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Rays lock up Matt Moore for guaranteed 5-year/$14 million deal, with options/incentives to push it to 8 year deal.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7335303/source-matt-moore-tampa-bay-rays-reach-five-year-14-million-deal

 

The Tampa Bay Rays have reached agreement with rookie pitcher Matt Moore on a guaranteed five-year, $14 million contract, according to a baseball source.

 

The deal includes multiple club options and could extend to eight years for $37.5 million and buy out two years of Moore's free agency, the source said. It includes escalator clauses based on innings pitched and games started that could raise the overall value to $40 million.

 

This is what I wish the Cubs would do with Castro

 

I suggested 11/110 about a month ago.

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Unrelated to the topic, but related to the link...... I had forgotten that The Baseball Cube had ever existed

 

It's my first stop when I need minor league numbers. Do you use a different resource?

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Unrelated to the topic, but related to the link...... I had forgotten that The Baseball Cube had ever existed

 

It's my first stop when I need minor league numbers. Do you use a different resource?

 

Baseball Reference or Fangraphs. I haven't been to The baseball Cube in years.

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Unrelated to the topic, but related to the link...... I had forgotten that The Baseball Cube had ever existed

 

It's my first stop when I need minor league numbers. Do you use a different resource?

 

Baseball Reference or Fangraphs. I haven't been to The baseball Cube in years.

 

Baseball-Reference is my favorite minor league stat source. Fangraphs is better for major league stats, but B-R seems a bit easier to use when dealing with minor league stats.

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baseballcube became obsolete when BR started doing minor league stats. don't remember when that was.

 

Yup. Baseball cube used to be pretty much the only mainstream (in the baseball world) site with minor league stats (except milb.com) and had a niche there until baseball reference took over. On a similar topic, as a guy who loves statistics, I still occasionally get wowed about how much data you can find on baseball reference.

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Indians To Sign Felix Pie

By Luke Adams [December 11 at 12:46pm CST]

The Indians have reached an agreement on a minor league contract with Felix Pie, tweets Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun. Pie could earn up to $1MM with performance bonuses, and has the option to opt out of the deal before Opening Day.

 

Pie, 26, ranked among Baseball America's Top 100 prospects each year from 2003 to 2007, but has never become a full-time player in the bigs. In parts of five seasons with the Cubs and Orioles, the outfielder hit .249/.298/.374 in 1051 plate appearances.

 

 

Good luck. I still don't know why we ran him out of town for nothing and Joey Gathright who turned into Ryan Freel ended up with the roster spot.

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In parts of five seasons with the Cubs and Orioles, the outfielder hit .249/.298/.374 in 1051 plate appearances.

 

That probably has something to do with it.

 

With baserunning and defense, that's a more than acceptable line for a bench spot.

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In parts of five seasons with the Cubs and Orioles, the outfielder hit .249/.298/.374 in 1051 plate appearances.

 

That probably has something to do with it.

 

With baserunning and defense, that's a more than acceptable line for a bench spot.

 

I made an all ex-cub prospect teamon MLB the show. Pie, Patterson and combined for 37 homers and 75 steals.................but each hit about .230

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In parts of five seasons with the Cubs and Orioles, the outfielder hit .249/.298/.374 in 1051 plate appearances.

 

That probably has something to do with it.

 

With baserunning and defense, that's a more than acceptable line for a bench spot.

 

Sure, but there's plenty of guys with plus base running and defensive abilities that put up a slash line like that. I don't consider him being "run out of town." He wasn't good and his talent-level is/was easily replaceable.

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In parts of five seasons with the Cubs and Orioles, the outfielder hit .249/.298/.374 in 1051 plate appearances.

 

That probably has something to do with it.

 

At the time he was 23-24 years old. He certainly wasn't off to a great start to his big league career but it was too early to trade him for some guy just because the Padres had some slight interest in him as part of a trade for Peavy. Funny how a lot of people, not so much NSBBers were livid over the DeRosa trade, which turned out to be the only good thing that came out of that fateful '08-'09 offseason.

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Twins Sign Steve Pearce, J.R. Towles

By Ben Nicholson-Smith [December 15 at 3:41pm CST]

The Twins announced a major signing today, and GM Terry Ryan also stayed busy on the minor league front. The Twins signed Steve Pearce and J.R. Towles to minor league deals, according to Joe Christensen of the Minneapolis Star Tribune (Twitter links). Scott McCauley first reported the Towles deal.

 

I didn't even know the Astros had given up on Towles. When the Astros give up on you it's time to start following your other dreams.

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baseballcube became obsolete when BR started doing minor league stats. don't remember when that was.

 

Yup. Baseball cube used to be pretty much the only mainstream (in the baseball world) site with minor league stats (except milb.com) and had a niche there until baseball reference took over. On a similar topic, as a guy who loves statistics, I still occasionally get wowed about how much data you can find on baseball reference.

 

I used to exclusively go to ESPN for player pages (and I still do when I'm bored and want to see what counting stats players are on pace for just for fun)...since then I've started to use BR more and more as the site got nicer and cleaner...loved when they added the feature that highlights the row that you're mousing over...makes it far easier to read. And the minor league stats were a great addition.

 

Lately I've been liking Fangraphs player pages more and more, though.

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baseballcube became obsolete when BR started doing minor league stats. don't remember when that was.

 

Yup. Baseball cube used to be pretty much the only mainstream (in the baseball world) site with minor league stats (except milb.com) and had a niche there until baseball reference took over. On a similar topic, as a guy who loves statistics, I still occasionally get wowed about how much data you can find on baseball reference.

 

I used to exclusively go to ESPN for player pages (and I still do when I'm bored and want to see what counting stats players are on pace for just for fun)...since then I've started to use BR more and more as the site got nicer and cleaner...loved when they added the feature that highlights the row that you're mousing over...makes it far easier to read. And the minor league stats were a great addition.

 

Lately I've been liking Fangraphs player pages more and more, though.

 

I use B-R for quick counting stat lookups, and FanGraphs for sabr stuff. I use Google Chrome and I love it, but unless I haven't figured it out, I'm missing the feature in Firefox where I can choose multiple search engines for my search box. I had FanGraphs & B-R in there so it would make player lookup a cinch. Baseball Cube and Prospectus, too, just for good measure

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