February 20, 2013 With Spring Training games starting on Friday, SI.com's Jay Jaffe who has his Hit and Run column, stops by for his weekly visit to talk baseball and beer.
Jaffe talks about the new rookie class and who to watch for, the Yankees and the Red Sox, the Dodgers and Jay's beer of the week
Zack Greinke and Josh Hamilton were the big-ticket items in free agency this winter, but the intrigue belonged to Melky Cabrera. How would his dismissal from the World Champion San Francisco Giants, and his suspension for performance enhancing drugs, impact his contract? He would leave money on the table because of his actions, but how much? How much were PEDs contributing to his performance? I'll address some of those questions, but first, some backstory:
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February 15, 2013 On Thursday's SportsTalk, we had the pleasure of having the founder and author of The Baseball Prospect Book, John Sickels on to talk some Minor League Baseball.
With the City of El Paso getting a Triple A team next year, Sickels not only touches on the the San Diego Pardes farm system for us but the rest of Minor League Baseball as well
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January 24, 2013 Last Saturday, Earl Weaver, one of the most successful managers of the Post-World War II era died of a heart attack at the age of 82. Throughout his Hall of Fame career, Weaver was thrown out of 91 baseball games, and his arguments with umpires were legendary. Here's one for the ages.
