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Join PRO Rumors on ESPN 1420am with The Sports Animals
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Join PRO Rumors on ESPN 1420 AM Honolulu, Hawaii tonight at 8:35pm PST (5:35pm Hawaii Time) with The Sports Animals Chris Hart and Gary Dickman. You can listen live at http://www.espn1420am.com
2010 PRO Rumors MLB Draft Tracker
Posted by: | CommentsTo make thing easier for our readers, we’ve created a 2010 PRO Rumors MLB Draft Tracker. You can see at our homepage at http://www.prorumors.com. It’ll be updated throughout the night. You’ll see the player, team, position, whether they signed or not, what they signed for and the slot recommendation by Major League Baseball. Enjoy!
PRO Rumors releases PRO Rumors FREE iPhone app version 3.52
Posted by: | CommentsPRO Rumors is proud to announce the release of PRO Rumors FREE iPhone app version 3.52.
PRO Rumors is the ONLY iPhone app that provides up-to-the-minute professional MLB trade rumors, gossip, hot stove action and free agent news from all 30 baseball teams. Who’s getting traded? Is your team signing the big name free agent? Is the general manager mortgaging the farm to win it all this year?
Voted Top 5 best baseball application – TapTilt Magazine – May 10, 2010
Named Appolicious free app of the week – June 21, 2010
In addition to the latest breaking PRO baseball Rumors and news, you can set your favorite team so you can instantly see the rumors you want to see, you can browse by team, view player images, see player stats and NEW for version 3.52 is the real-time scoreboard. See all the scores of the games in real-time from your iPhone or iPod Touch device.
Please note that this app is for Apple devices running iOS version 4.0+ (so this means you need a iPod Touch, 3G, 3GS or iPhone 4 with the upgraded 4.0 iOS).
Best part – it’s FREE!!! It costs you NOTHING!!! We are giving it away!!!
To download it click on the link below or on the App Store icon below:
PRO Rumors FREE download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pro-rumors-free/id375919479?mt=8
Other PRO Rumors products include the PRO Rumors FULL version with PUSH notification ($2.99 via the Apple App Store)
PRO Rumors FULL download: http://www.itunes.com/apps/prorumors
For more information please go to http://www.prorumors.com/iphone
Keep up with your MLB Rumors with the PRO Rumors iPhone – iPad – iPod Touch app
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Did you know that PRO Rumors is the only Major League Baseball rumor, gossip and news source that has a dedicated mobile iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch application. Nobody else has it!
We’ve won a few awards for the PRO Rumors app that we’re really proud of:
Named Appolicious Free app of the week – June 21, 2010
Voted Top 5 best baseball application – TapTilt Magazine – May 10, 2010
There’s no cost to you. It’s F-R-E-E! Download it! Try it out! You’ll be impressed!
You can download PRO Rumors FREE here:
Direct link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pro-rumors-free/id375919479?mt=8
We also have a paid version for $2.99. What do you get in the paid version? Check out the comparison chart below and you’ll see why you may want to spend less than $3 for one of the coolest baseball apps out there. (BTW: Many of the features available in the app such as PUSH Notification were suggested by our readers. If you have a really cool feature that you think should be in the app, please send an email to support@prorumors.com).
You can download PRO Rumors FULL for $2.99 at:
Direct link: http://www.itunes.com/apps/prorumors
Not convinced? Check out our product page at http://www.prorumors.com/iphone or our support page at http://www.prorumors.com/site/support
Join PRO Rumors on Friarhood radio at 8pm PST
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Join PRO Rumors on Friarhood radio at 8pm PST. You can listen in at http://www.friarhood.com
Will Mariners Follow Correct Precedent?
Posted by: | CommentsTwo years ago today, Cleveland Indians starting pitcher CC Sabathia was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for their top prospect, Matt LaPorta, along with three other decent prospects. By going after CC early, the Brewers were able to squeeze a number of extra starts out of the big lefty, as well as build team confidence heading into the playoffs.
Unfortunately for Milwaukee, we all know how this played out. CC pitched to a 11-2 record, 1.65 ERA, tossed seven complete games including three shutouts, and then got absolutely shelled in the playoffs for the second year in a row.
However, it’s an almost unarguable fact that the Brewers would in no way have made the playoffs had it not been for CC’s dominant regular season performances. What’s more interesting is that because the Brewers did not clinch a wild card berth until the last game of the season, had they waited until the trade deadline to trade for Sabathia, they still might not have made the postseason.
With Cliff Lee making headlines at the break, for the second year in a row, it seems as if the Mariners are asking for an astronomical fee for the 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner. It is rumored that they have already balked at the Minnesota Twins’ offer of Wilson Ramos and Aaron Hicks. I fully expect the M’s to trade Lee, but they are out of their minds if they think they will get two prospects of higher quality than Ramos and Hicks, if in fact the rumor is true.
