0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 6/3/2014
Earlier today, we took a look at the players who were leading the league in WAR to begin the month of June. If we are anything here at The Outside Corner, it is fair and balanced. As such, in the interest of equal time, let’s take a look at the other end of the leaderboard to see […]
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Everyone loves to track the potential award winners throughout the MLB season. MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year get more than their fair share of attention. Overlooked over the years, especially by the BBWAA, is WAR, the stat that actually provides a valuation of each and every player. In order to give WAR […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/29/2014
Draft day draws nigh, an exciting time for fans as they looks to see hopeful stars of the future. The one person that might be most excited for the draft to come and go though is Kendrys Morales as it means he will finally be freed from qualifying offer purgatory. Morales is the last of […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/20/2014
Here we all were minding our own business on an otherwise uneventful day of baseball news when Jon Morosi casually dropped a bomb on the Twittersphere: WHAT THE WHAT?!?! One can only assume that “displaced” is just fancy talk for part of Guerrero’s ear being partially or completely bitten off by Olivo. Oh, it is […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/14/2014
The Texas Rangers are having a very bad day. Two key rotation members, Martin Perez and Matt Harrison both were undergoing medical evaluations for their elbow and back, respectively. Both got bad, bad news. Perez had a terrific first month for the Rangers and was a big reason they survived their earlier rotation health issues, […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/2/2014
Yesterday, we took a look at the players who were leading the league in WAR to begin the month of May. If we are anything here at The Outside Corner, it is fair and balanced. As such, in the interest of equal time, let’s take a look at the other end of the leaderboard to […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/1/2014
Everyone loves to track the potential award winners throughout the MLB season. MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year get more than their fair share of attention. Overlooked over the years, especially by the BBWAA, is WAR, the stat that actually provides a valuation of each and every player. In order to give WAR […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/29/2014
To the surprise of virtually no one, Robinson Cano was greeted by a chorus of boos upon his return to Yankee Stadium for the first time since signing with the Seattle Mariners. That seems like a bit much since Cano didn’t exactly burn bridges on his way out of town, but hey, fans like to boo. However, some fans decided to take things a step further:
If you listen closely enough, you can hear fans chanting “You sold out!” to Cano.
In related news, I regret to inform you that the entire Yankee fan base has perished from an overdose of irony. Somehow, it is lost on those misguided Yankees fans that their team’s primary strategy for building a contending ballclub for the last few decades has been to convince other players to “sell out” and sign with them. This last offseason alone, the Yankees lured Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and Masahiro Tanaka to the Bronx entirely based on the fact that they were offering the most money.
Yet Cano leaves town because, for once, the Yankees were not the highest bidder and he is derided as a sell out. Yep, sure, makes sense.
Never stop, Yankees fans. Never stop.
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/25/2014
The Mariners shocked the baseball world this winter by ponying up $240 million to lure Robinson Cano away from the Yankees. In a perfect world, landing Cano would vault the Mariners into contender status, breathe some life into their perennially moribund offense and give Seattle instant credibility and notoriety. In a more realistic world, Cano’s […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/24/2014
The Arizona Diamondbacks have the worst record in the majors and just can’t seem to catch a break. They can, however, catch a fracture. To be precise, they’ve now lost slugger Mark Trumbo for an indefinite period of time to a stress fracture in his left foot: There is no timetable for Trumbo’s return yet, […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/17/2014
When it comes to baseball, Mike Trout is great at just about everything. Sure, you can quibble about his arm strength, but that’s about it. Off the field, however, Trout has a lot of work to do. By all accounts he is a genial, upstanding fellow, but it turns out that he isn’t exactly a […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/14/2014
It isn’t baseball season until Brett Anderson lands on the disabled list. Sure enough, the Rockies placed him there yesterday due to a broken finger. Anderson suffered the injury while hitting, which just goes to show what a great idea it was for Colorado to acquire the injury-prone pitcher in the first place. He couldn’t […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/8/2014
In their recent homestand, the Dodgers released into the wild an asexual costumed Dodger character to interact with fans. Behold the horror: Most right-minded people would consider this abomination to be a mascot. But don’t you DARE call it a mascot. The Dodgers simply won’t have it. Via Steve Dilbeck of the LA Times: “It’s […]
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The Marlins are the hottest team in baseball! It is the feelgood story of the early season, assuming you can be willfully ignorant of the prominent involvement of Jeffrey Loria and his acolyte David Samson. They are a team brimming with young talent and look as if they might be ready to have that talent […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 4/4/2014
A member of a MLB team showed up 20 minutes late for practice today and was benched as punishment. For 99.9% of ballplayers, this would be a blip on the radar. Reporters would tweet the news or include it in pre-game notes. The world would move on, scarcely noticing it. Oh, it was Yasiel Puig? […]
