitter though, is his ability to do it all at the plate.
He’s easily worth the money because he’s the franchise in Minnesota and is one of the 4-5 best hitters in the game right now.
Amazing, considering he’s a catcher.
Doreen,
Very, very true.
SJ:
If Mauer signed a 10-year extension, what do you think is the minimum it would take? $200 Million at an average of $20 per year? It is hard to imagine the Twins signing such a large deal.
SJ:
If Mauer signed a 10-year extension, what do you think is the minimum it would take? $200 Million at an average of $20 per year? It is hard to imagine the Twins signing such a large deal.
The Sox could easily pull a deal for Adrian Gonzalez if they really want him. They have the prospects to make it happen, there’s no doubt about that. Jed Hoyer would make them hurt in that trade but the Sox could most certainly make the deal.
Doreen
Cinnamon helps vertigo. A doctor recommended it years ago and it helped.
It may be placebo effect but it also seems to help with headaches and nausea.
How does Boston have a top ten farm system when most of their prospects are lower in the minors? Why is the Yankees system considered so weak given that most of our prospects are also in the lower minors?
Jeter is a good jumping off point if Mauer gets a 10 year deal.
I hope the Mauer rumors are true. He is the face of the Twins, and their fans deserve to have him.
Doreen and all, good discussion on being sensitive to others. Those issues especially hit home when you become a parent.
No, they don’t have the prospects to make that deal.
If they did, Jed Hoyer would have made the deal.
Sure, they can trade 9 prospects for him if they so choose.
However, they don’t have any considerably talented, major league ready players for the Padres to take back in a trade.
Trading a cost controlled star for A Ball pitchers and OF’s is not the way to go.
If they had 3 AAA ready major league players, guys with high upsides, that’s a different deal.
They don’t and that’s why Gonzalez is still a Padre.
The Twins could afford a 10/200 deal with Mauer because of their new stadium revenues.
I don’t know if its going that high but, I heard a few months ago, its in that range.
The new stadium will add over 50 million per year in new revenues to the Twins bottom line. They can afford Mauer.
As Doreen correctly states, they can’t afford not to sign him.
“Jeter is a good jumping off point if Mauer gets a 10 year deal.”
What does that mean? Jeter is nine years older.
pat -
According to this e-mail, honey & cinnamon in various combinations can pretty much cure everything from headaches to specific types of cancer to bad breath.
I don’t know why I’m a little skeptical, but I’m thinking, could it hurt? I’ve got honey & cinnamon in the house, and this thing says it cures colds (which I’ve had for about 5 days now) and aging, which I want to put on the back burner for as long as I can (especially after seeing Stevie Nicks last night!).
“However, they don’t have any considerably talented, major league ready players for the Padres to take back in a trade.”
This is correct. Unless Hoyer really likes some of the RS prospects, and other teams like Atlanta don’t offer their high ceiling prospects, the RS really don’t have the top tier prospects to make the deal.
“How does Boston have a top ten farm system when most of their prospects are lower in the minors? Why is the Yankees system considered so weak given that most of our prospects are also in the lower minors?”
The highly touted prospects Boston has at the lower levels are better than the highly touted prospects NY has at the lower levels.
Boston also has more depth at AA and AAA.
The consensus among experts is that Boston is somewhere in the top third of farm systems while the Yanks are right around the middle.
SJ,
I can agree with that.
SJ44,
Respectfully, you’re wrong.
The Red Sox probably didn’t make a deal for Gonzalez because they know Hoyer would take them to the hoop. I guarantee you they could have swung a deal for him with some combination of Anderson/Kalish/Westmoreland/Rizzo/Kelly/filler.
The bottom line is, they have a lot of talent in the minor leagues but they would have had to overpay for Gonzalez so it really wasn’t worth it.
I believe that other teams have better pieces to make such a deal.
I also think that the main thing holding Hoyer back from doing a deal this early is that it would look like an inside job.
“How does Boston have a top ten farm system when most of their prospects are lower in the minors? Why is the Yankees system considered so weak given that most of our prospects are also in the lower minors?”
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I would love too know this too.
“The Red Sox probably didn’t make a deal for Gonzalez because they know Hoyer would take them to the hoop”
I don’t think he’s available right now.
“The highly touted prospects Boston has at the lower levels are better than the highly touted prospects NY has at the lower levels.
Boston also has more depth at AA and AAA.
The consensus among experts is that Boston is somewhere in the top third of farm systems while the Yanks are right around the middle.”
MLB teams don’t take their cue about baseball prospects from BA and KLaw, only certain baseball fans take their word as gospel.
Doreen
I usually sprinkle cinnamon over my coffee grounds before brewing, it gives the coffee a nice flavor.
Yowza,
That’s doing a deal with Boston. Of course he’s supposed to do deals. That’s his job!
