A few nights ago, I see the following pop up on my Facebook feed: “Stephen Strasburg to start Thursday for Harrisburg Senators”. I live in Harrisburg. I gave my dad a call, and told him I was getting tickets, and snagged a pair behind the plate. Last night, 8,700 fans jammed Metro Bank Park to […]

On August 1st, the Cardinals lost to the Brewers to fall 3 1/2 games back in the NL Central. If you’d told them after that game that in exactly one month they’d be finishing up a sweep of the Brewers in Milwaukee, then made them guess where they’d be in relation to the Brewers in […]

After a look at the NL on Monday, it’s time for the AL. New York Yankees: Jesus Montero C There’s really no reason to keep running Posada out there as a DH, and while Montero’s .288/.348/.467 line is a bit underwhelming, it’s tough to motivate a 21-year old who is repeating AAA after a successful […]

If you could pick two current teammates, one batter and one pitcher, to start a MLB franchise, who would it be?   The rules are that the players must be current teammates (no September call-ups since this was finished on the last day of August) and you can select players that are on the MLB […]

Everyone knows the story of Old Yeller. In the good ol’ days, a family gets a golden retriever and he becomes beloved, chasing off bears, hunting varmints and being man’s best friend. Unfortunately, the dog would contract rabies in a fight and the older son, who grew up with Yeller and was the closest to […]

Well, that was quick. Not even a year after Neftali Feliz notched 40 saves in his rookie campaign, Craig Kimbrel broke the record with a month left in the season by completing the Atlanta Braves’ 3-1 victory over the Washington Nationals for his 41st save of the season. Derek Lowe began the game with 6 […]

If the Texas Rangers don’t end up winning the AL West, it certainly won’t be because their GM Jon Daniels didn’t do his part. After paying up two nice packages in order to beef up the team’s bullpen at the standard trade deadline, procuring Koji Uehara and Mike Adams, Daniels decided that it still wasn’t […]

Courtesy of the fantastic Timothy Burke of SportsGrid comes this video from tonight’s Brewers-Cardinals game. Ryan Braun smashes a ball to deep left center field and Cardinals center fielder Allen Craig misplays the ball, sliding into the wall. Braun looks like he’s easily going to score on the play. One problem…on his way around third, […]

In today’s Three Strikes Roundtable, we’re going to look at the biggest disappointments of the season, how much you care about minor league baseball playoffs, and which of the Braves young pitchers you’d want most on your team. Strike One: Which team this season do you feel has been the biggest disappointment overall? Mark Smith: The Twins. […]

(This jersey soon to be appearing on Straight Cash Homey) In a down economy, it must be nice to be able to abandon over $14 million as a sunk cost. That’s exactly what the San Francisco Giants did today when they decided to cut both Miguel Tejada and fan favorite Aaron Rowand. The move seems […]

With the 2011 season heading towards August and the White Sox five games out of first place, talk on the South Side of Chicago has headed for the place it always seems to head at this time of year: to questioning Ozzie Guillen’s job security. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting today that the relationship between […]

It’s hard to exactly explain just how good Roy Halladay is. On the way to a 9-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds that would give Halladay his 16th of the season, Halladay went 7 innings, gave up 2 hits and 2 walks, and struck out 9 hitters. That’s domination. To top it all off, he […]

Rare is the prospect that comes into the league with sky high expectations and actually lives up said expectations almost immediately.  Well, add Mike Trout to that list of rarities because he just blew up. Earlier tonight, Mike Trout, arguably the top prospect in baseball coming into this season, crushed two home runs in the […]

Bryan LaHair may never have to buy another beer in Des Moines after tonight’s performance. The Iowa Cubs’ first baseman etched his name into the team’s record books tonight with a 6th inning solo home run off of Nashville’s Daniel Meadows, his 38th of the year. That’s more than any other player ever to don […]

We have written about Mariners rookie Michael Pineda a lot this season. Back in July, he seemed to be a lock to win the AL Rookie of the Year award. Here we are at the end of August…and that award isn’t looking so likely anymore. Pineda still leads all AL rookies in fWAR at 2.9, but […]