Go ahead and cross Jose Altuve off of your possible trade target list, teams that need a second baseman: he's staying in Houston. The diminutive Altuve signed a four year contract extension with the Astros that will pay him $12.5 million over the life of the deal. The contract also contains a pair of club […]

Cue up your bad puns about "changing his Sox", but the fact remains: Matt Thornton has been traded from the White Sox to the Red Sox. In return, Chicago gets Boston minor leaguer Brandon Jacobs. The 36-year old Thornton was traded away by the White Sox about two years too late, as he's not the […]

Jarred Cosart of the Astros made his long-awaited major league debut last night. The results were…stunning. His MLB debut came against a Rays team that had won eight games in a row. Opposing him was David Price, the reigning AL Cy Young winner who has been positively dominant since coming off of the DL. All […]

Derek Jeter made his season debut for the Yankees on Thursday after missing the first 91 games of the season recovering from a broken ankle suffered during last year's playoffs. The captain didn't play the field at all, and went 1/4 with an RBI and a run scored. His lone hit was an infield single, […]

The Final Vote competition for the All-Star Game is completed, and the winners are…Freddie Freeman of the Braves and Steve Delabar of the Blue Jays, who led wire to wire in the competition. Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers was the runner-up in the National League, while the American League runner-up was David Robertson of the […]

Throughout the 135 or so years of baseball, every team had beaten every other team…except for one. The Pirates had *never* beaten the A's. Oakland was 11-0 vs Pittsburgh throughout history, and when the A's won the first two games of their series at PNC Park this week, the streak looked like it had the […]

When the New York Mets gave starting pitcher Shaun Marcum an incentive-laden, one-year, $4 million contract in January, I was cautiously optimistic about the signing for New York. The 31-year old Marcum didn't have a bad year for Milwaukee in 2012, and a bounce back year could allow the Mets to spin him off for […]

After beating the Washington Nationals 4-2 on Tuesday night to improve to 45-46, and 5-1 in their last six games, the Philadelphia Phillies might not be selling off all of their assets at the trade deadline. Instead, they could be looking to *buy*, despite being 7.5 games out of the NL East lead and 5.5 […]

That pun was terrible, and I apologize in advance. But man, how about the Tampa Bay Rays? The Rays have risen to second place in the AL East standings, ten games above .500, and are one of the AL's two wild card teams at this point in time. Tampa Bay has won five in a […]