That’s not true Patrick. The Red Sox spent the entire winter meetings trying to do that deal.
Lars Anderson, and A Ball OF’s and pitchers are not enough to pull off that deal.
The Padres want high ceiling arms and guys who can step into their lineup right now and play.
The Red Sox can’t offer that which is why the deal didn’t happen.
If they had say, Buchholz, a Montero-type of prospect, and 1 or 2 others, that’s a different deal.
However, they don’t have the upper level depth to acquire a cost controlled star like Gonzalez, Top-10 farm system notwithstanding.
Rich,
I think Pat means Jeter’s original 10 year contract with the Yankees. I think he was around the same age as Mauer when he signed that deal and is concerned the face of the franchise.
Oh, thanks SJ.
When I say, “high ceiling arms”, I don’t mean short season A Ball guys, which the Baseball America’s of the world LOVE to go ga ga about.
I mean a kid like Buchholz, one other quality young arm (Bard, for example), and 2 other high end, close to the majors, prospects.
That’s what it takes to get a guy like Gonzalez, given his talent, contract and service time.
If the Red Sox had the parts, they would have done the deal because their will was (and still) there to do the deal in December.
regarding the agon thing to the red sox.
think they’re saving their money for prince fielder? he could be mo vaughn version 2 in fenway
Since the conversation seems to be turning…
Yanks fans can’t worry over whether the Red Sox will sign a big bat for 1st base in the coming years. Yanks have their 1st baseman for the foreseeable future and one of the the best in the game at that.
It will only drive you crazy.
The Red Sox are playing “catch-up” now.
I almost expect them to go out and trade for a big bat.
Here’s hoping Mauer stays in Minnesota. It’s in baseball’s best interest that he does.
“If they let Mauer go, their new stadium becomes a ghost town and baseball is essentially over in Minnesota.”
Attendance very much ties into revenues, which is a point I’ve often made. It’s playing with fire to make your product less appealing to your paying customers. It doesnt take long for folks to find substitues for spending their disposable income. The NBA is a good example. Once attendance at games started to plummet it didn’t take long for their ratings to follow suit.
Stuckey,
Deals aren’t as easy as some fans think they are for many reasons.
For one, they is often real disconnect between teams ratings of prospects and what BA or ESPN may think of a prospect.
Fans only have access to what BA or ESPN think. They don’t know teams internal ratings of their own prospects. Often, they are very different.
An example is Robinson Cano. The D’backs turned down Cano for Randy Johnson in 2004. The Yankees themselves were lukewarm about Cano. Some in the organization thought he would be an all star. Others thought he should be dealt.
Ricky Ledee other the other hand, was thought to be a “can’t miss” guy by many in the Yankees organization.
Its funny how things work out, isn’t it?
Adrian Gonzalez is a tough guy to trade because he’s great, young, and affordable. So affordable, SD doesn’t have to trade him for any financial reasons.
Meaning, if you want him, you have to pay a hefty price.
The trend now is for teams to sign their young players and buy out arbitration and/or free agent years.
We have seen it this winter with Josh Johnson. The Tigers are talking to Verlander about a 5 year extension and the Mauer deal is just about done.
Trades are becoming tougher and tougher to make because most teams are making a ton of money, even in a bad economy, they can afford to keep certain key players on their team.
“What does that mean? Jeter is nine years older.”
He wasn’t 9 years ago when he signed a 10 year contract.
UPDATE: Buster Olney is saying the 10-year deal report is untrue, and Jon Heyman believes that the deal will be for seven or eight years instead, and worth ~$180 million. — Zach
Doreen – Ain’t it Just “Grand”?
February 1st, 2010 at 5:25 pm
pat -
According to this e-mail, honey & cinnamon in various combinations can pretty much cure everything from headaches to specific types of cancer to bad breath.
I don’t know why I’m a little skeptical, but I’m thinking, could it hurt? I’ve got honey & cinnamon in the house, and this thing says it cures colds (which I’ve had for about 5 days now) and aging, which I want to put on the back burner for as long as I can (especially after seeing Stevie Nicks last night!).
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Doreen,
Cinnamon’s greatest boon is in stabilizing blood sugar, therefore it is a specific for sugar blues people and diabetics. It is also warming, which checks phlegm as well as helps organ systems harmonize in the body. We’re Indian chai drinkers in the winter mornings around here, and cinnamon is an important component. It – and ginger – will surely help in the case of colds.
As for honey, it’s a little trickier. The honey must be raw – and from wildflowers – to really justify the miracle food claims. If it is unheated, unfiltered and raw, from wildflowers, it is a brilliant food. It is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and has an almost endless nutritional profile (for instance, it helps the body absorb and use calcium). It’s tremendous for colds, sore throats, etc. These things – raw honey, cinnamon – have a deep, energetic effect on the immune system; they aren’t going to just zap something like a cold medicine will. But they have greater, more lasting benefits.
