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If you’re a baseball fan and you’ve never been to Spring Training, you owe it to yourself to go. Trust me on this, you’ll have the time of your life and wonder why it took you so long to get there. If you’re an Angels fan and you live in Southern California, you can easily drive to Tempe, Arizona in five or six hours. I’m telling you; it’s worth the …

In the fall of 2007, the Rockies used an eleven-game winning streak and an extraordinary extra-innings win against San Diego in game 163 to surge into the postseason and eventually to the World Series. They had five players with 90 or more RBI – Matt Holliday (137), Brad Hawpe (116), Garrett Atkins (111), Troy Tulowitzki (99), and Todd Helton (91) – and looked like a team built to win for …

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance named their inaugural Managers of the Year today, selecting Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Jim Tracy of the Colorado Rockies as the best managers in their respective leagues.
Scioscia, who lead the Angels to the American League West division title and into the American League Championship Series despite the tragic loss of Nick Adenhart early in the season, garnered eight first-place votes …

Originally posted at Marlin Maniac.
As part of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, my job is to spout my opinion on end-of-season awards and make sure we kick the crap out of the BBWAA (they deserve it). I figure with the Marlins season over, the playoffs in heat, and most importantly, my deadlines approaching, I’d get us started with these awards.
The National League Manager of the Year
Managers are extremely difficult to quantify. …

As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, one of my duties is to vote on a plethora of awards as the season comes to a close.
We start with the Manager of the Year in the National League.  Still to come:  NL Rookie of the Year, NL Cy Young, NL MVP.
NL Manager of the Year
3)  Charlie Manuel, Philadelphia
2)  Tony La Russa, St. Louis
1)  Jim Tracy, Colorado
Be sure to check out …

Originally posted at raisethejollyroger.com
Managing is difficult to quantify, unless you follow a team around for an entire season religiously, like I do with the Pirates (and trust me, John Russell is not getting any manager of the year votes). The conventional wisdom is that you look at the teams that did well, take the one that has the least natural talent, and say the manager made up for it and was …

The current end-of-season set between the Rockies and Dodgers is so packed with drama, the postseason itself may seem like a let-down.
Among the dramatic highlights of tonight’s game, which I listened to via MLB.com, we had Manny Ramirez, the 2004 World Series MVP, idiot savant of the batters box, supposedly immune to pressure and possessed of a “natural” swing and hitting ability that is matched only by guys enshrined …

The Cardinals were able to lock up the NL Central this weekend.  They weren’t able to lock down worries about the postseason, however.
The clincher was nice and you have to give all credit to Adam Wainwright.  130 pitches and he’s still able to strike out batters to keep the St. Louis lead in the eighth.  Chris Carpenter says that locked down the Cy Young for him.  While I’m still fairly …

All the Cardinals needed was a win.  A win to head to October.  A win, and Chris Carpenter was on the mound.  It was all set up for a perfectly appropriate ending.

However, someone forgot to either tell the offense or the Rockies, depending on who was more at fault.

This article and other Cardinal stories may be found at C70 At The Bat. You can also follow Cardinal70 on …

Jeff Cirillo accomplished plenty in his 14 year Major League career…read what he had to say about finally making it to the playoffs in his final season and his brief stint playing ball in Mexico.