The Mariners have begun to blow up their team, reports Jon Heyman of SI. They’ve traded Doug Fister, their 27 year old third starter, to the Tigers. David Pauley is also heading to Detroit. Charlie Furbush and Casper Wells will be heading to Seattle. Also, top prospect Jacob Turner is reportedly going to be making […]

The Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks 9-5 yesterday, with Matt Kemp being a big reason for that with his three-run homer (and five RBI overall). That gives Kemp 25 homers on the year, to go along with his 27 stolen bases. That’s a 25-25 season, if you will, and no other player in the majors is […]

I just wrote about this a few hours ago. Well now, the deal is official. Hunter Pence has been traded to the Philadelphia Phillies from the Houston Astros. The cost for Philly wasn’t cheap: they gave up prospects Jarred Cosart and Jonathan Singleton, the top two prospects in the organization and two of the top […]

With Carlos Beltran off the market, and Jose Reyes not being traded, the hottest name on the trading market right now is…Hunter Pence of the Astros? How did this happen? There are reportedly up to half a dozen teams in the market for Pence, with the two teams most prominently linked to him being the […]

When the Blue Jays acquired Colby Rasmus from the Cardinals on Wednesday, the first thing that popped into my head was, “Alex Anthopoulos is, AMAZING!” What he has done in such a short time as the GM of the Toronto Blue Jays takes most GM’s years to do. That is, get rid of aging players […]

In this day and age of social media technology, Twitter specifically, tracking rumors at the trade deadline have gone from fun pasttime to almost a full-time job.  Reporters from every outlet are sending out little snippets of trade rumors as tweets so fast that they make the Fail Whale want to cry.  What is a […]

This Cleveland Indians team is struggling. After an 18-8 April, they’ve played at a 34-40 clip. After Thursday’s Tigers loss to the Angels, the Indians are a game and a half out of first place in the AL Central. But help is on the way: the team acquired Kosuke Fukudome from the Cubs on Thursday […]

With a seven-run seventh inning, the Tampa Bay Rays rolled to a 10-8 win over the Oakland A’s in Oakland last night to bring their record to 54-50. That record is a good approximation of how good the Rays have been this year; they’ve scored 436 runs (seventh in the American League) and allowed 420 […]

Well, the Beltran trade became official today, and he’s making his Giants debut tonight, hitting in the three hole against Philly. I reached out to Outside Corner contributor and diehard Giants fan Tim Livingston to get his take on the deal, and we’ve put a little Point/Counterpoint together. Take it away, Tim. Tim Livingston: Brian Sabean […]

I’m about this close to disliking Zack Wheeler, and it has nothing to do with him. Coming into the 2009 draft, the Georgia native was my favorite prospect for the Braves’ pick, and it made a lot of sense. He was a hard-throwing high school product that the Braves usually liked, and he was from […]

In the past 24 hours, the White Sox have apparently made up their mind as to whether or not they’re buyers or sellers at the trade deadline — they’re the latter. The team traded Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen to the Blue Jays for John Frasor and a prospect. Jackson didn’t even have a chance […]

As I’m sure you’ve all heard, Ervin Santana no hit the Indians yesterday, striking out ten and walking run in a 3-1 victory. There were some interesting little tidbits about this game. None of them are really earth-shattering, but I thought they were at least interesting enough to post about. NOTE: no-hitters that don’t go […]

Admittedly, we had to rework our weekly roundtable this week after the Mariners decided to finally win a game (against the Yankees in the Bronx nonetheless) and the Mets finally dealt Carlos Beltran to the Giants after a rumored move to the Indians was nixed by the outfielder.  We also all learned the name Jerry […]

Marred in the middle of a franchise-record 17 game losing streak, the hapless Seattle Mariners are looking all over the place for answers but continue to find nothing in their search for a victory, having being held without a win since July 5th. But while the entire team has been in the epitome of baseball […]

Looking past the ending of the 19-inning Tuesday night/Wednesday morning affair, the most important thing that happened was the injury to Brian McCann. With a .306/.375/.514 line, McCann has been worth almost 4 wins already this season, and he’s the most valuable catcher in the MLB, according to FanGraphs, by over a win over the […]