There is absolutely no good starting pitchers left on the free agent market.  It’s true, ask anyone. There are also 25 teams, give or take, who have a desperate desire to upgrade at least one of the spots in their rotation.  Those same people you asked earlier can confirm this as well. There are multiple […]

Thanks to the Yu Darvish posting process, American baseball fans have been given a wonderful opportunity to become acquainted with the oddly named Nippon Ham Fighters, Darvish’s Japanese team.  This has prompted all sorts of questions from the general public. Why does the ham need to be fought? How exactly does one fight against ham?  […]

As a guy who grew up just outside of Los Angeles but has spent most of his adult life living in New York and Washington, I can tell you that when it comes to sports, non-Californians think about the Lakers first, the Dodgers second, the lack of a NFL team third and the probably the […]

Later today, the deadline for teams to put in their bids in the posting auction for Japanese phenom Yu Darvish will pass.  The bidding promises to be tense and the anticipation and speculation of who will win Darvish’s negotiating rights will be frenzied.  The only thing more frenzied will be beat writeres and bloggers falling […]

The shock!  The horror!  The outrage!!!!  Ryan Braun has tested positive for potential use of a banned substance!  Something must be done before he ruins all our precious awards forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By now you are familiar with line of logic being espoused by moral high horse-riding columnists and bloggers all across the land.  The way they […]

The buzzer has sounded and time is up for teams to tender contracts to their arbitration eligible players.  Why do we care so much about this deadline?  Because the market is about to get flooded with a few dozen new free agents. Most will be marginal players destined to spend next season just fighting to […]

Almost a year to the date after the LA Angels lost out in embarrassing fashion the Carl Crawford free agency bidding, they’ve struck back in a big way, taking the World Series by surprise by stealing Albert Pujols from the St. Louis Cardinals and then adding C.J. Wilson as well, just because they could. Ladies […]

The Hot Stove League is about to get a whole lot hotter.  After weeks of vascillation, stud Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish has finally decided to make the jump to Major League Baseball.  So says Yu’s agent on Twitter: donnomura Yu Darvish being posted tomorrow #darvish 12 minutes ago First, how great is it that a […]

If C.J. Wilson doesn’t with Miami Marlins, it certainly won’t be because Marlins outfielder and Twitter aficionado didn’t do everything he could.  In fact, it could be because Logan Morrison did a little too much. With news breaking that the Marlins had given up their pursuit of Albert Pujols and turned their full attention to […]

What is the opposite of a youth movement?  An un-youth movement?  A maturity movement?  An elderly movement?  Whatever it is, the Dodgers are doing it. You have to give the Dodgers credit, despite being tied up in bankruptcy and an ownership dispute, they’ve been mighty active.  They started the off-season with a bang by locking […]

Even when Manny Ramirez is retired, he still finds way to make the baseball world laugh. News “broke” over the weekend that the former MVP has filed paperwork to be reinstated from the retirement list.  And by the retirement list, he means the “oh noes, I got caught doing steroids and need to hide!” list.  […]

If you didn’t catch the series premier of Baseball Wives last night, consider yourself blessed.  Me, I wasn’t so lucky as I was tasked by our crack editorial staff with watching the show and reviewing it.  Here is my basic take: I watched the first 30 minutes of the show and then got up from […]

In the last week, both Major League Baseball and the NBA agreed to new collective bargaining agreements.  Seeing how MLB managed to negotiate their new CBA without even a tinge of acrimony while the NBA antagonized their entire fan base and forfeited one-fifth of their, I think we can all agree that MLB did a […]

It all comes down to this.  The MLB Movember Mustache Madness bracket has finally reached its final matchup.  As Brent Musburger would probably say, this one is for all the mustache wax.  We’ve combed through the whiskers of players past and present.  We’ve trimmed away the mustaches of managers, movie stars and mascots alike.  Now […]