0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/28/2013
Continuing to float on in the AL East, welcome to Orioles day! Baltimore shockingly made the playoffs last season thanks to a fantastic bullpen, an unbelievable amount of luck in one-run games, and an awesome record against the AL East (they finished .500 or better against every other team in the division). Dan Duquette essentially […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/27/2013
The Rays are a franchise that thrives on x-factor type players. Who would have expected that Fernando Rodney would set the record for the lowest single season ERA of all-time in 2012? Who would have expected that a career bench player in Jeff Keppinger would get significant playing time in 2012, and have the best […]
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Continuing from our season preview of the Tampa Bay Rays earlier today… When will Wil Myers make his jump to the bigs and join the Tampa Bay Rays permanently? When the Rays acquired Myers from the Royals this winter as part of a package for James Shields and Wade Davis, the internet freaked out. The […]
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Here's another black eye for Alex Rodriguez (not that he needs another black mark on his ledger): in 2006, the A-Rod Family Foundation gave just 1% of donated funds to charities before they stopped submitting financial reports and were stripped of tax-exempt status. CBS New York has the details. Rodriguez and rapper Jay-Z raised $403,862 […]
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What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2013 title for all 30 teams. The little engine that could has finally done it. Joe Maddon and his Rays are World Champions. […]
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Former Marlins, Yankees, and Braves starter Javier Vazquez
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Next up in our AL East preview series…the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays made some Rays-like moves this winter, and are primed for contention once again in the AL East, but you knew that already. Yesterday was Blue Jays day here at TOC, and here's your recap. Blue Jays on TOC End of Season Postmortem […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/26/2013
I'm done with the Harlem Shake. It's nowhere near as fun as Gangnam Style or Call Me Maybe, not at least the videos are typically only around 30 seconds long. New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia put together a Harlem Shake video at his home, and
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Philadelphia Phillies outfielder is (inexplicably) fighting for a job this winter after the team signed veteran Delmon Young (who hasn't played in a spring game yet after offseason ankle surgery). Brown is having himself a solid spring so far, and on Tuesday, he hit his second homer of the preseason. This shot, a solo blast […]
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Everyone knows the key players on the Toronto Blue Jays: Reyes, Bautista, Encarnacion, Dickey, Cabrera, and so on and so forth. But after the stars that everyone knows, there's a dropoff to the lesser players: guys like Arencibia, Lind, and Rasmus, who have tons of potential, but have generally underperformed during their careers with the […]
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In the This Is My Nightmare series, we'll take a look at what the absolute worst case scenario for each team would be in 2013. Think of it as the negative complement to our You May Say I'm A Dreamer series that we'll be running during our preview series. A nightmare season for the Blue […]
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In December, MLB released the 2013 editions of batting practice caps for all of the teams across baseball. The Braves BP cap featured their logo from the 1980s, nicknamed the "screaming Brave". The Braves eventually backpedaled and released a more conventional (read: boring) BP cap, featuring their script A colored red on a blue cap. […]
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Continuing from our season preview of the Toronto Blue Jays earlier today… What makes the 2013 Blue Jays different from the 2012 Marlins? The Blue Jays-Marlins comparison is bound to come up a lot this season if the Blue Jays struggle out of the gate. Just like the 2012 Marlins, the 2013 Blue Jays experienced […]
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What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2013 title for all 30 teams. The Blue Jays have done it. They've avoided the perils that come with being an overhyped team […]
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The Toronto Blue Jays didn't have a great 2012. Their season collapsed like a house of cards when Jose Bautista broke his wrist and the pitching staff suffered injury after injury. This offseason, Alex Anthopolous made his move. He had accumulated several talented prospects that weren't going to be ready for the majors in 2013, […]
