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By Gary Armida
Yesterday, we examined the top five pitching free agents for the 2009 hot stove season. Today, we will turn our attention to the offensive stars. The 2009 crop of potential free agent hitters shows a variety of hitters. Power hitters, on-base guys, and hitters of all ages can be found. There are many [...]

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By Gary Armida
When your biggest, and only, free agent moves of the off-season are trading for Jamey Carroll, signing Japanese reliever Masahide Kobayashi, and renaming your stadium, one would think that your prospects for the 2008 season would be bleak. This, however, is the story of the Cleveland Indians, the team who finally reached its [...]

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By Gary Armida
Alright, so you’ve done some work and started to work the phones (or emails) for your offseason trades. Hopefully, you caught a fellow owner off-guard and made the key January trade that could vault you into a championship season. Before we discuss the draft, let’s finish off the trade talk by discussing the [...]

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By Gary Armida 
 Steal. Embezzle. Burglarize. Fleece. Heist. Poach. Pillage. Ransack. Swindle. Those are all appropriate words to describe what the New York Mets organization did to the Minnesota Twins organization.
Ok, that might have been a tad dramatic, but you get the idea. Pending the signing of a long-term contract, the Mets acquired arguably the best [...]

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By Gary Armida 
In another effort to clear his name, Roger Clemens’ agents, the Hendricks brothers, have released a 45 page report which analyzes the performance of Roger Clemens (here). While many columnists will discuss the desperation of this move and many stat-heads will question the validity of the statistics presented, the question to them is: [...]

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Here’s a quick peek into what the local newspapers are talking about…

The Orioles and Mariners are rumored to have a completed deal, sending Erik Bedard to Seattle for a package that is headlined by prospect Adam Jones and reliever George Sherrill. The rumored hold up is Peter Angelos, who supposedly has not approved the trade. If [...]

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By Gary Armida 
The Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are cheaters. The Royals were once cheaters, but they seem reformed at this point. There might be others, but they hide the fact better than the aforementioned teams. In a game of highway robbery, these teams have held hostage the “bad boys” of [...]

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Here’s a quick look around nation’s baseball news…

As I’ve written many times in the Fungos columns, Bartolo Colon is an interesting free agent candidate as he could be a low risk (in terms of dollars invested), high reward candidate. Colon, if healthy, could be a productive middle of the rotation guy as his days as [...]

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