For those of you who don’t follow NFL news, and why would you since baseball is clearly vastly superior in every way, the New Orleans Saints just got in a whole bunch of trouble for instituting a bounty system in which players were paid for intentionally injuring opposing players.  The NFL commissioner punished the Saints […]

I am going to tell you something that will shock you: the Houston Astros are not a very good team. They weren’t a very good team last year (especially after trading Michael Bourn and Hunter Pence), and they’re especially not good this season. The lineup is mostly made up of prospects from their own weak […]

The Tigers won the AL Central last season after the Cleveland Indians decided that they were sick of first place in May, and started to fall apart. The Tigers machine steadily rolled on, and they advanced to the ALCS, where they were defeated by the Texas Rangers. The team was led by AL Cy Young […]

From yesterday’s White Sox season preview… Burning QuestionIs Alex Rios a five tool player, or a five cent player? Here is the thing about Alex Rios: he’s shown flashes of absolute brilliance in the past. He has three seasons of at least 30 steals, and two 5+ fWAR seasons. But there are a lot of […]

I don’t know if you can call a 79-83 season a “disaster year”, but for the 2010 NL Central champion Reds, it was pretty close. They finished third a season after winning the division crown, and nothing changed all that much. 2010 MVP Joey Votto raked again, they didn’t get destroyed with injuries…it just kind […]

The Indians started off the 2011 season like a house of fire, and were quickly in control of the AL Central. As the season went on, their tight grasp of the division lead started fading and fading, until they completely lost it, and ended up finishing under .500 for the season in second place. There […]

A sharply hit groundball to Miguel Cabrera at third during today’s Tigers-Phillies spring training game took a nasty hop up into his face. Cabrera was left bloodied and forced to exit the game. We have video (via Guyism):  1.) Ouch. 2.) IN THE FACE. Cabrera was taken to a nearby hospital where

2011 wasn’t a great year for the Cubs by any stretch of the imagination, and as large market teams tend to do when they get into that situation, the Cubs retooled. A new manager in Dale Sveum, a new president in Theo Epstein, and a new general manager in Jed Hoyer are in the process […]

You have to feel for the plight of the marketing department of each MLB team.  Each year they are tasked to come up with dozens of promotional giveaways to lure fans to come out to the ballpark.  Some of these ideas are great, but some of them… not so much.  We could spend time admiring […]

Oh, the White Sox. 2011 was pretty much a lost year for the team, highlighted by struggles nearly everywhere on the team. Despite all of the downslides, the Sox only finished four games under .500. GM Kenny Williams responded by pretty much blowing up the team, which leaves Chicago with a brand spanking new White […]

From my Nationals season preview earlier today… Burning QuestionIs Jayson Werth going to live up to his massive contract this season, or continue to struggle? As soon as the ink was dry on Werth’s seven year, $126 million contract in December of 2010, fans from all across the country were crucifying the Nationals for overpaying […]

Phillies outfield prospect Domonic Brown has seemingly fallen out of favor with management after a hand injury delayed the start of his rookie season last year, and then the season itself didn’t go well, which led to a demotion to AAA in midseason. Well, things are about to get a little worse for Brown. He’s […]

From my season preview of the Blue Jays earlier this morning… Burning QuestionEveryone knows about the talent that Colby Rasmus possesses, but he was pretty awful after coming over from the Cardinals last July. Is this going to be the year where he finally turns into a superstar? Ramsus’s first two years with the Cardinals […]