In case you haven’t noticed, the Seattle Mariners offense is terrible.  Like, absolutely and tragically terrible.  It is so bad, in fact, that they currently have scored 23 fewer runs than any team in the majors, this despite having the use of a DH, unlike 16 other teams in the bigs (maybe 17 since Adam […]

I swear I will make it to a game in which Devin Mesoraco plays. It may be when he’s in Cincinnati, but I will see him. For the fourth time this season, I went to a Louisville Bats game, and for the fourth time this season, I saw Corky Miller behind the plate for the […]

Lyle Overbay hit the free agent market yesterday after his release by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and there’s a good chance that his big league career is over. In 103 games with the Pirates this year, Overbay hit just .227/.300/.349 with eight homers and 17 doubles in 391 plate appearances. Even in 2011’s severely reduced offensive […]

As the baseball season approaches October, the postseason field will begin to take shape.  As Giants-Philles and Red Sox-Yankees took the national stage this weekend, it got me thinking about the perceived lack of parity in baseball.  The networks were touting the great ratings that these games did over the weekend, but who could blame […]

James Shields dominated the Royals last night, throwing a six hit shutout. He walked three and struck out eight. It’s been a great bounceback year for Shields, who had a 5.18 ERA last year for Tampa Bay. On the season, he has eight complete games and four shutouts, which both lead the American League. In […]

A lot of the big names that came to new teams this offseason didn’t get off to great starts with their new teams. Adam Dunn and Jayson Werth have been awful all year for the White Sox and Nationals respectively. But there are a pair of hitters that have caught onto nice hot streaks since […]

It certainly won’t happen this year. It probably won’t happen next year. But for Astros fans that are patient enough, a playoff contender could be on it’s way by 2013. After trading away two of their best players, Hunter Pence and Michael Bourn, the Astros have solidified their title as the worst team in baseball. If they […]

I noticed something interesting last night after the east coast games had concluded. Adrian Gonzalez was still leading the American League with a .350 batting average. But in second, and hitting .341, was a divisional rival. It wasn’t all-world slugger Jose Bautista of Toronto. It wasn’t either of Gonzalez’s fantastic teammates in Boston, Dustin Pedroia […]

There’s not really any wrong way to end a ten-game losing streak, but Charlie Morton and the Pirates managed to do it with some flair last night as Morton tossed eight shutout innings and the Pirates bounced back from nearly two solid weeks of losing by shutting out the NL West leading Giants by a […]

It was announced today by Joe Girardi that the Yankees were going to go in another direction at DH, and sit Jorge Posada. Now, the team wasn’t going to release Posada…just bench him. He’ll be mainly replaced in the role by Eric Chavez. Posada has been in a state of decline over the past few […]

Any time anything happens in regard to the New York Yankees, it’s big news, and it’s not different with their prospects. If there’s a big Yankees prospect, he’s usually pretty well-known. I’m not criticizing that, however, as I think any publicity for baseball is a good thing, and the Yankees are excellent for baseball. The […]

Youth is a funny thing. It feels like Evan Longoria has been around for a long time. In a sense, he has. He has existed in our collective baseball subconscious as a viable entity since he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with the third pick of the 2006 amateur draft. Promise was […]

Years ago, a website was created that skewered hardline thinking on issues stemming from cliches and how people in charge of multi-million dollar operations covered up their mistakes by using those cliches. The website was called “Veteran Presence” (probably the most used of all cliches when it comes to sports) and was spearheaded by Phil […]

Arrgh!  More Yankees-Red Sox talk!!  I can’t take it anymore!!!  Curse you, East Coast Bias!!!! That is what I would like to be yelling right now, but I can’t, and not just because I used up my exclamation point quote for the month.  As any non-New Yorker or Bostonian can tell you, the annual overexposure […]