JAL’s Flying Down to Rio Morning Links

Flying Down to Rio  Fred Astaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfTr7VPDKI

MLB Transactions

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

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

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

3 Baseball Reference

https://www.baseball-reference.com

4 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

5 Rumbunter

5 days until the Pittsburgh Pirates first spring workout

https://rumbunter.com/2018/02/09/5-days-pittsburgh-pirates-first-spring-workout/

6 Viva El Birdos</b>

If the Cardinals won't spend money on players, they should buy a bullpen cart

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2018/2/9/16980558/if-the-cardinals-wont-spend-money-on-players-they-should-buy-a-bullpen-cart

7 Green Weenie

Camp Battles, Gimmes & Depth

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2018/02/camp-battles-gimmes-depth.html

8 Bleed Cubbie Blue

The Daily Darvish: Yu can’t always get what Yu want

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2018/2/9/16992090/yu-darvish-cubs-free-agent-rumors

9 Pirates Breakdown

Pittsburgh Pirates Wake Up Call: The New Look Andrew McCutchen

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2018/02/09/pittsburgh-pirates-wake-call-new-look-andrew-mccutchen/

10 USA Today

NL Central teams at the start of spring training

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2018/02/09/nl-central-teams-at-the-start-of-spring-training/110260124/

11 Bleacher Report</b>

MLB Free-Agency Nightmare Creates Opportunity for Surprise Teams to Strike Gold

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2758555-mlb-free-agency-nightmare-creates-opportunity-for-surprise-teams-to-strike-gold

12 NewsMax

MLB Plays Ball With 'Analytics' and Informed Intelligence

https://www.newsmax.com/georgewill/baseball-mlb-mlbpa-series/2018/02/08/id/842357/

13 New York Post

Discouraging case for allowing MLB cheaters into Hall of Fame

https://nypost.com/2018/02/08/discouraging-case-for-allowing-mlb-cheaters-into-hall-of-fame/

14 St. Louis Post Dispatch</b>

  BenFred: Good, bad and ugly projections for the 2018 Cardinals

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ben-frederickson/benfred-good-bad-and-ugly-projections-for-the-cardinals/article_3e2461fa-0065-5785-9aa1-b7bf684942c6.html

15 SB Nation

Is there a team that could sign all of the free agents and become a hilarious, collusion-busting super team?

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/2/9/16989418/mlb-offseason-free-agency-rumors-no-rumors-nothing-the-void-whispers-from-beyond-the-void

16 CBS Sports

MLB Hot Stove rumors: Teams now hoping to snag Jake Arrieta on a short-term deal

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-hot-stove-rumors-teams-now-hoping-to-snag-jake-arrieta-on-a-short-term-deal/

17 Fangraphs

Post-Prospect Scouting Reports

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/post-prospect-scouting-reports/

18 Baseball Prospectus</b>

Short Relief: Shacho, Aristotle, and Sutter, the Great Baseballers of Antiquity

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/37690/short-relief-shacho-aristotle-sutter-great-baseballers-antiquity/

19 National Pastime Museum

JACKIE ROBINSON CHALLENGES ELSTON HOWARD

https://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/jackie-robinson-challenges-elston-howard