0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/6/2012
You know, the Pittsburgh Pirates aren't necessarily playing *bad* lately…the issue is that the Reds just can't be stopped. After losing two straight to being the weekend, the Pirates needed to win yesterday to attempt to salvage a bid at winning the division. Well, they did that with a 6-2 win, but are still 4.5 […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/5/2012
With the herd in NL East thinning over the last month, the same appears to be happening in the AL East. The Yankees are, of course, dominating the division. But the other teams in the division are slowly asserting their positions as well, and it appears to be a three horse race between the Yankees, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/4/2012
A nightmare season for the Philadelphia Phillies continues, as the team has placed catcher Carlos Ruiz on the 15-day DL with plantar fasciitis in his left foot that will knock him out for four to six weeks. Ruiz missed the Phillies' games on Wednesday and Friday with the injury, and was placed on the DL […]
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You know, I'm not one to relentlessly crap on transactions….but this Jeremy Guthrie-Jonathan Sanchez trade has pretty much been a disaster for both teams. Both players started last night, and were terrible once again. In a 5-3 loss to the Rangers, Guthrie allowed three runs over six innings..his best start yet, actually. In three starts […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/3/2012
Well, that was quick. After not being able to work out a deal with the Orioles for Joe Blanton, the Phillies dealt the starter to the Dodgers in exchange for a player to be named later or cold hard cash. Ahhhh, the typical waiver claim deal. Blanton will be a free agent after the season, […]
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This is the time of year where aging, struggling veterans get kicked to the curb by their teams. It's already happened multiple times this week with Hideki Matsui, Derek Lowe, and Bobby Abreu. Now, two days after designating Lowe, the Indians are at it again,
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Today, the Nationals acquired catcher Kurt Suzuki from the A's in exchange for minor league catcher David Freitas. The 28-year old Suzuki was a former top A's prospect who never really panned out at the level that the Oakland brass thought he would, OPSing just .689 in 703 career games. He was deemed expendable after […]
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Going into this week's Angels-Rangers series, it was looked at as one that could shape the AL West over the season's final two months. After the series has concluded, we can still say that….but I'm not sure we expected it to happen this way. The Angels won game one, controlling the Rangers bats in a […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/2/2012
In their push for a playoff berth, the A's have called up starting pitcher Dan Straily, and will start him tomorrow night against the Blue Jays. Straily will be replacing Travis Blackley in the Oakland rotation, sending Blackley to the pen. The 23-year old Straily, not on any top prospect radar coming into the year, […]
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The Texas Rangers, perhaps in a sense of desperation due to their struggles of late in the AL West, are calling up top prospect Mike Olt. Olt has replaced Brandon Snyder, who has played five positions for the Rangers this year, on the bench. Olt should probably get some more substantial playing time for the […]
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After a July that was almost historically bad, going just 3-24 and getting outscored by 76 runs, the Houston Astros started off August in the same way: by losing. A Brewers team that was nine games under .500 coming in to Wednesday slaughtered the Astros 13-4. Only four of Houston's eight position player starters were […]
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As a Braves fan, this amuses me way more than it should.
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Now, this is an odd one. At Wednesday's game between the Fort Myers Miracle and the Daytona Cubs, home plate umpire Mario Seneca ejected the Cubs intern deejay, Derek Dye. What was Dye's offense? After a questionable call, Dye played "Three Blind Mice" on the club's audio system, and the umpire ejected him from the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/1/2012
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Your browser does not support iframes. During last night's Dodgers-Diamondbacks game, legendary Dodgers play by play announcer Vin Scully read a tweet from new Dodgers outfielder Shane Victorino. Of course, Scully probably has no idea what Twitter is, and his interpretation of the social media service was hilarious. First, he called the tweet "a Twitter"…twice. […]
