FMC: David Price Makes Lemonade and Signs an Autograph Deal to Get His Share of DJ/3K Cash
David Price inked a deal with Steiner Sports to sign autographed photos and balls in connection with the DJ/3K campaign.
Price was the unfortunate victim who served up hit number 3,000 to Derek Jeter and began the whole Christian Lopez debacle. He’s decided to make some lemonade and beef up the 401K by autographing photos [...]
What Would You Have Done? The Ball is Returned.
What would you have done?
By now, you’re well aware that Derek Jeter collected his 3,000th career hit on Saturday against the Rays. It was the second hit in Jeter’s 5-for-5 performance, a home run off of David Price launched in the third inning. The montages of Jeter’s milestone hits have no doubt been played on [...]
Derek Jeter Homers for 3,000: What’s the Asking Price?
Jeter, batting out of the leadoff spot, homered in his second at-bat against David Price to reach the hallowed milestone. Jeter singled in the first inning to notch hit 2,999 and wasted no time getting to the finish line.
It was his third home run of the season. Now, there had obviously been a lot [...]
Derek Jeter’s Hit List
Unless you’ve abandoned Major League Baseball in search of the summer sun, vacations, and rest before the start of the NCAA and NFL seasons, you know that Derek Jeter is creeping to 3,000 hits. He’s a polarizing figure, of course, as “The Captain” of this New York ship. It just comes with the territory.
Respect. [...]
Sweep The Leg: Nishioka Broken Up Over Double Play
Tsuyoshi Nishioka came over from Japan to jumpstart the Minnesota offense. He struggled at the outset of the season, producing five hits in 24 at-bats with eight strikeouts. On Thursday, Nishioka’s ability to learn on the job and acclimate to big league pitching was abruptly halted when Nick Swisher broke up a double play in [...]
Russell Martin to the Yanks: Is a Montero Trade in the Works?
Last week on “The Petros & Money Show” on FOX Sports Radio, Ned Colletti addressed a question about the status of negotiations with catcher Russell Martin. He discussed the negotiation process and spoke candidly about the divide between the team and Martin’s representation. Basically, given two years of injuries and slipping production, the Dodgers were [...]
Big Apple Bust: Cliff Lee Joins The Phils
It was assumed all along that Cliff Lee would be wowed by a huge contract and make the trek up to the East coast to join the Yankees. Lee will still move North for the 2011 season but, in a shocker, he returns to Philadelphia.
The Phillies now boast baseball’s version of “The Four Horsemen.” Don’t [...]
Some Interesting Reading: Mariano A Starter?
Hey everybody –
I knew that the title would get your attention. There was an interesting article posted on the Freakonomics blog that took an interesting spin on the handling of pitching staffs. It’ll never fly, but it certain flips the script on what we’ve been watching all our lives.
It’s a good read over [...]
Prediction Time for MLB
Well, there’s already one game in the books, so I can still do this without feeling much hate. After all, I’m still putting the Yankees in the mix for the playoffs.
I’m not going to put up a 9,000-word diatribe here. We’ve been banging on the position-by-position analysis of each team for months. So, I’m [...]
