I’m nor­mally a fan of the XM Base­ball morn­ing show with Buck Mar­tinez (who will be for­ever ruined to me thanks to Triple Play ’99) and the other guy, but they were pulling some things out of their ass this morn­ing. They were doing some seem­ingly “on the fly” dis­cus­sion of last year’s dead­line trades […]

Alex Rodriguez is sched­uled to make $27 mil­lion a year for the next three years after this sea­son is com­plete. He can elect to ter­mi­nate this con­tract in order to receive more money, upwards of $32 mil­lion a year, and tack­ing on addi­tional years to his con­tract that would likely be his last huge money […]

Ready for some fun, kids?� Let’s play “You’re The Man­ager.” � Base­ball man­agers make very impor­tant deci­sions that their years of expe­ri­ence in base­ball can give them insight that an out­sider like you or me can only dream to have.� But let’s pre­tend, shall we?

I men­tioned ear­lier a few of the sug­ges­tions for good trad­ing prac­tices. One of the main rea­sons I wrote that is because I’ve been burned and frus­trated count­less times by other own­ers who don’t keep the same rules in mind. And while it’s one thing to say “well, that just didn’t work out”, if it […]