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		<title>A&#8217;s Need Offense</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Billy Beane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland A's are in need of a healthy dose of offense.  They have been for more than just this season and the need has become far more noticeable when the team's pitching staff is second in the AL in ERA.]]></description>
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		<title>Kila Ka&#8217;aihue Award: August 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4246</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Kila Ka'aihue Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Kimbrel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Marek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each month I provide the Kila Ka'aihue Award to one ball player who's path to the majors has been blocked by an existing player in his position, or just by the sheer st.....general discretion of the front office staff. ]]></description>
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		<title>The GM of the Month &#8211; August 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4201</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month I  provide the GM of the Month Award to one MLB GM who's had the best month based on mainly on his transactions.  Trades, waiver claims, signings, are the main aspects to be looked at.  As this will be a monthly award, I'll be basing it off of MLB.com's Transactions page and press releases.  So, even if a player's signing is essentially complete, if it doesn't show up until the next month on the transactions or an official press release, the GM won't get credit for it until the Award for the next month comes out.   This month we look at August.  

August is always an interesting month when considering who's the GM of the Month.  With the trade deadline come and gone, the typical belief is that trade activity will decline substantially.  But that's just not the case.  Teams still in the hunt are scouring the waiver wire to grab some sort of boost for their ball club while other teams are looking to dump salary.  The draft pick signing deadline is also in August as teams rush to get as many of their draft picks signed without breaking their budget.]]></description>
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		<title>A View from the Last Days of Rosenblatt</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4252</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Moustakas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omaha Royals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I took my family to the last Fireworks Friday to be held at the soon to be retired Rosenblatt Stadium.  The home of the Omaha Royals and the College World Series is nearing the end of its days with only six baseball games left after last night's contest.]]></description>
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		<title>Rookies to Look For: Jeremy Hellickson</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=2690</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rookies to Look For]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Hellickson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tampa Bay Rays seem to be the Atlanta Braves of the early '90s, churning out talented pitching prospects with relative regularity lately.  Just last December I profiled Wade Davis, before Davis it was Cy Young candidate David Price  in January 2009, and and then workhorse Jeff Niemann in mid-2008.  The latest in this string of talented arms is Jeremy Hellickson.]]></description>
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		<title>Rainy Day Reading: Defending Omar</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4122</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rainy Day Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Mets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar Minaya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Typically I am in favor of the writing of newspaper sportswriters as they in front the sport on a daily basis and typically they provide informative articles that not only tell you what you need to know, but also often give you some little tidbit of insight into the the thinking of those in the game.  One of these writers is StevePopper of NorthJersey.com.  I follow his Twitter feed regularly to catch some insight into New York baseball.  It's a good Twitter feed without too much inconsequential information. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pinella Exits Gracefully</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4203</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Cubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou Pinella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike how his team played yesterday, Manager Lou Pinella bowed out gracefully from is position with the Chicago Cubs.  Lou stated that Sunday's game would be the last in a Cubs uniform, the last in any uniform as the storied manager was retiring from the game.]]></description>
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		<title>TBO has been Mobilized</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=1384</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Baseball Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent improvements have been made to The Baseball Opinion to make it more mobile-friendly.  Users of Blackberries, iPhones, and other mobile web browsers will be able to peruse the posts of TBO with greater ease now.
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		<title>Trade Bait: Derrek Lee to Atlanta</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4159</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade Bait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlanta Braves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Cubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chipper Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derrek Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Wren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffery Lorick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robinson Lopez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy Glaus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyrelle Harris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Atlanta starting first baseman Troy Glaus' knee must be much worse than initially thought.  He's hitting just .196/.204/.304 since the All-Star break, creating an ugly hole in the middle of the Braves' lineup.  The Braves realized the need to patch this hole up in order to maintain their 2.5 game lead over the Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East.  The spackle for the hole turns out to be Derek Lee, the first baseman for the Chicago Cubs.]]></description>
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		<title>NL East Prospect Blast</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaseballopinion.com/?p=4098</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domonic Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drew Storen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fernando Martinez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Freeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ike Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Heyward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logan Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Strasburg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Jim Callis of Baseball America went through his mail bag and answered a few questions in his regular Ask BA segment.  One of the questions that he answered was:
With the recent promotion of Domonic Brown to the Phillies, is the group of Brown, Jason Heyward, Mike Stanton and Stephen Strasburg the best group of prospects ever to debut in one season for four different teams in a division?"

Callis did his regularly great research and discussed other seasons that saw a number of great prospects debut in one division in a year.  But I couldn't stop from thinking about the other prospects debuting in the NL East this season that should be impact makers along with the aforementioned quartet.
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