The last game Wily Mo Pena played in was July 12th, 2008 as his Nationals took on the Astros. Pena went 0/4 in the game to lower his OPS to .510. He wouldn’t play in another game for the Nationals. He spent 2009 with the Buffalo Bison of the AAA International League, an affilate of […]

Cubs and White Sox yesterday. Bottom of the sixth inning, Alexei Ramirez at bat. Ramirez chops one off the plate, and it rolls behind the plate…foul ball, right? Well, Cubs catcher Geovany Soto picked the ball up and tagged Ramirez, and umpire James Hoye called Ramirez out. White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was…none too pleased. […]

Rarely does a baseball clubhouse resemble a traditional office setting in any way, shape or form.  There’s the hours, the dress code, and of course the fact that ballplayers are allowed to spit in their office. I’m pretty sure if a banker tried showing up to work at 1 p.m. in his pajamas spitting tobacco […]

You have to look deep down the MLB standings to find the hottest team in the majors right now.  The 4th placed team in the AL Central, the Minnesota Twins, are finally looking like the team that we all expected to see when the season began in April.  After starting 17-36 and having the worst […]

Why is it every time that it seems like the league is about to clean up the mess the McCourts made of the Dodgers a new hurdle emerges?  The answer to that question is surprisingly simple. in fact, it is just one word: FOX. After weeks of a circling in a holding pattern, Major League […]

There’s plenty to talk about from last night’s Padres/Red Sox game. The Red Sox racked up ten runs in the seventh inning. Former top Tigers prospect Andrew Miller, who was a key piece in their trade for Miguel Cabrera, made his return to the big leagues after a minor league sojourn to fix his mechanics […]

On Sunday, Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez resigned. The team was in the midst of a nine game losing streak, and has only won one game all June. That losing streak is now at ten games, and the Marlins are turning to a familiar face to help right the ship: former two-time Manager of the Year, […]

When it comes to college basketball recruiting, there’s nothing wrong with being from the Northeast, but when it comes to baseball, the New England area does draw the attention of scouts. The reasons are fairly obvious. It’s colder, longer, so the season doesn’t start as soon as other prospect hotbeds such as Florida and California. […]

Albert Pujols slammed a homer and then a little bit later Wilson Betemit slammed into him.  Now, every Cardinals fan is slamming their head against their desks as they await test results on Pujols’ injured wrist. Now, before all you good people in the city of St. Louis go and address a bomb to Mr. […]

The Dodgers’ Dee Gordon made his major league debut a couple weeks ago, and with his 2-4 game yesterday he’s now hitting .326 for his young career. In the 23 year-old shortstops 10 games (in which he’s come to the plate), he has 6 multi-hit games – not quite a record to start a career, […]

To my eyes, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been as pure a franchise as there is in Major League Baseball. I’m not entirely sure what I mean by that, but let’s try to parse it out: The Reds have been around the longest, but are overshadowed in the Midwest by the Cubs. The Cubs have […]

On Thursday, the Phillies designated reliever JC Romero for assignment. Advanced metrics despise Romero: he’s a guy who has walked at least five batters per nine innings over his last seven seasons, while striking out less than eight batters per nine in each of those seven seasons as well. But despite his horrible peripherals, Romero […]

Last season the Chicago White Sox wanted to upgrade their rotation, so they traded pitching prospect Daniel Hudson (and another player) to the Diamondbacks for Edwin Jackson. Even ignoring their respective contract situations – Hudson is under team control at low salaries for quite a while, while Jackson is making over $8 M and is […]

The Washington Nationals received a huge boost earlier this week, when star third baseman Ryan Zimmerman was activated off the DL. This is a huge shot in the arm for the Nationals on both offense and defense. Without Zimmerman in the lineup, the Nationals offense has been one of the worst in baseball, and adding […]