The future Hall-of-Fame quarterback’s younger sister was reportedly arrested in connection with the busting of a meth lab in Diamondhead, Mississippi.
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Keith Olbermann names Brett Favre to “World’s Worst” list
He’s been fined by the NFL for stonewalling its Jenn Sterger investigation. He’s been sued for sexual harassment by two massage therapists. Now Brett Favre finds himself in Michele Bachman…
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Brett Favre Stays Off IR, May Be Ready to Throw Picks Against the Bears
It’s hard to keep a purple-handed gunslinger down. And for the record, that thing is just gross—major props to Pam Oliver for not running in horror at the site of Favre’s grotesquely discolored hand.
Looks like the shoulder injury that led to Favre’s purple hand, thanks to a vicious hit from the Bills’ Arthur Moats, won’t keep the 41-year-old Vikes QB from going on the injured reserve list after an ultrasound revealed no nerve damage in his neck and shoulder.
Get this—not only will Favre stay off IR, but if coach Leslie Frazier has his way, he may start Monday night against the Bears.
It’s a Festivus miracle!
Frazier apparently isn’t worried about Favre, his shoulder, or his gnarly looking right hand…
“I don’t see that as being part of the equation at this point,” Frazier said. “It looks like there’s a chance that we’re going to be able to get him back at some point. Hopefully this week.”
Prepare yourself people, especially those of you who care little for Favre and his theatrics. Whether or not this is Frazier being coy and messing with the Bears ability to game plan is unknown at this time, but rest assured the media coverage, even if it’s one quarter that of Favre’s annual retirement dance, will be nauseating at best.
Brett Harper > Randy Ruiz?
It wasn’t long ago that teammates Brett Harper and Randy Ruiz were close to identical production-wise for the Last Vegas 51s. The Jays brought up Ruiz in September and outright released Harper. Was this the right decision?
2 seasons ago the Blue Jays were fielding calls to “Free Randy Ruiz” by the Twitterati. With Travis Snider struggling, Jays fans were eager to inject the lineup with a potent bat from the AAA farm team, the Las Vegas 51s. In April, Randy Ruiz was making a name for himself by tearing the cover off the ball. So much so that we sat up and took notice.
With the beginning of May, Brett Harper stepped up his game as Travis Snider continued to flounder. We were conflicted as to which player to bring up, and as of May sided with Harper and his .986 OPS vs. right-handed pitchers. In June, it was clearly Harper who should have been inserted into the lineup.
Ruiz began to heat up in July and surged ahead of his comrade Harper. Ruiz was called up and on August 11th played his first game for the Blue Jays. Playing in his hometown of the Bronx, the former Yankees farmhand went deep in his first two games with the Jays. Ruiz, as we all know, was named PCL MVP and played 33 games for the Blue Jays, posting an impressive 1.019 OPS. Harper was released by the Jays and latched on with the AAA Albuqueque Isotopes, the AAA farm team of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He thrived there, posting an OPS a hair under 1.000.
2010 comes along and it is a much different story. Ruiz, hailed as the next Babe Ruth for the Blue Jays, plays 13 sporadic games while posting a .150 average and slugging .275. He was released and signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan.
Harper began the season with Sacramento, and like Ruiz, struggled in only 14 games before being released himself. Again, like Ruiz, he headed to Japan and signed a contract with the Yokohama Bay Stars.
Harper was a little bit of a stud and posted these numbers:
Ruiz got off to somewhat of a bad start and ended up posting these numbers:
(for those of you without widescreen monitors, Harper hit .316 while Ruiz batted .266)
What jumps out at me is that Harper only has 6 doubles! He is all about the HR, base hit, or walk.
Ruiz on the other hand, strikes out almost half of the time he walks to the plate. He doesn’t hit it out of the park as much as Harper, but hits a few more doubles. He still makes a lot of unproductive outs via the strikeout.
Brett Harper
Randy Ruiz
At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter that the Jays picked Ruiz over Harper. These two are both baseball bit players, yet it is interesting to see how two players with very similar career trajectories and PCL pedrigree perform in the Japanese league. Why did Harper flourish while Ruiz floundered? My best guess is that Harper can handle a breaking ball better than Ruiz. I’ve seen Ruiz flail away at big league breaking balls and the NPB is a breaking-ball-heavy league. That being said, I have never seen a Harper at bat. More importantly, what does this say about Japanese baseball? It is something to think about.
