According to Baseball America  the A’s have signed 16-year-old, 6-foot-7, 210-pound Michel Inoa of the Dominican Republic. The price tag? Well, lets just say it’s more than what a lot of teams spend internationally on several players — $4.25 million.
What’s all the more shocking is that it’s the A’s, a team that hasn’t done much [...]

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You might have heard about the controversy surrounding  the Japanese mobile phone company that used a monkey politician running under the banner “change” that Barack Obama fans took offense to. I’m not sure what to make of this myself — I think it’s a little far fetched, because it assumes  that the writers not only [...]

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Well, not exactly a case against, but this is a Chicago-based writer musing on what might not have happened had the White Sox league-high $50 million bid for Kosuke Fukudome been accepted. Mostly this means the team wouldn’t have traded for Nick Swisher, who’s been finally swinging a good bat as of late.
While the 23-year-old [...]

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It’s official: Taiwan’s storied Nan-Ying High School’s staff anchor, 5′11 Right-hander Huang Wei-Sheung, is headed for the Atlanta Braves.  The move, which area baseball afficionados had been anticipating for quite some time, nets $120,000 for Huang and gets the Braves a battle-tested if not unspectacular arm. Huang, who has hit 89 but sits on [...]

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