As I’m sure you’ve all heard, Ervin Santana no hit the Indians yesterday, striking out ten and walking run in a 3-1 victory. There were some interesting little tidbits about this game. None of them are really earth-shattering, but I thought they were at least interesting enough to post about. NOTE: no-hitters that don’t go […]

We already talked about the big trade that happened today between the Cardinals, Blue Jays, and White Sox, with Colby Rasmus going to Toronto, Jason Frasor going to Chicago, and Edwin Jackson heading to St Louis. The internet reaction to this has mainly been weighted on one side of things: in favor of the Blue […]

CC Sabathia had himself a hell of a game on Tuesday in the Bronx. He set down the first 19 hitters he faced before allowing a single to Brendan Ryan. He also had 11 strikeouts through six innings, including seven in a row. Sabathia was pulled after walking the bases loaded to start the eighth. […]

The Washington Nationals are 15 games out in the NL East, and nine back of the Braves in the NL Wild Card race. They’re three games unde .500. Thus, it made perfect sense for the team to want to make a move, and they did on Tuesday, acquiring Jonny Gomes from the Reds in exchange […]

The Mariners got stomped by the Yankees last night. They’ve now lost 16 games in a row. The final was 10-3. It’s another hapless night for the team, as the only offensive contributions put forth have been by the two hitters on the team worth a damn: rookie Dustin Ackley, and second year player Justin […]

The Rangers beat the crap out of the Twins last night. The final score was 20-6. The Rangers had 27 hits, and every starter aside from Chris Davis had at least two. Hell, every starter aside from Davis and Josh Hamilton had at least THREE. But I’m not here to talk about the offense in […]

The AL Central is the worst division in baseball. Only one team has a positive run differential (Cleveland), and they’re a whopping +1. The fourth place team (Minnesota) has a differential 25 runs worse than the last place team (Kansas City). The division leader (Detroit) would be four games out of the NL wild card […]

That pun sucked, I admit it. The NL West race is really down to two teams at this point in time: the Giants, and Diamondbacks. The Giants currently hold a four game lead over Arizona in the division, and are the defending World Champs. The teams are the exact opposite of each other. Arizona has […]

A report out of ESPN today is suggesting that the Mets are looking to hang on to Jose Reyes. The team has already traded Francisco Rodriguez and we’ve talked on this site last week about how the team should sell off its assets now, and buy in the offseason. But after reading this article, the prevailing […]

The Rockies aren’t looking to trade ace Ubaldo Jimenez. But there have been reports that a few teams, including the Yankees, have interest in the pitcher. Initial reports have the Rockies being interested in four top Yankees prospects: Jesus Montero, Dellin Betances, Manny Banuelos, and Ivan Nova. The Yankees are willing to move pitching, but […]

The unofficial midway point of the season is here and gone, and now it’s time for us to start thinking about the march to the playoffs. There are 16 teams within five games of the playoffs, and the race should continue to be very tight down the stretch. There are several players that will mold […]

New York Mets All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes was arguably having one of the best offensive seasons in franchise history. After seeing limited time on the field since 2009, he was silencing his critics in proving that he could put together an injury free season, something he accomplished in 2005-2008. However his MVP caliber year was […]

It was announced today that Brett Anderson of the A’s, who hasn’t pitched since June 5th, would miss the rest of the season and most of (if not all of) next season with Tommy John surgery. When he first got injured, I initially considered writing an article about this topic, but decided to hold off […]

Time for our final award here at the OC. Without any further ado, let’s take it home…and I’ll have a recap of all of our awards at the end of this piece. AL MVP1) Jose Bautista (62 points, 11 first place votes)2) Adrian Gonzalez (44 points, two first place votes)3) Curtis Granderson (38 points)4) Ben […]

Sorry about the lateness of this. Let’s cut to the chase right away. NL MVP1) Jose Reyes (56 points, seven first place votes)2) Andrew McCutchen (39 points, three first place votes)3) Matt Kemp (33 points, one first place vote)4) Prince Fielder (19 points, two first place votes)5) Ryan Braun (17 points)6) Roy Halladay (9 points)7) […]