Some nifty dancing by GMs this winter means there are a dearth of interesting job battles ahead of us.
Some teams head into spring training with significant gaps in the lineup.
Joe breaks down the recent Red Sox-Indians trade.
Frank Thomas, the WBC, and a very late trade evaluation.
Look past the Damons and the Burnetts and the Millwoods, and you find some hidden gems among the many players to change teams this winter.
A reader defends the new Cubs left fielder, so Joe breaks down the player.
At least five eventual Hall of Famers are still available on the free-agent market, but the real catch is a 29-year-old starter who no one has marked for immortality.
Bruce Sutter is the newest member of the Hall of Fame, an honor that stems more from a quirk in the process than from any evaluation of his career.
With the election results to be announced tomorrow, Joe looks at who should go into the Hall of Fame–and who will.
In his final 2005 column, Joe takes a look at what he learned during the year.
An uneventful December 20 deadline was rescued by a flurry of significant transactions.
The Dodgers’ signing of Nomar Garciaparra doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The long-delayed, and just long, second half.
Joe details what each AL team accomplished in Dallas, and wonders how many really helped themselves compete in 2006.
Lots of pitchers are changing zip codes.
The World Baseball Classic is a terrific marketing device with some detail problems. But not as many as the A.J. Burnett deal.