Jim
Northrup (b. 1939) was a solid outfielder who played most of his
career with the Detroit Tigers, and was a key player for their 1968 World
Championship team. That year he hit five
grand slams, including three in one week.
Northrup was known as the "Silver Fox" because of his
prematurely gray hair. http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/baseball-losses-in-2011.html
Yoenis
Cespedes has a track record of hitting, both in Cuba and during
international tournaments. Cespedes' performance at the 2009 World Baseball
Classic (where he ranked No. 6 on our Top 20 World Baseball Classic prospects
list) in particular seems to have made an impression on scouts and helped
convince them of his ability to hit high-level pitching. He has excellent bat
speed and has repeatedly shown the ability to smash a fastball, so there isn't
much doubt about his ability to handle premium velocity. "He's got a very
balanced swing," said a Latin American director. "His lower half is
very balanced. He doesn't load very much but he's strong and his hands are
pretty quick. There weren't any of those crazy types of swings where the guy's
just trying to hit the ball out of the park." http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/2012/02/scouting-report-for-as-outfielder-yoenis-cespedes/
Marco
Scutaro - Marco has been handed the 2B job of the Rockies after being
traded by Boston for Clayton Mortenson. Scutaro has put up decent numbers
averaging about 10 HRs and a 0.285 AVG with Boston over the last 2 seasons.
While the 36-year-old is not a spring chicken, he projects to hit around 0.275
with 9 HRs. While he is not an offensive power by any means, he is better than
what the Rockies recycled through the 2B spot in 2011. They tried 7 different
players at 2B last season. The seven players had a 0.256/0.304/0.351 triple
slash line compared to the N.L. average for 2B of 0.258/0.319/0.380. Scutaro
looks to be a significant improvement at 2B for the Rockies. http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/scutaro-descalso-and-greene-2b-movers-and-shakers/
So you think showing a squirrel on a Skip Schumaker Topps
baseball card is controversial? How about printing baseball cards for seven
years between 1951-57 and never offering a Stan
Musial baseball card? In the first series of its 2012 baseball card set,
Topps has printed two cards of St. Louis utilityman Skip Schumaker. The common
card shows an image of Schumaker sliding. The other card, which has been
released in limited supply (driving up demand and price), shows only
Schumaker’s shoe as the so-called “rally squirrel” dashes across home plate http://retrosimba.com/2012/02/14/how-topps-finally-got-stan-musial-on-its-baseball-cards/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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