MLB: 2010 Cy Young Award Winners

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Show #132: The Braves Acquire Dan Uggla

post from Atlanta Baseball Talk on 22 November 2010 11:28:25 PM. © Atlanta Baseball Talk

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Yahoo!: Rivera wants two years & $36M, but
Yankees only want him for one year

post from lenNY's Yankees - A Bronx Bombers Blog on 22 November 2010 11:03:19 PM. © lenNY's Yankees - A Bronx Bombers Blog

Lovely. Another contract disagreement between the Yankees and a Core Four member. Via Yahoo! MLB Columnist Jeff Passan: Source: #Yankees want to offer Mariano Rivera only a one-year deal. Rivera seeking two-year deal for around $18 million per[...]

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Giants Minor League Report: Hitting

post from The Giants Baseball Blog- A San Francisco Giants Blog and Fan Website on 22 November 2010 11:02:14 PM. © The Giants Baseball Blog- A San Francisco Giants Blog and Fan Website

Well, typically here at the Giants Baseball Blog, with high-praised youngsters like Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner and Pablo Sandoval coming up through the system the last 2 years, we've been doing a monthly minor league check-up on what's going on inside the lower levels of the Giants organization. However, since the team made the playoffs for the first time in 8 years, and ended up World Series Champs, it's been a few months since we've even thought of the Giants farm system.

Now, even though Posey and Bumgarner are now in San Francisco for good, there are still some names who Giants fan will become familiar with very soon down in the minors, and this year, nobody was more noticeable than first basemen Brandon Belt. The 22 year-old tore up the minor leagues in 2010, eerily similar to the way Pablo Sandoval did in 2008. At three different stops, High-A San Jose, AA Richmond and AAA Fresno, Belt hit a combined .352 with 23 HR, 43 2B, 113 RBI, 22 SB and a whopping 1.075 OPS. He did most of his damage down in San Jose, where he hit .383 with 10 HR and 66 RBI in 77 games, before moving up to Richmond. His average took a bit of a dive up in AAA Fresno at the end of the year hitting .229 in just 49 at-bats, but he still managed to hit 4 homers and drive in 10 in his short 13 game stint with the Grizzlies. So far in the Arizona Fall League, he's picked right back up again, as he's currently hitting .382 with a homer 16 RBI in 82 at bats. I think it's a pretty safe bet that he'll not only be the Giants' #1 prospect heading into 2011, but he may just find himself battling for a major league job this spring. I can see the Giants using the same approach with him as they did with Buster Posey, letting him get a final tune-up for a few months in Fresno, then depending on how that's going, bringing him up to San Francisco.

After Belt, the Giants system doesn't really have a player who's knocking on the doorstep of the major leagues. Francisco Peguero could find himself right behind Belt in the Giants' prospect rankings after the 2010 year he had though as he showed why baseball people are so high on him. The 22 year-old did a little bit of everything for the little (SJ) Giants this year, hitting .329 and showing some pop (10 HR, 19 3B, 66 RBI), a ton of speed (40 SB) while playing gold glove caliber defense in center field. He's the guy I'm most intrigued to watch heading into 2011, as he'll likely start off in AA Richmond, where it seems like most Giants prospects not named Brandon Belt have struggled a bit. Thomas Neal, Roger Kieschnick and Brandon Crawford all had expectations this year after tearing up San Jose in 2009, but none of them had very good years. Neal turned it on towards the end and winded up hitting a respectable .291, but only had 12 homers and 62 RBI, a huge drop-off from his .337/22/90 year last year. Still though the eastern league is notoriously tough on hitters, especially power wise, so I'm not too concerned with Neal's drop off in the power department. Kieshnick (.251/4/21 in 60 games) and Crawford (.236/7/23 in 84 games) on the other hand had years to forget in 2010, however both did have major injury issues.

While a few guys like Kieschnick, Crawford and Nick Noonan struggled, one Giants' farmhand who broke through with a big year with the bat, and I'm surprised wasn't moved up during the year, was Chris Dominguez. I really liked this selection when the Giants took him in the 3rd round of the 2009 draft. I thought he would be gone within the top-100 picks for sure, just purely based on that power potential if nothing else and had him ranked higher than any so called "Baseball Experts" (BA, Baseball Prospectus etc...) in our own version of the Giants top-20 prospects for 2010. He played in low-A Augusta all year long, but hit .277 with 21 HR and led the Giants minor league system with 101 RBI. There are some flaws in his game though, as he does strikeout a lot (133 in 558 AB's), but more worrisome for the Giants is his defense at third base, where he committed 32 errors at in 2010. I haven't talked to anyone close enough to the Giants about him yet to see if they have plan to move him to left field or possibly across the diamond to first base, but he's not cut out for third base. Fellow '09 draftee Thomas Joseph (2nd rounder) had a nice power year as well in Augusta (16 HR in 436 AB's), but his swing needs some work too, as evident of his 116 strikeouts and .236 batting average. I'm going to be watching these two guys under a microscope in 2011.

Next post, barring any breaking Giants news, we'll take a gander at some of the happenings on the mound and the future pitching prospects for the club, which has been left a bit bare now that Madison Bumgarner has arrived to stay in San Francisco.

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Vida Blue on new Hall of Fame ballot

post from 22gigantes on 22 November 2010 08:03:29 PM. © 22gigantes

Blue might make it into the HOF after all.According to ESPN's Tim Kurkjian, a new Hall of Fame voting system will be instituted at the upcoming winter meetings in Orlando to give players and managers from the "expansion era" another chance at getting into the Hall.To make it work, a new 16-member HOF electorate representing the "expansion era" (defined as 1973 to present) has been created.

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Blogging ain't easy... pass the turkey

post from True Grich on 22 November 2010 08:03:21 PM. © True Grich

Thanksgiving will be here in just a few days and I can?t help, but think about Torii Hunter[...]

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On The Road With psugator02 Isaih Thomas
November 20, 2010

post from 30-Year Old Cardboard on 22 November 2010 08:00:29 PM. © 30-Year Old Cardboard

?On The Road With psugator02? ? Isaih Thomas ? November 20, 2010 Utah Valley State at Florida International 4:15-5:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20 I was already in Miami for something else so I figured I’d stop off at FIU on … Continue reading →

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Tracking the Wolves Game 15 @OKC

So, OKC was off to a bad start this year, but last time out, the Durant-less Thunder beat the Celtics. Tonight, the Wolves get the Durant version and I think a win here would be a huge feather in the Wolves' cap.

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What will the 2011 Opening Day Yankees Look Like

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Robbie Goes Boom! [Nike Video] Cano & Bo

post from lenNY's Yankees - A Bronx Bombers Blog on 22 November 2010 07:03:24 PM. © lenNY's Yankees - A Bronx Bombers Blog

Even though the NL MVP was announced today (Joey Votto almost unanimously, if you didn?t hear), it was a pretty slow news day in Yankeeland. With the AL MVP set to be announced tomorrow, I?m posting this fitting video of Robinson Cano and Bo Jackson in a[...]

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