But the Mariners’ strategy is very smart, at least judging from precedent. If you look at the return that Sabathia got the Indians compared to the prospects they netted for Lee in 2009, the latter is far less impressive. In their first deal, the Indians traded early, received the Brewers’ top prospect, who at the time was one of the top three hitting prospects in baseball. However, after waiting until the end of July, in my opinion, the quality of the prospects they received for Lee in 2009, were not of the caliber of LaPorta. The prize in the trade, Carlos Carrasco, was having an abysmal year in Triple-A, and catcher Lou Marson and Jason Donald were once very good prospects that were older, and not performing up to top prospect standards in Triple-A.
With the Mariners 15 games out of their division, and even further out of the wild card, their season doesn’t look bright. And while some speculate that it is too early to throw in the towel, history shows that an extra month of playing time potentially gives you a better return on your product.
The only question is, how long will Seattle wait. Most teams were tired of the Minnesota Twins toying with their emotions during the Johan Santana trade discussions, and they settled for four prospects who ultimately busted, aside from Kevin Slowey.
The Mariners need to stay smart with this Cliff Lee situation. He’s a dominant pitcher, and worth top prospects to those desperate enough to trade them. However, they must not wait too long if they plan on getting top dollar. I look for Lee to be with a new team this time next week if the Mariners know what they’re doing.
PRO Rumors releases FREE iPhone app version 3.50
Posted by: | CommentsThe PRO Rumors team is proud to announce the release of it’s FREE iPhone app version 3.50. PRO Rumors is the only Major League Baseball rumor, gossip and news source that has a dedicated mobile iPhone application and now you can try it out for free.
The PRO Rumors app was voted Top 5 best baseball application from TapTilt Magazine – May 10, 2010.
You can download PRO Rumors FREE at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pro-rumors-free/id375919479?mt=8
You can download PRO Rumors FULL for $2.99 at: http://www.itunes.com/apps/prorumors
Hello PRO Rumors Nation!
First off, the PRO Rumors team would like to thank all of our readers for being with us each and everyday. We love the emails, we love the feedback, we love the comments and we love you. =)
We’ve had a few changes in the last few weeks and I’d like to address them here:
Yardbarker
Yardbarker has been so kind to let us join their awesome network. Through Yardbarker, we have been featured through their network, on their homepage and on FOXSports.com. If you are a reader of Yardbarker, thanks for checking us out. Please come by often! We’d like to thank Pete, Ryan, Alana and Jeff and the rest of the Yardbarker team for taking the time to speak with us and answering all of our emails. =)
PRO Rumors iPhone app version 3.50:
We released the iPhone app version 3.50 this week. We’ve made the best even better! You’ll notice that pictures are available in the rumors view to make the app more visually appealing. Please keep the feedback coming. We’ll be releasing version 4.00 soon based on your suggestions and if you currently are an owner of this app you’ll get 4.00 as a free upgrade. We’re currently in development now and we hope to release it soon. You can buy the PRO Rumors app version 3.50 for $2.99 at: http://www.itunes.com/apps/prorumors. It is compatible with your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
PRO Rumors iPhone app FREE version 3.50:
For those that aren’t ready to make the plunge to the paid app, we’ve submitted the PRO Rumors FREE app version 3.50. It’s currently under review with Apple and we hope to release it any day now. It’s a stripped down version of the PRO Rumors full app. You’ll get the same great PRO Rumors, but you won’t get the historical rumors, push notifications, scores, stats, standings, leaderboards, etc. It’s a great way to get hooked onto PRO Rumors and you can decide if you want to spend the $2.99 for the full version. PRO Rumors FREE will be compatible with your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
New servers:
We’re doing a complete rearchitecture of the server farm behind PRO Rumors. As you know we use a combination of technologies from iPhone apps in Objective-C to our stats on Ruby on Rails. We have been getting an increasing number of readers and iPhone users every day and so we’ve made some changes in the background to accommodate the load. You may see a hiccup here and there, but we’ll keep it down to a minimum and we’ll try to do it during off-hours.
HTML5
As you know we have videos on our site. Before yesterday, those with an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device could not view the videos on the mobile Safari web browser due to Apple’s limitations on Adobe Flash. Moving forward, we have adopted the HTML5 technology to accommodate those users in the non-Flash environment. Many of the videos this month are embedded in HTML5 so you can view them on the go. We’ll continue moving forward with HTML5 and start incorporating it throughout PRO Rumors.
As always, please send us an email. We love to hear from you. If you write, we promise to write you back!
Allan
allan@prorumors.com
