Steven Goldman on Selena Roberts

Lest we be accused of being an all-Red Sox, all-the-time blog, here’s a piece from YES and Baseball Prospectus’ Steven Goldman on Selena Roberts’ less than stellar record with respect to accuracy and an understanding of the issues in baseball.

How Seibu spent the money

Here’s the NY Times account of how the Seibu Lions spent the $51.1 million that they received from the Red Sox for Daisuke Matsuzaka‘s posting rights. Looks like most of the money was very well spent. (They won the Japan Series and renovated the stadium.)

Update: I forgot to mention, pay special attention to the money dedicated to upgrading the stadium toilets!

Marchman on Salary Caps

My apologies for the near total lack of posting. I was hoping to hold off on spring previews until all the big FAs are signed, but it appears Manny is going to hold out until opening day, so we’ll get started on those soon.

I am very much against a salary cap in baseball, and I think Tim Marchman captures my feelings on players and ownership very well in this piece. (Found via Rob Neyer’s daily links here.)

Enough parasite behavior, we’ll have spring previews starting with the NL Central later this week.

SABRtooth on Bleacher Report

Your author wrote one of Bleacher Report’s pre-season preview articles, discussing five questions facing the Boston Red Sox.

The hot stove has been quite cool in the past couple weeks. We’ll return with preseason previews next week as pitchers and catchers report to their teams in the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues.

A slow week…

But you should all read Rob Neyer’s recent post on the Joe Torre tell-all and the fallout.

Jim Callis chat

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And an apology for the break, but it’s been an ultra-long weekend due to the Inauguration of the 44th President. We’ll return tonight with a new post.