Some comments on developments from the last couple days.

On Benjy Molina signing with the Giants.  John Heyman reported that the Giants are now maxed out on payroll.  You’ll recall Chan Ho Park was seemingly headed there.  He was later mentioned in Cardinal circles as a possibility.  Amidst salary limits in St. Louis, TLR said a couple days ago that if the Cards add another player, he’d like it to be a bat.  These out of money statements might be, could be, are negotiation positioning, but carrying some credibility could mean Chan Ho’s options are thinning.   What that means to RAJ, you’d have to ask him.

If Randy Wolf can get 10 mil a year (done), and Joel Piniero can command roughly the same (pretty close, or likely), I don’t see how Joe Blanton is thought of as a lesser value by an arbitrator.

Ben Sheets threw 92 mph today in a workout witnessed by multiple clubs. 
That’s all I heard on the subject.

Billy Hamilton played in a time when if you took 3rd on a single, you got  a stolen base.  Just the facts.  After the likes of the Babe came along, some 25 years later, and the stolen base became a distraction to hiting one out, teams stopped running.  By 1950, I believe Dom DiMaggio led the American League with 15 stolen bases.  Some ridiculously low figure.  Thank you, Maury Wills, Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson for returning that lost art to the game

Hamilton got into the Hall of Fame in 1961.  That’s 60 years after he retired.
That math would equate to a Pete Rose entry in 2045.  Sounds about right.

#Phillies and Blanton exchange numbers: $10.25M by Blanton, $7.5M by #Phillies.>>

Me thinks the Phils are banking on Charlie’s lack of enthusiasm to use Joe in the post season.