Every summer, we start hearing about how (insert superstar here) is going to get traded and boost his new team into favorites to win the World Series. I started thinking about that, and wondered how often it's actually happened that way. We've been through so many of these midseason blockbusters, and off the top of […]

The Texas Rangers are scuffling, and I'm not even talking about their failure to complete a trade for Matt Garza. Texas has lost four straight games, and has fallen to three games back of Oakland in the AL West, the second-largest deficit between a first and second place team in baseball. The Rangers aren't even […]

I really hate leading with the same team to start off the DD in back to back days, but something…interesting happened in Houston last night. The Astros struck out 15 Mariners hitters, allowed just one hit…and lost the game 4-2. Erik Bedard threw 6 1/3 no-hit innings before being pulled, and got saddled with the […]

Brandon Barnes of the Astros hit for the cycle last night, and you probably didn't even know that he did. But of course you didn't know: the Astros lost to the Mariners 10-7. Barnes, Houston's seven hitter, drove in just a pair of runs in his excellent performance. And not only did the Mariners end […]

Oh, the Royals. There has been a lot said about this team this season by people much more passionate and knowledgeable than myself after Kansas City GM Dayton Moore said he's not going to be selling at the deadline. The article I linked above pretty much outlines exactly what the Royals need to do at […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks

Heading into the second half of 2013, the New York Yankees are in an unfamiliar position: in the middle of the pack in the American League. New York has a 51-44 record, good for fourth place in the AL East, six games behind the first place Red Sox. The Yankees are also three games out […]

There really isn't a frontrunner for the NL MVP award. And honestly, I don't think there really should be. David Wright leads the league in fWAR, but he plays for a terrible team. Carlos Gomez is second in the league in fWAR, and that value is based primarily on his defensive superiority. The players with […]

Last year, the race for the AL MVP award between Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout was heated, and often times grew personal between the proponents of either side. The arguments really boiled down to "Triple Crown" versus "historical, five tool, balanced season". In the end, Cabrera won the award rather handily, and the internet grumbled. […]

Well, the All-Star Game is behind us after a 3-0 American League victory. During the game, the non-player highlight was probably this fan runnin onto the field…because he got 1000 retweets. Oh. But where do we go from here? There's no baseball today. There's no baseball tomorrow. So I guess we're just going to take […]

The American League won the All-Star Game on Tuesday night, topping the National League 3-0 to earn home field advantage in  the World Series in . October. Mariano Rivera of the Yankees won the All-Star Game MVP award in his final All-Star Game after throwing a perfect eighth inning. The AL's win snapped a three […]