by Dr. Lefty | Jan 5, 2019 | 2018 Offseason News, Out of Left Field
by DrLefty So the ball has dropped (but didn’t break) and the calendar has turned, and it’s January and a new year. We’re not worrying about it being an odd-numbered year because that even-year thing ended about the time Bochy pulled Matt Moore...
by Dr. Lefty | Dec 29, 2018 | 2018 Offseason News, Out of Left Field
by DrLefty I know we’re all super-excited about the Twins signing 39-year-old Nelson Cruz, and who else had trouble sleeping last night after hearing about Jonathan Lucroy’s deal with the Angels? As for the Giants? They’re going to have the most...
by Dr. Lefty | Dec 22, 2018 | 2018 Offseason News, Out of Left Field
by Dr Lefty If I thought last week was a nothing burger, this week was…yeeeesh. The Giants signed Pat Venditte to a one-year major league deal for $585,000 and negotiated with the Oakland (for now) Raiders to let them trample and trash AT & T Park in 2019....
by Dr. Lefty | Dec 15, 2018 | 2018 Offseason News, Out of Left Field
by Dr Lefty Silly me last Saturday, thinking something might actually happen this week. The Baseball Winter Meetings were mostly a big nothing burger (again), and I might even quibble that it’s not actually “winter” yet, according to the calendar....
by Dr. Lefty | Dec 8, 2018 | 2018 Offseason News, Out of Left Field
by Dr Lefty Greetings from sunny Anaheim, California, where I am literally looking out at Disney’s California Adventure from my room at the Hilton Anaheim. I’m here to give a workshop tomorrow morning as part of a conference being held here, and me and the...
by Dr. Lefty | Dec 1, 2018 | 2018 Offseason News, Out of Left Field
by Dr Lefty With last night being the deadline to tender arbitration offers to eligible players (or not), I woke up thinking about “Tender is the Night” as a possible riff for the post. This was the name of the final novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one that...
