Fans at tonight’s Marlins-Mets game are in for a potential treat tonight.  No, the game hasn’t been canceled, rather the crowd gets the chance to bear witness to Florida starter Javier Vazquez becoming just the 30th man ever to fan 2,500 batters.  No doubt this is a huge and rare accomplishment since only one other […]

August has been a really, really bad month for social media savvy athletes. Just weeks after the Marlins demoted Logan Morrison despite the fact that he was among the team leaders in a number of different categories, the Tampa Bay Rays have cut ties with pitcher Dirk Hayhurst. Hayhurst, also known as The Garfoose on his popular […]

There is a lot of baseball left to be played in 2011. With a month of games left on the schedule, no five-game lead in any division is truly safe. That being said, though, I can’t help but wonder if time is running out on the San Francisco Giants bid to repeat as World Series […]

The words “beer vendor” and “hero” aren’t used in concert very frequently. Unless of course you’re drunk and need another cold one to keep the momentum going. Then again, rarely does a beer vendor get a moment in the sun quite like the one Emmanuel Marlow got at a recent Washington Nationals game. The Washington […]

Baseball’s answer to Father Time hopes to give the clock one more spin in reverse. MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki is reporting that 48-year-old Jamie Moyer will be rehabbing from his recent Tommy John surgery in Clearwater at the Phillies’ facilities with the goal of being on a Major League roster next season. Moyer is a free […]

Merriam-Webster defines the word “valuable” as “having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities; of great use or service”. This topic comes up every year when talking about MVP voting. Some people (like SI’s resident windbag, Jon Heyman) argue that the MVP must be from a winning team. Now, does the MVP usually comes from a […]

Considering the time of year, I figured I would outline a a guy for each team that could be brought up for the last month of the season. Today will be the NL, and the AL will come on Thursday. Philadelphia Phillies: Scott Mathieson RHP Mathieson has never really gotten much of a chance in […]

The Big Donkey appears, at least for now, to be banished to the barn. After months of speculation, the White Sox finally called up top prospect Dayan Viciedo over the weekend. Viciedo had been setting Triple-A on fire, hitting .296 with 20 HR and 78 RBI in 119 games for the Charlotte Knights. Those kinds […]

Who doesn’t like a good playoff race?  Really, what could be better than two (or more) teams slugging it out down the final stretch of the season to determine a divisional winner?  We all do, right? Yeah, well, too bad.  It isn’t even September yet and all those fun and wonderful races look like they […]

In order to make history, sometimes you’ve gotta do more than just think outside of the box. In the Cubs’ case, with over 100 years of futility staring the team’s next general manager in the face, the team is going to have to do more than just sacrifice a couple of goats or eradicate the […]

Justin Verlander of the Tigers won his 20th game last night. Now, I’m not one to make a deal out of pitcher wins, but what the Tigers’ ace is doing right now is pretty astounding. He’s got a 20-5 record, and we haven’t even reached September yet. That’s the best mark in baseball by three […]

The start with the best game score this year is not Ervin Santana’s no hitter (94). It’s not Justin Verlander’s no-hitter (90), or his 12 K performance (93). It’s certainly not Fransisco Liriano’s no-hitter (83). It’s not a start be James Shields (topping out at 93 with a major league high seven starts at 80 […]

When the Tigers acquired Doug Fister last month, I said he’d be an upgrade over all of the pitchers they were trotting out aside from ace Justin Verlander. Well since the trade, Fister has really helped to strengthen the entire Tigers rotation. I realize that his presence has nothing to do with the performance of […]

How many things in life have a 1% chance of happening? According to Google, there’s a 1% chance that an asteroid impacts Earth in 2029, the effects of which I just don’t know since I didn’t read the article (too depressing!) and I’m about as far from being a scientist as you can get without […]