This is a new feature we’re going to be rolling out at TOC, recapping the past week of events across the league. I figure it might be a nice companion for the players of the month/weekly highlights features we regularly roll out here, and might add some more context to what’s been going on across […]

The Oakland Athletics are kicking ass and taking names so far in the 2014 season. They’re 28-16, and only the Tigers have a better winning percentage. No team has a better run differential than Oakland’s +95 mark, which actually would have been better than all but six teams’ marks during the entire 2013 season. In […]

We all thought that the Marlins were going to fall apart about Jose Fernandez’s Tommy John surgery. And for a moment, they did, losing five straight games on their current eleven-game West Coast road trip, a streak that started with Fernandez’s last start before he hurt his elbow. But the Marlins have rebounded, smashing the […]

Do you like offense? Well, I hope you didn’t watch many games on Friday night – the year of the pitcher continued. Of the 14 games that took place on Friday night, six ended with a goose egg in one team’s run column. Another seven teams scored either one or two runs. That means that […]

We have dingers, yes we do! And this week, we have several new faces – and one that is becoming a staple. 1. C.J. Cron vs J.A. Happ, 468 feet (May 10th) Welcome to the show and the top five for the year, C.J.! It’s something when a guy’s first career homer is a monster […]

In Mike Trout’s fantastic young career, he had somehow never hit a walk off home run. That all changed on Thursday night, when he smashed a Brad Boxberger pitch over the Angels bullpen to hand Anaheim a 6-5 win over the Rays. It’s pretty wild that Mike Trout, best player in all the land, had […]

This week was a little light on sterling defense, but here’s what we were able to come up with. There are a couple really great throws featured, which is something you know we love here at TOC. May 9th, Cardinals vs Pirates – Bourjos being Bourjos. Peter Bourjos lost this ball in the lights before […]

I really dislike when people get too wrapped up in early season results. Hell, we just had a column get posted on Tuesday talking about when the right time to give up on playoff hopes is. Since that column has run, the Rays are 2-0, the Indians are 1-1 (and coming off of a 15-4 […]

  It’s not a good time right now for the New York Yankees. Their rotation is in tatters after C.C. Sabathia became the third starter to go on the DL, and they’ve lost four straight games since. It’s almost funny how this collapse has happened – the Yankees ignored their rotation this winter aside from […]

Another great week of walk offs is in the book, and we’ve got replays, homers, doubles, and everything else in between. May 6th, Reds vs Red Sox – Grady’s back. The return of Grady Sizemore is finally complete – he’s got a walk off hit with the Red Sox. There wasn’t really much of anything […]