With the Chicago Cubs finally freeing themselves of Matt Garza by shipping him off to the Texas Rangers, the Cubs were able to flip the big name starting pitcher to add more depth to their farm system. We now take a look at the prospects the Cubs acquired from the Rangers. JUSTIN GRIMM 2013 OUTLOOK: Above-average […]
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We last left off on our “Biggest Losers” series with Part III evaluating the 2013 season of the following starting pitchers: Kris Medlen Lucas Harrell Wily Peralta In case you missed the previous two installments, you can still read Part I and Part II. Before I move on to baseball’s next puzzlers, I would be
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The Las Vegas League portion of the 2013 NBA Summer League is winding down as the final eight teams fight for the League championship and move on to the semifinals before crowning a champion on Monday night. We will wrap up our Las Vegas League Player Reports by looking at the final six teams and the players who have created the
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We have been posting player reports on the Las Vegas League portion of the 2013 NBA Summer League. In the last installment, we focused on five more teams and the players who have created buzz by their play and how their teams have utilized them this summer. So without further delay, here are more teams and the
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The Las Vegas portion of the 2013 NBA Summer League continues to roll on in the desert. Here are more player reports you can use for the weekend. The following teams have played at least four games. ATLANTA HAWKS: LOADED WITH PROSPECTS Last year’s 23rd overall pick, John Jenkins, has become the go-to guy for Atlanta’s summer team. He leads
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As I had mentioned in the first installment of the Las Vegas League portion of the 2013 NBA Summer League, we’ll be covering player development instead of the games. We now have a pretty good sample size of games to evaluate certain player performances from each team. I’m trying to look for positives so a lot of
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In our last installment of our MLB Biggest Losers’ series, we’ll take a look at a trio of nine-loss pitchers. There were seven starting pitchers with nine losses on their record that were considered as “qualified” in terms of obtaining a certain amount of innings pitched. I originally wanted to evaluate nine pitchers for this project, so of
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We continue our look at Major League Baseball’s “biggest losers.” Part I was an overview of the first half of Cole Hamels, Joe Blanton, and Edwin Jackson as we tried to figure out the silver linings to their seasons despite having double-digit losses. We now take a look at three more pitchers: R.A. Dickey, Trevor Cahill, and Roberto Hernandez. BIGGEST LOSERS
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