The Minnesota Twins just agreed to a 2-year, $7 million contract with former Dodgers middle infielder Jamey Carroll on Friday. Carroll is being signed to be the everyday shortstop for the Twins, a year after the signing of Tsuyoshi Nishioka turned out to be a failure on EVERY level and options like Alexi Casilla, Matt […]

Brian Sabean and Dayton Moore make a trade with each other and the smartest item in the deal is the pen the contracts were signed with. That would normally be the joke, right? But then you see why this particular deal was made and, well…um, it’s a good trade for BOTH general managers? Yeah, we’re […]

You can always count on a couple of things when it comes to the free agency period: Relievers will be given multi-year deals and the San Francisco Giants will normally act quickly on a free agent and overpay him. Or, both will happen in the same deal. The first official signing of the 2011-12 free […]

My editor has told me 1,000 words per article but with this being my team, add another zero on the end. (I’m joking. Maybe.) The 2010 World Series champions experienced a few hiccups in 2011 after so many things went right for them on their way to their first championship since moving to San Francisco […]

While the team was a slightly-above .500 ballclub on the field, the off-field craziness of the Frank McCourt saga distracted from some really good things happening at Chavez Ravine for the Brooklyn originals.   WHAT WENT RIGHT Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw. (Oh, I have to write why? Crap.) Kemp SHOULD be the National League […]

A team that has some of the best young talent in baseball saw injuries and trades derail their season, along with a total lack of support from the non-superstar contingent in Denver. WHAT WENT RIGHT As always, Troy Tulowitzki went right. The best shortstop in the game continued to add to his legacy with a […]

We all know by now that the Boston Red Sox completed the biggest collapse in the history of Major League Baseball this past September, losing a 9 game lead to the Tampa Bay Rays and blowing a lead in Game 162 to the hapless Baltimore Orioles, allowing the surging Rays to come back and walk-off […]

This past Friday, Angels (now former) GM Tony Reagins resigned, stepping down after four seasons at the helm. The Angels failed to make the postseason for the second straight season, something they had not done since 2000-2001. Reagins’ time as GM will likely be viewed as a failure, but he certainly shouldn’t shoulder all of […]

The San Francisco Giants will have an early vacation this season and part of their failure to make the playoffs can be set upon the shoulders of their 2010 success. They may have won the World Series last season, but the organization was naïve to think that they could build a 2011 champion based upon […]

I had this long reflective post that I was planning on writing. The post was going to be something about the meaning of the weird, sad year that has been the Dodgers’ season. The problem that I ended up having, was that the Dodgers’ season began to shift. It began to change, to morph into […]

I know that there is probably a much deeper meaning behind the existence of Jose Canseco. He’s like a mystery wrapped in side a paradox with a side of irony sauce. He is the human equivalent of a Paradox Wrap. I interviewed Jesse Thorn on the podcast a few weeks back. The topic, or, rather […]

When the Red Sox added Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford this past offseason, many baseball minds anointed them the favorites to win the World Series. On paper, there was plenty of reasoning behind those predictions, but a lot can happen over 162 games. The Rays came into their three-game series against the Red Sox 6.5 […]

Unlike the National League, where the Philadelphia Phillies are the clear favorites to march on to yet another World Series, the American League sees five teams, all with their own appeals, in the mix to win a shot at a World Series berth. Let’s take a look at what each of the five teams bring, […]