Sunday Morning Royals Links: Sample, Arguelles,
Osuna, and Disengaged Germany

post from Royals Review on 27 February 2010 11:03:18 PM. © Royals Review

Royals:

14 for 77: Prospect Make or Break Time

Royals Prospects " Draft profile LHP Chris Sale

Royals Prospects " Prospect #35 Edgar Osuna

Royals Junkie: Can the Royals Luke Hochevar Finally Live Up to Expectations in 2010

Is a Healthy Jose Guillen Just a Fly In The Ointment? -Royals Authority

Royals Kingdom: Royals 2010 Wild Cards- No. 5 Gil Meche

The Royal Tower: Things I Think I Think

The State of the Minor Leagues in Year Five of Dayton Moore's Leadership - Royals Review

Rany on the Royals: Reboot.

Blogging Shape and Flying Wieners

Baseball:

Grab Bag:

Read The Full Article:
http://www.royalsreview.com/2010/2/27/1329819/sunday-morning-royals-links-sample

Digg this

Johnson Trying To Get Ready For DH Role

post from Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog on 27 February 2010 08:51:00 PM. © Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog

From Bryan Hoch:

When your most important job assignment is getting into the batter's box, there can be a lot of down time. That's something that Nick Johnson is trying to get used to.

Back with the Yankees primarily as a designated hitter, Johnson can glance at the first baseman's glove in his locker and know it probably won't be seeing too many summer afternoons in the Bronx. But he just can't stow it away.

"I'll always take my ground balls," Johnson said. "I love going out there, but I know I won't be. I'll just get in a routine DHing, embrace it and get comfortable with it, and get four or five quality at-bats, whatever it is."

...

"I'll probably have to not think too much," Johnson said. "You'll have whatever it is between the at-bats, so you try not to beat yourself up over an at-bat. Maybe you take a peek at the video room here and there, but you don't kill yourself over something, because you can do it for a long time. You stay loose, stretch a lot, hit off the tee or do flips, and go get 'em."

Joe Girardi also spoke about Johnson's DH duties:

"It's something that we're going to work on getting him used to in [Spring Training]," Girardi said. "Physically, you would think that it's a little easier to stay healthier. It's something that he's going to learn how to do. He might take to it real quick, you never know."

...

"The only thing you can do is give him a lot of DH days in Spring Training, so he figures out what he's most comfortable doing in between at-bats," Girardi said. "I think sometimes guys can get too caught up with going to watch too much tape."

I expect Johnson to handle the DH role well. He seems to have the right attitude about it and I don't think he'll be hurt by all that time in between at-bats. As we all know Johnson has had a history of being injury prone, so the time away from the field will probably be a good thing.

What are you guys expecting from Nick Johnson in his return to Pinstripes?

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SlidingIntoHome/~3/zXxissDXSSk/johnson-ready-for-d
h-role.html

Digg this

Derrek Lee on Talkin' Baseball

post from ChicagoCubsOnline.com on 27 February 2010 08:26:01 PM. © ChicagoCubsOnline.com

The Cubs' first baseman and clubhouse leader joined Bruce Levine and Jonathan Hood on Talkin' Baseball (ESPN 1000) Saturday morning. The interview began with a typical Spring Training question from Bruce Levine about what Derrek Lee thought about his team after a week of practice.

Levine's second question sparked an honest answer from Derrek Lee, one that he did not mince words.

Lee was asked about the media recently trying to compare Marlon Byrd to Milton Bradley and the possible racial profiling associated with the comparison. Lee quickly called the comparison "ridiculous" and said "If it was a white guy who came over [to the Cubs] would he be [called] the anti-Milton Bradley?"

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chicagocubsonlinecom/~3/F5a5_dQqKV4/cubs_leetalkin
.php

Digg this

IVIE 2010: Call for Projections

post from Ducksnorts on 27 February 2010 06:49:40 PM. © Ducksnorts

It’s time once again to assemble our Ducksnorts community IVIE projections. For the curious, IVIE stands for Insipid Value Indication Estimator and, in the grand tradition of assigning cutesy acronyms to projection systems, is named in honor of[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://ducksnorts.com/blog/2010/02/ivie-2010-call-for-projections.html

Digg this

Cubs Likely Without Lilly for First Month of
Season

post from ChicagoCubsOnline.com on 27 February 2010 06:20:11 PM. © ChicagoCubsOnline.com

According to a report from ESPN Chicago, Ted Lilly will probably miss the first month of the season.

The Cubs were hoping to get Ted Lilly back around the second week of the season. Lilly's two setbacks since pitchers and catchers reported on February 17 have more than likely pushed the timetable back a couple of weeks.

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chicagocubsonlinecom/~3/7OK9vIaHXdY/cubsnews_lilly
.php

Digg this

2000 Fleer Club 3,000 Lou Brock

post from 30-Year Old Cardboard on 27 February 2010 06:13:35 PM. © 30-Year Old Cardboard

2000 Fleer – “Club 3,000″ – Lou BrockDate of entry into “Club 3,000″ – August 13, 1979The Story – At home, and in front of 44,000+ fans, the Cardinals took on their divisional rivals – The Chicago Cubs. Ironically, the Cubs were the team that Brock entered the major leagues with. On this day, Brock [...]

Read The Full Article:
http://bapple2286.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/2000-fleer-club-3000-lou-brock/

Digg this

Give Me a Fifth!

post from LADodgerTalk.com - Get Your Daily Dodger Juice, Dodger News and Dodger Rumors on 27 February 2010 06:04:00 PM. © LADodgerTalk.com - Get Your Daily Dodger Juice, Dodger News and Dodger Rumors

Read The Full Article:
http://www.ladodgertalk.com/2010/02/give-me-a-fifth/

Digg this

Former Yankees in Pictures

[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://www.bronxbaseballdaily.com/?p=3592

Digg this

More notes from Tempe

I left out a few details from my earlier post this evening. I could either blame old age or the[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://truegrich.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-notes-from-tempe.html

Digg this

DMB World Series Hall Of Famer- Ed Delahanty

ED DELAHANTYONE OF THE GAME?S GREATEST SLUGGERS.LED NATIONAL LEAGUE HITTERS IN1899 WITH AN AVERAGE OF .408 FORPHILADELPHIA; AMERICAN LEAGUEBATTERS IN 1902 WITH A MARK OF .376FOR WASHINGTON. MADE 6 HITS IN 6TIMES AT BAT TWICE DURING CAREERAND ONCE HIT 4 HOME RUNS IN A GAME.Elected to Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in [...]

Read The Full Article:
http://dmbworldseriesreplay.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/dmb-world-series-hall-of-fam
er-ed-delahanty/