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Is There Any Hope For Luis Castillo's Defense?
It appears Luis Castillo will be the Mets' primary second baseman in 2010, despite reported attempts by the front office to trade him this offseason. Moving Castillo for basically anything (except Gary Matthews Jr.) and targeting Felipe Lopez or Adam Kennedy was/is the smart play, but there haven't...
Point Of Contention: Jeff Francoeur's Defense
Lookout Landing did a series of these "point of contention" articles earlier in the offseason, and I thought it would be a good way to flesh out some issues I had been thinking about. Jeff Francoeur won a gold glove in just his third season, at age 23, and has probably the best throwing arm in...
Spring Training Stats are Meaningless, version 2.0
As the Royals have begun what I'm sure will be a historic Cactus League season, I thought this would be a good time to revisit the issue of spring training stats. A year ago, I wrote the original STSAM article which set off a firestorm of controversy (otherwise known as general agreement, with a...
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