Miguel Cabrera and Andrew McCutchen were announced as the 2013 Most Valuable Players on Thursday night. It's the second award in a row for Cabrera in the American League. The 2012 MVP hit .348/.442/636 in 2013, homering 44 times and driving in 137 runs. He received 23 of 30 first place votes and 385 points […]

To the shock of no one, Max Scherzer won the AL Cy Young Award on Wednesday, and Clayton Kershaw won the NL award. Scherzer went 21-3 for the Tigers, throwing 214 1/3 innings, striking out 240 hitters, and pitching to a 2.90 ERA. His 6.4 fWAR led the American League, and his win marks the […]

When I saw that the A's had signed Nick Punto to a one-year,

The free agent catching market is a bit slim. After Brian McCann and Jarrod Saltalamacchia, the next best option is 35-year old Carlos Ruiz. If you're one of the many teams that needs help behind the plate, you might be a little dissuaded by the mess in front of you. Texas' one-year contract with Geovany […]

Veteran utility infielder Mark DeRosa has retired. The Blue Jays exercised a $700,000 club option on DeRosa for the 2014 season earlier this month, and expected him to be a crucial part of their bench for the 2014 season. The 37-year old spent parts of 16 seasons in the majors with eight different clubs, with […]

The BBWAA has revealed their 2013 Manager of the Year award winners, and they are Terry Francona of the Cleveland Indians and Clint Hurdle of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Francona received 16 of 30 first place votes and 112 points to win his first ever Manager of the Year award. Just two years ago, Francona was […]

Baseball season is associated with certain smells: fresh cut grass, the dirt of the infield, pine tar on bats and so on and so on. These are smells we all know and love. But the baseball offseason has a certain smells as well. It is that time of year where a few teams begin to […]

The Philadelphia Phillies have gone cheap in their search for an outfielder, inking former Met and Pirate Marlon Byrd to a two-year deal. Terms are currently unknown, though Adam Rubin of ESPN New York had a source tell him that Byrd would make

Your 2013 AL Rookie of the Year is Wil Myers of the Tampa Bay Rays, and your 2013 NL Rookie of the Year is Jose Fernandez of the Miami Marlins.  Myers received 23 of the 30 first place votes in the AL, and finished with 131 points out of a max of 150. Jose Iglesias […]

All week, we waited with baited breath to see if any of the 13 players given qualifying offers by their former teams would accept the offers. On Monday we learned the answer: nope. All 13 players

When the Twins signed Joe Mauer to his 8-year, $148 million deal, it was assumed that Mauer would eventually be moving to first base. It seems unlikely that anyone in the Twins organization thought it'd be happening this soon, but the team is announcing that Mauer will make the move after talking with the team's […]

The Atlanta Braves are moving from Turner Field to a new stadium in the Atlanta suburb of Cobb County for the 2017 season. The news, first reported by the Marietta Daily Journal, caught everyone off guard, considering that the Braves began play at Turner Field in 1997 after the demolition of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. […]

“I want my MLB!” The twist on the iconic 1980’s “I want my MTV!” promotional campaign for the network seems like a fitting way to announce a new multi-year partnership between Major League Baseball and MTV. Under the deal announced this morning via press release, MLB and MTV will collaborate on a new half-hour weekly […]