For now, you can catch them both playing in Winter Leagues. Harper is suiting up for the Estrellas de Oriente of the Dominican Winter League, while Ruiz is a member of the Indios de Mayaguez of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League.
Brett Harper gets robbed and tips his hat to the Japanese rightfielder:
It happens to him yet again. This play is truly unbelievable.
A Brett Harper opposite-field HR:
Harper RBI single:
Ruiz, known as “Louise” in Japan, hits a HR at 0:25, 0:33, 1:31, 1:47, 2:19, 4:02, & 4:10. As you can see, he loves to crush the fastball. Great soundtrack as well.
Also, how about that #7? Can he mash or what?! His name is Takeshi Yamasaki and he hit 28HR in 2010, but 39 the year before. He has 391 career.
Ruiz’s team, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, have put together a highlight reel:
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Brett Favre’s junk was worth $12,000 [VIDEO]
We’ve long known that Deadspin paid an anonymous source for the cock shots and sexts it said Brett Favre sent to Jenn Sterger, just like it pays for other news. But until today we didn’t k…
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Profiling Brett Lawrie
Profiling Canadian infielder Brett Lawrie, recently obtained by the Toronto Blue Jays in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Brett Lawrie (pronounced “Lorry”) was the selected by the Milwaukee Brewers 16th overall in the 2008 amateur draft (video). Incidentally, the Blue Jays were set to take Lawrie with their pick (17th). Instead they selected David Cooper.
The Langley, British Columbia native is 6’0″ tall and 215lbs. Originally a catcher, Lawrie has been moved to second base in the Brewers minor league system. That being said, some scouts suggest he is a better fit for a corner infield position. Reports suggest his arm strength has regressed; he is not a likely candidate to play third base.
Baseball America grades his bat as a 65 on the 20-80 scouting scale, with power as his best tool. The right-handed hitting Lawrie is also quick on the basepaths, being timed at 4.15 to first base from the right side. In 2010 he stole 30 bags in 43 attempts to go alone with 11 triples.
Lawrie spent last season in AA at only 19 years of age. By midseason he led the Southern League in hits (102), extra-base hits (39), triples (11) and total bases (164). Lawrie’s biggest weakness is his defense and scouts have noted that his throwing arm has regressed, projecting him as an outfielder should he prove to be liability in the infield. He led all second basemen in errors, with one badly misplayed ball ending up breaking his nose. Good thing there’s Brian Butterfield!
According to John Manuel of Baseball America, many scouts compare him to Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla. Convinced he would hit as a pro, one scout said “real thing to remember is that Lawrie’s best position is in the batter’s box—a lot like Uggla.” Some scouts also see him as a Jeff Kent type without the defense.
ESPN’s Keith Law has had plenty to say about Brett Lawrie over the past 2-3 years:
Lawrie hit well in the Midwest League for a 19-year-old, and if he had a clear position he might have spent the second half in high-A. The Brewers did move him up two levels in mid-August, after which he scuffled. Lawrie has a good swing, almost a classic left-handed swing but from the right side, with tremendous rotation and raw power. I’ve seen him overstride in BP, but he quiets down a little in games, still taking all-out swings but with such a good swing path that he covers the plate and struggles only with changing speeds. He’s an intense, aggressive, “one-speed” player who might benefit from dialing it down a notch every now and then, and the lack of finesse in his game is part of what holds him back as an infielder. He played all over as an amateur but settled on second in part because he thought he had a faster path to the majors there. There’s still a realistic chance he’ll have to move to first or an outfield corner, limiting his projected value
Lawrie was moved from catcher to second base
I don’t think he’ll ever be above-average defensively at second, and he’s pretty maxed-out physically, but his bat looks like it’s going to play just about anywhere in the big leagues, and his offensive downside is very limited.
He really has no position. Good bat, potentially a special bat, but he might end up in LF.
Law has also mentioned that Lawrie has had “friction” with many of his coaches. This has been backed up by Kansas City-based writer Rany Jazayerli on Twitter:
Is this a case of “where there’s smoke there’s fire”? Similar things had been said about Jose Bautista but we know how he turned out.
This is how Lawrie fared in AA this past season:
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Brett Favre says “I’m done, I’m done”
Brett Favre was asked at a press conference today whether, taking this dismal Vikings season into account, he’d given any thought to coming back next year and trying to end his career on a…
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