How does a team with this form of payroll have this bad a team? They dismissed the GM and manager Monday, but unhappily for their fans, the very problem (owner Jeff Wilpon) remains. 11) Tampa Bay Rays are where the A`s were nine days ago, when they had Giambi-Tejada-Chavez at their juiced-up best, and came damn near to sweeping the Bronx Bombers in the playoffs. They let it slide away, and haven`t been the like since. Rays are in the same boat now; they`re leaving to get crushed by free agency, so they better win this year. 10) Felix Hernandez didn`t get a conclusion in nine starts this year; Seattle scored total of 15 runs in those nine games. 9) Seattle was a fashionable choice to do the playoffs in March; instead, they lost 101 games, and had scouts saying their position players are way worse than what the doormat Pirates put on the field. That not good. 8) Of the 30 Opening Day managers in 2010, at least 13 of them won`t be in the same job on Opening Day 2011. 7) Of all the current active pitchers, Ryan Dempster (32) and Barry Zito (23) have walked the most batters with the bases loaded. 6) Reds making the playoffs will increase pressure on other midsize-market teams to get there, and soon. "If they can do it, why can`t we?" 5) Runs per game in major league: 2000: 10.26 2005: 9.18 2009: 9.25 2010: 8.75. Going to be difficult to get rid of the DH at this pace. 4) Speaking of 2000, that year, the Phillies scored 708 runs, 23 less than any other major league team. 10 days later, Phillies are stressful to go first NL team since WWII to get to the Planetary Series three days in a row. 3) Twins` Michael Cuddyer came to bat with 501 men on foot this year, and knocked in 13.6% of them; Casey McGehee was next (492, 16.5%), then Mark Teixeira (486, 15.4%) and Matt Holliday (484, 15.5%). This was Holliday`s lowest part of his career; I`m sure if you asked him, he`d admit he didn`t get that big a season. 2) Carlos Gonzalez knocked in 22.1% of baserunners, top %age in big leagues; Alex Rodriguez was next (21.6%), followed by rookie Pedro Alvarez (20.1%) and Delmon Young (20%), the only four guys with 250 AB to tap in 25% of runners on foot in their AB`s. 1) The big winner financially this winter figures to be Carl Crawford and his agent; Red Sox/Angels said to be frontrunners for his services, but don`t find the Astros. Crawford grew up in Houston, and that`s a super hitters` ballpark. Plus they already own a good leadoff hitter (Michael Bourn). Crawford prefers batting second to leadoff.
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