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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

The Washington Nationals have acquired outfielder

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 […]