Money doesn’t talk in the postseason. The Yankees, with an opening day payroll topping $200M, were ousted from the playoffs last night at the hands of the Detroit Tigers. The series was hard fought, but in the end the Yanks big bats (aside from Robinson Cano) failed to come up big in the fatal fifth […]

The Tigers defeat the Yankees, three games to two.  Yeah, New York, that just happened. Key stat: 11-for-47.  That’s what the Yankees hit with runners in scoring position over the course of the entire series, and that includes their 6-for-14 effort in their 10-1 Game 4 blowout.  The Yankees supposedly had a killer lineup, but […]

Whether he really meant it or just shot his mouth off in a moment of frustration following his team’s ALDS ouster, Tampa Bay Ray owner Stuart Sternberg didn’t make any friends this week with comments about his franchise and its future. “We’ve replicated last year [on the field] and our attendance numbers were down 15 […]

The Chicago White Sox had a chance to bring back a beloved former player to the Windy City, an infielder who wore No. 23 whose name still evokes memories of better baseball days in these parts. Instead, they chose to hire Robin Ventura to replace Ozzie Guillen. Ventura comes into the job never having been […]

News just broke on the Twitterz, saying that the newest White Sox manager wouldn’t be an experienced major league hand….but instead, former ChiSox third baseman Robin Ventura. In this piece on MLB.com, White Sox GM Kenny Williams says that experience wasn’t a prerequisite for the job. Much like when Ozzie Guillen was hired, Ventura has […]

When it comes to the most inflluential players in this year’s LDS, there are plenty of big, bold names that come to mind. Ryan Braun, Curtis Granderson, Roy Halladay, Adrian Beltre and others are all fine players in their own right. But none have had the kind of impact on the shaping of this year’s […]

Back in late July, I wrote an article about Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos. Scratch that, I straight up wrote a praise piece on the man. At the time, Anthopoulos had just dealt Edwin Jackson (who didn’t even spend enough time in the Jays organization to pick out a jersey number), Octavio Dotel and Marc […]

In his only other postseason experience (with the Dodgers in 2009), Randy Wolf started two games, allowed five earned runs and walked seven batters in just nine innings of work. Wolf’s opponent Wednesday night, Joe Saunders, had three previous postseason starts under his belt, in which he had pitched 15 innings, allowed nine earned runs […]

Just when you thought it was safe to return to Busch Stadium, the Rally Squirrel is back! Clearly, this squirrel has become an unlikely source of good luck for the St. Louis Cardinals as they’ve now clawed back in the NLDS to tie the series with the Phillies and force a Game 5.  This should […]

When the St. Louis Cardinals sent Colby Rasmus and a few other players to Toronto for a package headlined by Edwin Jackson, Mark Rzepcynski, Octavio Dotel, their focus was clear: Win now. However great of a player Colby Rasmus might grow into, the sum of the parts from the trade would help them more in […]

Rangers defeat Rays, three games to one. Key stat: after blowing out the Rangers 9-0 in game one, the Rays scored just 12 runs in the final three games of the series. They actually outscored Texas 21-16 over the three games, but two one run games in Tampa ended up being their undoing. Key hitters […]

In the twentysome hours between the Yankees loss to the Tigers on Monday night and the first pitch of Game 4 on Tuesday, everything focused on AJ Burnett. A team with a $207 million payroll was forced to put their postseason life on the arm of a pitcher with a 5.15 ERA. Yankee fans bemoaned […]

If the Milwaukee Brewers thought a team lead by Kirk Gibson was just going to roll over, play dead and get swept, they better think again. Faced with the prospect of elimination, the Diamondbacks decided to show the Brewers what their version of Beast Mode looked like and wasted no time in doing it.  Miguel […]

It was a match-up of two of the league’s best left-handers; Cole Hamels and Jaime Garcia. With the Cardinals having already put a total of 8 runs up on Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, the Phillies third ace was going to have his work cut out for him. The two hurlers traded zeroes inning after […]