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Ricardo Rincon: The Most Valuable Pittsburgh Pirate of the Losing Era
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Eric M. in MLB
As most of us know, the Pirates have stunk for a long, long time.
Since 1992, the Buccos have made mistake after mistake in the development, trading, drafting, and signing of free agent players. Every time a player starts to pan out, the Pirates trade him for an average of three prospects.
When you're lucky, one of those three pan out. Then you trade that guy for three more prospects ...
Continuing my positional rankings for the decade that was, cornerbacks are now up.
Lots of very good candidates for this one.
There are a couple of different types of corners: great coverage guys who shut their guys down for most of the game, ball hawks who make up space while the ball is in the air and do a good job getting their hands on it and good tacklers who ...
Continuing my positional rankings for the decade that was, safeties are up. I felt no need to break this into free and strong because most of these guys have played both at different times in their careers and if you investigate further you see the defensive scheme means a lot more than the free or strong label.
This was a tough position to break down with a lot of good candidates. ...
Continuing my positional rankings for the decade that was, defensive ends are now on the table. The challenge of ranking this group is the many different styles of defensive ends out there, trying not to miss the underrated guys from the 3-4's of the world and trying not to overrate the specialized pass rushers who don't help in the run game. The only requirement I made to thin the heard ...
Continuing my positional rankings for the past decade, defensive tackles are up. This was a really hard group to separate as there were 20 very solid choices for the list. To thin things out I decided to have a 96 game or six full season minimum to make the list. This took out the younger guys like Haynesworth, Wilfork, Harris and Dockett as well as some of the leftovers from ...
Continuing my positional rankings for the last decade, today's focus is the center position. This decade of centers probably does not match the previous few eras in big names, but none the less there were certainly some stand outs at the position.
The honorable mentions this time are LeCharles Bentley who's career was ended early by injury and Jeremy Newberry who got edged out for the tenth spot due to ...
ESPN is reporting that the Jets and Chargers have come to terms on a trade that would send Antonio Cromartie to the Jets for a third round pick in the 2011 draft. That pick could reportedly become a second rounder if Cromartie meets some requirements during the season.
Cromartie trade rumors had been popping up all over the place the last few weeks and now we know for good reason. Cromartie ...