Mota’s back, baby!  Guillermo (and Ned) must be hoping they can recapture lightning in the bottle.  As Ken Gurnick notes, when Mota was in LA he was sporting a 2.60 ERA and since that time he’s ballooned up to a 4.79 ERA.  All that said, I think coming home will be good for the kid (ok, good for [...]

Looks like Brad Penny is going to have some company over in Bean Town. The Red Sox are further compensating for their lack of ability to “close” Mark Teixeira by signing releiver Takashi Saito to a one year deal reportedly guaranteed for at least $1.5 million with incentives that could make it worth more than [...]

There’s certainly been a lot of chatter about free agency in baseball this off-season – albeit without a lot of actual free agent signings and a real dearth of big-ticket deals. I’ve seen a few different perspectives out there, including some good stuff from the Sons of Steve Garvey predicting a decline in player values [...]

OK, so everyone likes to hate on Andruw Jones these days. We’re certainly no strangers to this activity here at dodgerfan.net, but The Sporting News had a great take on the contract restructuring and its implications to doing a deal prior to Spring Training: Jones so wants out of Los Angeles that he agreed to [...]

Now while I strongly believe the “source” in this story is closely associated with one Scott Boras, it’s still worth passing along to the Dodger faithful. Make your own assumptions, but it’s interesting timing given the Andruw Jones news this evening. From CBS 5 in San Francisco: Giants Offer Slugger Manny Ramirez 4-Year Deal SAN [...]