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Athletics acquire Kurt Suzuki a year after trading him

Kurt Suzuki is back with Oakland, a year after the A's dealt him to Washington. Early on Friday morning, it was announced that Suzuki had been dealt from Washington to Oakland for 22-year old A-ball pitcher Dakota Bacus. The Athletics traded Suzuki to the Nationals on August 3rd last year, and he hit .267/.321/.404 in […]

MLB Watchability Rankings – 8/23/13

The biggest changing in the rankings come at the bottom…which is something that no one wants to see. RANK TEAM CHANGE SCHEDULE COMMENT 1 +2 vs BOS vs CHC The Red Sox and Cubs coming to Dodger Stadium is a dream for scalpers. 2 -1 @ STL vs CLE Go ahead and add Jason Heyward […]

Dugout Digest – historic

Clayton Kershaw is having a great season. He leads the majors with a 1.72 ERA, and I need to put that in perspective for a minute. That 1.72 ERA is the lowest in baseball since Greg Maddux posted a 1.63 mark in his Cy Young winning season of 1995. The only other players with a […]

Dugout Digest – peaking

It's always a quaint little factoid when a team passes their win total from the prior year in August. The Red Sox have already done that, but after how disastrous their 2012 was, it seemed inevitable. The only other team to do that in 2013 did it on Wednesday night, and that team is the […]

Ichiro collects 4,000th career hit between MLB and Japan

Stop the discussion about the semantics here: Ichiro Suzuki picked up his 4,000th career hit between Japan and America during Wednesday night's Blue Jays-Yankees game. The type of hit was typical: a slap single to left field in the first inning of the game.  If you want to be boring and technical, it was Ichiro's […]

Jason Heyward to miss 4-6 weeks with fractured jaw

Remember a few hours ago when we brought you the news that Jason Heyward was hit in the face by a pitch from Jonathon Niese of the New York Mets? Well, the news isn't good for Atlanta's right fielder, as the plunking fractured his jaw and will cost him four to six weeks.  Heyward has […]

Braves outfielder Jason Heyward hit in face with pitch

There was a scary situation at Citi Field today after Jonathon Niese of the Mets hit Braves outfielder Jason Heyward in the jaw with a pitch. Heyward would eventually leave the field with some assistance, spitting up some blood on the way to the dugout. There was no immediate word on his condition, though he […]

Roy Halladay had no problems with Charlie Manuel’s firing

Charlie Manuel's firing last week was a sad day in Philadelphia, as the all-time winningest manager in Phillies history was shown the door in the midst of a miserable season. Most of the negativity was directed at Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro, who saddled Manuel with an aging team in 2013 and threw him under […]

Dugout Digest – falling off

Remember when the Royals were supposed to make a run at the AL Central crown? After taking three out of four from the Red Sox and winning their series opener with the Marlins, Kansas City is 2-6, scoring a total of just 16 runs in those eight games. They've fallen to 8.5 games back of […]

Ryan Dempster earns meaningless five game suspension

MLB did as little as it could to actually punish Ryan Dempster after he threw at Alex Rodriguez during Sunday night's Yankees-Red Sox game. Dempster was handed a five game suspension and an undisclosed fine by the league, about as close to a slap on the wrist as you can get. His suspension is also

Dugout Digest – the solo battery

Something cool happened in the Rangers' 16-5 smashing of the Astros on Monday night. After a marathon third inning that saw Texas plate ten runs, Houston manager Bo Porter threw utility infielder Jake Elmore behind the plate to catch, replacing Carlos Corporan. After Wade LeBlanc and Phil Humber had varying degrees of success with Elmore […]

Dugout Digest – everyone hates Alex

Alex Rodriguez can't get a damn break. Not only did he get vociferously booed in Boston this weekend (which honestly, is part for the course), but even the umpires aren't giving him any love. After Ryan Dempster threw at Rodriguez in the second inning (eventually succeeding), both benches were warned and Dempster was allowed to […]

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