From earlier today, in my New York Mets season preview… Burning QuestionShould the Mets keep blowing their team up by trading Wright, Santana, and Jason Bay, or use those guys as a core to build around? Here’s the deal with the Mets. David Wright has a club option for 2013 at $15 million. Jason Bay […]

Tampa Bay Rays’ star outfielders BJ Upton and Desmond Jennings were involved in an outfield collision in today’s game against the Miami Marlins. Austin Kearns hit a fly ball to deep left center, and both outfielders chased after the ball. Right when it appeared that Upton had made the catch, Jennings collided with him and […]

Here’s the burning question for the New York Yankees, as I talked about in my season preview of the Yankees earlier today.  Burning QuestionWill the upgrades the Yankees made to their rotation be enough to keep them over the hump this season? The upgrades that the Yankees made were, essentially, replacing AJ Burnett, Bartolo Colon, […]

The Mets continued their path of cutting payroll that started after the 2010 season. The team slashed $60 million off payroll, and the squad that’s left really doesn’t look like it will make it out of the basement of the NL East. Strange things have happened in this crazy game of baseball, but I don’t […]

The 2011 season seemed like the typical New York Yankees season. They won an AL-high 97 games and the AL East division crown….and then lost to the Tigers in five games in the ALDS. The Yankees are mainly an older team, and they didn’t get much younger this offseason….with one notable exception. Yankees on TOCEnd […]

From my Marlins season preview earlier today… Burning QuestionThe Marlins clearly have the talent to win the NL East this year. But will the team’s chemistry hold up and enable them to reach the lofty goals they’ve set for themselves this offseason? There are a lot of huge personalities in the Miami Marlins clubhouse, and […]

From today’s Red Sox season preview… Burning QuestionWill the back-end of Boston’s rotation be adequate enough to hang on in the AL East? This would be a fantastic rotation with Matsuzaka and Lackey filling the final two slots, but based on the crop of starter vying for the four and five positions right now, things […]

New ballpark, new colors, new name, new manager, new attitude. The Miami Marlins went into the 2012 offseason with a mission: to improve their team dramatically and becomes a World Series contender in 2012. Sure enough, they brought in marquee free agents and increased the hype level around their team so much that many people […]

It was a trying season for the Boston Red Sox in 2011. They started off slow in April, played awesome from May-August, and completely collapsed in September, blowing the wild card on the final day of the season after a late-game rally at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles. The Red Sox did a lot […]

From my Braves season preview earlier today… Burning QuestionWill Jason Heyward be able to reclaim his 2010 form and carry the team to a playoff berth, or were his struggles in 2011 the signs of a bigger problem? Personally, I think he’ll be fine in 2012 because of the shoulder that plagued him in 2011, […]

An 89-win season in 2011 wasn’t good enough for the Braves, as a collapse in September prevented them from making the playoffs. Because the team didn’t exactly fail miserably during the season, general manager Frank Wren didn’t feel the need to retool the team too much. The only starting position player that departed the team […]

Taken from my Orioles preview earlier today… Burning QuestionCan Baltimore’s rotation give the team a league average performance? The Orioles starters had a 5.39 ERA last year, which helped deep six their solid team OPS of .729. Baltimore also had some terrible defense, most of which came at the hands of Reynolds over at third […]

2011 was another year of “more of the same” for the Baltimore Orioles. It was the team’s 14th straight season under .500, and fifth straight under 70 wins. That futility has led to six straight top ten picks in the June draft, giving the team such players as superstar catcher Matt Wieters, enigmatic starter Brian […]