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A rough week in the life of Jeff Keppinger

Well, Jeff Keppinger is terrible. It’s an unreasonable presumption, obviously, but after what’s likely the longest stretch of games that anyone from Chicago has seen or paid attention to him, the newest-latest White Sox infielder is 1-21 with no walks ...

Chicago Cubs Should Stay Away from Kyle Lohse

With the Chicago Cubs pitching being a bit of a weakness, and Kyle Lohse being by far the best option for starting pitching left on the free agent market, it would be tempting to suggest that the Chicago Cubs should ...

Chicago Cubs Should Consider Brian Wilson for Bullpen Depth

If Theo Epstein, Dale Sveum, and the Chicago Cubs as an organization are serious about competing in 2013, they should seriously consider signing former San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson. For a significant amount of time not all that long ...

Report: Rangers Nearing Deal With Derek Lowe

According to Evant Grant of the Dallas Morning News (Twitter link), the Rangers are nearing a minor league deal with veteran RHP Derek Lowe. Lowe, who is 39-years old, represents a cheap fallback option in the wake of Martín Pérez‘s ...

Minor Twins Signings: Rafael Perez

I love following the players in spring training that sign on with the Twins as minor league free agents. These are the guys that used to be big names or a high draft choices, and either got injured or haven’t ...

Loving Keppinger’s contact

I’ve developed a habit for trying to take a shine to unlikable players, mostly to my own detriment. Trying to find evidence that Alex Rios wasn’t on autopilot throughout 2011 was mostly fruitless (he did randomly decide to run through a ...

Minnesota Twins Sign Two Free Agents to Minor League Deals

The Twins signed two minor league free agents late last week, outfielder Antoan Richardson and infielder Doug Bernier. Richardson, a native of the Bahamas,  is listed at 5’8″ and 165 lbs, and is known as a speedster on the base ...

Bryan Anderson–backup catcher candidate

Pretend–if you can–for a moment that Hector Giminez’s 20 career major league plate appearances have not revealed everything that needs to be known about how he’ll perform as Tyler Flowers‘ backup. Now, for serious this time, actually pretend that the ...

The White Sox add Matt Lindstrom – I approve

In the drilled-down context of the late-January free agent market being scoured by a team not looking to make significant additions to their budget, or tinker with their core much beyond adding a reliever–Matt Lindstrom was more or less the ...

Jeff Keppinger is on the comeback trail, which is quite dry

When the White Sox signed Jeff Keppinger to a three-year, $12 million contract in December, there was some generalized concern about the number of years being guaranteed to a 32 year-old career part-time player, but the low total value of ...

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