0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/17/2013
During Tuesday's night All-Star Game, you probably noticed a delay as a fan rushed onto the field and was tackled by security before being lef off the field. Well, it's time to meet that fan. This is Dylan. During the game, he tweeted that if he got 1000 retweets, he'd run onto the field during […]
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Alex Rodriguez is currently rehabbing with the AA Trenton Thunder. BOOOOO A-ROD! But Rodriguez has hired a former WWE wrestler to join his security detail: Gene Snitsky. David Jones of PennLive interviewed Snitsky while the Thunder were in Reading to play the Fightin' Phils. Snitsky threatened any fans who would potentially attack Rodriguez, saying that, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/16/2013
The NL Cy Young award, like the AL award, is a two horse race. Kershaw. Harvey. Kershaw. Harvey. It's interesting that the award has come down to these two pitchers, despite neither of them leading the National League in fWAR. But Kershaw leads baseball in ERA, and Harvey is fourth in the majors while leading […]
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It was a two horse race in our voting for the AL Cy Young award. And while neither of that duo involved is really a breakout star in 2013, they're new faces in the sense that neither finished in the top three in each of the last two years of voting. Oddly, neither of the […]
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It's time for the All-Star Game! Woohoo! American League vs National League, live from Citi Field at 8 PM! OK, maybe I'm the only one excited, but that doesn't matter. At the very least, it's baseball. We can handle that, right? Here are the lineups for tonight's game, started by Max Scherzer for the American […]
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Your big winner at Citi Field on Monday night was Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics. Cespedes won the Home Run Derby, topping Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals in the final round with eight home runs to Harper's seven. Cespedes turned up the gas early in the competition, blasting 17 homers in the first […]
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Matt Harvey is starting the All-Star Game on Tuesday night for the National League. That's awesome. But at the same time, that doesn't mean he's a familiar face in New York City. On Monday night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Harvey hit the streets of New York, and asked Mets fans what they […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/15/2013
Ah yes, the NL Rookie of the Year award…now we're talking. Our top six finishers in the NL voting probably could win the AL award in a cakewalk, but it doesn't work that way. One thing I really like about the crop of NL rookies is how diverse the candidates are. You have heavily hyped […]
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National League manager Bruce Bochy and American League manager Jim Leyland have announced their starting pitchers and lineups for Tuesday night's All-Star Game, and the results aren't exactly shocking. National League Brandon Phillips, 2B Carlos Beltran, RF Joey Votto, 1B David Wright, 3B Carlos Gonzalez, LF Yadier Molina, C Troy Tulowitzki, SS Michael Cuddyer, DH […]
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Before the season, most people picked the Philadelphia Phillies to finish third in the NL East behind the Nationals and Braves. Some picked them second, but those expecting the Phillies to return to the playoffs were few and far between. So here we are at the All-Star Break, and while the Phillies *are* third in […]
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When getting ready to fill out my ballot for AL Rookie of the Year, I opened up the Fangraphs batting leaderboard, clicked on rookies, and was aghast at the AL rookies. The crop of American League rookies this year is absolutely terrible. It's pretty close to being the polar opposite of last year's crop, led […]
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Hello, friends, and welcome to the MLB All-Star Break. We're at the season's unofficially halfway point (even though we're more than 90 games into the season), and it sure has been an interesting season thusfar. Who would have imagined that the Pittsburgh Pirates would have been one of two teams in the league with a […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/14/2013
The All-Star Game will be rolling along in two days. Of course, it's now time to eliminate a handful of players that are pulling out of the game due to injury, and replace them with others. Here's your full breakdown of both the AL and NL subtractions and additions from each team. IN: Mark Melancon, […]
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Hey I just saw you At the Rays game That pitch was awful You should feel some shame Sorry about that awful bit of prose, but I felt it was necessary. Carly Rae Jepsen of "Call Me Maybe" fame threw out the first pitch at Sunday's Astros-Rays game, and the results were disastrous. Jepsen's pitch […]
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Early in his career, Tim Lincecum looked like he'd be a lock to throw a no-hitter. That lock status diminished as Lincecum's pitching abilities also began to go down the tubes, especially with the shell of a player he's become over the last two seasons. But on Saturday night, the 29-year old lefty had a […]
