If Chuck James sounds
familiar, that’s because you remember him as a pitcher on the Braves. Chuck
James was signed to a minor league contract this offseason by the Mets and is
next in line with Jeremy Hefner on the outside looking in for a spot in the
rotation this season. As already described in an earlier post, the Mets
rotation is probably set right now, with Santana’s mark being the current
question mark. Both Hefner and James could step in for the next available role,
so who ever performs better in the spring will get the spot. Chuck debuted with
the Braves in 2005. He had a very successful 2006 season where he posted a 3.78
ERA in 116 innings of work. His 2006 season was OK, his ERA was good at 4.24,
but he allowed a lot of homers (32) over 161 innings of work. 2008 was a bad
season for James as he bounced around from the minors and the majors, while posting
a 8.10 ERA in the majors. During the 2010 offseason, the Nationals signed him
to a minor league deal, where he recorded his second straight season without
making it back to the majors. The next offseason he signed with the Twins,
where he spent time in the minors and the majors: http://www.213milesfromshea.com/2012/01/18/get-to-know-a-mets-minor-league-player-chuck-james/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
One writer I've continued to follow is Adam Rubin of ESPN. His tweets are almost exclusively
news. He rarely traffics in rumor or editorializing. His tweets generally lack
the negative cast of many colleagues. In general, he seemed to exemplify the
unglamorous aspects of what a reporter is supposed to do. That's why I was so
blown away by a series of tweets he unleashed last night. The tweets were not
only uncharacteristically emotional, but also full of mushroom-cloud details
about the idiocy and incompetence the Mets displayed with regard to medical
treatment of injured players, most of which had never appeared before in any
forum. The tweets raised some huge questions about what gets reported when, and
why. http://www.amazinavenue.com/2012/1/18/2715337/call-the-doctor
Mariners signed LHP Oliver
Perez to a minor league contract. The deal includes an invitation to major
league spring training. Perez showed some signs of life last year at Double-A
Harrisburg, registering a 3.09 ERA and 58/27 K/BB ratio in 75 2/3 innings, but
he's highly unlikely to land a spot on the Mariners' Opening Day roster. http://www.rotoworld.com/headlines/mlb/348083/baseball-headlines?r=1
It's not that the Mets aren't a valuable commodity
in fact Forbes ranked them the 44th most valuable sports team which puts them
#5 amongst baseball teams ( Yanks, BSox, Dodgers, Cubs). It seems that they're cash broke and their
revenue flow wasn't constructed properly.
So even if they aren't squirreling money away for a settlement or
supporting their struggling real estate entities through the Mets, if the
Wilpon's stay they are constructed to be cash broke. Most teams will rank their sources of cash revenues,
in order of TV, naming rights/sponsorship/merchandising and then
attendance/concessions. But just like
the team maybe valuable, so is the TV station, we've all heard that SNY in it's
own right is a very appealing commodity but that doesn't mean it's earning the
team cash flow. Apparently the way the Wilpon's set up the contracts regarding
SNY they won't receive TV revenue shares from the league the way most teams get
much need infusions of cash, while the stock value of the network goes up the
cash flow doesn't http://networkedblogs.com/sTHLz
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