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VIDEO: Bryce Harper shatters his bat on the ground

Your browser does not support iframes. During Monday's Braves-Nationals extra inning marathon, Braves reliever Luis Avilan struck out Nationals phenom Bryce Harper swinging to end the 11th inning on an absolutely filthy curveball. After the inning-ending strikeout, the 19-year old Harper slammed his bat into the dirt around home plate and split the bat in […]

Starlin Castro’s extension sends Cubs in right direction

News broke this weekend about Starlin Castro signing an extension with the Cubs for seven years and $60 million, with an option for the eighth year. I was waiting for the details of the deal (specifically, yearly salaries) before posting about it, but then news came out that it would take a week or two […]

Dugout Digest – break up the Mariners!

Lost in all the hoopla in the league right now is that the Seattle Mariners are playing some really good baseball. Seattle is 23-13 since the All-Star Break, and is a +28 in those 36 games. They're 8-1 in their last nine games, which includes a sweep of the Twins and series wins against the […]

VIDEO: Giancarlo Stanton hits yet another monster homer.

We all know Giancarlo Stanton hits monster homers, right? Well Monday night in Phoenix, Stanton may have topped his previous moonshots in terms of sheer impressiveness with this shot that went into the third deck at Chase Field off of the always homer-prone Joe Saunders Your browser does not support iframes. Really? Yeah, really. Stanton […]

Roger Clemens signs with Sugar Land Skeeters

This is really happening. Fox 26 Houston is reporting that former Red Sox, Yankees, Blue Jays, and Astros pitcher Roger Clemens has agreed to sign with the independent league Sugar Land Skeeters in the Houston area. The 50-year old Clemens hasn't pitched since 2007 with the Yankees, and was acquitted this summer on federal obstruction […]

VIDEO: Indians closer Chris Perez gets into it with a fan

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eXo-eathEgE Deadspin posted this video today of Indians closer Chris Perez arguing with a fan in Oakland. Perez swore at the fan who was heckling him, and his best comebacks were "I have more saves than your entire team!" and "I was an All-Star again this year!", while the fan's major comeback was "LOOK AT […]

Dugout Digest – a change of scenary

With the Rockies in the first half of this season, Jeremy Guthrie was beyond awful. I don't even need to rattle the stats off. They were *bad*. But since a trade to the Royals last month, Guthrie has been…dare I say…pretty damn good. In his six starts with Kansas City, Guthrie has a 3.23 ERA, […]

Melky Cabrera, fraud, and his PED suspension

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard about Melky Cabrera's 50 game suspension for PED use that will knock him out of action for the rest of the regular season, and likely cost him millions in free agency. But before his suspension was announced, Cabrera had put together a fraudulent plan to absolve himself of […]

Dugout Digest – heartbreaking

I normally don't feature the same game two days in a row, but this is a special circumstance. Last night, the Angels were up 8-0 on the Rays through four, and everything looked right with the world. Of course…this is the 2012 Angels we're talking about here. And quite frankly, you can't pin this loss […]

Astros fire Mills, two coaches as bloodbath continues in Houston

The Houston Astros continued revamping their franchise under new owner Jim Crane by firing manager Brad Mills, along with first base coach Bobby Meacham and hitting coach Mike Barnett. Houston has far and away been the worst team in baseball this year, with a pathetic 39-82 record that is nine games worse than the Cubs […]

Dugout Digest – a continuing collapse

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are collapsing. Since the All-Star Break, the Angels have gone 14-20. They've gone from three games up in the wild card standings to 2.5 back. In the AL West, the Angels have lost three games in the standings, falling to seven back behind a Rangers team that has been […]

VIDEO: Giancarlo Stanton hits a monstrous homer

Your browser does not support iframes. When you hear the name "Giancarlo Stanton", the one baseball trait that should come to your mind is "massive homers". In tonight's Marlins-Rockies game at Coors Field, Stanton delivered one of his trademark blasts to left center that landed five rows from the top of the concourse. As soon […]

Cubs offering first pitch Groupon

Our former associate editor Matt Lindner has unearthed a cool little cool thing the Cubs are doing: offering a Groupon (for the low price of $30,000) for a fan to throw out the first pitch before a ballgame, along with some other assorted perks.  The Groupon, which is still available and has just one total […]

The Astros may be getting rid of Tal’s Hill

When the Houston Astros opened Minute Maid Park in 2000 (then known as Enron Field before *that* happened), there was an interesting quirk in a park full of them. That quirk was the inclusion of a 90 foot wide inclined hill in center field known as Tal's Hill, in reference to former team president Tal […]

Dugout Digest – ending the conversation

The Braves are transitioning to a six man starting rotation today, when they activate Tommy Hanson off of the DL. However, last night's performance from Kris Medlen has really made the conversation about how to knock out of the rotation on August 30th a little silly. Medlen threw a complete game shutout in Atlanta's 6-0 […]

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