Much of the modern day trade speculation starts like this: you find a team that has no chance at making the playoffs and a list of decent players who aren’t signed longer than one year or two years in the future, then a good match on a playoff contender for that player. Because of this, there […]

If this keeps up, the city of Cleveland is going to have to completely embrace a new identity. After the Cavaliers came back from three games to one in the NBA Finals, the city felt it couldn’t get much higher, but the Indians are showing that Cleveland sports isn’t done yet. After playing .500 ball […]

The combination of the extra Wild Card (which has now been around long enough we should probably just get used to it) and the extreme parity in the American League looks to have lead to a second straight season where everyone thinks they’re a contender. Nearly three months into the season, only one team in […]

Despite it being early in the season and there being over a century of evidence that being first in May does not have much meaning to being first in September, many bought into the hype of the Chicago White Sox early on. With Chris Sale and Jose Quintana, arguably the two best left handed pitchers […]

The American League All-Star tallies were released Tuesday and like in all things except the adoption of the DH, the National League wasn’t far behind, coming out on Wednesday. Much like in the AL, we see a small number of teams dominating the field, but here it could be considered a little more legitimate. The […]

So we’re going to do this again, huh? Kansas City fans Royals flooded the ballot boxes so much during last season’s All-Star voting that Major League Baseball changed the rules this year. Instead of voting 35 times per e-mail address, you are now only able to vote five times per day and 35 times per […]

Pretty soon, we’ll be seeing All-Star vote totals and will be able to argue over whether the leaders deserve their spots, but in general, the best players in baseball are who we thought they would be. Names like Manny Machado, Mike Trout, Kris Bryant, and Clayton Kershaw are already among the best in baseball yet […]

Heading into the 2016 season, many were down on the Kansas City Royals’ chances. Despite winning the World Series and two straight AL pennants, improvements made by the Tigers, White Sox and Indians during the off-season matched with expected regression and the expected loss of free agents largely lead to the Royals being expected to […]

There is no real known date that is the Super Two cut off point. It’s not like the last day to protect players before the Rule 5 Draft, where there is an actual known moment in time and often many players are cut or protected hours before that moment. Instead, it is in flux from season to […]

Just as the Indians got good news on the injury front with Michael Brantley returning to the team on Monday night, things got much, much worse. On an odd play Sunday, Carlos Carrasco was covering first base when his left leg collapsed under him. By some miracle of foot placement, Carrasco got the out at […]

Baseball is the most superstitious of sports and with it, there is an overlying belief of some that once a team makes it to the promised land of the World Series, they are under greater pressure and scrutiny the following season that will make it more difficult for them to repeat their success early in […]