Team USA Key to Canada’s Success Well it looks like Team USA was the Key to Canada’s success, at least at the box office for the WBC. Last night’s game against Italy drew under 13,000 fans. As we all know by now Saturday’s game vs the USA had over 42,000 in attendance. Of cou...

Twitter, Facebook & Pete Orr Our Twitter link is https://twitter.com/mopupduty We’re new to Twitter, so up front apologies for not adding you, your site, etc as of yet. We’ll get there eventually. On the same note please join our Facebook group! We have something like 13 members, wh...

How Canada can beat Team USA Pitching Pushing back #1 starter Scott Richmond to start in the second game of the tournament sends a clear message that Canada is saving themselves for a more realistic chance vs a weaker squad. Bullpen usage will be the key for the pitching staff vs Team USA. It goes w...

Random Observations 02/22/09 At the beginning of the new year we decided to add a Jays focus to the site, which has made this off-season pretty boring. It’s hard to get worked up over Kevin Millar… M’s sign Griffey - I have no idea what the plan is in Seattle. They ship out service...

Alex Rios 2009 Keyword: GB Ratio The Keyword(s) to Alex Rios 2009 success or failure is - Groundball Ratio. Below is a graph (via fangraphs.com) of Alex Rios batted balls. Take a quick glance at 2006 & 2007 and then focus on the 2008 season. In 08 we can see that GB % is up considerably vs care...

Pop-Up King - Mark Ellis Heading into the beginning of the 2008 season it was readily apparent to anyone watching the A’s/Red Sox Japanese opening series that the A’s had high hopes for Mark Ellis, as he opened the season in the three spot of the order. By the end of the year Ellis hit o...

Sign Andrew Brown The Oakland A’s signed free agent Russ Springer to a one-year, $3.3 million contract yesterday and in a surprising move, released reliever Andrew Brown from their 40 man roster. Brown is an ex-team USA member and has played portions of the past three seasons in the major leag...

Felix Hernandez in 2009 While reading a newspaper while on vacation I came across the Mariners signing of Felix Hernandez to a one-year, $3.8 million contract. God, that’s quite a deal when compared to the Silva’s and Washburn’s of the world. Another feather in the arbitration, pre...

Best Free Agent Signings of 2009: Russell Branyan The Seattle Mariners December 3rd signing of Russell Branyan (one year contract at $1.4 million) kicks off this years edition of best free agent signings. Branyan is a left-handed power bat with less than desirable defense. While his D is below avera...

Jays Sign Matt Clement - WTF? J.P. has saved the day. In the vein of Thompson’s, Ohka’s and Zambrano’s, the Jays have signed a washed up pitcher to a contract. This time it’s a minor league deal for Matt Clement. Clement had a couple of decent seasons, namely 2002 - 2005. Sin...