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Daily Jolt: Pitchers and Catchers? More Like Perfect Timing

The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.Even for baseball, where winter can seem as endless as a trek through the desert with Lawrence of Arabia, this has been a long and cold one. Long before the Alex Rodriguez revelations, the free-agent market slowed to a crawl, bogged down by the economic...

Jason Giambi No Longer an Affront to the History of First Base Defense

Jason Giambi is no first baseman. He never has been a first baseman, at least, not in the sense that you mean. So as Giambi's offense declined with his steroid usage, he became even more of a liability at first -- how can you justify playing someone who no longer generates his offense? Anyway, Giambi's offense will likely...

Random You Tube Magic: An Early Benitez Meltdown

With Armando Benitez being in the news lately, The Fanhouse thought it would be fun to revisit this quick clip involving one of the first Benitez meltdowns. Here he is as an Oriole, circa 1998, hitting Tino Martinez and causing Graeme Lloyd, Darryl Strawberry and the Yankees to go completely ballistic. This is actually...

TinoMartinez News From the Web

05/30/12 Home Federal's Brunner fires no-hitter Source: The Grand Island Independent - Grand Island NE Brunner had a no-hitter against Lincoln High while pitching for Grand Island Senior High and another against Albion four years ago while pitching for Five Points.
05/20/12 Babe Waxpak: Putting a price on 1988 Olympic baseball... Source: The Record Searchlight - Redding CA Years ago, before the kids used up all of my hard-earned money, I attended quite a few small baseball card shows in Orange County.
05/18/12 Seattle Mariners: Is Justin Smoak Tino Martinez 2.0? Source: Bleacher Report What can be said of Justin Smoak, that hasn't been said already?
05/11/12 Four GSC Players Named Tino Martinez Award... Source: Gulf South Conference Four GSC baseball standouts were among the list of nine South Region Semi-Finalists for the 2012 Tino Martinez Award.
05/10/12 Trojans' Rogers is Tino Martinez Award semifinalist;... Source: Goldsboro News Argus - Goldsboro NC Mount Olive College first baseman Jacob Rogers is among 55 semifinalists for the prestigious 2012 Tino Martinez Award, which recognizes the NCAA Division II national player of the year.