All Entries Tagged With: "Johan Santana"
Lest We Forget, Johan Santana
Baseball observers have short memories. Check that, people have short memories. Perhaps it is not even a short memory but rather an inborn tendency to look for the next “best thing” rather than watch what is going on in the present. It is a human flaw that is only heightened in Baseball. It happens all [...]
First Pitch 8/25: Peavy, Giambi, More Mets Misery
Peavy on the comeback trail, Big G returns, more Mets Misery, and the Rockies’ shot at the Dodgers highlight Tuesday’s First Pitch. Peavy Returning Jake Peavy took another step towards helping the White Sox’s playoff push last night as he threw five shutout innings in his rehab start. He threw 52 strikes and 28 balls, [...]
Call the Cops…The Mets Stole Johan
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 [...]
Long-Term Contracts for Pitchers
Is signing pitchers to long-term contracts worth the risk? By Gary Armida With a Johan Santana trade seemingly imminent, baseball analysts have started to discuss the value of signing a starting pitcher to a long term contract yet again. In this case, Santana is rumored to score a contract of seven years for more than 160 million [...]
Fungos 12/3
A Quick Look Around the League to get your Week Started… With the Winter Meetings beginning today, we should see some trades start to fly. Once the Johan Santana sweepstakes ends, it will get more interesting with Dan Haren, Erik Bedard, and Dontrelle Willis all possibly available. Over the weekend, we saw the Padres sign [...]
Fungos 11/30
A tour of the MLB newspapers for your Friday… Ah, the calm before the Winter Meetings, which begin Monday and run until Thursday. I am looking forward to some trades this year. The past few years have been a bust on big name deals, but with the lack of quality free agents available, the one [...]
On second thought…Call the Twins’ Bluff
Johan is not worth the price of admission…this year. By Gary Armida A pitcher as great as Johan Santana is rarely available when he is in his prime. In a rare case such as this, fans and media outlets will yell, “Trade whoever to get him.” We even read in the Fungos section here that [...]
Fungos–11/12
Here’s a quick round to get you started on a Monday… First and foremost, a Happy Veterans Day for all Vets. Without all of our troops, past and present, we don’t have the freedom that we all enjoy. Thank you is not enough. While watching the Knicks game Sunday night (hey, there’s no baseball!!), Jorge [...]
