This week in baseball blogs…
- The Junkball Daily analyzes how J.D. Martinez’s power will mesh with Fenway Park.
- MLB & Fantasy Baseball Analyzed recaps Mike Moustakas’ less-than-stellar trip to free agency and Scott Boras’ role in its disappointing outcome.
- Know Hitter has a series on 132 players who could be traded in 2018, including Raisel Iglesias and Nicholas Castellanos.
- 216Stitches views the latest version of Tim Lincecum as an unknown.
- Nyrdcast reacts to Paul DeJong’s contract extension.
- Camden Depot breaks down Trey Mancini’s rookie season and ponders how he’ll fare going forward.
- The K Zone ranks the game’s top five rotations.
- Clubhouse Corner’s Bernie Pleskoff names AL hitters who could break out in 2018.
- Chin Music Baseball identifies 10 regression candidates for this season.
- Pro Sports Fandom sees similarities between Jason Heyward and Chase Headley.
- Mets Daddy wonders if the team made a mistake in not acquiring Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis.
- Blue Jays Beat explains that the best could be yet to come for Devon Travis.
- Rox Pile lists four takeaways after attending Rockies spring training.
- Call To The Pen (links: 1, 2) previews the Angels’ season and examines the Phillies’ relief options.
- Sport DFW tries to figure out which version of Rougned Odor will show up this year.
- Baseball Takes revisits the Dodgers’ 2012 signing of Zack Greinke.
- The Runner Sports (links: 1, 2) asks if tanking is bad for baseball and checks in on the spring performances of some Twins pitchers.
- Always The Jake (links: 1, 2, 3) looks at what could be in store this year for Indians Edwin Encarnacion, Bradley Zimmer and Cody Allen.
- The Point of Pittsburgh proposes a four-man rotation with bullpenning for the Pirates.
- Motor City Bengals names 10 reasons to be excited about the Tigers’ season.
- The Sports Tank suggests the Phillies or Brewers should sign Jake Arrieta.
- DiNardo’s Dugout (podcast) discusses topics including the Twins’ lack of urgency to extend Brian Dozier and the Rays’ four-man rotation plan.
- Big Three Sports ranks the top 100 players for fantasy baseball.
- A’s Farm runs down the Athletics’ top 10 prospects.
- The 3rd Man In predicts the top 10 picks in this year’s draft.
- The Loop Sports writes about position battles for the White Sox.
- District On Deck projects the Nationals’ Opening Day roster.
- Everything Bluebirds expects the Blue Jays to keep stockpiling prospects this year.
- Sports Talk Philly shares its All-Forgettable Opening Day Team for the Phillies.
- The Giants Cove deconstructs the team’s schedule.
- Real McCoy Minor News focuses on three of the Indians’ outfield prospects.
- Jays From the Couch regards new Toronto reliever Tyler Clippard as a bounce-back candidate.
- Underthought polls readers on which pitcher had the best “No Sweat” performance of the 2017 season.
- NY Yankees Digest revisits Ron Guidry’s remarkable 1978 season.
- BP Toronto goes back to the 1992-93 offseason, when the Blue Jays tried to use international laws to their advantage to sign then-star Omar Linares out of Cuba.
- Extra Innings UK wraps up the week’s headlines and articles in international baseball (link) and offers its weekly update of Europeans playing baseball at American universities (link).
- Chris Zantow interviews baseball photographer Bob Brusser.
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