How much for Sheets?
Rumors this week have the M's as one of three or four finalists for Sheets. Seismo's out of Fort Brougham are that they're, um, trying to get the $$ worked out.
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Sickels Top 20, part 2
I/O: Sickels with 1 Mariner, Ackley, in his top 100.
CRUNCH: And Ackley don't count. He's a North Carolina Mariner. In no way, shape, or form is Dustin Ackley an M's org product.
Beltre to Oakland?
Per MLBTradeRumors, the A's are very interested in Beltre. They would need for him (and Boras) to scale back his $10-15m per season price tag, for something designed for 'an Oakland economy sized package.'
HQ on Jose Lopez - 30 HR, .300 AVG next?
=== Caveats & Quid Pro Quo's Dept. ===
POTD Achilles, Off-Field - 1
Agamemnon: "We can't control Achilles! He's as likely to fight US as the Trojans!"
Sage: We don't need to control him. We need to UNLEASH him!
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POTD Achilles, Off-Field - 2
Too High a Cust Associated
The Bakery is a veritable $1.99 buffet of pastries and pies this morning. If any other blog had a fraction of this "hard" information, we'd be awestricken ...
The Short, Squat Player Pyramid
One of the anonymous posts, discussing Capt Jack's agility, clanged off the LF scoreboard. (grrrrr... sign 'em in the text area you pokeys. It's five letters.)
Pineda and Dan Haren
We'd been struggling to come up with an MLB archetype who matches to the attributes that the Bane of High Desert is reported to have. But hey, in the fewest-walks leaderboard, we ran across Danny Haren:
Take the C-note ... but you gotta get it first
Q. How do you figure that only +100 runs added gets us anywhere near the playoffs?
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