0 comments by Joe Lucia on 3/9/2012
Dodgers reliever Kenley Jansen has left camp and is being examined by doctors after experiencing an irregular heartbeat. Last season, Jansen didn’t pitch for nearly a month after experiencing some fluttering in his heart after a 3-2 victory against the Rockies. Last night, it was reported that Jansen had some shortness of breath issues, and […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Most people think there are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Up until yesterday, that would have been correct, but now we know without a doubt that there is actually a Fifth Horsemen… the MLB Commissioner’s Office actually made a good decision. Take a second to let that sink in. You good? OK. So what […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Freak injuries happen. For some reason they seem to happen a lot in baseball. Take for example Yankee reliever David Robertson who may now be out for several weeks after spraining his foot carrying boxes, empty boxes, down some stairs. He probably could’ve been more careful, but really, who expects to get hurt carrying empty […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 3/8/2012
And now for something a little different for our Bad Spring Training Decision of the Day. As fun as mocking prospective lineup choices might be, what Giants manager Bruce Bochy did on Wednesday is truly unique and thus well deserving of the BSTDOTD honors. Angel scout Jeff Schugel was in the Giants facility yesterday morning, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
We’ve written about the Washington Nationals and their “take back the park” campaign before. Well now, a DC area sports station (106.7 The Fan, which is the Nationals flagship radio station) is starting a contest called “FU Philly”, in which they are encouraging fans to upload videos to Youtube explaining why they hate Philadelphia and […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Jose Canseco has admitted to taking testosterone in the Mexican League, has left his team, and will not play there this year. Canseco reportedly refused to take a drug test, and then admitted to league officials that he was taking the substance. We chronicled Canseco’s breakdown on Twitter two weeks ago, where the former A’s […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/7/2012
Our final jaunt in the minor leagues takes us to Low-A, where there are two leagues. We’ll start in the South Atlantic League, which has been the name of numerous leagues since 1903. It started up and re-started up four times before 1963, when it was turned into the Double-A Southern League in 1964. Sixteen […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of traveling to Boston to take part in the 6th annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Business and presented by ESPN. A friend is currently studying statistics and asked if I would like to come along, so I was able to hitch […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 3/6/2012
What is with the Chicago teams and their bizarre top of the order lineup decisions? First the Cubs want Alfonso Soriano to lead off and now the White Sox intend to bat A.J. Pierzynski in the two-hole. There must be something in the water in the Windy City. Whatever the case may be, we have […]
0 comments by Charlie Saponara
Only a few days into spring training and we’re already getting excited by early home runs and let down by poor two-to-three inning pitching performances. Spring stats are meaningless, though some teams use them to make roster decisions for some reason. Let’s take a look back at last season’s spring training superstars and if their […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
On Saturday, Rockies pitcher Alex White was pulled over under suspicion of DUI, and after a breathalyzer and field sobriety tests, he was brought into custody. His BAC was .174, which crushed the .08 limit that the state of Arizona has. Now, White could be facing something worse than the DUI: a charge for extreme […]
0 comments by Brian Packey on 3/5/2012
Former Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been sentenced to three years in California prison, according to the LA Times. After initially pleading no contest to grand theft auto and filing false financial statements in connection with stealing somebody else’s identity to lease and resell several new cars, Dykstra’s lawyers aggressively […]
0 comments by Brian Packey
Here’s something you don’t see every day when combing the MLB headlines: Swarm of bees delays start of game between Giants, D-backs. According to the AP recap on ESPN, with one out in the second inning, these bees congregated in right field and started to make their way toward the Giants dugout. Unlike bee delays in […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
It is almost unfair to limit today’s Bad Spring Training Decision of the Day to “of the Day” status because this bit of lineup construction was a bad idea that nobody thought better of for several years, making this something of an evergreen Bad Spring Training Decision. What poor idea is that exactly? Oh, just […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
We talked about Andrew McCutchen’s six year contract late last night, and now…we’re going to talk about it even more! McCutchen is one of the top center fielders in baseball, and there are two other top center fielders reaching the market this offseason: Shane Victorino of the Phillies and Michael Bourn of the Braves. But […]
