Peter Gammons

Notes from the winter meetings
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Chone Figgins signing with Seattle should be announced Monday, and sometime this week the Cubs should trade Milton Bradley to Tampa Bay for Pat Burrell. Then they'll figure out where to place Burrell. Marlon Byrd could get signed ...

Holliday, Bay are equally productive
INDIANAPOLIS -- What we don't know is what the final contract numbers will be for Matt Holliday and Jason Bay, and this shouldn't be a one-versus-the-other thing. They are big, middle-order, right-handed power bats in a sport in which three ...

Lee leading in fight against eye affliction
Jada Lee was 3 years old when she began experiencing discomfort in one of her eyes and, eventually, became blind in that eye. In September of 2006, she was diagnosed with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), a rare genetic disease.As Derrek Lee and ...

Yankees' spring plans for Joba, Hughes
The Yankees are planning to go to spring training with Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain being programmed to start. "They can always go from starting to the bullpen, but it's tough going the other way," says Yankees general manager Brian Cashman. ...

Marlins aren't your typical small-market team
This is not about the Mets, who endured what seemed like three years' worth of injuries in 2009, and whose farm system is better than credited. It is about the Marlins and their seven-year record vis-à-vis their divisional rivals in New York, not to ...

New ballpark sparks questions for Twins in 2010
It's not that anyone ever liked the place. Few seats were positioned directly at the pitcher and hitter, and the sight lines never seemed right. A baggy? Players covering their heads after losing pop flies in the great mainsail in the sky? At its ...

Perhaps the offseason bar set too high, too soon
So much for the general managers meetings, which began five days after the World Series and 10 days before the free-agency period opens. They're really the agents meetings, because the agents are in the lobby and can float whatever they want ...

Blame the system, not the Yankees
The morning after the Yankees won their 27th World Series, one of their scouts sent an e-mail that read: "You cannot believe how Brian Cashman treated all of us scouts and the little people. It was tremendous."It was refreshing, because the ...

Five thoughts from the Fall Classic
Five things for an afternoon that leads into Game 2 of the World Series:1. Chase Utley never fails to amaze. His fire, his modesty, his comfort playing on the big stage, or any baseball stage for that matter. The nine-pitch at-bat Utley had against ...

Phillies appear primed to repeat as champs
The Phillies wait a week for the World Series, which may rest their pitching staff, and may or may not cool the hitters that pummeled the Dodgers. As the rain beat down Saturday morning in the Northeast, they didn't know if their next game was at ...

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