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Mark Cuban, Not MLB Owner
HOWARD MEGDAL: As someone who writes about Major League Baseball, only one aspect of Mark Cuban failing to acquire the Texas Rangers fills me with anything besides sadness: there’s still a chance he’ll buy my favorite team.
KRYSTEN OLIPHANT: Thank God I don’t have to listen to Mark Cuban’s antics regarding two teams now. I can barely handle him for basketball season. If he ruined my baseball season too, I swear I’d lose it.
State of the Lastings
HOWARD MEGDAL: It’s hard right now for us in the pro-Lastings Milledge camp. His batting line, entering Thursday night’s games, is .244/.313/.305. His UZR in left field, despite a ton of work out there, is terrible. In short, he’s not just far less than the player many expected he’d be by now- he’s not nearly the player he was just three years ago, playing at age 22 with the Mets.
But I, for one, am not giving up on him just yet.
CHRIS NEEDHAM:Oh, Lastings. I used to think you were a misunderstood black kid in a world of crusty ol’ white men. Then I saw you play. They may be crusty, but you’re pretty crappy.
Perpetual Post NL Central Preview
Perpetual Post writers Howard Megdal, Jason Clinkscales and Chris Pummer deliver a rundown of how they see the National League Central Division shaping up this season.
Floating Realignment
CHRIS PUMMER: as long as the Red Sox and Yankees keep printing money on their way to division title after division title, keeping advertisers, television networks and revenue-sharing, bottom-feeding teams happy, then baseball’s ownership circle probably doesn’t see this as a problem in dire need of a solution.
HOWARD MEGDAL: I agree with Chris on the economics of this, but the largest reason for scuttling any floating realignment is a simple one: emotional attachment to rivalries.
Bigger Snub: Alomar or Blyleven?
HOWARD MEGDAL: There were many people on the 2010 Hall of Fame ballot I think belong in the HOF. Barry Larkin should be an easy one, with a 116 OPS+ and terrific defense at shortstop. Alan Trammell for similar reasons. Tim Raines for a long career that only pales in comparison to Rickey Henderson. And as Rich Lederer has taught us, Bert Blyleven is a Hall of Famer as well.
None of these oversights were as egrigious as Roberto Alomar, perhaps a top-five second baseman all-time. He’s a Hall of Famer with room to spare.
DAVE TOMAR:only Nolan Ryan ranks above Blyleven in strikeouts, wins and shutouts. I’ll state this again so it sinks in that this guy only has two years of HOF eligibility left. Only Nolan Ryan, who was inducted with a 98.79% vote in his first year of eligibility, has more wins, strikeouts and shutouts than Bert Blyleven.
Winter Meetings Review: Win, Lose or Draw
Every MLB team went to Indianapolis last week looking to improve itself. We decide which teams got it done, which teams went the wrong way and which ones remain in a holding patern.
Baseball Winter Meeting Reactions: Day 4
Perpetual Post authors analyze and discuss the rumors and transactions from the MLB Winter Meetings.
NL Central Discourse: Cubs Rule, but What About the Pirates?
JESSICA BADER: NL Central: The Good, The Blah, And The Ugly
HOWARD MEGDAL: My views are just about the same as Casey’s.
Pittsburgh Pirates: Over/Under 67.5 wins
CHRIS NEEDHAM: Pittsburgh Pirates: Lead Pipe Lock-o-the-Day: Under 67.5!
CHRIS PUMMER: The Pirates won’t lose 100 because the NL Central is weak sauce.