The Tigers announced today that they’ve acquired Delmon Young from the Twins for Cole Nelson and a PTBNL. Young is the big piece of the deal, but how much does he really improve the Tigers? It’s believed that Young will be taking some playing time from Magglio Ordonez in right field. This is a good […]

The Diamondbacks have been on fire since the All-Star Break, and have now opened up a two game lead on the defending World Champion Giants in the NL West. This week will play a huge part in determining the division winner, due to the schedules of both teams. The Giants play four in Atlanta before […]

I’m mostly at a loss to explain Tyler Pastornicky’s AAA line of .380/.422/.430 for the Gwinnett Braves. Well, I can explain it–his BABiP is .424–but the line is just an incredibly weird one. In his 25 AAA games, he has 14 multi-hit efforts, and he’s been as ridiculously hot as Jose Constanza has been for […]

I was playing poker on a recent Saturday night with a few friends. Most of us are married with kids, so the night out was a welcome reprieve. We played outside on a new deck that a friend had built. He had been given redwood for free, so he decided to build a deck. It […]

If I ever run into Darwin Barney, I am going to buy that man a beer. It isn’t that I don’t respect Dan Uggla’s now mercifully dead 33-game hitting streak, but I had pretty much had it up to here (for those of you who don’t have access to my super sexy webcam, I’m pointing […]

It’s too bad there isn’t a reality show camera crew following around the North American Baseball League’s Lake County Fielders this season because it really would make for some fantastic entertainment. First the team’s manager quit prior to a game, then the acting manager decides to put together a lineup consisting of all pitchers in […]

In today’s Braves-Cubs game (which I was at, by the way), the Cubs pulled off a feat that only one other team in major league history has: they walked zero times, struck out 18 times, and won the game. The Cubs only got runs in the sixth and seventh innings, thanks to a bullpen implosion […]

San Francisco actually set the record a couple days ago, but with Jeff Keppinger’s home run yesterday in the Giants-Marlins game*, the team has now hit 21 consecutive longballs that were of the solo variety. * Big Time Timmy Jim went 7 scoreless with 10 K’s in the 3-0 win. The streak goes back to […]

After tonight’s 3-0 loss to the Giants, the Marlins made some personnel moves. One of them was releasing struggling veteran bench bat Wes Helms, which doesn’t make much sense because they probably could have traded him to a contender for something of value. The second move for the Marlins made even less sense. They demoted […]

Jim Hendry is a man, and you do not mess with men. Otherwise you may find yourself missing a good chunk of your salary. The Cubs placed Carlos Zambrano on the disqualified list this afternoon effective immediately. It’s a move that was a long time coming, one that was precipitated by his bizarre actions in […]

Let’s be honest about something here: The sweeping generality when it comes to those who follow sabermetrics in baseball is that they are nerds who have created a buzzsaw that threatens the “romanticism” long associated with the game. These guys are ruining the fun for everyone, so to speak. They are too worried about Elvis […]

During the course of my four years in local television news, I covered many a soldier coming home to his wife. It was a sight that was always enough to warm the coldest depths of your heart, a welcome reprieve from the crime scenes and local politics that generally dominate the small market news cycle. […]

I’ve been doing a lot of driving lately on my way down to Atlanta. Now that I’m here, I saw Dan Uggla extend his hitting streak to an Atlanta-high (and major league high this season) 32 games. On my way here, I was listening to a lot of sports podcasts, and the prevailing thought was […]

When the Diamondbacks traded Max Scherzer in that big three-team deal in 2009, the supposition was that Edwin Jackson – coming over from Detroit – was going to be the major addition. Instead, it appears that the longer term jewel of that trade for Arizona is turning out to be Ian Kennedy. After not getting […]