The Masahiro Tanaka saga is over, and the Japanese ace is heading to the New York Yankees on a

Masahiro Tanaka signs with Yankees, ending free agent saga
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/22/2014
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/22/2014
The Masahiro Tanaka saga is over, and the Japanese ace is heading to the New York Yankees on a
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/21/2014
This weekend, it was confirmed that five teams made contract offers to Masahiro Tanaka. There may be others that also placed bids on his services, but it was confirmed by Nikkan Sports that the Yankees, Cubs, White Sox, Dodgers, and Diamondbacks all had made offers for at least six years and $100 million. If you […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/20/2014
In advance of Sunday's NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks, the Giants and Mariners made a friendly wager on Twitter. If the 49ers won, the Mariners would need to post a picture of the Mariner Moose kissing his bicep, AKA Kaepernicking. If the Seahawks won, the Giants would need to […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/16/2014
MLB has announced that expanded instant replay has been approved by the MLB owners, the World Umpires Association, and the MLBPA for the 2014 season. Nearly every play on the field is covered, but fail/foul calls on balls in the infield, ball/strike calls, and the neighborhood play at second base will not be reviewable. I'm […]
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Alex Rodriguez is opening his mouth in public again, and shockingly, he's not sticking his foot in it. At a promotional appearance in Mexico, Rodriguez opened up about the suspension and was shockingly candid and not combative. "It's a very sad story," said the three-time AL MVP, who appeared somber as he spoke in Spanish […]
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On Wednesday night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, New York Yankees stars Mark Teixeira and C.C Sabathia made cameos on the show. Each player wore a wig and played the role of a female while re-enacting a scene from the play August: Osage County, culminating with Sabathia slapping Teixeira across the face (while […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/15/2014
The Alex Rodriguez saga took a bizarre twist on Wednesday, when Yankees' manager partner Hal Steinbrenner didn't rule out a return to the Bronx for his suspended third baseman in 2015. Ken Davidoff of the New York Post has the relevant quotes. “He’s a great player,” Steinbrenner said in the Yankees’ managing general partner’s first […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw have agreed to a seven-year contract extension worth $215 million, according to
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San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval has never been much of a skinny guy throughout his major league career. This is what he looked like this past September with the Giants. Big boy, right? He was officially listed at 240 pounds, but looked a lot bigger. Flash forward to today. Sandoval has been working […]
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Check out this clip from the Australian Baseball League, our second of the month. During last Friday's game between Melbourne and Adelaide, Adelaide's Joe Sclafani (a prospect in the Houston Astros organization) hit a fly ball to keep right field. Melbourne's Tyler Massey (a prospect in the Colorado Rockies organization) got on his horse, made […]
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On Tuesday night, MLB announced that they would be making dreams come true for baseball fans across the world. MLB announced…that RBI Baseball would be returning. The game will be released for current and next-gen consoles (PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One), as well as mobile platforms. There aren't any more details yet, but this […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/14/2014
The backlash towards new Chicago Cubs mascot Clark the Cub
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/13/2014
The Chicago Cubs have fallen from the ranks of MLB teams without a mascot, leaving the Angels, Dodgers, and Yankees remaining. On Monday, the Cubs announced that they'd be introducing a mascot for the 2014 season: Clark (named after Clark Street, one of the roads bordering Wrigley Field) will debut at a charity event on […]
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I'm not going to bother recapping the Alex Rodriguez suspension saga for all of you – everyone knows the gist of things. A-Rod's suspension has been reduced to 162 games, and barring some sort of miracle, he's not going to play at all in 2014. But while his season is done before it really got […]
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Texas Rangers starting pitcher Derek Holland is expected to miss approximately three months of the 2014 season because of torn cartilage in his left knee. But the injury didn't happen because Holland was playing baseball, hockey, football, or doing some intense training – no, his dog was the cause of the injury, according to a […]