11 games yesterday and most of them were pretty good, so go ahead and pour the milk on your cereal and catch up on all the action you may have missed last night while you mourned the death of two great American soap operas:  Rays 4, Twins 3 (10 innings): For the second straight game, […]

The braids are gone, Coco’s lettin’ it fly tonight! … That’s what A’s pitcher

Carlos Delgado hasn’t appeared in a major league game since 2009, but the long-time Blue Jay has finally officially announced his retirement. Coming up as a catcher, Toronto moved Delgado to first-base and he didn’t look back. Though he played during a time of huge offensive numbers, his career should not be overlooked – especially […]

As a kid, I devoured baseball history. When I was about six, my dad bought me the early 1990s version of The Baseball Chronicle, a year-by-year account of the history of the game from 1900 onwards. I read the book like a novel; I learned the World Series winners by heart and memorized details about […]

Start your morning off with a nice fresh cup of coffee and a roundup of all of yesterday’s baseball action and news in today’s Dugout Digest. Recaps GAME OF THE NIGHT! Florida 5, Atlanta 1: Should we just go ahead and hand the NL Cy Young to Josh Johnson now.  After throwing a no-hitter through […]

The answer to this question is pretty obvious. Of course Ron Washington has some sense. He’s a major league manager, and he guided his team to the AL pennant last year. But as this season begins to grow, I’m starting to wonder just how much sense he actually has, specifically when it comes to managing […]

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that Manny Ramirez retired on Friday after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs for a second time. He was facing a 100 game suspension, but opted to retire instead of dealing with that. In the short term, Manny’s new club, the Tampa Bay Rays, is absolutely […]

Time for a new feature here at the Outside Corner – the Daily Wrap. In this, we’ll take a look at the night that was around the league, with brief recaps of a couple of the more noteworthy games on the evening, and a few links to stories around the internet. RecapsWashington 7, Philadelphia 4. […]

I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the Cleveland Indians. When I was a young, impressionable baseball fan growing up smack in between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Indians’ exciting team full of young stars like Manny Ramirez (before he was The Man That Kicked Puppies and Ruined Baseball) and Kenny Lofton and […]

2010’s AL MVP, Josh Hamilton, hasn’t quite picked up where he left off last year so far in 2011. He hasn’t hit a home run yet, though  a .316/.395/.395 line is still nothing to sneeze. A potential break-out – and one was coming eventually-  will have to wait, as Hamilton broke his arm sliding into […]

It happens every year, doesn’t it?  Last year it was Jose Bautista.  The year before that, Ben Zobrist.  Ryan Ludwick took home the honor back in 2008.  Ah yes, the annual thrill of getting to see a player long considered nothing more than a nice bench player or mere depth for the pitching staff taking […]

Here we are… roughly, oh, a whopping six-percent into the new season and there are plenty of surprises to talk about. There are no Chris Sheltons, but there’s enough to get us somewhat red in the face. So, let’s get into eight or so of them. Milton Bradley’s ear plugs at home games Nothing Milton […]

Welcome to the Outside Corner. Our aim is to be one of the more comprehensive baseball blogs on the internet. We've got a fantastic team of writers whose names you've probably seen in many places before. Let me introduce the staff here at the OC (please, no jokes about MTV reality shows). Joe Lucia. That's […]