Links

Via Bucs Dugout, The Onion has a great piece of DL satire up. They kind of gloss over the LaRoche trade, but it's funny (and probably truer than we'd like to believe) nonetheless.

Via Ben Maller (and Marc in the comments), the Mets are very excited about Oliver Perez next year. Reading stuff like this makes me want to throw stuff.

In a bizarre role reversal, the Reds are now giving tons of money to pitchers. They locked up Aaron Harang and Bronson Arroyo through 2011 and 2010 respectively. The Harang deal is a good one as Harang has really become a legitimate ace the past two seasons. I'm not as sold on the Arroyo deal, but he was very good last year (3rd in the NL in ERA+ behind Webb and Oswalt) and the Reds always seem to need pitching, so I probably shouldn't nitpick.

Meanwhile, Pirates Charities' launched their first project, the Pirates Community Baseball Center in Shadyside/East Liberty. There's a joke about the Pirates and charity in there somewhere but it feels kind of inappropriate to make it right now, because the Pirates have done an honestly good thing here.

Part III of my season preview may be up this afternoon and it may not. Something may have come up. More on that later.