The Chicago Cubs essentially swapped out utilitymen today by claiming former Oakland Athletics minor leaguer Adrian Cardenas, and designating Blake DeWitt for assignment. DeWitt was actually a former top Dodgers prospect, OPSing .728 in his rookie year of 2008 while starting at third base. He spent most of 2009 in AAA, and in 31 games […]

The LA Times is reporting today that the Seattle Mariners have signed former Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Hong-Chih Kuo to a one year deal. Terms weren’t immediately disclosed, but Kuo was hunting somewhere in the neighborhood of one million dollars. Kuo made $2.725 million with the Dodgers last season. When healthy, Kuo can be one […]

The Atlanta Braves introduced new alternate jerseys today, which is their third alternate jersey (and fifth overall) that the team wears in game action. That doesn’t include their batting practice/spring training jersey. But enough about the inane concept of making another jersey. The press conference that the jerseys were introduced during was laughable in its […]

The Baltimore Orioles and Colorado Rockies made a rare February trade today, with Baltimore sending starter Jeremy Guthrie to the Rockies in exchange for starter Jason Hammel and reliever Matt Lindstrom. Guthrie then immediately agreed to an $8.2 million contract in his final year of arbitration. I don’t understand this deal at all for either […]

We’ve all heard about the ridiculous center field, home run celebration that the new Marlins Park in Miami would have. We’ve heard that there were going to be goldfish behind the plate. But now, we have actual, live proof. Check out these pictures. I….don’t even know what to call this. It’s tacky, it’s ugly, it’s….Miami. […]

Today, the Washington Nationals signed free agent starting pitcher Edwin Jackson to a one year contract worth somewhere between $8 and $12 million. I wrote about what the market for Jackson looked like on Tuesday, and I really didn’t expect the Nationals to be one of the teams contending for his services. But here we […]

This is awesome. Remember the Rally Squirrel, who gained so much attention during last year’s Cardinals playoff run? Topps has dragged it back into the limelight, prominently featuring the squirrel on Skip Schumaker’s Topps card for this season. Don’t worry Schumaker fans, this is just going to be a short print and not the more […]

 1 1. New York Yankees Why they deserve it: Their biggest weakness outside of a lack of organizational depth was a subpar pitching staff.  By trading their young DH labeled a catcher they managed to acquire a solid young starter in Michael Pineda and signed Hiroki Kuroda to a one year deal. Why they don’t […]

Last night, I received an e-mail from a gentleman named Clay in regards to our series of posts about the Lake County Fielders, partially owned by actor Kevin Costner. When we last heard from the Fielders, they were booted out of the North American Baseball League, and reportedly owing a vendor thousands of dollars. Well […]

The new trend in Major League Baseball is to lock up your young, cost-controlled talent to long-term deals. In the past, teams seemed hesitant to do that with pitchers, but they’re starting to become a little more loose with that idea. In recent years, guys like Felix Hernandez, CC Sabathia, Jered Weaver, and CJ Wilson […]