Later today, the deadline for teams to put in their bids in the posting auction for Japanese phenom Yu Darvish will pass.  The bidding promises to be tense and the anticipation and speculation of who will win Darvish’s negotiating rights will be frenzied.  The only thing more frenzied will be beat writeres and bloggers falling […]

Another year leads to another terrible season for the Astros. This time, however, they finished worse than last in the NL Central. They finished worst in the entire major leagues. As you might expect with such a record, the Astros played a handful of rookies. The diminuitive Jose Altuve won some hearts, but he wasn’t […]

There isn’t one specific path that a General Manager may choose that will lead to successful navigation of the free agent waters.  In fact, it seems the only way to really win when it comes to the free agent/trade market is for a GM to shell out copious amounts of money on the right player.  […]

For most women, sleeping with Derek Jeter is among the highlight of their sexual career. Bedding a five-time World Champion, All-Star, multimillionaire, and certain first-ballot Hall of Famer gives them eternal bragging rights over their friends who may not have been able to land suitors nearly as rich or famous. Of course in the past, […]

All (likely) soon-to-be former Milwaukee Brewers all-star slugger Prince Fielder wants for Christmas is a home. The 27-year-old free agent slugger is by far and away the best free agent left on the open market. He’s coming off a season that saw him post this monster line in his walk year: .299 BA, 38 HR, […]

The shock!  The horror!  The outrage!!!!  Ryan Braun has tested positive for potential use of a banned substance!  Something must be done before he ruins all our precious awards forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By now you are familiar with line of logic being espoused by moral high horse-riding columnists and bloggers all across the land.  The way they […]

According to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, the Arizona Diamondbacks have non-tendered LHP Joe Saunders.  Saunders, affectionately known as “Saundo” by Angels and D-Back fans alike, was 12-13 last year for the NL West division champions.  He sported a solid 3.69 ERA across a career-high 212 innings.  Most notably, Saunders was a main component of the […]

The buzzer has sounded and time is up for teams to tender contracts to their arbitration eligible players.  Why do we care so much about this deadline?  Because the market is about to get flooded with a few dozen new free agents. Most will be marginal players destined to spend next season just fighting to […]

Nobody ever accused Milwaukee Brewers GM Doug Melvin of being slow to the trigger. Hours after signing Aramis Ramirez to be the Brewers’ third baseman for the next three years, Melvin traded the incumbent at third, Casey McGehee, to the Pirates in exchange for reliever Jose Veras, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt. The […]

Every manager dreams of having players who will literally run through a wall for them. Today, Ozzie Guillen signed a guy who will do just that and potentially more for him. The Miami Marlins signed Aaron Rowand to a minor league deal today, a deal that includes an invite to Spring Training. All indications are […]

The image you see above of Aramis Ramirez attempting to throw a runner out at Miller Park is about to become a much more regular sight. Ramirez is set to sign a three year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers reportedly worth up to $37 million. Ramirez was deemed expendable by the Cubs after the team […]

Every year for the past several years, I keep saying that the Arizona Diamondbacks will win the NL West, and every year for the past several years, the Diamondbacks have let me down. So this year, I pick the Giants to win the division, and the Diamondbacks come through with their breakout performance. They even […]

In an extension reminiscent of signing Evan Longoria after just 24 major league at bats, the Tampa Bay Rays have given top prospect Matt Moore, who made his major league debut with three appearances last September, a five year contract extension, with three option years. The five guaranteed years will be worth $14 million, while […]

EDIT (7:00 PM): the deal has been confirmed. I’m pretty sure this was scooped by Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports (and my apologies if someone got it first, Rosenthal was the first in my feed with details), but the Diamondbacks are looking to acquire starting pitcher Trevor Cahill from the Athletics (along with reliever Craig Breslow) […]