Best of luck
Doreen – Ain’t it Just “Grand”?
February 1st, 2010 at 5:25 pm
I don’t know why I’m a little skeptical, but I’m thinking, could it hurt? I’ve got honey & cinnamon in the house, and this thing says it cures colds (which I’ve had for about 5 days now) and aging, which I want to put on the back burner for as long as I can (especially after seeing Stevie Nicks last night!).
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I have seen your pictures. You are absolutely gorgeous!
Exactly Patrick
If the Sox were willing to send Ellsbury,Bucholz,Bard and maybe Kalish/Westmoreland the AGone would be in Boston right now @ the tea party.
From what I understand the Pads were insistant on Ellsbury.
If Jed Hoyer sent AGon to Theo for that package you offered he’d have been fired for even recommending that to his boss.As for the Yanks not having the depth at the AA and AAA levels that’s funny because we annualy beat them at those levels and it’s primarily because of the young talent that we are running out there.
You clearly are very much uninformed as to the actual talent that we have in our farm system. Our AA team was the only level where we didn’t win the league Championship or play in the title game.We actually on paper may win titles in all 4 levels of the minors this season from Short Season(repeat champs) up to AAA SWB and I believe that the Tampa and Trenton teams will be the strongest.
We have both more high ceiling Prospects in our system as well as more depth than the Sox do. You should check it out.
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I wonder what the point of sending Montero to the winter leagues was. He got no playing time in a league where they apparently care about winning. If the Yankees were so interested in his development, why didn’t they send him to AZ?
Patrick, I’m not buying what Keith Law and BA are trying to sell me about the Sox system.
Betsy, this question has been previously asked and answered.
The 19 year old kid did EVERYTHING asked of him in 2009 (and FAR more) AND is coming off a hand injury. He was playing winter ball in his HOME country.
A few dozen AB’s in Arizona is not going to retard his development…
According to Nick Cafardo in yesterday’s Boston Globe, David Ortiz is still complaining that the Red Sox have not found a replacement for Manny to protect him. All of Boston is hoping that Adrian Gonzalez will be that bat. But, as SJ said,there no compelling reason at this time for SD to trade him unless they are overwhelmed with a deal for top echelon young talent.
Doreen
Cancer and aging may be a little hyperbole.
Cinnamon did help the room stop spinning though and I like the taste so it was win/win.
I always keep cinnamon tea, cinnamon gum or cinnamon candy in the house in case I start feeling spinny again.
Baseball Intellect does a very good job of analyzing players and systems and they don’t seem to play a bias like baseball america and baseball prospectus do.
and again SJ is right because amoung the actual foot soldier scouts that watch players and games for a living they are very high on the talent that the Yanks ave in the system.
It would i think look very different if you polled the actual scouts about their opinions about the teams and the systems
Betsy – Romine wasn’t built in a day
February 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I wonder what the point of sending Montero to the winter leagues was. He got no playing time in a league where they apparently care about winning. If the Yankees were so interested in his development, why didn’t they send him to AZ?
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If the Yankees didn’t care about developing him and making him into a stellar big leaguer, they would have traded him for Roy Halladay
http://www.fanfeedr.com/mlb/20.....is-brewing
Came across this. Not even their mothers could be this optimistic!
Gammons (Tokyo Rose) is stirring the pot. He says Red Sox willing to pay Mauer over $30 million per season.
I think they were more concerned at the time with the healing of his injury. Montero’s bat is ready now he just needs more seasoning on his defense and game calling which he’ll get with Wyneger this season
SJ, Tony has be getting amped for Spring Training….I’m certain he’ll get to see some MLB arms before he’s re-assigned to the Minor League Camp…..Hopefully he hangs till March 17th, he’s in for a amazing time…..
I read somewhere that Foreign players cannot play in the Arizona Fall league if their home country has a winter league..
I worded that wrong – obviously the Yankees care about Montero’s development. I just didn’t get why they sent him to a place where he didn’t play at all.
Evan
February 1st, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Gammons (Tokyo Rose) is stirring the pot. He says Red Sox willing to pay Mauer over $30 million per season.
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Why does this not surprise me? lol
Doreen,
http://books.google.com/books?.....38;f=false
Page 43 starts off the honey section.
Thanks, boddhi. That makes a lot of sense. Raw honey can be purchased at a health food store, I imagine?
Check: Pg 47
Champ, we’ll see. I’m not going to be one of those who assumes Montero is a HOF or even that he’ll hit as soon as he gets to the big leagues. I can see the hype machine will be in full gear when he gets to NY and if he struggles, the media will kill him. He’s not even my favorite prospect….I’m more interested in Romine, to be honest.
