Remember Salvador Perez, the Royals catcher who the team recently signed to a long extension for seven figures total? Well, Perez underwent surgery this morning to repair a torn meniscus in his knee, and he’s expected to be out 12 to 14 weeks. This is a huge blow for a youthful Royals team. While Perez […]

This is a shocker: the New York Yankees have signed their former great Andy Pettitte to a minor league deal. The 39 year-old Pettite (will be 40 in June) retired after the 2010 season with the Yankees. Aside from a three year stint with the Astros in the middle part of the last decade, Pettitte […]

The Washington Nationals continued to claw and scrape towards respectability in 2011, finishing just one game under .500 for the season. They retooled their team for the 2012 season, bringing in a pair of experienced starters in Edwin Jackson and Gio Gonzalez. The Nationals might not win the NL East in 2012, but they’re at […]

Led by MVP candidate Jose Bautista, the Toronto Blue Jays bashed their way to an 81-81 record, their third season in the last four years at or above .500. All those .500 seasons have gotten them…a permanent spot in fourth place in the highly competitive AL East. But the Blue Jays fine tuned their team […]

From my season preview of the Phillies earlier today… Burning QuestionIs the Phillies offense going to be as disappointing as it was last season, or will they rebound and be above average again? To call the Phillies offense last year anything but a disappointment would be an injustice. The team had a .718 OPS, down […]

From this morning’s season preview of the Tampa Bay Rays… Burning QuestionCan BJ Upton rebound to become the player he was in 2007 and 2008, or is he just a completely different player now? In 2007 and 2008, BJ Upton looked like the player the Rays envisioned he would become when drafting him second overall […]

Remember how Ryan Braun won the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player?  Of course you do, it just happened, but you better hope that memory sticks because years from now you are going to have a hard time finding out who won the 2011 NL MVP, or at least you will if you rely upon […]

The Phillies finished with a franchise record 102 wins in 2011, but it ended up not mattering at the end of the day, with the team losing in five games to the eventual World Champion St Louis Cardinals in the NLDS. Furthermore, the team suffered a huge blow at the end of the NLDS, with […]

The Tampa Bay Rays mounted a furious comeback in the final month of the 2011 season, and ended up in the playoffs for the third time in four seasons after a complete and utter collapse by the Boston Red Sox. The rally ended up being for naught, as the Rays lost in four games in […]

New York Mets third baseman David Wright, who missed 60 games last year with a stress fracture in his back, has been diagnosed with a torn rectus abdominis muscle. Despite the injury, he claims he’ll be ready for Opening Day. Wright initially was hurt before games started this spring. He thought the injury was a […]

From earlier today, in my New York Mets season preview… Burning QuestionShould the Mets keep blowing their team up by trading Wright, Santana, and Jason Bay, or use those guys as a core to build around? Here’s the deal with the Mets. David Wright has a club option for 2013 at $15 million. Jason Bay […]

Tampa Bay Rays’ star outfielders BJ Upton and Desmond Jennings were involved in an outfield collision in today’s game against the Miami Marlins. Austin Kearns hit a fly ball to deep left center, and both outfielders chased after the ball. Right when it appeared that Upton had made the catch, Jennings collided with him and […]

Here’s the burning question for the New York Yankees, as I talked about in my season preview of the Yankees earlier today.  Burning QuestionWill the upgrades the Yankees made to their rotation be enough to keep them over the hump this season? The upgrades that the Yankees made were, essentially, replacing AJ Burnett, Bartolo Colon, […]

The Mets continued their path of cutting payroll that started after the 2010 season. The team slashed $60 million off payroll, and the squad that’s left really doesn’t look like it will make it out of the basement of the NL East. Strange things have happened in this crazy game of baseball, but I don’t […]