JAL’s Winterlong Morning Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Clt2zin4O4

Winterlong Neil Young

1- MLB Transactions

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

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

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

3 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8jN0zO-DxI0eVkyazRFY2IzLU0&usp=sharing

4 BFFL’s Pirates Stats Spreadsheet and Prediction Contest

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zg6X5VUHUBW_0QTsTMLdNcgTYSq-hZIKvzLFmhwPjU/edit#gid=775822168

5 Cot’s Baseball Contracts

2017 MLB Free Agents

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/league-info/potential-free-agents-for-2017/

6 Rumbunter

Trading Francisco Liriano Has Made The 2017 Pittsburgh Pirates Better

http://rumbunter.com/2016/12/23/trading-francisco-liriano-made-2017-pittsburgh-pirates-better/

7 Viva El Birdos

The longest Cardinals home runs of the year - A Hunt and Peck

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-news-analysis-mlb/2016/12/23/14070276/the-cardinals-longest-home-runs-of-the-year-a-hunt-and-peck

8 Green Weenie

12/23: JJ Signs, Payroll Blues, HBD Goshen Schoolmaster, Sam, Rick & Shawn

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2016/12/1223-jj-signs-payroll-blues-hbd-goshen.html

9 Red Reporter

Did the Reds actually trade Christy Mathewson?

http://www.redreporter.com/2016/12/23/14048650/did-the-reds-actually-trade-christy-mathewson

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Cubs Claim David Rollins... Again

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2016/12/23/14071290/cubs-claim-david-rollins-again

11 Pirates Breakdown

Pittsburgh Pirates Name 2017 Minor League Coaching Staffs

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2016/12/23/pittsburgh-pirates-name-minor-league-coaching-staffs/

12 National Pastime Museum

WAR AND REBELLION: Baseball in the 1890s</b>

http://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/war-and-rebellion

13 Inquisitr

New York Yankees Trade Rumors: Andrew McCutchen To The Yankees

http://www.inquisitr.com/3822106/new-york-yankees-trade-rumors-andrew-mccutchen-to-the-bronx-will-yankees-scoop-mets/

14 The Gazette

Cedar Rapids' Keller brothers work toward achieving their big league dreams

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/blogs/diamonds-and-ice-by-jeff-johnson/crs-keller-brothers-work-toward-achieving-their-big-league-dreams-20161223

15 USA Today

The AL Champion Indians just got one of baseball's best sluggers on a discount deal

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/12/cleveland-indians-edwin-encarnacion-contract-free-agent-homers-yes-mlb

16 St. Louis Post Dispatch

Cardinals' Wong finds a home in St. Louis

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-wong-finds-a-home-in-st-louis/article_35d6d735-df33-58c7-90f0-d54d50c16fd7.html

17 SB Nation   

The Pirates are slightly shifting course

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/12/22/14052420/the-pirates-are-slightly-shifting-course

18 CBS Sports

Here's how trading six elite Moncada-level prospects turned out for their teams

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/heres-how-trading-six-elite-moncada-level-prospects-turned-out-for-their-teams/

19 Fangraphs

Pitch Framing Was Doomed From the Start

http://www.hardballtimes.com/pitch-framing-was-doomed-from-the-start/

20 Fox Sports

9 MLB stocking stuffers that we wish existed for the holidays

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/gallery/cubs-pablo-sandoval-red-sox-bryce-harper-carlos-beltran-kate-upton-stocking-stuffers-holidays-gifts-122316

21 Baseball Prospectus

Baseball Therapy: Worrying About the Money

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=30874

22 Sports on Earth

10 BIGGEST SPORTS STORIES OF 2016

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/212175128/biggest-sports-stories-of-the-year-2016