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Another day, another move for the Chicago White Sox. On Monday, the White Sox inked SS Omar Vizquel to a one-year deal. Today, the White Sox signed another star of the late-90’s/early-2000’s. According to Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago, the White Sox signed OF Andruw Jones to a one-year, $500,000 contract. Jones has a chance to make another million in bonus incentives. Jones, who hit .214 with 17 home runs and had a ...

I love when teams make good personnel decisions. It makes me giddy. Today, the Chicago White Sox signed SS and future Hall of Famer Omar Vizquel to a one-year, $1.375 million deal. Vizquel, who is 43-years old hit .266 with a .660 OPS in 2009 with the Texas Rangers. I really like this move for the White Sox. Vizquel will serve as a backup infielder and as a mentor to Alexei ...

My preseason AL MVP pick: Grady Sizemore AL MVP winner: Joe Mauer   Two nights before the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, I had the opportunity to hang out with Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, and Joe Nathan at an pre-All-Star Game party at a bar in New York City. It was by far and away one of the coolest nights of life. How often does someone have drinks with an MVP? Little ...

On January 13, 2009, the Atlanta Braves signed Derek Lowe to a four-year, $60 million deal. The Braves signed Lowe after they failed to sign AJ Burnett, who signed with the New York Yankees. Now less than one year later, the Braves are looking to trade the 6′6” righty. Why would the Braves look to trade Lowe after just one year? Well, for one, they feel they have an excess of pitching. ...

ItÆs really hard to argue with the way the Florida Marlins do business. Despite having a payroll consistently at the bottom of baseball, the Marlins in the last seven seasons have won a World Series and have had five winning seasons out of those seven. They have a philosophy of building through the draft, develop their own talent, and once that talent gets to a point where they will make serious ...

Yes, I am fully aware that this was yesterdayÆs news, but itÆs hard to write when you leave your laptop in your office and your home computer catches a virus. Yesterday was a tough day for The Ghost of Moonlight Graham. I was home sick, my computer crashed, and the UMass Basketball team lost their home opener dropping them to 0-2 on the season. ItÆs hard to win when you donÆt have ...

For the second time since 2002, the man New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman called the ôBill Belichick of our sportö won the American League Manager of the Year award. Of course, that statement was made before BelichickÆs meltdown on Sunday night against the Indianapolis Colts. I am not going to talk about that fourth and two call because the media has shoved that call down our throats the last ...

I apologize for the late post today, but it was a long, long, long night last night for The Ghost of Moonlight Graham. Beer and late-night eating donÆt mix to well anymore after the age of 30. That being said, I thought I would take it easy on myself today. Today, I am going to take a look at the most coveted player on the trade market this winterùToronto Blue JaysÆ ...

My preseason pick for AL Cy Young: Zack Greinke AL Cy Young award winner: Zack Greinke I would like to personally thank the Baseball WritersÆ Association of America and more importantly, Zack Greinke for making me look like a genius. Today, Greinke won the American League Cy Young award in a landslide. Greinke received 25 out of 28 first-place votes to win the award. Seattle MarinersÆ Felix Hernandez received two first-place votes, ...

Yesterday, I talked about one of the Cincinnati Reds trade candidates, Bronson Arroyo . Well today, IÆll talk about another Reds trade candidate, second baseman Brandon Phillips. Phillips has had a pretty interesting career so far. He has been involved in two extremely lopsided trades. In 2002, Phillips was traded from the Montreal Expos to the Cleveland Indians along with Cliff Lee, Lee Stevens, and Grady Sizemore for Bartolo Colon and Tim ...