James Shields dominated the Royals last night, throwing a six hit shutout. He walked three and struck out eight. It’s been a great bounceback year for Shields, who had a 5.18 ERA last year for Tampa Bay. On the season, he has eight complete games and four shutouts, which both lead the American League. In […]

A lot of the big names that came to new teams this offseason didn’t get off to great starts with their new teams. Adam Dunn and Jayson Werth have been awful all year for the White Sox and Nationals respectively. But there are a pair of hitters that have caught onto nice hot streaks since […]

I noticed something interesting last night after the east coast games had concluded. Adrian Gonzalez was still leading the American League with a .350 batting average. But in second, and hitting .341, was a divisional rival. It wasn’t all-world slugger Jose Bautista of Toronto. It wasn’t either of Gonzalez’s fantastic teammates in Boston, Dustin Pedroia […]

It was announced today by Joe Girardi that the Yankees were going to go in another direction at DH, and sit Jorge Posada. Now, the team wasn’t going to release Posada…just bench him. He’ll be mainly replaced in the role by Eric Chavez. Posada has been in a state of decline over the past few […]

At the All-Star Break, we did some voting for awards here at the Outside Corner. In our AL MVP voting, Adrian Gonzalez of the Red Sox finished second, while teammate Jacoby Ellsbury was sixth, and Dustin Pedroia was 11th. Just a month later, and we’ve got ourselves an interesting situation: Gonzalez is now the least […]

In part one of this series, we looked at the deals that happened before the final two days of the deadline. Today, we’re gonna look at the deals that happened ON the final two days of the deadline. Let’s do some quick and dirty analysis, shall we? Diamondbacks trade Edwin Jackson to White Sox for […]

In last night Phillies-Giants game, which ended up being a 9-2 Phillies win, benches cleared in the sixth inning after Ramon Ramirez hit Shane Victorino in the hip. Three players were ejected: Ramirez, Victorino, and Giants catcher Eli Whiteside. Ramirez plunked Victorino on the first pitch after homering earlier in the game, while Victorino charged […]

The date was July 25th. The Pirates just defeated the Braves 3-1, and were six games above .500. They were in a tie for first place in the NL Central with the Cardinals. Since then, it’s been a disaster for the Pirates. The next night was the infamous Jerry Meals game that the Pirates lost […]

Every year, there are a flurry of moves made in late July by contenders in an effort to add that one missing piece to get to the playoffs and attempt to win the World Series. But I was thinking today: how many of these deals actually end up mattering at the end of the day? […]

CC Sabathia is carrying the Yankees rotation on his rather large back this season. He’s thrown 34 more innings than the #2 man on New York’s staff (AJ Burnett) and 59 more than the #3 man (Freddy Garcia). He’s among the AL leaders in innings pitched, wins, and strikeouts. He’s been worth 5.9 WAR already […]

After being released by the Nationals on Monday, the great Matt Stairs decided to call it a career. He wasn’t the most productive major league player, but from his debut 19 years ago up until his final swing, he came to represent much of what I loved about baseball. Baseball is a game that can […]

For most of the season, it was widely believed that in the National League, the wild card would come from the Eastern division. The Braves and Phillies looked like they would be battling all season, and that the loser of their war would take the wild card. Well here we are, with under two months […]

The trade deadline has passed. Teams have pretty much have their rosters set for the final two months of the season, barring waiver claims and prospect call-ups. Barring injuries, these are the rosters that these teams are going to war with. After all the dust has settled, who are the favorites over the season’s final […]

Every July 31st after the deadline passes, we start thinking about this. Who should have been traded, but on August 1st, is waking up with the same uniform on? Here’s a list of five players that should have been moved this weekend, but still have the same address. 1) Heath Bell, PadresBell was the most […]

The trade deadline is over and done. Some teams made some very positive things, other teams did some very questionable things, wihle others….we’re on the fence about. How does four for each category sound? Here we go WinnersBraves. Atlanta needed a center fielder and leadoff hitter. They got both in the same player after trading […]