tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100070112009-12-22T17:35:15.411-05:00Baseball Notebook is dedicated to constantly improving and providing baseball forecasts and methods. Our mission is to create baseball forecasts that will annually, on average, be the most reliable method of estimating performance, more than using any previous year or multi-year averaged historical data. David Luciani, the president of BaseballNotebook.com, offers his thoughts and ideas through way of Baseball Notebook's Blog.David Lucianihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303964802216296025noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10007011.post-44764849434058618652009-12-22T17:35:00.000-05:002009-12-22T17:35:15.420-05:002009-12-22T17:35:15.420-05:00David Lucianihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303964802216296025noreply@blogger.comAll reports are that Matt Capps, who was surprisingly non-tendered by the Pirates, is about to sign with either Washington or the Chicago Cubs.  If you happen to be a fantasy leaguer with the rights to Capps, you should be hoping he ends up with the Nationals as his chances of getting saves there are so much better. Brian Bruney, who has 13 career big league saves, would be his primary <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Jv96ZHTBg2_4iRX4ilPnXVnN66k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Jv96ZHTBg2_4iRX4ilPnXVnN66k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Jv96ZHTBg2_4iRX4ilPnXVnN66k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Jv96ZHTBg2_4iRX4ilPnXVnN66k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>http://baseballnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/12/capps-about-to-sign-vazquez-traded-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10007011.post-81653142458742820022009-12-18T17:43:00.000-05:002009-12-18T17:43:21.974-05:002009-12-18T17:43:21.974-05:00David Lucianihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303964802216296025noreply@blogger.comWhen we announced several weeks ago that our blog would return for the pre-2010 season, we had no idea that the timing would offer us such an interesting topic as the Roy Halladay trade.  As has been discussed widely, it's the first time in baseball history that two former Cy Young winners have been involved in the same deal.  Today, I want to make a few remarks about each of the players involved <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LSjvk9UoDziOxWdrL_88KSC1cCM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LSjvk9UoDziOxWdrL_88KSC1cCM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LSjvk9UoDziOxWdrL_88KSC1cCM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/LSjvk9UoDziOxWdrL_88KSC1cCM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>http://baseballnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/12/halladay-trade.html