If your team has two of the best franchise cornerstones in baseball under the age of 30 signed long-term, how do you lose 98 games in a season involving both of those players? Simple: they combine to play 182 games, your team's pitching staff is an absolute disaster, your manager is a buffoon, and the […]

The Cubs are in a little bit of the same boat as the Astros, who I just talked about an hour ago. They're not looking to start throwing around more Soriano-esque contracts, but because of the loyal fanbase and the oodles of money the franchise brings in, they're in a better position to pay for […]

This year's free agent crop of catchers is rather thin with only three players that can truly be considered every-day starters and GMs looking to add a starting catcher this offseason are going to have to do their due diligence in choosing who to pursue. Can A.J. Pierzynski can repeat his career year at age […]

Well, we still don't have a National League champion after the Giants beat the Cardinals 6-1 last night. San Francisco used a fantastic start from Ryan Vogelsong and some timely hitting to keep the Cardinals at bay, and the National League will come down to game seven, tonight by the bay. –Giants 6, Cardinals 1 […]

Well, there was no baseball on Saturday…sad face. BUT, that doesn't mean that the day was dominated by college football. The Marlins, Diamondbacks, and A's completed a three team trade that sent Heath Bell to the Diamondbacks and Chris Young to the A's, and the Red Sox finally pried John Farrell away from the Blue […]

If the Cardinals are going to win the National League pennant, they're not going to be doing it at home. The Giants won 5-0 on Friday to send the series back to San Francisco and put the Giants in a decent position with Ryan Vogelsong starting on Sunday and Matt Cain potentially starting on Monday. […]

The San Francisco Giants beat the St Louis Cardinals 5-0 in game five of the NLCS, cutting the Cardinals lead in the series to 3-2. Coming into Friday night's game, the Giants knew they needed a huge start out of Barry Zito. But I don't think they would have expected his performance in their wildest […]

Despite and American League leading 95 wins this season, this just didn't seem like a great Yankees team. The Orioles and Rays were contending in the AL East all year, and the Yankees had to work really hard to hold them off. Then in the playoffs, Raul Ibanez saved their season in their 3-2 ALDS […]

Well, the AL pennant has been decided after the Tigers completed the ALCS with a sweep of the Yankees, manhandling them in an 8-1 win and holding their potent offense to just six runs over the course of the four games. The dagger in that game with the Yankees was probably this pair of homers […]