Late in 1999, we asked our readers to give us their picks for baseball’s Team of the 1990s. More than 1,000 people voted in the poll, held over three months, and the results have been tabulated. Over the next two weeks, we’ll present to you the Baseball Prospectus Team of the 1990s. First, the infielders:…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Assigned C Bryan Graves to their minor-league camp. [3/6] ATLANTA BRAVES MLB announced that it has fined the Braves $100,000 and banned them from signing players from the Dominican Republic for six months as punishment for signing SS Wilson Betemit before his 16th birthday. [2/25] MLB announced that an arbitrator has reduced the…
Atlanta Braves The NL champions head into camp with a lot of questions. The biggest seems to be what they’re going to do at shortstop, where Walt Weiss is 36 and a bad, bad player. The team’s only alternative may be to push 19-year-old Rafael Furcal, one of the top prospects in baseball but with…