Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Quick Notes

Just some brief jottings on a couple different topics for today...

* Last week I was featured as part of the "Blogger Nine Innings" Q&A series for Jesse Spector's Touching Base blog at New York Daily News Online. I made sure to take advantage of the opportunity to be profiled in a New York publication by preaching the need for a salary cap in baseball and labeling Derek Jeter the game's most overrated player.

* Participating in the Venezuelan Winter League, Twins catching prospect Wilson Ramos is currently hitting .407 with five homers, six doubles, a triple and 21 RBI in 54 at-bats for the Tigres de Aragua. Before you get too excited, it's worth noting that hitters tend to dominate this league, but Ramos does lead all qualifying VWL batters in home runs (tied), RBI and OPS. Quite encouraging, but not quite enough so to make me very comfortable heading into the 2010 season with an unsigned Joe Mauer.

* Speaking of Mauer, Joe Christensen reports that the catcher was named Twins MVP yesterday by the local chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. File that under "Unsurprising." Hopefully this is just a prelude to the real deal, which will be announced in late November.

* Make sure you check out our friend Andrew Bryz-Gornia's new Twins blog, Off the Mark.

* And, for good measure, my World Series pick: Yankees in six.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For what its worth, Derek Jeter is the best player I have ever seen, eclipsing Bonds, Pujols, Puckett; a close second in terms of impact in big games: Reggie Jackson.

In the field of dreams starting nine, Jeter gets the nod at SS. The others are Bench, Gehrig, Hornsby, Schmidt, Cobb, Mays, Ruth, and Williams (at DH, sorry purists).

Nick N. said...

For what its worth, Derek Jeter is the best player I have ever seen, eclipsing Bonds, Pujols, Puckett; a close second in terms of impact in big games: Reggie Jackson.

Wowwwww.