http://sportshound.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:18:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The New York Yankees have dished out another $23 million dollars a year for Mark Teixeira. That makes 4 players that the New York Yankees have signed that will cost them over $20 million dollars a year - Mark Teixeira, CC Sabatha, Alex Rodriques, and Derek Jeter. The New York ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/26/will-the-new-york-yankees-win-the-world-series-with-mark-teixeira/ The World Championship Philadelphia Phillies have quietly been signing free agents. They signed 36 year old Raul Ibanez to a 3 year $31 million dollar contract. He is an obvious replacement for Pat Burrell. Ibanez hit 23 home runs, 110 RBIs and a 293 BA, in a pitchers ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/15/the-world-championship-philadelphia-phillies-have-quietly-been-signing-free-agents/ The Yankees are throwing around money like it is confetti at two pitchers. They have spent a quarter of a billion dollars on two pitchers - CC Sabathia - over 7 years will earn $162 million and AJ Burnett gets himself 82.5 million over 5 years. With Sabathia, Burnett ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/13/well-the-yankees-have-dished-out-a-quarter-of-a-billion-dollars/ While the Angels are still interested in signing him, he has a large number of suitors courting him. There are the Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles and Nationals. Teixeira is a good all-round switch hitting player that would fit well into any team's system. He is a team player with ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/09/which-team-will-teixeira-sign-with-this-year/ Francisco Rodriguez got together with New York general manager Omar Minaya. The Mets are in desperate need of a closer, because Billy Wagner, will miss all of next season because of elbow surgery. The Mets have fallen apart in September for two consecutive years in a row. One of ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/08/k-rod-has-met-with-the-mets-on-the-eve-of-the-winter-meetings/ The baseball executives and agents will be descending upon Las Vegas this Monday until it ends on Wednesday. Hopefully, the free agency market will heat up, because it has been so incredibly dead. Only a small number of free agents have signed so far this year - Ryan Dempster with ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/07/the-free-agency-has-been-such-a-dud-so-far-this-year/ Well, I thought that Santana would enable the Mets to reach the National League playoffs. But He wasn't. The Mets still didn't make it. There pitching staff should have improved, and they had a starter that could stop a Mets skid every four or five days. Woe and behold, ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/06/will-k-rod-stop-the-mets-september-self-destruction/ The Bosox have had such good luck with their Japanese pitching that they have added the Japanese right-hander Junichi Tazawa to their staff for $3.3 million dollars. The 22 year old amateur pitched for Nippon Oil of the Japan Industrial League. He had a 13-1 W/L record with five ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/12/05/the-bosox-have-signed-junichi-tazawa-to-a-33-million-dollar-deal/ Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs had an incredible future ahead of him when he struck out the 20 batters in one game in his rookie season in 1998. He was being compared to Sandy Koufax. He had 233 Ks in 166 innings in his first season. That was ten ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/11/16/which-mlb-team-will-pick-up-the-revitalized-kerry-wood/ Hello, welcome to Sports Hound By the time that The Milwaukee Brewers' starting pitcher CC Sabathia signs his next contract he  is destined to be the highest paid player in Baseball. He will probably turn down the $100 million dollar offer over 5 years. CC Sabathia will probably be going to a ... http://sportshound.today.com/2008/11/14/baseball-free-agency/