0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/28/2012
Every year during Spring Training, Angels fans have something particularly unique to look forward to. They turn on their computers and look to the likes of Alden Gonzalez, Bill Plunkett or Mike DiGiovanni for the newest bit of Angel news, because inevitably one day, they’ll get to read about an Angels time-honored tradition: Mike Scioscia’s […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Nobody ever said it was easy being a Cleveland sports fan, but just in case folks are starting to feel that way, the baseball gods have acted swiftly to make sure that Indian fans don’t go and start getting any ideas about being happy. Position players only just started working out for the Indians yesterday, […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston
What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. How hard is it to dream about a great 2012 for the Yankees? In reality, how hard is […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The hot, crazy rumor this morning is that former Phillies closer (and current Astros starter) Brett Myers will be given the first crack at Houston’s closer role, vacant after the team traded Mark Melancon to the Boston Red Sox this winter. Myers was the closer for the Phillies in 2007, when he saved 21 games […]
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The St Louis Cardinals and catcher Yadier Molina are reportedly coming close to reaching an agreement on a contract extension that is expected to run for five years. The money has been rumored at between $60 and $75 million for the life of the contract, which would be betwen $12 and $15 million a season. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/27/2012
When news broke at around 5:45 that the Royals would be making a big announcement in about 40 minutes tonight, we all figured that it would be a contract extension, and that the player to be extended was likely Eric Hosmer or Alex Gordon. Well, we were partly right. The Royals did extend one of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The Cincinnati Reds and reliever Sean Marshall agreed to a three year contract extension today that will keep the former Cub in Cincinnati until after the 2015 season. Terms haven’t been disclosed yet. The Reds brought Marshall in from Chicago this offseason for a package highlighed by fifth starter Travis Wood, and are expecting the […]
0 comments by Matt Lindner
Right now, the Oscars are taking over the national pop culture conversation. For the next two days, social media and the water cooler will be abuzz about who wore what, who got robbed and who stands to capitalize most on their big win. But why should the Oscars fun be limited to the Academy of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/26/2012
Bad news for the Twins coming out of Fort Myers today: reliever Joel Zumaya, signed this offseason and expected to fill a crucial role in the bullpen, was diagnosed with a torn UCL in his throwing arm, and will undergo Tommy John surgery. The surgery will sideline Zumaya for the entire season. The former Tigers […]
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The Washington Nationals completed a long-rumored contract extensiion with third baseman Ryan Zimmerman today that will pay him a total of $100 million and extend his current contract to the 2019 season. The contract also contains an option for 2020 that could make the entire package left on Zimmerman’s contract (the old and the new) […]
0 comments by Matt Lindner
If simplicity is in fact beautiful, Burlington’s Community Field is a masterpiece on par with anythine ever created by the likes of Picasso or Rembrandt. It is a heaping slice of Americana served on a paper plate with a tall glass of lemonade on a warm summer’s day, a throwback to a time before our […]
0 comments by Matt Lindner on 2/25/2012
Every so often, a club will have a contest with its star player to see who has the bigger…manhood, shall we say. Right now, the Washington Nationals are staging this particular contest with their young star third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. Zimmerman wants a new contract. The Nationals don’t want to necessarily give him a new […]
0 comments by Matt Lindner
Why is it that the worst teams (Cubs, Dodgers, Orioles and Pirates) seem to play in the best ballparks? The product on the field is never reason enough to visit those stadiums. Rather, you’re going for the structural aesthetic wonderland that plays out before you as you first enter the park then take your seat […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 2/24/2012
Welcome to our final Double-A entry into “A Trip Around The Minors”. Today, we are going to take a look at The Texas League, which is…well, it spans four states. Which is weird for a league called the Texas League, but I digress It was established in 1888 and didn’t become an affiliated-level league (at […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
In Spring Training, we all fawn over getting to see our favorite players for the first time in months. But mixed in amongst the superstars we love is a very special group of men known as the Non-Roster Invitees. Yes, these are players that are so awesome, so amazing, so impressive that they are invited […]
