JAL’s The Matador Morning Links

 

 

The Matador-Gretchen Peters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyOFlF9K1E

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

4 Pirates Prospects Spring Training Tracker

http://www.piratesprospects.com/st2014

BLOGS and such

 

5—Pirates Prospects

Winter Leagues: Big Last Game For Rojas, Polanco Returns to Field

http://www.piratesprospects.com/2014/01/winter-leagues-big-last-game-for-rojas-polanco-returns-to-field.html

6 Rumbunter

Pittsburgh Pirates Shark Tank Needs to Stay Hungry

http://rumbunter.com/2014/01/17/pittsburgh-pirates-shark-tank-needs-stay-hungry/

7 Bucs Dugout

Projecting The 2014 Pirates: wRC, Runs Allowed and Pythagorean Wins Calculators

http://www.bucsdugout.com/2014/1/18/5322136/projecting-the-2014-pirates-wrc-runs-allowed-and-pythagorean-wins

8 Rant Sports

Projecting the 2014 Pittsburgh Pirates’ Lineup

http://www.rantsports.com/mlb/2014/01/18/projecting-the-2014-pittsburgh-pirates-lineup/

9 Saber Bucs

> How Many Games Would a 0.0 WAR Team Win?

http://saberbucs.com/blog/2014/01/19/how-many-games-would-a-0-0-war-team-win/

A Top Free Agent, Whom the Pirates Really Could Sign; but shouldn’t – maybe

http://saberbucs.com/blog/2014/01/18/a-top-free-agent-whom-the-pirates-really-could-sign-but-shouldnt-maybe/

10 Green Weenie

16 Pirates Under Contract; Payroll Taking Shape - Kinda...

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2014/01/16-pirates-under-contract-payroll.html

11 Pirates 101

Why the Pittsburgh Pirates Will Be Worse in 2014

http://www.sportsmedia101.com/pittsburghpirates/2014/01/18/why-the-pittsburgh-pirates-will-be-worse-in-2014/

NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES and Other Media

12 Belleville News Democrat

Remorseful Peralta: 'I know I can play baseball naturally'

http://www.bnd.com/2014/01/18/3012259/remorseful-peralta-i-know-i-can.html

13 The News Dispatch

Baseball had multiple tainted eras

http://www.thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2014/01/18/sports/doc52cf750388b27353949748.txt

14 New York Daily News

Alex Rodriguez ban may close door on his career while bringing climax to Bud Selig’s crusade vs. PEDs

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/madden-a-rod-ban-bring-climax-selig-crusade-peds-article-1.1584066

15 Baseball Nation

Enjoy those close-call replays while you can

http://www.baseballnation.com/2014/1/17/5317916/mlb-baseball-instant-replay-rules-video-board-stadium

16 Toronto Sun </b>

A-Rod no Hall of Famer: Paul Molitor

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/18/a-rod-no-hall-of-famer-molitor

17 St. Louis Post Dispatch</b>

Strauss: Mozeliak, DeWitt highlight Cardinals’ newfound depth

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/joe-strauss/strauss-mozeliak-dewitt-highlight-cardinals-newfound-depth/article_025ebc33-4316-5e23-b554-dcb11cd9ba53.html

18 Fosters’s Daily Democrat/b>

Lee is the ‘Pied Piper of baseball’

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140119/GJSPORTS_01/140119243/-1/FOSNEWS

19 Fangraphs

Catching Up and Catching Down

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/catching-up-and-catching-down/

20 Sweetspot

Cardinals more likely to win 90 than 100

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/43626/cardinals-more-likely-to-win-90-than-100