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Media, Not Players Are Most Guilty by Association with Biogenesis

Posted in Baseball, Media, MLB, PEDs on February 7, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Biogenesis has become the latest scarlet letter in Major League Baseball. Like BALCO before it, simply being mentioned in the same sentence has become the equivalent of a conviction. However, this guilt by association is without due process. Unlike BALCO, which became a household name only after federal authorities raided the Bay Area lab, criminal […]

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Awful Astros Could Alter Course of American League

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged on February 6, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Houston, we have a problem. Fifty-one years after debuting as a franchise, the Astros are poised to enter this season as an expansion team for the second time. Not only is Houston coming off consecutive seasons that easily rank as the two worst in franchise history, but the team is also moving up in class […]

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Breaking Down Keith Law’s 2013 Top-100 Prospect List

Posted in Baseball, Mets, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , on February 5, 2013 | 1 Comment »

It’s prospecting season for the baseball media’s minor league evaluators, the highlight of which has become the annual ranking compiled by former Blue Jays executive and current ESPN contributor Keith Law. What follows is a breakdown of Law’s rankings along with commentary about some of the selections (for last year’s breakdown, click here). Keith Law’s […]

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Yankees Place 10th in Keith Law’s Prospect Ranking; Team Needs Strong Farm More than Ever

Posted in Baseball, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Yankees, tagged on February 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to the constraints of a new austerity plan, the Yankees have not had a very inspiring off season. And, if the team continues to chart the same financial course, the next several winters could be just as barren.  Without free agent signings and blockbuster trades to supply the team’s deficiencies, the Bronx Bombers could […]

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Baseball Deserves Its Double Standard

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, MLB, NFL, Yankees on February 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

  The headlines during Super Bowl week have included two scandals involving performance enhancing drugs: one involving Ray Lewis and the other featuring Alex Rodriguez. Considering the proximity to football’s big game,  Sports Illustrated’s report on Lewis’ alleged use of a banned substance was probably the most relevant story. However, the accusations leveled against Arod caused the […]

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Mayor Koch Did Fine by Yankee Fans, Though Team Didn’t Do Well Under Him

Posted in Baseball, George M. Steinbrenner, MLB, Yankees, tagged on February 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

George M. Steinbrenner and Edward I. Koch were the two bosses of New York during the 1980s: one controlled the city and the other its beloved baseball team. Although their backgrounds were very different – Koch was a Bronx born son of immigrant Jews, while Steinbrenner descended from a long line of blue-blood Cleveland patricians […]

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