Ten years ago today, Major League Baseball played its first ever game in Puerto Rico. The Blue Jays beat the Rangers by the score of 8-1 in front of a crowd of just under 20,000 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium. Alex Rodriguez had two hits in his first game with Texas after signing his landmark ten-year, $252MM contract, but he also committed an error on his first defensive chance.
With the regular season underway, let's take a look at what's being written around the blogosphere…
- Through The Fence Baseball looks ahead to some historic milestones that could be reached this season.
- Baseball Analysts identifies some breakout players using Spring Training statistics.
- Wahoo Blues compared two Alberts: Pujols and Einstein.
- Camden Depot explores the Orioles' franchise value over the last 20 seasons.
- Pirates Prospects looks at the typical minor league time line.
- The Process Report explains how the Rays have already started building their future bullpens.
- Royals Review isn't sure what Kansas City is doing with Aaron Crow.
- Disciples of Uecker thinks the Brewers paid too high a price for Sergio Mitre.
- Replacement Level Baseball offers up a scouting report and video of Casey Kelly, the centerpiece of the Adrian Gonzalez trade for the Padres.
- Cubs Billy Goat Blog asks what we learned about the Cubs in Spring Training.
- Rooftop View tackles the Cubs' change of plans at second base.
- U.S.S. Mariner tells us what a successful season for the Mariners would look like.
- South Side Sox lists three White Sox players that can tilt the balance of power in the AL Central.
- Beer Leaguer wonders if we can call the Jake Peavy trade a bust for the ChiSox yet.
- The Todd Van Poppel Rookie Card Retirement Plan previews the 2011 Athletics.
- The Nats Blog says the decision to bat Jayson Werth second will benefit Ryan Zimmerman.
- Blogging Mets calls 2011 the season of "ifs" for the Mets.
- The Shea Faithful looks at the Mets' decision to take Blaine Boyer over Jason Isringhausen.
- We Should Be GMs says it's time to get real with the 2011 Phillies.
- FanSpeak offers up some predictions for the 2011 Nationals.
- BD BK's Blog tells us what to expect from the 2011 Angels.
- Tomahawk Talk explains why the Braves will win the World Series this year.
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Haha, Yeah i think it is fair to say at this point to say that Peavy is not panning out so far. Let call this a conditionally failed trade. If he can become effective again at the very least the trade could become an even one, but the White Sox will not win this one. That being said, in similar circumstances I wouldnt mind seeing a trade like this happen again, but I would prefer a few draft picks to pan out for us instead.
I have a feeling Aaron Crow will be just fine. He looked dominating against the Angels yesterday. Yes, it’s an incredibly small sample size but it’s encouraging seeing him look so sharp in his ML debut.
The bottom three articles are great!
Jim Margalus and SSS on the Friday blog post!