When Jose Canseco finally announced his retirement last week, I thought little of his case for Cooperstown, citing him as a one-dimensional player, with too much of his value wrapped up in a five-year span. However, after reading Joe Sheehan’s Tuesday edition of the Daily Prospectus, I slowly began to rethink my position.
I know I’m supposed to write about the Jeremy Giambi trade. It’s one of the strangest moves we’ve seen in a while, it involves a GM whose praises we’ve been singing for years and a player whose abilities we’ve promoted. Acquiring John Mabry makes no sense from any standpoint for the A’s, a fact I’m sure Chris Kahrl will address in the next Transaction Analysis.
Drafted out of a Baltimore high school in June 1993, Ken Cloude was the Mariners’ top pitching prospect by 1996 and participated in the Mariners’ mound chaos of the late 1990s. Now 27 years old, Cloude is trying to resurrect his career following Tommy John surgery in 2000 and after missing the entire 2001 season with a torn Achilles tendon.
Drafted out of a Baltimore high school in June 1993, Ken Cloude was the Mariners’ top pitching prospect by 1996 and participated in the Mariners’ mound chaos of the late 1990s. Now 27 years old, Cloude is trying to resurrect his career following Tommy John surgery in 2000 and after missing the entire 2001 season…
I know I’m supposed to write about the Jeremy Giambi trade. It’s one of the strangest moves we’ve seen in a while, it involves a GM whose praises we’ve been singing for years and a player whose abilities we’ve promoted. Acquiring John Mabry makes no sense from any standpoint for the A’s, a fact I’m…
When it comes to baseball-related discussion, there are few topics that pique my interest more than ones involving the Hall of Fame. What is the definition of a Hall of Famer, after all? Does anyone really know? If Kirby Puckett is now enshrined in Cooperstown, does that mean Al Oliver should be too? How much…