MLB

Hope for Reyes

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Henderson rejoins Mets as spring training instructor – MLB – Yahoo! Sports

The Mets’ biggest problem is that their worst hitter, Jose Reyes, is likely to be the guy on the team who gets the most PA this coming year. Naming Rickey Henderson as special baserunning/getting on base coach for Reyes and Carlos Beltran can’t hurt. It’s unlikely 10 days late in camp is going to make a big difference, but given Reyes’ skills, if he could find a way to get on base more he’d be an immeasurably more valuable player. Omar Minaya clearly knows that.

Fantasy Stats and the Intellectual Property Debate — The Hardball Times

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Fantasy Stats and the Intellectual Property Debate –Maury Brown

MLB Advanced Media, for which I work sometimes, continues to assert increasing control over the rights to player and team names. I can see why they’re pursuing revenues this way, but there are serious questions about what intellectual property the game owners actually own, and what is in the public domain. On January 19 MLBAM made a deal with the MLBPA for the exclusive rights to all player names and likenesses for online games, which at least centralizes who is in charge. Maury Brown explains most of what this all means.

For the rest, we need the courts to decide.

Mota Fails Physical

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Do you think the Red Sox didn’t inspect Mota because they wanted Beckett so much and knew they weren’t going to queer the deal even if he couldn’t comb his hair? Or they did inspect him, realized he was in tatters, and tried to spin him before that became obvious? If the Indians were the Yankees we would think the failed physical was more likely George’s attempt to backtrack than anything real.