This, ladies and gentlemen, is what the worst call in Major League Baseball history looks like. After 7+ hours and 19 innings of baseball between the Braves and Pirates, home plate umpire Jerry Meals either had somewhere better to be or was watching a different game than the rest of us because there is no […]

Matt Stairs has hit a home run for 11 different MLB teams. He has played for 13. The only two who haven’t been privileged enough to see Matt Stairs trot around the bases? The Montreal Expos, for which Stairs played in 1992 and 1993 … and his current employer, the modern embodiment of the erstwhile […]

Hunter Pence has been one of the few star players for the Astros over the past few seasons, but his time in Houston may be coming to an end soon. Pence’s name has been floated in trade rumors and the Astros seem very willing to move him for the right return of prospects. Despite the probability that trading Pence […]

The Cleveland Indians find themselves in an interesting situation. They started the season red-hot, but hit a major slump in June. Still, the Tribe remains a half-game up on the Detroit Tigers and in a situation where they need to buy some outside pieces if they want to remain the AL Central’s top dog. The Indians have […]

Cheating. It’s a word with negative connotation. It’s also a word that is synonymous with sports. This past week, Yankees’ skipper Joe Girardi suggested that the Blue Jays may be stealing signs by means outside of the playing field. This accusation was shrugged off by the Jays, but it still begs the question: Should stealing signs be a part of the […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks made a few roster moves today and among them was designating the mammoth of a man, Wily Mo Pena, for assignment. The team now has 10 days to trade or release Pena, who has the option of accepting his assignment and return to triple-A Reno. Clearly, the D-Backs have no room for the defensively challenged Pena […]

The Mets have officially opened up the 2011 trade market, sending one of biggest names rumored to be available, Francisco Rodriguez, to the Brewers. While GM Sandy Alderson claims that the trade will not affect the organization’s attempt to contend this season, it certainly never helps to trade away a significant piece of the roster. […]

There’s a good chance that Cole Hamels is the most valuable starter in the Phillies’ vaunted rotation.  It sounds weird, so I’m employing one of my least favorite writing devices — the one sentence paragraph, also known as the Bill Plaschke special — to let that marinate for a minute. How, in a rotation stocked […]

We’re over halfway through the season and, lo and behold, Boston and New York are 1-2 in the American League East, with the Tampa Bay Rays lurking in third place hoping to make a move.  The Yankees hold a 1/2 game lead Wednesday’s action, and both teams had done it with similar strategies: Hit, hit […]

Word on the street from the Big Apple is that Brian Cashman, GM of the New York Yankees, thinks that Robinson Cano, second baseman for the New York Yankees, is better than Jose Reyes, shortstop for the New York Mets. Fairly standard, right? Cashman went on to say that he would take Reyes second in […]

It’s rare that an 11th round draft pick qualifies as one of the highlights of any Major League Baseball team’s season. Then again, the 2011 season has been particularly miserable for the Cubs and their fanbase. The team’s roster is populated with overpaid veterans that aren’t playing well and fan apathy is at an all-time […]

Two Bay Area pitchers made their returns to the pitching mound this week from injury. One had just made his first trip to the DL in his storied career while the other…well, the other made a return from the DL for what seems like the 45th time in his. So what lies in store for […]

It’s been an interesting season so far for the Chicago White Sox. That may be an understatement. After a 10-and-18 April, some media were already calling for Ozzie Guillen’s head and declaring their 2011 season dead in the water. However, the waters of the Chicago River have been flowing more smoothly since. The pale hose […]

You’d think that the defending World Series Champions, returning basically everyone from the team that made a renegade run for the pennant in 2010, would be expected to be near or at the top of the talks for teams in the running for a return trip. And in an essence they are. Going into Tuesday’s […]

In the world of professional sports, where a neanderthalic culture permeates through the inside of most locker rooms as front offices strain themselves to the point of turning red in the face to maintain a politically correct community persona outside of them, it’s rare to see both facets of any team coming together to take […]