0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/23/2013
It's been a slow go of things this week in terms of news. But hey, the Phillies signed Delmon Young, and it caused quite a stir on Twitter, with the general consensus being that this would be an awful move for the team. Ah, Ruben Amaro…never change. Also thusfar this week, we've explored the possibility […]
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Earlier today, I wrote about how Delmon Young would be a terrible fit with the Phillies. Sure enough, about an hour and a half later, Young signed with the Phillies for one year and $750,000, and GM Ruben Amaro said he imagined Young as the team's every day right fielder. Twitter went crazy soon after […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/22/2013
When I saw the news blurb this morning that the Phillies were "seriously considering" signing Delmon Young, I did a spit take. While the Phillies situation in their corner outfield spots isn't ideal going into the season, Young would really do nothing to improve their situation. Platoons involving Laynce Nix, John Mayberry Jr, Darin Ruf, […]
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After their signing of Rafael Soriano last week, the Washington Nationals have an absolutely loaded bullpen, with Soriano joining Tyler Clippard, Drew Storen, and Craig Stammen, among others. But in his column posted this morning, Ken Rosenthal of Fox noted that Washington could look to deal Clippard or Storen, while signing a starting pitcher and […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 1/21/2013
The number of people who believed in the overachieving 2012 Baltimore Orioles, even when they were locked in battle in the ALDS, could probably be counted on one hand. Seeing how they'd been the unofficial doormat of the AL East for the previous fourteen seasons, it is no wonder that their unexpected success was received […]
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It wasn't a good weekend to be a baseball fan after the passings of both Earl Weaver and Stan Musial on Saturday. Losing two members of the Hall of Fame in the same month, let alone the same day, is absolutely brutal for any fan of the game, and may both men rest in peace. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/20/2013
The St Louis Cardinals fanbase is the second one to lose a legend today, as Baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/19/2013
Some sad news to report this Saturday morning, as legendary Baltimore Orioles manager and Baseball Hall of Famer Earl Weaver has passed away at age 82. Weaver reportedly passed away last night while on a cruise. During the summer, the Orioles unveiled a statue of Weaver at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Weaver managed the […]
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Are you sick of the Manti Te'o/Lennay Kekua fake girlfriend story? We are as well, yet it keeps turning into more and more of a convoluted mess. We brought you the news yesterday of the independent Florence Freedom holding "Manti Te'o Girlfriend Bobblehead Night", but an affiliated minor league team is taking things a step […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/18/2013
Here we are folks, the end of the TOC Top Ten. And what better way to end our countdown with the top ten right-handed relievers? There are really some special relievers in this group, and not all of them are the closers that you're used to seeing at the end of games either. Middle relievers […]
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The player that would have been at the top of this list won't be, because the Reds made the wise decision to move Aroldis Chapman to the starting rotation. With the flamethrowing lefty out of the picture, these rankings are wide open. Left-handed relievers are typically specialists, and a lot of them don't typically log […]
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Thanks to Manti Te'o and his infamous fake dead girlfriend, there is approximately zero people in the world who don't know what "catfishing" is. As bizarre as that story might be, it seems that college sports heroes being targeted in such schemes is now a thing. As it turns out, Michael Roth, the hero of […]
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As part of our continuing coverage of the World Baseball Classic, we're going to take a look at the rosters for each country in each of the four pools today. We broke down the rosters yesterday, looking at the major league talent on each, and now we're going to determine how the teams rank in […]
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Yesterday, the rosters for the World Baseball Classic were announced. As I may have mentioned in this space before, TOC is going to be your home for WBC coverage, and we're going to try to cover it like no other site is. No one is giving the WBC any love, so we figure that there's […]
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We've seen our share of silly minor league promotions, but this one might take the cake. The independent Florence Freedom will be having a "Manti Te'o Girlfriend Bobblehead Day" during a game in late-May, making light of the ridiculous scandal in recent days involving Notre Dame's star linebacker. With the promotion, the first 1,000 fans […]