“Gammons (Tokyo Rose) is stirring the pot. He says Red Sox willing to pay Mauer over $30 million per season.”
Wouldn’t that be considered tampering now?
Gammons is, in essence, a Red Sox employee-they own NESN…
Erin,
I’ll believe that the Sox will shell out that kind of money on one player when I see it!
To be fair, he said the Red Sox AND Yankees would have both paid 30 million for Mauer.
Pat M,
He is very excited. He’s in for the time of his life.
Erica – Thanks, that’s nice of you. I only show the good ones, though. You should see me this week (with the cold). When I was lamenting to my husband how horrible I looked, he told me, no, honey, not horrible, just very tired. Sigh. Red noses are not very attractive.
gammons should just take a front office job with the red sox. then he wouldn’t have to lie everyday and feign impartiality.
thin they yankees wouldn’t offer $30?
sorry, think
m
February 1st, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Erin,
I’ll believe that the Sox will shell out that kind of money on one player when I see it!
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lol
you and me both!
“I just didn’t get why they sent him to a place where he didn’t play at all.”
Perhaps as a reward for his great season. He comes from there.
Can’t argue with a letting a 19 year old kick go home for a few months.
Yeah. You can also find at Whole Foods, if you’ve got one near you. It’s pretty pricey, but worth the investment. Really Raw is a very good brand. Feel better.
Doreen – Ain’t it Just “Grand”?
February 1st, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Erica – Thanks, that’s nice of you. I only show the good ones, though. You should see me this week (with the cold). When I was lamenting to my husband how horrible I looked, he told me, no, honey, not horrible, just very tired. Sigh. Red noses are not very attractive.
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Ugh- I hate when people tell me I look tired.
I have no problems with being tired. But I really don’t like when I look it.
Betsy, Montero could not play in the Arizona fall leauge:
One foreign player is allowed, as long as the player does not reside in a country that participates in winter ball, as part of the Caribbean Confederation or the Australian winter league.
Venezuela’s winter league is affiliated with United States Minor League Baseball, and acts as one of its winter leagues, so I think it’s the only league Montero could have played in.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/.....layer_elig
Tom, thanks
1. As a fan of baseball, I’m glad Joe Mauer and the Twins are getting together on a longterm deal. If not for him, then who does Minnesota do this for? It would be suicide for the Twins to let him get away.
2. Are we still talking about Adrian Gonzalez and the Red Sox’ failed attempts to get him? That’s only slightly more tedious than the Johnny Damon re-hashes. Look, San Diego has no reason to deal him, so the Sox, or anybody else, really needs to come with a deal to make it worthwhile-plus. Bucholz and Bard would just the conversation started, I would think. And there’s no way the Red Sox, who’s pitching depth for next year doesn’t go much beyond them (please don’t give me Boof Bonser) are giving them up.
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bodhi-
Thanks. I read the section. I ordered the book. (!) I hate taking medicines. I usually avoid doing so at all costs. I do have a Whole Foods (relatively) nearby. I’m overdue for a trip there. (I used to go quite a bit, when my daughter went to a school nearby, but it’s not usually in the general directions of my travels, so I’ve not gone lately.)
upstate kate – I add cinnamon to my coffee, too.
Erica – Tired is like the worst thing you can tell a person they look. Especially when they’re not. Will you be home in time to see Nick Swisher?
stuckey – i see what you did there. clever :p
Johnny D great fit for the Tigers and their stadium. Just think we will get punished in both stadiums by the calve man himself. Nick Johnson and Granderson are poor clutch hitters. Shakes head at the Koolaid drinkers.
Doreen – Ain’t it Just “Grand”?
February 1st, 2010 at 5:25 pm
pat -
According to this e-mail, honey & cinnamon in various combinations can pretty much cure everything from headaches to specific types of cancer to bad breath.
I don’t know why I’m a little skeptical, but I’m thinking, could it hurt? I’ve got honey & cinnamon in the house, and this thing says it cures colds (which I’ve had for about 5 days now) and aging, which I want to put on the back burner for as long as I can (especially after seeing Stevie Nicks last night!).
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The best remedy for a chest cold is to scoop out god bit of Vick’s Vaporub with your finger and stick it done your throat. Sounds nasty, but, within 3 days, the cold/congestion is gone.
The Twins are over committing to Mauer if they present a 10 year deal. There isn’t a guarantee that his knees will hold up in 4 years or even 6. He is very tall and has caught for a much longer time than Posada who is much more durable imo. Twins should offer a 5 year deal to minimize their risk.
Correction:
your finger and stick it ***down*** your throat
GB, that just sounds putrid.
The Yankees didn’t “send Montero there to play”. He lives there and he played there last season. NYY has no working agreements and no control over when or if he plays.
Tom in NJ
February 1st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
GB, that just sounds putrid.
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Maybe so, but it works.