Weekly Link Round-Up

Stuff to read.

• David Martin of Rockies Review made a case for Jamie Moyer and defends the decision to slot him into the starting rotation.

• Call to the Pen’s Matt Musico previewed the National League West and determined that the Rockies’ storyline to watch is Jim Tracy and his indefinite contract extension.

• Troy Renck reported on Dante Bichette Jr.’s terrific performance in a Yankees spring training game last weekend. Can we please get this guy? Seriously.

• I’m so tired of the Ubaldo-Tulo mud slinging, but if you really care about that still, here’s a video of Tulo talking about last Sunday’s hit-by-pitch incident.

• And Andrew Martin of Purple Row gave us a timeline of how the ugliness unfolded.

• And Mark Townsend of Heaven and Helton lamented his lost Ubaldo innocence.

• Patrick Saunders reported on Wilin Rosario’s admission to the show upon making the Rockies’ opening day roster.

• Kevin Kaduk and David Brown of Big League Stew argued about whether the Rockies were too old to contend, and whether Michael Cuddyer is any good at anything.

• Speaking of Wilin Rosario, he earned the number two spot on Seedlings to Stars’ list of top Latin prospects in the NL West. Meanwhile, Rosell Herrera, about whom I know next to nothing, managed to slide into the number five spot. Good on him, I guess.

• Are we STILL talking about Ubaldo? Of course we are. Chris Cwik of Fangraphs broke down the five-game suspension Ubaldo received and actually reveals complete and total ignorance about what created the situation in the first place.

• Purple Row’s Andrew Fisher looks at the Cargo/Tulo contracts in light of all the money the rest of the division threw around this week. Dan O’Dowd comes out looking pretty good.

• The Rockies just keep plucking other team’s sloppy seconds and adding them to the 40-man. Awesome. Adam Ottavino is the latest addition.

• David Schoenfield did something really rare this week: he actually WROTE A LENGTHY POST (as opposed to leaving the bulk of the work to his SweetSpot writers or random fans he polled). Behold his 100 reasons to “get excited about MLB.” I’m not really sure what this phrase means, but I do notice that the only reference to the Rockies on this list is Jamie Moyer who actually lands at #3.

• Big League Stew’s David Brown very nearly puns himself to death reporting on Josh Outman’s trip to the disabled list.

• Bryan Kilpatrick’s piece on the top 5 opening days in Rockies’ history is worth reading.

• Mark Townsend gave us an extensive and far more interesting set of predictions than anybody else I’ve seen on this vast sea of opinions known as the internet.

• Purple Row’s Jeff Aberle gave us his first report of the season from the minors.

• Question: 2o years from now, will Troy Tulowitzki be an owner and Ubaldo Jimenez a manager? And will they hug like Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura did yesterday?

• Can we all close our eyes right now and wish really hard for a Brad Hawpe comeback?