By Mike Dietrich  Hello and welcome to the second part of players to watch in Spring Training.  Today we will cover the American League. New York Yankees They have most positions filled up and you want to stay away from that ugly platoon at 1st base but I would keep an eye on Igawa to… Read more

The New York Jets made it official today, Thomas Jones is the newest member of their backfield.  He has signed an extension and passed his physical.  Discuss this signing here.  Also the Jets released interviews with Thomas Jones and Mike Tannenbaum… Read more

The New York Jets announced today that they have signed free agent defensive end Kenyon Coleman.  The 27 year old Coleman has been in the league for five seasons.  He was originally a 5th round pick by the Raiders.  He has spent the last four years with the Cowboys.  The 6’5, 295 Coleman has nice size… Read more

ESPN has reported that the Jets have worked out a trade with the Chicago Bears for RB Thomas Jones.  The Jets gave up their first pick in the second round (# 27 overall – obtained from Washington).  In return they get Thomas Jones and the Bears second round pick (#63 overall).  The deal is contingent… Read more

By Sperm Edwards People have a lot of revisionist history with regards to this FO’s acquisition of FA’s. Backtrack to one year ago. To start the ’06 off-season, there WAS no salary cap for ‘07. Nor were talks going well as late as the last week of February (allegedly). What you do with your current… Read more

By Max Our sources tell us that the Jets worked out Andre Wadsworth before the combine.  We are told that he weighed in around 280 pounds and showed up in tremendous shape.  The Jets reportedly offered him a contract after his workout.  We do not know if an agreement has been reached.  A call to his… Read more

The Jets made it official today and released QB Patrick Ramsey.  He will be replaced with a veteran backup who has a lower price tag.  The Jets felt Ramsey’s cap number was too large.  To see the cap savings click here.  The Jets released the following heart felt announcement on their site,  “The New York… Read more

The Jets announced today that they have signed WR Jerricho Cotchery to a contract extension.  Terms of the deal were not announced. Jerricho had a break out year in 2006.  He fell just short of 1,000 yards receiving.  He become a favorite of Eric Mangini’s because of how hard he worked heading into last season. … Read more

By Sperm Edwards ESPN had us at about $21M under the 2007 back in January. Since then we’ve seen cuts (or upcoming cuts/trades) of: Barlow $2.9M cleared Teague $0.7M cleared Blaylock $0.6M additional (no savings) Hamilton $1.5M cleared Ramsey $1.7M cleared Kimo $1.4M cleared ————————————————– Total = $7.6M cleared = $28M under the 2007 cap… Read more

The Jets made a few roster moves today, waiving RB Derrick Blaylock and DE Bobby Hamilton.  Various media outlets are reporting that QB Patrick Ramsey and DE Kimo Oelhoffen will be waived tomorrow.  Both have roster bonuses which are due on March 1st.  RB Kevan Barlow was let go last week. Free agents can be… Read more

Originally Posted by bitonti Kevan Barlow was worth a 4th rounder to beat the effin Pats in the slop in their building. It got the Pats so mad they ripped up all their grass to replace it – by guys working 24 hours a day. Mangini got that monkey off his back early on in… Read more