Prospects Next in Line for Top 100by
Frankie PiliereFiled under: Blue Jays, Braves, Nationals, Phillies, Red Sox, Prospects, Advanced Scouting
Many players who have the talent to be considered Top 100 prospects just don't quite have the seasoning or experience to crack the list. These players certainly have the talent to make such a list in the near future, however.
So, who might we see on the Top 100 list in 2011, or even 2012? Many of those players are yet to be drafted or signed, but some are waiting right now in the low levels of the minor leagues. We'll take a look at a handful of young stars who could find themselves high up on future Top 100 lists.
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You Can Now Turn Your Lawn Into a Baseball Fieldby
Tom FornelliFiled under: Cardinals, Cubs, Phillies, Red Sox, Reds, MLB Biz, MLB Fans
I remember growing up and playing baseball with my friends in yards all over the neighborhood, and while there were plenty of differences between the front yard down the street and
Wrigley Field, we made the best we could with what we had. Of course, one of the biggest problems with playing in a yard is that not all yards are maintained quite like a major league field. The grass isn't as green or neatly manicured, and there are even dips that cause for some wicked hops and kids laying on the ground holding themselves while their friends laugh at them.
If only we had the chance to play on a real baseball field!
Well, while kids across the United States still aren't going to be able to play on the surface of Wrigley Field or
Fenway Park, they now have the chance to get as close to the real thing as possible thanks to a deal between MLB and The Scotts Company.
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Report: Red Sox Were Worried About Jason Bay's Kneesby
Tom FornelliFiled under: Mets, Red Sox, MLB Injuries, MLB Rumors, MLB Free Agency
Outfielder
Jason Bay was one of the bigger prizes in this winter's free agent class before he
signed a four-year, $66 million deal with the New York Mets in early January. Of course, had it not been for some concerns of the Boston
Red Sox and their medical staff, Bay may have never reached free agency at all.
According to Peter Gammons, the Red Sox were ready to sign Bay to a four-year, $60 million deal last July but when an MRI raised some concern about both of Bay's knees, the
Red Sox lowered the offer to two years which Bay rejected and instead opted to hit the open market.
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Curt Schilling ... Yankees Fan?by
Matt SnyderFiled under: Red Sox, Yankees, AL East, MLB Fans
The
Boston Red Sox and
New York Yankees have one of the most bitter rivalries in all of sports -- if not
the most. Everyone who even remotely follows baseball knows this. Thus Curt Schilling, an icon from the curse-breaking
Red Sox of 2004, could never possibly be called a
Yankees fan.
Apparently, though, Martha Antoinette Coakley -- a Democratic candidate for the Senate in Massachusetts --
didn't get the memo. She inexplicably tried to accuse to Schilling (a staunch republican) of being a Yankees fan in an apparent attempt to pander to Boston-area voters. When the host of the interview show on which she made this gaffe pushed, she simply said, "well, he's not there [on the team] anymore."
Schilling, never one to shy away from the spotlight,
logged a pretty short and sweet entry on his personal blog addressing the allegation.
It would seem Ms. Coakley was trying to gain voters with an inclusion about sports, but she actually may have driven herds away. Let this be a lesson to politicians: if you don't know anything about sports, don't act like you do. Otherwise, you might say something like "Manny Ortez" (as John Kerry once said, though it's unclear if he was talking about
Manny Ramirez or
David Ortiz -- or some sort of hybrid between the two).
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Daisuke Matsuzaka Admits Hiding Injury From Red Soxby
Josh AlperFiled under: Red Sox, AL East, MLB Injuries
Throughout the 2009 season
Daisuke Matsuzaka claimed that participating in the World Baseball Classic wasn't the reason why he was having shoulder problems. As it turns out, he was telling the truth.
Well, sort of telling the truth.
In an interview with a Japanese magazine, the righty came clean about a leg injury he suffered while training for the WBC. That leg injury caused him to change his mechanics and that change contributed to the shoulder injuries that limited him to 12 appearances last season. However problematic all of that is, it pales in comparison to the fact that Matsuzaka chose not to inform the Sox about the injury.
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