The 2012 season for the Oakland Athletics came pretty much out of nowhere. The A's went from a .500 club at the All-Star Break to AL West champions to finish the year, with the season culminating in a thrilling three game sweep of the two-time defending AL champion Texas Rangers in Oakland to give the […]

Happy Halloween, everyone. Yesterday, we had our first signings of the offseason. Of course, both were technically contract extensions since the free agency exclusivity window doesn't end until Saturday, but they count. Jake Peavy re-upped with the White Sox for two years, and Brandon League got paid by the Dodgers over three. The Gold Glove […]

Live on ESPN2 (and delayed by 15 minutes thanks to some sort of X-Games racing event), the MLB Gold Glove winners were announced this evening. The format was the same as last year, with "nominees" being announced online beforehand, and a winner being chosen from those nominees. Also, instead of three outfielders being chosen, there […]

The Braves weren't the best team in the National League this season. But they *were* clearly better than the St Louis Cardinals during the regular season, and yet, they were forced to play the Cardinals in the one game wild card playoff. The Cardinals prevailed, and the Braves playoff run was over after just one […]

The San Francisco Giants pretty much flew under the radar all season, and that continued throughout the playoffs. Then, they won six straight games facing elimination against the Reds and Cardinals before sweeping the Tigers in the World Series. What Went Right: THEY WON THE WORLD SERIES, SO EVERYTHING. But anyway, back to reality. Buster […]

The Rays had a disappointing 2012 campaign, but that can largely be tied to the absence of one player: Evan Longoria, the team's superstar third baseman who played just 74 games. Being without an MVP candidate for half of the season isn't a good way to compete for a playoff spot, and considering that the […]

The Tigers trudged through the first five months of the season with no guarantee of a playoff berth, after they simply couldn't jump past the White Sox in the AL Central. Finally, they made their move in September and clinched the division, eventually winning the AL pennant (like many imagined they would) before getting completely […]

If you want to get technical, here in the northeast, it's the calm *after* the storm. Hurricane Sandy has blown through, and while it's still raining, it's nowhere near hurricane quality rain. But that's not the storm I was referring to: I was instead talking about the storm of free agency, which will begin on […]

The 2012 Dodgers started out like a house of fire….and then hit the wall once Matt Kemp went down with hamstring issues, missing most of May and June. The team eventually ceded their NL West lead to the World Champion Giants, despite a summer spending spree that saw them acquire Hanley Ramirez, Josh Beckett, Adrian […]

The Chicago White Sox shattered all expectations coming into 2012, and they nearly crept into the playoffs after the heavily favored Detroit Tigers struggled for most of the season. But you know what happened in late September and October: the White Sox fell apart, the Tigers won the division, and eventually, the AL pennant. It'll […]

It's over, and it's done. The 2012 MLB season is in the books, and the San Francisco Giants are World Champions. –Giants 4, Tigers 3 (ten innings) Well, where do we go from here? The offseason is now officially upon us, and before we go fully into offseason mode, we're going to reflect on the […]

We've obviously had quite the bit of World Series coverage over the past week, and with the Giants' win tonight, we figured it would be nice to show you how they took their final lead of the season, and how it ended. NLCS MVP Marco Scutaro singled home Ryan Theriot to put San Francisco in […]