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On December 5th at the owner's meetings, the Hall of Fame's Historical Overview Committee (made up of Hall of Famers, executives, historians and media members) will vote for 10 finalists from the "Golden Era" of baseball. If these candidates receive 75 percent of the vote, they will be enshrined in...
x-Red Reposter - (x - denotes late game)
Hall o' Famer Hal wins last night's Reds Game Recap Headline Challenge with "Reds Commit Suicide - In a Good Way." Or at least that's how it showed up in my RSS reader. The headline that appears on the Dayton Daily News page is the neutered "Reds' suicide squeeze opens run vault." I won't rest...
Graph of the Day: Aroldis Chapman's Fastball
Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman raised eyebrows around the baseball world this spring. Pitching for the Cuban team in the World Baseball Classic, Chapman flashed an incredible fastball and some nasty secondary stuff, despite some poor results (6.1 IP, 4 ER, 8 K, 4 BB). Those who hadn't noticed...
WBC PITCHf/x: Más de Cuba
Cuba faces Japan in another re-match of the 2006 World Baseball Classic final. This time, the loser goes home but the winner only qualifies for the semi-finals. In Cuba's last game, they eliminated Mexico behind veteran pitchers Norge Vera and Pedro Luis Lazo. Vera and Lazo may be familiar to...
Cuba PITCHf/x
Cuba and Japan got together in San Diego for a rematch of the 2006 WBC Championship. It's a rare treat to see the Cubans play on American soil, and getting PITCHf/x on their star pitchers is a cool side effect of the WBC. Not that the other countries aren't interesting. They have their own stars...
Viva La Revolucion! White Sox Cubano News with a Bullet
Dayan Viciedo is no longer a teenager as he turns 20 today. Jose Contreras is now officially a Cuban-American as he obtained his US Citizenship today. Due to Conteras' return to Miami for his citizenship ceremony, C&C's bullpen session has been pushed back to Thursday. Saturday or Sunday is...
What Do We Know About the Impending Viciedo Signing?
Dayan Viciedo was supposed to be introduced as the newest member of the White Sox in a press conference on Friday, but apparently visa issues--there's always visa issues--may have derailed the event, though not the signing itself. The terms of the contract are as of yet unknown, but Phil Rogers put...
Viciedo Rhetoric Becoming Ridiculous
First, Dayan Viciedo was the Cuba's Best Teen Talent and referred to as the Cuban Babe Ruth in some circles, which might have been a compliment if it wasn't first applied to Jose Canseco. I noted that Joe Cowley's scoop seemed to come straight from Viciedo's agent, Jaime Torres. Then a day...
White Sox sign Alexei Ramirez to 4-year deal
Holy crap!I don't even know what to say. We were excited about the prospects of signing Ramirez (video at link) when we first heard about his availability, but cautioned that if he wasn't a major league player today, as a 26 year old, he would never be one.The same holds true today, except now...
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