JAL’s First Snow on Brooklyn Morning Links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVQo7AgSd4

GENERAL DAILY UPDATED BASEBALL SITES

1- MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 MLB Important Dates

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/important_dates.jsp

BLOGS and such

 

4—Pirates Prospects

First Pitch: Comparing the Pirates’ 2014 Starting Pitching Depth to 2013

http://www.piratesprospects.com/2013/12/first-pitch-comparing-the-pirates-2014-starting-pitching-depth-to-2013.html

Prospect Rewind: How Gregory Polanco Became the Pirates’ Top Prospect

http://www.piratesprospects.com/2013/12/prospect-rewind-how-gregory-polanco-became-the-pirates-top-prospect.html

5 Bucs Dugout

Links: Holidays, Tanaka, New York Times

http://www.bucsdugout.com/2013/12/26/5245880/links-holidays-tanaka-new-york-times

6 Rant Sports

Pittsburgh Pirates Would Be Fine Without A.J. Burnett

http://www.rantsports.com/mlb/2013/12/26/pittsburgh-pirates-would-be-fine-without-a-j-burnett/

7 City of Champions

Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2014 Payroll in Bottom Third of MLB So Far

http://cityofchampionssports.com/2013/12/26/pittsburgh-pirates-near-bottom-mlb-spending-2014-season/

8 MLB

> Tanaka may prove to be high-yield investment

http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/richard-justice-masahiro-tanaka-may-yield-big-returns-on-investment?ymd=20131226&content_id=66197088&vkey=news_mlb

9 Uncle Mike’s Musings

Mike Hegan, 1942-2013; Paul Blair, 1944-2013

http://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2013/12/mike-hegan-1942-2013-paul-blair-1944.html

10 Catholic Sentinel

Catholic filmmaker gets to make movie about Clemente, his boyhood idol

http://www.catholicsentinel.org/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=34&ArticleID=23501

NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES and Other Media

11 Bellingham Herald

Pirates' turnaround headlines Pa. year in sports

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/12/26/3391510/pirates-turnaround-headlines-pa.html

12 LA Times

Could baseball heaven now come with a spending limit for Dodgers?

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-baseball-heaven-20131226,0,5257920.story#axzz2ofudf6h6

13 Baseball Nation

Well, it's not the worst Hall of Fame ballot ...

http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/12/26/5245584/murray-chass-hall-fame-ballot-craig-biggio-steroids

14 South Side Sox

Thinking better, about baseball and everything else

http://www.southsidesox.com/2013/12/26/5238852/thinking-better-about-baseball-and-everything-else

15 Cincinnati Enquirer

Bronson Arroyo: ‘I don’t know who’s interested’

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/2013/12/26/bronson-arroyo-i-dont-know-whos-interested/

16 Global Post

Baseball: Bidding battle begins for Japan's Tanaka

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/131226/baseball-bidding-battle-begins-japans-tanaka

17 Pittsburgh Sports Report

Growing The Farm

http://www.pittsburghsportsreport.com/PSR/node/6284

18 St Louis Post Gazette

Cards have more good, young arms than ever

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cards-have-more-good-young-arms-than-ever/article_c30ee5df-287c-5593-8cdb-5300bda6c138.html

SPORTS WEBSITES

19 Baseball Prospectus

Nine of Our Favorite Baseball Player Idiosyncracies

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22464

20 Fangraphs

The Business of Baseball In 2013

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-business-of-baseball-in-2013/

Song:  First Snow in Brooklyn  Jethro Tull