Evidently Not Deep Enough

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Hanley Takes the Plunge

post from FishStripes on 23 February 2011 11:01:37 PM. © FishStripes

Hanley Takes the Plunge

Into social media, that is.

The Marlins' all-star shortstop can now be added to the growing list of Tweetin' Fish. @HanleyRamirez officially joined Twitter Wednesday, and unlike the blogs he supposedly "wrote" for MLBlogs.com a few seasons back, Hanley is actually the one composing his tweets.

Does anyone else feel like we're moving quickly toward a team ban of tweeting?

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Hello world!

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Brewers Catcher Jonathan Lucroy Fractures Finger

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A position of weakness for the Milwaukee Brewers just got a little weaker on Wednesday. According to Brewers beat writer, Adam McCalvy, catcher Jonathan Lucroy will have surgery on Thursday to repair a fractured left pinkie finger. He hurt the valuable appendage during a drill on Wednesday and is expected to miss about four weeks. [...]

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Adam Wainwright Injuries Elbow, Could Be Done For
The Season

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What happened this morning is proof as to why naming Opening Day starters before the first pitch is even thrown in spring training is a pointless exercise. Anything can happen from now until Opening Day. And for the St. Louis Cardinals, the worst possible thing has happened. Cardinals GM John Mozeliak said Wednesday that staff [...]

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TTM Success: Hall Of Fame, Steve Carlton!!!

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TTM Success: Hall Of Fame, Steve Carlton!!! A few weeks ago, I sent 5 baseballs out in hopes of adding some high quality, Hall of Fame autographs to my signed baseball collection. This is the third ball that I have … Continue reading →

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River Avenue Blues Radio Show Podcast

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River Avenue Blues Radio Show PodcastJoe Pawlikowski was kind enough to have me as his co-host on the RAB Radio Show today. Give it a listen[...]

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Charting Pitching Components, 2008-2010

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A few weeks ago, I looked at the league-wide leaders and trailers in batted ball FIP, which is an ERA estimator based only on strikeout, walk, and batted ball (ground balls, fly balls, line drives, pop ups) inputs. Today, I will revisit[...]

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The Search for Pitching Continues - Hudson and
Kuroda Edition

As per Frank Russo of Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest:

In speaking to my Tampa sources, Brian Cashman continues to ?burn up the phone lines? looking for pitching help. Yes, he did offer Kevin Millwood a minor league deal, but he was thinking bigger as he reached out to Atlanta and inquired about Tim Hudson.

The Braves don?t have interest in dealing Hudson who went 17-9 with a 2.83 ERA last season. As I mentioned before, they are willing to deal Derek Lowe, who is owed $30 million over the next two seasons. He will cost the Yankees a prospect haul that appears to be too expensive at this time.

The Yankees also discussed Hiroki Kuroda with the Dodgers, but nothing came out of those talks as well.

I have continued to be told that if the Yankees don?t acquire a starting pitcher this spring it won?t be because of a lack of effort. Brian Cashman is focused on getting something done. It appears that task won?t be easy.

While I am not quite surprised that Cashman remains determined to improve the Yankees rotation prior to Opening Day, I am very happy to see that he hasn't focused solely on scraping the bottom of the barrel. A pitcher of Hudson or Kuroda's caliber would improve the rotation by leaps and bounds, yet neither strikes me as the sort of trade piece that would require the Yankees to part with Jesus Montero, Manny Banuelos, or Dellin Betances - a deal of this ilk would be ideal. Here's hoping that such a perfect storm of benefits comes to fruition.

The rotation remains a weakness, however, regardless of Cashman's persistence.

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Adam Wainwright is heading back to St. Louis to
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Adam Wainwright is heading back to St. Louis to have his right elbow examined, and right now the team expects the worst. "I can say just based on the initial evaluation from our training staff, things do not look encouraging," said GM John Mozeliak according to Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ESPN's Buster Olney says (on Twitter) that it appears the team is expecting their ace to have Tommy John surgery, which would keep him out for all of 2011.

*I don't see how more people can't recognize the correlation between poor mechanics and serious arm injuries.

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