0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/4/2012
You know, I'm not one to relentlessly crap on transactions….but this Jeremy Guthrie-Jonathan Sanchez trade has pretty much been a disaster for both teams. Both players started last night, and were terrible once again. In a 5-3 loss to the Rangers, Guthrie allowed three runs over six innings..his best start yet, actually. In three starts […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/3/2012
Well, that was quick. After not being able to work out a deal with the Orioles for Joe Blanton, the Phillies dealt the starter to the Dodgers in exchange for a player to be named later or cold hard cash. Ahhhh, the typical waiver claim deal. Blanton will be a free agent after the season, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
This is the time of year where aging, struggling veterans get kicked to the curb by their teams. It's already happened multiple times this week with Hideki Matsui, Derek Lowe, and Bobby Abreu. Now, two days after designating Lowe, the Indians are at it again,
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Today, the Nationals acquired catcher Kurt Suzuki from the A's in exchange for minor league catcher David Freitas. The 28-year old Suzuki was a former top A's prospect who never really panned out at the level that the Oakland brass thought he would, OPSing just .689 in 703 career games. He was deemed expendable after […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
You read the title of this article, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Clearly there is some chicanery afoot. After all, with the mind-blowingly amazing season Mike Trout is having, how could there possibly be any question about who the American League Rookie of the Year is going to be this year? The 20-year old phenom […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Going into this week's Angels-Rangers series, it was looked at as one that could shape the AL West over the season's final two months. After the series has concluded, we can still say that….but I'm not sure we expected it to happen this way. The Angels won game one, controlling the Rangers bats in a […]
0 comments by Charlie Saponara on 8/2/2012
Earlier today, Deadspin did a terrific job of breaking the MLB Facebook & Twitter hacker scandal that rocked the nation. However, we here at The Outside Corner are about to bring you some unprecedented behind-the-scenes access into the minds of the social media campaign managers of the teams that were hacked. We can neither confirm […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
In their push for a playoff berth, the A's have called up starting pitcher Dan Straily, and will start him tomorrow night against the Blue Jays. Straily will be replacing Travis Blackley in the Oakland rotation, sending Blackley to the pen. The 23-year old Straily, not on any top prospect radar coming into the year, […]
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The Texas Rangers, perhaps in a sense of desperation due to their struggles of late in the AL West, are calling up top prospect Mike Olt. Olt has replaced Brandon Snyder, who has played five positions for the Rangers this year, on the bench. Olt should probably get some more substantial playing time for the […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
So what exactly is the plan for the Philadelphia Phillies now? They went all out to sign Cole Hamels to a monster contract and then gutted their already anemic lineup by sending out Shane Victorino and Hunter Pence. Say what you want about the trades themselves, but the overall strategy was a bold one from […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
After a July that was almost historically bad, going just 3-24 and getting outscored by 76 runs, the Houston Astros started off August in the same way: by losing. A Brewers team that was nine games under .500 coming in to Wednesday slaughtered the Astros 13-4. Only four of Houston's eight position player starters were […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
For the last few weeks, the struggles of Josh Hamilton have been a growing concern for the Texas Rangers. After getting off to a hot start that had everyone conceding the AL MVP trophy to him, he went in the tank. In June his OPS fell to a mortal .754. In July, he bottomed out […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
As a Braves fan, this amuses me way more than it should.
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Now, this is an odd one. At Wednesday's game between the Fort Myers Miracle and the Daytona Cubs, home plate umpire Mario Seneca ejected the Cubs intern deejay, Derek Dye. What was Dye's offense? After a questionable call, Dye played "Three Blind Mice" on the club's audio system, and the umpire ejected him from the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/1/2012
