In case you hadn’t noticed, Jered Weaver is awesome right now.  Like totally, awesomely awesome. As with all things awesome, the general assumption is that Weaver is now destined to take his act to Broadway by signing with the Yankees the second he hits free agency after next season, if not sooner.  But, as my […]

Orioles 4, Red Sox 1. Zach Britton allowed one run in six innings, Jim Johnson struck out four in a two inning relief stint, and Kevin Gregg threw a perfect ninth to give the Orioles a rare win. It’s been a rough two weeks for Baltimore, but maybe this win can get them back on […]

Seattle beat Detroit today 7-3, but the story coming out of the game is all about Tigers outfielder Ryan Raburn.  Unfortunately for Raburn (and fortunately for all of us), he turned in the runaway leader in the clubhouse for the blooper of the year, and maybe one of the best on-field follies I’ve seen in […]

There’s been an awful lot made of low MLB attendance in 2011. Ballparks all over the country and turning up empty. Just last night, attendance was so low at the Pirates/Nationals game that Sam Miller of the OC Register was able to count almost every single person in the stands at PNC Park. He came up […]

When the Chicago White Sox signed Adam Dunn for $56 M this past off-season, I think they probably had their eyes on adding a ~40 home run season to the middle of their line-up. The early returns have been less than encouraging – a .198/.314/.298 batting line and just 2 longballs. Even allowing for some […]

Blue Jays 6 Rangers 4 – A year ago, Jose Bautista hit four home runs in April and that seemed like a scorching hot pace for a guy who’d never hit more than 16 in a season. After last night’s bomb off of Colby Lewis, he’s got eight this year and suddenly his 54 last […]

It’s Monday, and you know what that means: another look at the league’s hottest and coldest. Will any familiar names show up? SCORCHING HITTERSJose Bautista, Blue Jays. .474/.615/1.263, 10 R, 4 RBI, 1 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR, 7 BB, 3 KWell, everyone who called for a reversal of fortunes from Bautista in 2011 is […]

While you were hunting Easter eggs, teams were putting up goose eggs all over MLB scoreboards. Mets 8, Diamondbacks 4: Don’t look now, but the Mets have now won four straight and finally have a good thing going.  David Wright kept his resurgent play alive in a big way today, smacking two homers to plate […]

The best part about every April is the teams and players who come out of nowhere. Some of these guys have been career journeymen, failed prospects or even players who people have been callling for a breakout for years, and it looks like it finally happened. But then the season goes on, and these great […]

Full slate of games, with a few impressive offensive outbursts yesterday. Cubs 10, Dodgers 8: After hanging 5 runs and 11 hits on Ted Lilly, it took a 5 run 8th inning off reliever Matt Guerrier to get Chicago the W over LA after their own starter (Ryan Dempster) gave up 7 runs on 3 […]

Three rain-outs, but still plenty of action yesterday. Dodgers 12, Cubs 2: Six runs in the top of the third pretty much spelled the end of this one, with Chad Billingsley scattering 10 baserunners over 6.1 IP. Kenley Jensen K’ed 4 of the 5 batters he faced from the LA pen, taking his 21011 strike-out […]

News broke yesterday that the MLB is more than likely going to add a fifth playoff team to each league starting in 2012. The two wild card teams would play each other, likely in a one game playoff, before the divisional series begins. My immediate reaction to this news is “lord, that is STUPID”. The […]

How you doing, Dodger fans?  Hanging in there?  Keep your chin up.  I know having your franchise taken over by Major League Baseball and becoming a ward of Bud Selig’s state probably doesn’t seem like something to get excited about, but I’m here to tell you that it might just be the best thing to […]

I have a dentist appointment today, but I also have recaps of all 11 MLB games from yesterday. Eat it up, then floss. Dodgers 5, Braves 3 (12 innings):  I guess, sooner or later, the word’s going to get around the league that Matt Kemp might beat you, the inimitable Vin Scully said. It’s Kemp’s […]