While both signings made a big splash when they first happened following the 2012 season, Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher have become two of the most hated men in Cleveland over the past two seasons. The pair made up 33% of team payroll for 2014 alone and contributed 0.0 (Swisher) and 0.4 (Bourn) of the […]

There has been a lot of talk lately about the Mets, Blue Jays, and Royals as they compete with other top teams around the league for one of the 12 available playoff spots, but that is ignoring the other half. While there are six AL teams that still believe they are in contention for a […]

The Angels have recently stormed back to take over the AL West lead, largely thanks to their offense, but outside of Mike Trout, the outfield has been a major issue. Collin Cowgill is on the 60 day DL and Matt Joyce is on the 7 day concussion DL, but the Angels may be happy about […]

The American League playoff hunt is as tight as ever and with the deadline looming a week away, teams are grasping for that one piece they believe will push them over the edge. For the Blue Jays, that piece is a starting pitcher and they haven’t quite been lucky enough to snare one yet. Just 5.5 […]

Rob Manfred has been busy in his short tenure as Major League Baseball’s commissioner, trying to speed up the game (and the Home Run Derby) and making wild suggestions such as eliminating shifts (crazy) and starting an international draft (not so crazy). He continued that trend yesterday when he mentioned that he would be open […]

The dust had barely settled on Todd Frazier’s 2015 Home Run Derby trophy. One series after they celebrated the All-Star Game festivities on their home field, the Reds appear ready to blow things up and start over. Johnny Cueto could be the biggest pitcher traded in the next two weeks (he’s the only NL pitcher […]

The Cleveland Indians set an MLB record last season with 1,450 strikeouts as a pitching staff, 946 of them coming from the starting rotation. The staff ERA of 3.56 sat in the middle of the league, but that was largely thanks to the five starters who filled in the back end of the rotation behind […]

Ever since the advent of the second Wild Card, more and more teams have the belief that they are in the play-offs for later into the season than ever before. As of July 7th, every single American League team is within 6.5 of a Wild Card spot and all but four National League clubs are […]

This, as in every year, there are players left out of the All-Star game who are seemingly deserving, but things aren’t as bad as they could have been. Jose Altuve made a miraculous comeback in the fan voting at the last moment to save one wasted roster spot that had been slated for Omar Infante, […]

There is no question that the American League Central is one of the toughest divisions in baseball (it is home to 7 of 9 potential All-Star starters) and that has lead to a difficult climb for those teams at the bottom. While the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox appeared to be ready to contend […]

There has been no question that the Indians have been one of the worst defensive teams in baseball over the past few seasons. In fact, it may have been the largest reason why they were kept out of the playoffs in 2014. According to Fangraphs.com, there was almost a 139 run difference between the Indians’ defense […]

The first two rounds of the 2015 MLB Draft are in the books and as always, there were a few surprises and a few potential superstars. If anything, this particular draft will likely be remembered as the year of the shortstop with the first three players taken overall playing the key position and six of […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks select – Dansby Swanson – SS – Junior at Vanderbilt The 2015 Draft is stocked with shortstop talent and the best of that group was Swanson, who most expected would be taken by the Diamondbacks with the first overall pick. He projects to be remain at shortstop unlike many who will be […]

On May 1st, the AL Central looked surprisingly set. What was supposed to be the most competitive division in baseball was close for one and two (1.5 games), but the third place Twins were 3.5 games behind that and the two trendy picks to win the division, the Indians and White Sox sat at the bottom […]

Less than a week after the Rangers brought up their top prospect, Joey Gallo, their cross state rivals have taken a similar turn by promoting 2012 first overall pick Carlos Correa. Ranked third best prospect in all of baseball by Baseball Prospectus coming into the season (also third by MLB.com and fourth by Baseball America), […]