The Cliff Lee market is open and other issues as loom for the American League champions.
The World Series ends, yet the podcast just keeps on chugging along. In this episode, Jason and I discuss the World Series, and more importantly, talk about the potential futures of the two participants, with a special eye on what the next few years might hold for Josh Hamilton. Then we talk about baseball that’s still being played, with an eye towards the Arizona Fall League and in-depth discussions of six of our favorite (for one reason or another) players there. After a two week hiatus, our Not manager returns as Not Ron Washington talks about the World Series and then in the first time in podcast history, our musical guest actually joins the podcast with a special appearance by Rob Warmowski of The Defoliants, who amongst things, now blogs about baseball over at Can’t Stop The Bleeding. Then it’s the usual end-game stuff with what we’re drinking and an update on our mental states.
A quick look at yesterday’s action in the off-season leagues.
A reclamation project in the Mariners system, and notes from the day in the off-season leagues.
The MLBPA wastes no time in release this year’s free agent list.
You were all watching the World Series, but the prospect man had his eye on the winter leagues and reports on some big performances.
A quick though on what could be the new market inefficiency as Kevin Goldstein takes a trip through the off-season leagues.
A Reds infielder keeps hitting in Venezuela and notes from around the off-season leagues.
You want a World Series preview? You got it. After going through our email and getting into a serious, heavy discussion on Josh Hamilton and how we choose our heroes, Jason and I break down the Rangers/Giants matchup by position while making our series picks and MVP predictions. Then Jon Morosi, national writer with Fox Sports joins us for his take while also making his own predictions and getting into a fascination talk about the future of the beat writer. Following that, it’s the best eight minutes in the history of the podcast, as my mother joins us to make her picks and talk about cookies and tornadoes. Irony of all ironies? My mother is her basement as opposed to vice versa. Then it’s the usual wackiness with Roy Blakely of kotowari.org joining us to talk Fallout: New Vegas, so cooking talk, and Jason’s new cat.
A shortstop in the White Sox system that deserves more attention and notes from around the off-season leagues.
After losing in the American League Championship Series, they will be serious off-season shoppers.
Their roster is getting older but they still should be contenders for at least another year or two.
Kevin Goldstein takes a quick trip through yesterday’s action in the off-season leagues.
Our prospect guru takes a trip through some early-season results in the off-season leagues.
Here’s what happened. As we warned you, this episode would be a couple of days late, and with a big World Series Preview coming in just four days, we decided to go light, with a guest free episode that would just feature some playoff talk and a quick film discussion. Of course, it ended up being two hours anyway, as we get in-depth on the playoffs, share some tales from New York and get into an intense argument about Elvis Andrus’ ability to become a media star. Lesson learned: With Jason and I, nothing is quick.
The Yankees move Gerald Laird, and notes from the day in the off-season leagues.