JAL’s New Year’s Day Morning Links

New Year’s Day U2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Agamk

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

First link is to new 2017 sheets but no data yet while second link is to 2016 data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wMRQrWaQaLQvSs502k6qTzds_6JOlKjzNeaUNLtNLyc/edit#gid=0

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

5 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

6 Rumbunter

Pittsburgh Pirates: 2017 A Year of Trade Rumors

https://rumbunter.com/2017/12/31/pittsburgh-pirates-2017-year-trade-rumors/

7 Viva El Birdos</b>

The Five Best Games of 2017

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-sabermetrics-analysis/2017/12/27/16816094/five-best-games-of-2017-st-louis-cardinals-leverage-index-tommy-pham-matt-carpenter-yadier-molina

8 Green Weenie

Happy & Healthy New Year! 12/31: RIP Roberto; Walkie Signs; CBA Woes; HBD Jim, Esteban, Dorothy & Bobby

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/12/happy-healthy-new-year-1231-rip-roberto.html

9 Bleed Cubbie Blue

MLB trade rumors: Cubs interested in Christian Yelich

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2017/12/31/16835460/mlb-trade-rumors-cubs-christian-yelich

10 Pirates Breakdown

Pittsburgh Pirates 2018 New Year’s Resolutions

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2017/12/31/pittsburgh-pirates-new-years-resolutions/

11 Fanrag Sports

New Year’s resolutions for all 15 National League teams

https://www.fanragsports.com/new-years-resolutions-for-all-15-national-league-teams/

12 Merry Mets Mania

Should the Mets trade for Josh Harrison?

https://www.sportsblog.com/merrymetsmania/

13 Toronto Star

The funniest sports quotes of 2017, from J-Rod to naked Sharks

https://www.thestar.com/sports/2017/12/31/the-funniest-sports-quotes-of-2017-from-j-rod-to-naked-sharks.html

14 Baseball GB

British Perspectives on Baseball

http://www.baseballgb.co.uk/?p=20448

15 St. Louis Post Dispatch</b>

  Hochman: Cardinals need closer to finish the shopping season

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-cardinals-need-closer-to-finish-the-shopping-season/article_aacfec96-5a07-5781-ad49-947bf49e4c80.html

16 SB Nation

So now the Red Sox are interested in Manny Machado

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/12/31/16835260/so-now-the-red-sox-are-interested-in-manny-machado

17 CBS Sports

In Roberto Clemente's honor, MLB's charitable ventures remain strong as ever

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/in-roberto-clementes-honor-mlbs-charitable-ventures-remain-strong-as-ever/

18 Fangraphs

FanGraphs Q&A and Sunday Notes: The Best Quotes of 2017

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/fangraphs-qa-and-sunday-notes-the-best-quotes-of-2017/

19 Baseball Prospectus</b>

Best of Short Relief: Literary Criticism

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/36874/best-bp-2017-literary-criticism/