Tio Daou Ballpark, Curaçao — It’s no coincidence that baseball players from Curaçao are known for their defense and excellent footwork in the field. Many of today’s major leaguers from the soccer-loving Caribbean island — including Braves’ Gold Glove shortstop Andrelton Simmons, Diamondbacks’ shortstop Didi Gregorius and Rangers’ second baseman Jurickson Profar — credit soccer […]

Tio Daou Ballpark, Curaçao — The baseball world was rocked on Wednesday night with the news that the Tigers and Rangers had finalized a blockbuster trade, swapping Detroit first baseman Prince Fielder and Texas second baseman Ian Kinsler. The deal has far-reaching repercussions from the Motor City to Big D to Curaçao, the small island […]

Tio Daou Ballpark, Curaçao — For three days this week, Curaçao’s Tio Daou Ballpark has been transformed from the host ballpark of the Santa Rosa Indians to a veritable field of dreams for aspiring baseball players from the small Caribbean island which has developed some of the top talent in the game today. Thanks to […]

By just about every defensive metric known to the baseball world, Braves’ shortstop Andrelton Simmons had one of the greatest seasons we’ve seen in a long time. In 2013, his first full season in the majors, the 24-year old saved an ML-best 41 runs. He consistently made the impossible look ordinary and the difficult look […]

Baseball fans know that 2013 has been a pretty great year for Curaçao baseball. Let’s take a quick look at the accomplishments for the small island with a population of just 140,000 off the coast of Venezuela which is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Netherlands. The Dutch “Honkbal” team — filled with players […]

“I want my MLB!” The twist on the iconic 1980’s “I want my MTV!” promotional campaign for the network seems like a fitting way to announce a new multi-year partnership between Major League Baseball and MTV. Under the deal announced this morning via press release, MLB and MTV will collaborate on a new half-hour weekly […]

The Boston Red Sox beat the St Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 of the World Series, winning the series 4-2 and capturing their eighth World Championship. The Dropkick Murphys perform the National Anthem accompanied by an accordion. It was as bad as you’d expect. Oh man, I hope this gets better…

The Boston Red Sox beat the St Louis Cardinals 3-1 in Game 5 of the World Series to take a 3-2 lead in the series. Tonight's National Anthem was performed by Harry Connick Jr, and unlike nearly every other anthem this series, it went pretty well. Mike Matheny has to be pissed about Harry Connick […]

The St Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox 4-2 in Game 2 of the World Series, evening the series at one game apiece. After Wednesday night's thrashing, Cardinals fans couldn't have come into this one too confident, could they have? The good news: unless a baby seal is tortured on the mound, tonight's Cardinals […]

The Boston Red Sox beat the St Louis Cardinals 8-1 in Game 1 of the World Series to take a 1-0 series lead. Things didn't go well for Adam Wainwright in this one, as he immediately walked Jacoby Ellsbury to lead off the game. Of course the stingiest starting pitcher with walks all season walks […]

The Dodgers are one of the four major league baseball teams — along with the Yankees, Cubs (Billy Cub is not a sanctioned team mascot) and Angels (no, I don’t count the Rally Monkey) — without an official mascot. So imagine my surprise when during the bottom of the 8th inning in tonight’s NLCS Game […]

First, let me say that I don't get the whole "throwing back a home run ball" thing at all. If I was lucky enough to catch a home run ball — during spring training, regular season or the postseason — you'd better believe I'd keep it. That said, I do understand that if someone who […]