0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/22/2012
Cincinnati Reds prospect Billy Hamilton set the all-time minor league single season stolen base record tonight as his Pensacola Blue Wahoos played the Montgomery Biscuits (Rays affiliate). Hamilton stole his first base of the game, and 144th of the year, in the first inning before stealing both second and third in the third inning to […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/21/2012
Your browser does not support iframes. During Monday's Braves-Nationals extra inning marathon, Braves reliever Luis Avilan struck out Nationals phenom Bryce Harper swinging to end the 11th inning on an absolutely filthy curveball. After the inning-ending strikeout, the 19-year old Harper slammed his bat into the dirt around home plate and split the bat in […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
News broke this weekend about Starlin Castro signing an extension with the Cubs for seven years and $60 million, with an option for the eighth year. I was waiting for the details of the deal (specifically, yearly salaries) before posting about it, but then news came out that it would take a week or two […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Lost in all the hoopla in the league right now is that the Seattle Mariners are playing some really good baseball. Seattle is 23-13 since the All-Star Break, and is a +28 in those 36 games. They're 8-1 in their last nine games, which includes a sweep of the Twins and series wins against the […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The Oakland Athletics continue to be surprise entrants in the Wild Card race. Some in baseball keep waiting for them to come back to earth and drop out of the race, but apparently Billy Beane isn't one of them as he just pulled off a trade for shortstop Stephen Drew from the Arizona Diamondbacks in […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
We all know Giancarlo Stanton hits monster homers, right? Well Monday night in Phoenix, Stanton may have topped his previous moonshots in terms of sheer impressiveness with this shot that went into the third deck at Chase Field off of the always homer-prone Joe Saunders Your browser does not support iframes. Really? Yeah, really. Stanton […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/20/2012
This is really happening. Fox 26 Houston is reporting that former Red Sox, Yankees, Blue Jays, and Astros pitcher Roger Clemens has agreed to sign with the independent league Sugar Land Skeeters in the Houston area. The 50-year old Clemens hasn't pitched since 2007 with the Yankees, and was acquitted this summer on federal obstruction […]
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=eXo-eathEgE Deadspin posted this video today of Indians closer Chris Perez arguing with a fan in Oakland. Perez swore at the fan who was heckling him, and his best comebacks were "I have more saves than your entire team!" and "I was an All-Star again this year!", while the fan's major comeback was "LOOK AT […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The general rule in Major League Baseball and other pro sports is that the big spenders have an unfair advantage. They get to drop major coin to acquire elite talent and then ride those purchases on to post-season glory. Well, that's the theory anyway. But how has it worked in practice in the Majors this […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
With the Rockies in the first half of this season, Jeremy Guthrie was beyond awful. I don't even need to rattle the stats off. They were *bad*. But since a trade to the Royals last month, Guthrie has been…dare I say…pretty damn good. In his six starts with Kansas City, Guthrie has a 3.23 ERA, […]
0 comments by Charlie Saponara on 8/19/2012
Visalia, CA — Remember the scene from the movie "The Natural" when Roy Hobbs hits a home run so high and far that it hits a bank of lights, causing the to burst into a brilliant shower of falling embers? Well, what happened in Visalia California on Thursday night echoed that scene, only in a […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
By now, I'm sure everyone has heard about Melky Cabrera's 50 game suspension for PED use that will knock him out of action for the rest of the regular season, and likely cost him millions in free agency. But before his suspension was announced, Cabrera had put together a fraudulent plan to absolve himself of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
I normally don't feature the same game two days in a row, but this is a special circumstance. Last night, the Angels were up 8-0 on the Rays through four, and everything looked right with the world. Of course…this is the 2012 Angels we're talking about here. And quite frankly, you can't pin this loss […]
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The Houston Astros continued revamping their franchise under new owner Jim Crane by firing manager Brad Mills, along with first base coach Bobby Meacham and hitting coach Mike Barnett. Houston has far and away been the worst team in baseball this year, with a pathetic 39-82 record that is nine games worse than the Cubs […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/18/2012
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are collapsing. Since the All-Star Break, the Angels have gone 14-20. They've gone from three games up in the wild card standings to 2.5 back. In the AL West, the Angels have lost three games in the standings, falling to seven back behind a Rangers team that has been […]
