Not waiting too long after letting Don Mattingly go, the Los Angeles Dodgers have decided on Dave Roberts to take over the managerial reigns. After a lengthy, but generally undistinguished playing career (outside of one extremely important stolen base), Roberts began his coaching career with the San Diego Padres in 2011 as their third base […]

The Arizona Fall League wrapped up yesterday after a championship game that featured both plenty of promise and plenty of reminders why these guys aren’t in the major leagues yet. The game saw the Scottsdale Scorpions (made of players from the Giants, Indians, Red Sox, Tigers, and Twins) take on the Surprise Saguaros, a team […]

The Indians have been looking to bolster their outfield by any means possible ever since the trade deadline and things appear to be heating up again. Jon Morosi has been on top of these rumors from the beginning and he stirred the pot again yesterday with these two tweets:

You don’t have to look far to see how much baseball has changed in the past few years. We are far from the days of Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds blasting 70 home runs, instead entering an age where pitchers don’t even sniff the MLB ERA title unless they are well below 2.00. Looking at […]

If you claim that you knew who A.J. Pollock was at this time last year and you live outside of the Mojave Desert, you are probably lying. But if you don’t know him now, you must not follow baseball too closely. The MVP candidate and 2015 All-Star and Gold Glover broke onto the scene with […]

Despite finishing the season just a single win away from .500 and being only two years away from a Wild Card victory, the Rays have been rumored to be interested in selling off some pieces. This isn’t a simple strategy of trying to get the most out of players who are only signed on for […]

The Cleveland Indians were already looking for some outfield help this offseason, but things just got worse as their top hitter over the past two seasons, Michael Brantley, had right arthroscopic shoulder surgery today to repair a slight tear in his right labrum. NEWS: Michael Brantley had right shoulder surgery today. He’s expected to be […]

Given their .480 winning percentage as a division against the rest of the AL and their housing of two of the three worst teams in the American League, it is easy to look at the West as a weak division, but they did also produce two playoff teams this year. As a whole, the division […]

The AL Central division was hotly contested for much of the year until the Royals ran away with it, but even then, there was dispute over the second through fourth spots through the end of the season. Going into free agency, it will actually be the top team with the most ground to make up as […]

The Central provided three of five National League playoff teams this year including the Cubs, who ultimately lost to New York in the NLCS. There is a sharp break in the Central, however, as the top three teams not only were dominant this year, but are in good position to stay there for years to […]

The Kansas City Royals are the last team standing, and deserve congratulations as the undisputed best team in baseball for the 2015 season. While they should have been the favorite from day one after finishing just one game short of the title last season, they had to fight their way to respect. They never fell below […]

It appears that comments made by Mark Shapiro to now former Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos lead to him not accepting an offer of a multi-year extension. The report is that Shapiro chastised the current Toronto staff for letting so many prospects go in an effort to return to the playoffs in 2015. Of course, […]

The Kansas City Royals continue to surprise people as they have for the past two seasons. No one thought they would win the Wild Card in 2014 or then make it to the World Series. No one thought they would return to the playoffs this year despite being the top AL team the year before […]

As baseball fans, we have been graced to have four teams in the League Championship round who are not perennial powerhouses. This is the first year since 2011 that we didn’t have at least two of the Giants, Cardinals, Red Sox, and Yankees and the first year since 1997 that none of those four made […]

After many home runs and a few other fireworks, the two teams from Texas have been eliminated, each in five game series. Now we have the scrappy bunch from Kansas City, who use Gold Glove defense and an incredible bullpen to keep their opponents from scoring and the upgraded Blue Jays who prefer to keep […]