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Ultimately, a player's career determines his value come free agency; however a big contract year can draw attention to a player and force a bidding war where a player gets paid, the more than he would have expected when the season started. Use Danny Tartabull as an example.Tartabull had two great seasons leading up to the off season of 1991-2. One of those great seasons was the 1991 campaign which ...

After two nights of playing games that lasted over four hours, the Rockies played a game that lasted just 2:15. Unfortunately for the Rox, they lost the game 4-2. Aaron Cook had seven great innings of baseball. Unfortunately, he was in the game for eight innings. In the bottom of the first inning, Cook gave up a grand slam to Hideki Matsui, a veteran player who is not a stranger to the ...

By Larry Barnes | Yankees 'n More  and The New York Yankees Daily-Press New York Yankees pitching coach Dave Eiland has been gone from the team since the first week of June. Beyond saying that it's not a health issue, the organization refuses to say why. Tonight, we might finally have an answer as a source informs Yankees 'n More that Dave Eiland is in ...

It felt like a heat wave in New York City on that October 8 night back in 2007. Fans were funneling into Yankee Stadium extra early for Game 4 of the ALDS . The prior evening, I had watched my Yankees pull out a win to avoid getting swept. Which, was all thanks to a home run hit by Johnny Damon in the seventh inning. I remember ...

With inter-league play concluding this weekend, the New York Yankees head into Dodger Stadium for three-games. It's an unfamiliar place, as the Bombers last visit was in 2004. The two franchises have a torrid history. They have faced each other 11 times in the World Series in which the most recent dates back to 1981. On the other hand, there will be no shortage of familiar faces, ...

Ever since the Washington Nationals franchise came into existence in 2005 they haven't had much luck go their way to say the least. From 2005-present day, the Nationals have won 376 games, but have lost a dismal 507 games (record includes 2010 season). In the five year span the Nationals have wound up in last place in the National League East every year but once and often find themselves ...

With the  anticipated return of Edinson Volquez. longtime Reds' fans wonder whether he will be able to come back after Tommy John's surgery, or whether he will be just another half-year wonder. Most of Volquez's success in 2008 was before the All Star break. He gave up a two-run homer that cost the game and home field advantage in the world series. It did not matter since the Phillies finished off ...

Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, and Brian Jordan are well-known not only for their accomplishments in baseball but also football. They are the most recent two-sport stars. Little known to many in the sports world, Scott Radinsky, former Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers reliever from 1990  until 2001 was also a two-sport athlete, sort of. Originally drafted in the third round of the 1986 draft by ...

Last night, former Blue Jay Roy Halladay, now with the Philadelphia Phillies, threw seven shut out innings in a 9-0 win in his first game against his former team. Johan Santana hoped to have similar success against his former Minnesota Twins teammates as he faced them for the first time since being traded in 2007. After Orlando Hudson, Jason Kubel and Delmon Young all had doubles in the first inning, Santana found ...

Mount Zambrano erupted again yesterday during the Chicago Cub-Chicago White Sox Crosstown Classic because of his perception of a lack of effort by some of his teammates in the first inning where he gave up four runs. Everyone is saying the Cubs should get rid of him because of his emotional outburst in the dugout. I say it's about time somebody on this team showed some life and that they cared about ...