Free Agent, but may be contacted by: Bob D'Estrada Phone: 808-734-9842 Email: rdeastrada@msn.com Blog:http://deastrada.blogspot.com/ D'Estrada is known to have the best coverage of MLB players and minor league players. His work can be seen at: http://www.wingspan.com/mlb_ballplayer.htm Baseball America Baseball America has a Baseball Bogey Register - they have a comprehensive database of baseball's stars - see: http://www.baseballamerica.com/baseball_bogey_register.htm Baseball-reference.com http://www.baseball-reference.com/ - provides all the players' career statistical info. http://www.baseball-reference.com/MLB/minors/ - the minor league leaderboards http://www.baseball-reference.com/MLB/stats/yearbyyear.shtml - year by year lists for hitters and pitchers - an easy way to see who was hot and who was cold over the years. Baseball.org - baseball.com and others - is one of the major sites for the baseball player information. They have two nice features to explore (a) the baseball hall of famer's voting results and (b) a historical baseball rankings. ESPN.com They have a lot of sabermetrically-oriented pages. http://sports.espn.go.com/baseball/news/ Minor League Baseball Most of the clubs have web sites, e.g., Florida Marlins http://www.marlins.com/ and the San Francisco Giants http://www.sfgiants.com/ They also link to other sites, and for one, there are listings at: http://www.mlb.com/directory/dir_links.jsp?navItemId=107964 They have a free baseball directory: http://www.baseballamerica.com/ballpark/mlb_directory/mlb_dir_intro.shtml There are lots of good sites, many of which were listed in the baseball encyclopedia, but many others. A list of all the top minor league sites can be found at: http://baseball.real.com/miwiki/TopMinorLeagueSites.shtml And for some baseball video-sites, there are: http://www.bigleaguejew.com/mlb/videopage/ There is even a site that shows both umpires and other things, like the best places to buy or find baseball caps. The site is: http://www.yoursnack.com/sports/sports-forums/baseball/showthread.php?t=3304 The Major League Baseball Players Association - has a web site that contains a lot of information. The home page is at: http://mlbpa.org/ They have an annual statistical update; if the latest version is not in by Dec. 1, 2003, there will be a notice saying that the update has not been done. There is also an e-mail address that may not be updated on a timely basis. For latest baseball awards for 1998-2003: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/index.jsp and their Baseball Almanac is: http://www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003_Baseball_News/spt.almanac/almanac.awards/baseball/ They also have several other features. The "best" list is there: http://www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003_Baseball_News/spt.almanac/almanac.best/ There is a search page: http://www.mlb.com/salaries/search and I see a list of links to a number of other sites: http://www.sportingnews.com/top/mlb_team_pages/mlb_index.html? Their "most valuable team" page: http://mlb.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/sportsillustrated/premium/mlb_team_worth/baseball.htm The "Best of the Web" web page: http://mlb.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/sportsillustrated/teams/team_page_bestwebteam/2004awards.shtml It includes a link to the top web sites: http://www.mlb.com/salaries/ http://www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/ http://www.baseball-almanac.com/mlb/stats/index.shtml The team web sites: http://www.mlb.com/teams/san_francisco_giants/ http://www.mlb.com/giants/team/index.jsp and http://www.mlb.com/cubs/team/index.jsp Other sites are: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/teamindex.html http://www.baseballcentral.com/s1_index.htm http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/index.cgi?league=leag2 http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/al3_1.cgi?cid=baseball_almanac_sptelio http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/al3_1.cgi?cid=baseball_almanac_sptelio&team= http://www.fangraphs.com/index.php? http://www.baseballprospectus.com/teamindex.html http://mlb.real.com/mlb/teams/ The "Inside Baseball" news (for free) is at: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/teamnews.jsp?team=mlb The "Dewayne Staats Baseball Newsletter" is there: http://mlb.mlb.