0 comments by Chris Roling on 7/26/2016
Few seem happier than Jake Arrieta about the Chicago Cubs swinging a trade with the New York Yankees for Aroldis Chapman. Arrieta has had a rough month, too, so he probably needed the good news the most. He just finished the month of July without posting a win, most recently coughing up four earned runs […]
0 comments by Chris Roling on 7/25/2016
The Chicago Cubs just hit the jackpot, striking a deal with the New York Yankees for Aroldis Chapman. This one felt like a long time coming, with Chicago searching for help and New York flirting with the idea of selling. Jon Heyman of Today’s Knuckleball broke the news: Yanks and Cubs have a deal. Torres, […]
0 comments by Brian Wright
The baseball calendar has many benchmark dates: Opening Day, the All-Star break, and the start of the postseason. But it’s the trade deadline where the directions of so many teams are clearly defined. Those with aspirations for the playoffs can use a player with experience to assist in the push for October. Here are eight who are able to achieve that. […]
0 comments by Matt Birch on 7/24/2016
Ken Griffey Jr. played during the steroid era, but was highly regarded by many because he “played the game the right way” and did not give in to using performance enhancing drugs. Given the numbers he put up, that’s pretty impressive, and he was honored by getting inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on […]
0 comments by Brian Wright on 7/22/2016
No player gets to the Hall of Fame by chance. All that are fortunate enough to be elected have earned their way in (just as some have earned exclusion). Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, the two headliners of Sunday’s induction ceremony, each proved that there is no set path to Cooperstown. Griffey was the No. […]
0 comments by Marcelo Villa on 7/21/2016
Desperate for starting pitching, the Los Angeles Dodgers might be looking to trade for Tampa Bay Rays ace Chris Archer. According to Buster Olney of ESPN, the Rays have told teams Archer is not available unless someone totally overwhelms them. The Dodgers have the top farm system in all of baseball according to Baseball America‘s […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 7/20/2016
Reigning American League MVP Josh Donaldson practically turned Chase Field from a ballpark to a waterpark Tuesday night when he washed his hair in the dugout during the Blue Jays’ game against the Diamondbacks. Sure, a team from Canada was playing in the desert, but the roof was closed. So the players were shielded from […]
0 comments by Matt Birch on 7/19/2016
New York Mets closer Jeurys Familia entered Tuesday’s game against the Cubs in the ninth inning after the Mets pushed a run across for a 2-1 lead, and did what he has made a habit of doing: flawlessly closing games out. Jeurys Familia's has now converted 49 consecutive save chances, dating back to August 1, […]
0 comments by Matt Birch
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon showed how tough he is in Tuesday’s game against the Brewers when he was hit in the head by a line drive, yet remained the game. It happened in the second inning, when Hernan Perez hit a line drive that was clocked at 105 mph as it came off his bat. […]
0 comments by Marcelo Villa
Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw has been shut down until his back pain goes away and his return to the starting rotation is “uncertain.” Manager Dave Roberts said Kershaw “didn’t feel great” on Sunday after throwing a simulated game on Saturday,
0 comments by Brian Wright
As the All-Star break drifts further into the rear view mirror, the games that make up the second half of the regular season take on added significance. For the teams with aspirations to play deep into October, each needs its key contributors to perform well over the final two-plus months. But some play an even […]
0 comments by Brian Wright on 7/15/2016
As is the norm of every baseball season, the first half of 2016 has seen its share of surprises and disappointments. It’s one thing to make observations on events now firmly in the baseball season’s rear-view mirror. It’s another to predict what will happen going forward – when the staying power of the contending clubs […]
0 comments by Mike Batista on 7/14/2016
Big Papi could be in a little trouble for having a big mouth. Major League Baseball might not be feeling the same love for David Ortiz that everyone at Petco Park did during the All-Star Game. The Red Sox slugger could face discipline for tampering after saying that Blue Jays designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion would make […]
0 comments by Marcelo Villa on 7/13/2016
Despite having Terry Collins as manager of the NL team, the New York Mets were the only NL team to not have someone appear in the All-Star game. The Mets skipper
0 comments by Marcelo Villa
Even though his Detroit Tigers are division rivals of the Kansas City Royals, that didn’t stop Miguel Cabrera from doing a really cool thing for Eric Hosmer in Tuesday night’s All-Star game. After Hosmer homered in the second inning and drove in a run in the third, Cabrera, realizing that the Royals first baseman was […]
0 comments by Brian Wright
For both teams and players alike, a solid first half does not reflect an entire season. No hardware is actually distributed at the year’s midpoint, but there are a select few certainly worthy of recognition for outstanding performances thus far. The ultimate individual goal, of course, is the MVP — for which there has been recent debate as to what criteria best […]
0 comments by Matt Birch
Hopefully Houston Chronicle’s Jake Kaplan didn’t have a zero deadline for his All-Star Game recap, because Jonathan Lucroy made it quite difficult on him. During the eighth inning of the game, when many reporters are working on their game stories, a foul ball careened off the bat of Lucroy. It went straight up and back, […]
0 comments by Matt Birch
Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz played in his tenth and final All-Star game on Tuesday, and the fans in attendance at Petco Park showed their appreciation for the veteran’s tenure in the league with a round of applause. Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez said he was going to groove a pitch for Ortiz, so when […]
0 comments by Matt Birch on 7/12/2016
Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton clearly had something to prove heading into Monday night’s home run derby, and he broke the record for most home runs to ever be hit in the event—by 20! Stanton admitted he was going through the worst slump of his career during most of the first half of the season, […]
0 comments by Marcelo Villa on 7/11/2016
Chicago White sox pitcher Chris Sale owes a debt of gratitude to the late, great Tony Gwynn, whose death in 2014 helped him to quit chewing tobacco, the deadly habit that killed the San Diego Padre great at age 54. “I chewed tobacco from 2007 until the day he died,” Sale told reporters on Monday. […]
0 comments by Brian Wright
MLB’s trade market is usually filled with players that can be beneficial to playoff-hopeful teams. However, there are times in which the players themselves can also be helped by the change. It could be due to dissension with the current organization, the need to play in a new environment or a veteran simply deserving to suit up for a contender and […]
0 comments by Matt Birch
It’s not every day that you see a MLB player ejected for something he did with his foot. That was the case in Sunday’s Angels-Orioles game, when home plate umpire Tim Timmons showed he’s not going to stand for trolling, even if it’s not blatant. Timmons punched Yunel Escobar out, saying he went around on […]
0 comments by Matt Birch on 7/10/2016
Derek Jeter had a reputation for dating many models and celebrities in and around NYC, but Hannah Davis was the one he chose to settle down with, and understandably so. The two laidback, easygoing celebrities seemed like a perfect match for each other, and like this relationship would actually last. It did, for four years, […]
0 comments by Matt Birch on 7/9/2016
The Texas Rangers paid tribute on Friday night, honoring the five Dallas police officers that were killed in a sniper attack, during their game against the Twins. Globe Life Park is located roughly 20 miles from where the attack happened, so the team held a moment of silence before the game, which the Rangers held […]
0 comments by Matt Birch on 7/8/2016
Coco Crisp’s 12-game hitting streak came to a screeching halt on Thursday night, and maybe that’s why he completely lost his cool and went off on home plate umpire D.J. Reyburn. Crisp struck out swinging in the fifth inning of the Athletics’ game against the Astros, and he apparently didn’t like the called strike on the […]
