The cases to make for the best on the ballot at first and second base.
The notable quotables from the week that was.
Uncovering when it is beneficial for a bad team to sign someone on the free-agent market.
Examining the possibility that the Nationals may have signed the wrong person to mentor their young pitching staff.
Metropolitan inaction, Mariner busy-ness, plus news and rumors from around the game.
The Mariners’ skipper on his relationship with GM Jack Zduriencik, the expectations on his club for 2010, and the acquisitions of Cliff Lee and Chone Figgins.
A quick surf through the remainder of the week’s moves.
Is it an exchange of lemons, of sunk costs, or just the latest inspired Mariners’ move?
Sorting out the odder types among pitchers asked to start and relieve.
Or was the Jays/Phillies/Mariners/A’s swap-a-rama really just serial monogamy?
It may seem as though everyone involved in the Aces-for-Prospects swaps came out ahead, but it simply isn’t so.
The decade of play just completed delivered its share of all-time historical feats of the best and worst kinds.
It’s possible that for all the coverage of the Phillies’ wheeling and dealing, the biggest story has been lost.
Bud Selig’s latest blue ribbon committee is doomed to fail, but maybe that is its objective.
The Winter Meetings after-party stands to blow away the event itself, with changes coming on multiple fronts.
Belatedly, the Lindstrom trade from Houston’s perspective, plus Milwaukee’s makeover on the mound.