We’re going to take a brief break from talking trade deadline stuff here at The Outside Corner to have a little bit of fun. With our smartphones. What an older generation knows as the board game Scrabble, a younger generation knows as its younger, hipper cell phone cousin Words With Friends. It’s a game that […]

Relievers are always in demand come the trade deadline. Teams always need an extra arm in the bullpen, and if you’re going to look outside of your organization, you want to get a good one. This July, the big name was Heath Bell, and he had been in trade rumors for close to two seasons. […]

With the Brewers and Cardinals playing an incredibly important three-game series this week, Tony La Russa has gone ahead and done what he’s always done best: make the baseball games that he’s involved with about him and only him.   Before last night’s Cardinals/Brewers’ game, La Russa filed an official complaint about the lighting at […]

Thanks to Erick Aybar’s bunt, Jered Weaver throwing a temper tantrum and Carlos Guillen doing everything but the Dougie after a homer this last Sunday, we’ve all gotten more than an earful of talk about baseball and its fabled “unwritten rules.”  So much debate and vitriol erupted these supposed violations that somehow nobody bothered to […]

The non-waiver trade deadline has come and gone. Some teams were winners and some were losers, but one team’s moves, in particular, caused me to say, out loud, “What were they thinking?”.  Sorry Orioles fans. Your team really screwed the pooch on this one. Before I got started, I decided to ask resident Orioles expert, Daniel Moroz, author […]

Last night was just one of those weird nights in baseball.  I’m pretty sure there was a full moon or some sort of celestial alignment happening in the distant galaxies to cause what we saw around the majors. Packey already broke down this insane infield triple from last night’s M’s/A’s tilt… but that may have […]

You play in or watch thousands of baseball games and you think you’ve seen everything … then you see Mariners’ shortstop Brendan Ryan leg out an infield single and wind up on third base, no thanks to any conceivably recordable error.  In the bottom of the first of tonight’s A’s/Mariners game, Ryan hit a ball […]

Zack Greinke and Shawn Marcum may have been the more heralded of all the Brewers’ offseason acquisitions. But few are nearly as entertaining as the one and only Nyjer Morgan. Few players’ post-game interviews are must-see TV but as you can see above, Morgan is always entertaining and always awesome. Morgan already has one well-documented […]

The Ubaldo Jimenez trade is still the most befuddling trade of the weekend for me. It makes no real sense for either side. The Rockies had a top-of-the-rotation pitcher having a slightly off season, but Jimenez was still well worth his contract, which is extremely team-friendly. While bad teams sometimes sell these players off to […]

The trade deadline came and went on Chicago’s North side much as it did in Major League cities across the country. And while a team boasting a payroll north of $120 million (!) that finds itself twenty-one games below .500 would appear to be natural sellers at the non-waiver deadline, the man you see above […]

Maybe the question would be better phrased, ‘is Mariners’ 22-year-old rookie phenom Michael Pineda hitting a rookie wall?’  In his last six starts, Pineda has posted a 6.55 ERA with a 1.31 WHIP. In the middle three of those six starts, he allowed 19 earned runs in 15.2 innings (good for a bad 10.91 ERA), which […]

The trade deadline’s over and there are a bunch of guys wearing different color uniforms than they wore last week. All of them are hoping that they can make a difference in their new homes and take their new teams to heights that their old teams weren’t going to reach. So on the first day […]

The trade deadline has passed. Teams have pretty much have their rosters set for the final two months of the season, barring waiver claims and prospect call-ups. Barring injuries, these are the rosters that these teams are going to war with. After all the dust has settled, who are the favorites over the season’s final […]

Changing things up a little this week, I’ll write a post today, tomorrow, and Wednesday detailing some of the major prospects moved over the past few days. Ed Wade stated from the beginning that it would take an impressive haul for him to trade away Hunter Pence. As the trade deadline neared, the two main […]

If back in June you asked what pitchers would likely be moved at this year’s trade deadline, I’m not sure you’d find many, if any, mentions of the name Ubaldo Jimenez. By all accounts, Jimenez’s contract is extremely team-friendly and he’s singed through the next two seasons. He’ll make $4.2M inn 2012 with a $5.75M […]