0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/25/2013
From our season preview of the Boston Red Sox earlier today… Can the Red Sox avoid making headlines for all of the wrong reasons? In the last two years, the Red Sox have been front page news for all of the following: -An epic September collapse -Players drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the […]
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Stop me if you've heard this one before, but the Red Sox season was rocked by clubhouse turmoil. For the second straight season, Boston was a bitter disappointment, only this time it led to a roster purge. They reloaded in the off-season though and are hoping that they can claw their way back into contention […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/22/2013
From our season preview of the Washington Nationals earlier today… Can the Nationals handle the attention and pressure that comes with being a World Series favorite? The Nationals were a popular sleeper pick in 2012 and they certainly made everyone who put their faith in them look good when they advanced to within one out […]
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Team picture day at training camp is absolutely the best. It is the best because some of the pictures that emerge are the absolute worst. It is a day where true legends are made, like Nick Johnson and Jeff Samardzija. Well, picture day has arrived and a new batch of photos are ready to go […]
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From dark horse darlings to front-running championship contenders, the Nationals spent big again this off-season to make themselves the clear favorite in the National League. Will all their moves pay off or will they be this year's big budget disappointment? Nationals on TOC End of Season Postmortem 2013 Season Preview You May Say I’m a […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/19/2013
Continuing from our season preview of the Mets earlier today… Can the Mets possibly go forward with this patchwork outfield? To say that the Mets outfield is unsettled is an understatement. If the season were to start today, the outfield would be manned by a rotating cast of five different men, possibly six if a […]
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They lost R.A. Dickey but kept David Wright. More importantly, the Mets' owners might have actually sorted out their financial mess. With potential money to spend and some top prospects on their way, 2013 could be the start of the Mets' resurgence. Mets on TOC End of Season Postmortem Hope for the Hopeless 2013 Season […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/18/2013
In the This Is My Nightmare series, we'll take a look at what the absolute worst case scenario for each team would be in 2013. Think of it as the negative complement to our You May Say I'm A Dreamer series that we'll be running during our preview series. Coming up with a nightmare scenario […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/14/2013
In the This Is My Nightmare series, we'll take a look at what the absolute worst case scenario for each team would be in 2013. Think of it as the negative complement to our You May Say I'm A Dreamer series that we'll be running during our preview series. For a team that lost two […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/13/2013
Continuing from our season preview of the Angels earlier today… Is the Angels' rebuilt rotation good enough for them to return to the playoffs? Last year, the Angels thought they could bury the American League in an avalanche of starting pitching talent. It was a great plan on paper except for the part where they […]
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Thanks to an off-season spending spree, the 2012 Angels might've been the most disappointing 89-win team of all-time. Apparently they didn't learn their lesson though as they spent only slightly less this winter so that they could once again vie for a World Series or the "most disappointing team in baseball" label for the second […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 2/12/2013
Continuing from our season preview of the Mariners earlier today… Is the decision to move the fences in at Safeco going to be enough to ignite the team's offense or a final act of desperation? Desperate times call for desperate measures. It turns out the threshhold for desperation in Seattle is eleven seasons without a […]
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It was the same old story in 2012 for the Mariners. Another season of major disappointment including an embarrassing 17-game losing streak and pathetic offense sparked something of a sea change in Seattle who come into 2013 with a re-configured ballpark and a re-stocked, hopefully, lineup. They are still stuck in the ultra-competitive AL West, […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 1/31/2013
After the wildly ignorant comments of San Francisco 49ers defensive back Chris Culliver yesterday, you'll (hopefully) be pleased to know that not all professional athletes are total neanderthals. On a video podcast hosted by Robert Fick and Dmitri Young (which is a weird enough story unto itself), Jered Weaver and his brother Jeff made the […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 1/25/2013
There are a two things Carl Pavano does well in life: falling down and getting hurt. In between, he plays a little baseball. The free agent pitcher who infamously spent a significant chunk of his Yankee career on the disabled list after falling in a spring training game and injuring his buttocks has gone and […]
