In case you hadn’t noticed, Jered Weaver is awesome right now.  Like totally, awesomely awesome. As with all things awesome, the general assumption is that Weaver is now destined to take his act to Broadway by signing with the Yankees the second he hits free agency after next season, if not sooner.  But, as my […]

While you were hunting Easter eggs, teams were putting up goose eggs all over MLB scoreboards. Mets 8, Diamondbacks 4: Don’t look now, but the Mets have now won four straight and finally have a good thing going.  David Wright kept his resurgent play alive in a big way today, smacking two homers to plate […]

How you doing, Dodger fans?  Hanging in there?  Keep your chin up.  I know having your franchise taken over by Major League Baseball and becoming a ward of Bud Selig’s state probably doesn’t seem like something to get excited about, but I’m here to tell you that it might just be the best thing to […]

Rockies 10, Giants 2. The return of World Series hero Cody Ross didn’t do much to aid the Giants in their efforts to complete the sweep of the NL West rival Colorado Rockies.  Instead, the Rox jumped all over a very shaky Matt Cain, chasing the ace after scoring six runs off of him before […]

There are a lot of reasons that big league pitchers shouldn’t skp the minor leagues.  One that is pretty far down that list, but nonetheless still very important, is learning not to shoplift cheap T-shirts from department stores.  Mike Leake, the starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds that never went to the minors, learned that […]

Recapping Sunday night’s action including the unexpected heroics of Danny Espinosa and an epic pitchers’ duel ruined in Los Angeles: Pirates 7, Reds 6: Edinson Volquez once again struggled through the first inning, putting the Reds in a four-run hole that they just couldn’t quite dig their way out of.  This was a back and […]

Yesterday, it was reported that Major League Baseball was leaning towards expanding the use of instant replay in the 2012 season.  My reaction was that of unbridled euphoria, as well it should have been, but for some reason this news was not received with the same glee by all, especially a number of current players. […]

Start your morning off with a nice fresh cup of coffee and a roundup of all of yesterday’s baseball action and news in today’s Dugout Digest. Recaps GAME OF THE NIGHT! Florida 5, Atlanta 1: Should we just go ahead and hand the NL Cy Young to Josh Johnson now.  After throwing a no-hitter through […]

It happens every year, doesn’t it?  Last year it was Jose Bautista.  The year before that, Ben Zobrist.  Ryan Ludwick took home the honor back in 2008.  Ah yes, the annual thrill of getting to see a player long considered nothing more than a nice bench player or mere depth for the pitching staff taking […]