John Sickels is my favorite baseball writer. He writes a regular column for ESPN.com, pens the annual STATS Minor League Scouting Notebook, and produces an outstanding semi-weekly e-mail newsletter focusing on the minor leagues. Sickels’s newsletter, launched this season, is insightful, entertaining, and packed with interesting and relevant information. It’s a great read for all…
I was ready to write a 6-4-3 this week that gave Cam Bonifay as fond a farewell as possible, focusing on his tremendous deal that brought Brian Giles to the Pirates in exchange for Ricardo Rincon. It was an absolutely masterful deal, one that could have been the cornerstone for a very successful franchise. Mr….
BYE BYE BONIFAY "When we are ready to make the announcement, we’ll announce it." — Cam Bonifay, Pirates GM, on Derek Bell’s return from the DL "To Derek’s credit, he’s given us every effort. He works hard. He does everything he’s asked to do. He just needs to get healthy. People will say the Derek…