0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/8/2012
The new CBS fantasy game Baseball Boyfriend got quite a bit of attention online yesterday, and we posted about it here. I got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from the creators of Baseball Boyfriend, asking if I’d like an interview with them. Of course, I jumped all over this, and here’s my brief […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Yesterday, Clayton Kershaw signed a two year extension with the Los Angeles Dodgers that will pay him $19 million over the deal. He’ll get $7.5 million this season for his age 24 season and $11 million next year for his age 25 season, with one year of arbitration left in 2014. At first glance, this […]
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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. To think, the season started with people dreaming about how the Nationals could have been real contenders if […]
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It’s been a pretty good year for Billy Beane, sure, the Athletics are coming off a disappointing 74-win season, but Beane himself has been immortalized on film by Brad Pitt’s Oscar-nominated performance in Moneyball and now Billy is on the verge of completing a deal to extend his tenure in Oakland through the 2019 season. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/7/2012
Today, CBS released a new feature to go hand in hand with fantasy baseball season called, of all things, “Baseball Boyfriend“. The jist of the feature is that each day, you pick a player from your team to accrue stats that go into a “boyfriend” category, and you compete against the other players’ “boyfriends” throughout […]
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First, news broke yesterday that Edwin Jackson turned down a three year deal from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Then just a couple of hours ago today, the story came out that Roy Oswalt said “thanks, but no thanks” to the Pirates approaching him wanting to talk. So why don’t players want to play in Pittsburgh? There’s […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
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. After falling criminally short of making the playoffs last season, the Atlanta Braves made up for it in […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/6/2012
The Chicago Cubs essentially swapped out utilitymen today by claiming former Oakland Athletics minor leaguer Adrian Cardenas, and designating Blake DeWitt for assignment. DeWitt was actually a former top Dodgers prospect, OPSing .728 in his rookie year of 2008 while starting at third base. He spent most of 2009 in AAA, and in 31 games […]
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The LA Times is reporting today that the Seattle Mariners have signed former Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Hong-Chih Kuo to a one year deal. Terms weren’t immediately disclosed, but Kuo was hunting somewhere in the neighborhood of one million dollars. Kuo made $2.725 million with the Dodgers last season. When healthy, Kuo can be one […]
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The Atlanta Braves introduced new alternate jerseys today, which is their third alternate jersey (and fifth overall) that the team wears in game action. That doesn’t include their batting practice/spring training jersey. But enough about the inane concept of making another jersey. The press conference that the jerseys were introduced during was laughable in its […]
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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. After three straight years of playoff disappointment, the Philadelphia Phillies have reached the promised land, and have won […]
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The Baltimore Orioles and Colorado Rockies made a rare February trade today, with Baltimore sending starter Jeremy Guthrie to the Rockies in exchange for starter Jason Hammel and reliever Matt Lindstrom. Guthrie then immediately agreed to an $8.2 million contract in his final year of arbitration. I don’t understand this deal at all for either […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/3/2012
The TOC Twitter feed is exploding this morning with Phillies fans going nuts over the new marketing plan for the Washington Nationals. The Nats are offering a presale for their series with the Phillies from May 4th-6th at Nationals Park. Here’s the caveat: the presale is only open to residents of Maryland, Washington DC, and […]
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We’ve all heard about the ridiculous center field, home run celebration that the new Marlins Park in Miami would have. We’ve heard that there were going to be goldfish behind the plate. But now, we have actual, live proof. Check out these pictures. I….don’t even know what to call this. It’s tacky, it’s ugly, it’s….Miami. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
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. In 2011, the Seattle Mariners won just 67 games, and earned the number three pick in the MLB […]
