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The Toronto Sun reports the Blue Jays have signed Dave Berg to a two year deal. Whether he's the Opening Day 2B or continues in the super-sub role, the length is a reward for a job well done in 2002; financial terms have not yet been disclosed. Not as significant as Edgardo Alfonzo to the Giants or even Mike Stanton to the Mets, but we tend to look at other teams through binoculars here, and the Jays via microscope.

From the same annoying little tabloid, best viewed on-line because it gets ink on your hands, here's Bob Elliott on the Lopez deal, with "eventually" and "John-Ford Griffin" in the same sentence. Oh, and the "official" Jays site reports that Arnold is in fact the PTBNL. Does anyone else dislike navigating mlb.com?
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_Jordan - Monday, December 16 2002 @ 03:27 PM EST (#101071) #
MLB.com has terrific information, but it's a huge pain to try and find it. The front page is way too busy, and they have an odd notion of what's important and what's not. I still get a kick out of the fact that the Prospectus people refer to it as Pravda.

Dave Berg isn't my idea of the glue that holds a team together, so two years seems a little long to me. Granted, he did a fine job for them last year, and I'm OK with them providing a raise as a reward, but he's still a pretty replaceable quantity, to my mind. Anyway, no big deal -- at least they have Mr. Versatility wrapped up before Christmas. I just don't want to see him get quite as many ABs in 2003.
Craig B - Monday, December 16 2002 @ 04:26 PM EST (#101072) #
Mmmmm... carrot biscuits.

because it gets ink on your hands

It puts dark, black smudges on your soul as well.

Does anyone else dislike navigating mlb.com

I hate it, yes. They tend to have good information, but they aer usually slower than ESPN, and the stories often seem to be just a rewrite of a wire piece. Since the wire pieces tend to be out faster and more carefully updated, I tend to get breaking stuff from Google News.

Dave Berg isn't my idea of the glue that holds a team together, so two years seems a little long to me.

I'm very hard on Berg because every time I go to the park he does something awful. That's not symptomatic of him, though; it's just my bad luck. Berg is useful in the role the Jays are going to have him, because he can get on base a little... his hitting won't kill you in the 8 or 9 spot. Two years should just about take him to the end of his useful life as a utility infielder. Provided the dollars were under a million per year (hopefuly well under, but with the minimum going up $100K, that's harder to do), they did fine.
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