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All StarJust some random MLB musings while we await my next big blog project.
*Nick Markakis is becoming the football Deion Sanders of baseball. "Huh!?!" I mean that in a good way. "No seriously BT1, huh?!?" It's time that teams stopped running on Nick Markakis the way teams just stopped throwing in the direction of Deion Sanders. Then again, I'd pay good money to see Nick drop a Gatorade (oops, G lightning bolt) bucket on Tim McCarver.
*MLB needs to consider allowing teams to trade draft picks, or at the very least, draft rights. It has become apparent that the Washington Nationals do not feel as if signability is a component of drafting. If they did, they would actually sign a draft pick. If the Nats won't pay, at leasst let them trade out of the spot to where they will pay. The Nats wound up with two top tens this season because they failed to sign Aaron Crow last season. If it happens again, they will have the top two picks in 2010. This can't go on forever.
*People say that the Phillies need Roy Halladay if they want to win the World Series. I was unaware that he was on last season's roster. Now that Pedro is on the Clemens plan (the playing half the season part, not the absess on the butt part), that could be enough without having to sacrifice a potential dynasty.
*The Cardinals could use another body, or a four game series against the Nationals. One of those scenarios is not happening. Plus, if Halladay and Holliday were on the saem team, my brother in law could finally stop getting confused as to who went where. They're all in St Louis, mmkay!
*Erik Bedard is on the DL. At this point, as an Oriole fan, I feel one of those gate clerks from the old A&E show "Airline." I know they know the rules, but I want to provide superior service to brighten their day. Perhaps if we just refunded George Sherill, it would make them feel less angry. Chris Tillman starts Wednesday. M's fans set your MLB Extra Innings package to the O's/Royals game.
*Anyone else get the feeling that the AL Central teams have banded together to say, "Let's make ourselves as least interesting as possible"? And one of the teams is managed by Ozzie Guillen!
I too wish that MLB would allow trading of draft picks, but at the same time, it would get fairly crazy because I wouldn't think that anyone would be willing to throw out a big name to get a draft pick that is unproven in a sport where it takes at least 2 or 3 years to reach the majors if not 4 or 5. I think that this system is still the more reliable. I know I use the Braves as an example a lot of times, but look at how many years they made the playoffs. They mostly did it through the draft and scouting. Teams need to emphasize this more often. I mean right now, we have a guy touted as the best pitcher to come through the Braves farm system in over 15 years. The funny thing about it, he wasn't taken in the first round. Not the second. Not even the top 20. He was a 22nd round draft pick. He has started 8 major league games and in his last start, recorded his first loss on 6 innings only allowing 2 runs.
amarant00Nick Markakis is a great player. He went to college 40 minutes from my house where several of my high school teammates attended. I think he is probably the best all around right fielder in the game at the moment.
Roy Halladay is not really a key acquisition that the Phillies need to make but Pedro isn't going to be their answer either. Their pitching is pretty far off this year from last, well at least it has been when I have seen them play the Braves, in which they are 2-7. In the first half the season, the Braves did not have anyone hitting over .300 at the break who had enough at bats to be considered a leader, we had not one player to reach 10 home runs until after the break, yet the Phillies pitching made the Braves hitting look good. The Phillies need a young strong and durable pitcher, They already have Jamie Moyer, they do not need another, past their prime, type of player who has not done much to brag about over the past few years, unless you hate the Mets and love to see one of their players go on the DL then I guess you have a case.
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