As mentioned on the blog earlier, the Oakland A’s went Rule 5-crazy this season, trading up to the overall first pick in the annual scrub hunt, grabbing Cleveland’s best outfield power-hitting prospect, Ryan Goleski, losing Jared Burton (who had stalled in AA anyway), and then picking up a lefty sidearm reliever in the shape of [...]

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JOE NEWBYThe Noob has long been a friend to Notes From The Nat, and we in turn have been one of the 2005 Beer Hawker’s Player of the Year award winner’s biggest cheerleaders. In 2004, he was brought in as a non-drafted free agent by Oakland after failing to get drafted. In 2005, he (along [...]

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SCHILLING FOR YOUR THOUGHTS News out of boston indicates that Red Sox starting pitcher Curt "vote for Bush" Schilling has decided to learn Japanese so that he can communicate with his new Japanese teammates, reliever Hideki Okajima and (in all likelihood) Daisuke Matsuzaka.
Maybe Schilling can start off with this phrase - "Warawa fuka sokosoko Iraku [...]

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Hey folks, my apologies to those who were left momentarily unentertained as I took a little post-season breather, but with spring training on the (distant) horizon, things will begin heating up on the blog over the coming months.
The Wordpress software has kept comment spam to a minimum (no thanks to the Bulgarian douchebags who insist [...]

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And I’m not going to link to it, because BA has been sending out legal threats to website owners who repost and link to their content. Frankly, that’s just a dickish move, and it’s already caused Blez at AthleticsNation to randomly delete comments that contained reference to BA’s details.. Boo.
So here’s the list - one [...]

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If you can say nothing else for the Toronto Blue Jays, you can sure as heck say they have little respect and/or use for the minor leagues.
The second last Canadian minor league team, the Ottawa Lynx, is shutting up shop in part because the Blue Jays were never interested in riding to their rescue. Honestly, [...]

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Every year at about this time, a funky little mini-draft is held in which minor league fortunes are made and broken. It’s known as the Rule 5 Draft, and the concept is, any player that has been in a teams system for a given number of years and hasn’t yet made it to the major [...]

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