Brandon Phillips is apparently quite sensitive about his on-base percentage and would prefer reporters don’t tweet about it. Before Wednesday’s game versus the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cincinnati Reds second baseman barged into the media’s interview with manager Dusty Baker to berate Cincinnati Enquirer beat writer

On ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball this week, the Mets will take on the Nationals. It's not really a marquee matchup to begin with, but these things happen. But the Mets' recent misfortunes have placed ESPN in a tough position. Check out the above screengrab from Chase Hughes of CSN Washington. That's right: Eric Young Jr […]

When the Diamondbacks signed Jason Kubel for two years and $16 million prior to the 2012 season, we laughed. Kubel was an awful fielder with some ugly platoon splits, and he'd be expected to play left field every day for the Diamondbacks? That'll end well. On Tuesday, the Diamondbacks

There is this growing sentiment from Nationals and Diamondbacks fans that their teams are still in the playoff race. Both clubs won last night, while both the Pirates and Reds both lost. Arizona is now five games back of the Reds for the second wild card spot, and Washington in seven games back. That season-ending […]

The last 24 hours haven't been easy ones for New York Mets fans. On Monday, the team announced that Matt Harvey had a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. The injury will likely cost Harvey the rest of this season, and possibly all of next year if he requires Tommy John surgery. […]

With Starling Marte going on the DL with a bruised hand last week, the Pirates needed an outfielder. They got one in Marlon Byrd. Byrd, along with catcher John Buck, will head to Pittsburgh along with cash to cover some of their salaries in exchange for 19-year old prospect Dilson Herrera and a player to […]

A. Bartlett Giamatti obviously wasn't referring to Matt Harvey when he wrote that baseball breaks your heart and is designed to break your heart. Giamatti wrote those words 12 years before the New York Mets pitcher was even born.  But the former commissioner of baseball may as well have had Harvey in mind. It certainly […]

If you fall into the rabbit hole of the media narrative, you might believe that everyone in baseball despises Alex Rodriguez and that everyone would have thrown at him like Ryan Dempster did last Sunday. Well, an ESPN poll of 36 players (admittedly a small sample) revealed that isn't exactly the case, along with some […]

The Astros have the number one pick pretty close to locked down. The Marlins are pretty solidly locked in to the second pick at this point. From there on out, it's a crap shoot. The Chicago teams are picking third and fourth. The Brewers are picking fifth. and they've done very well with top ten […]

The season just got awful in a hurry for Mets fans. Ace starting pitcher Matt Harvey has

The Washington Nationals have already fired one hitting coach this season. Should they consider making another change at that position this year, thanks to Denard Span and his mother? Rick Eckstein was canned in mid-July, scapegoated for an offense that had scored the second-fewest runs in the NL (367) at the time. The Nats were […]

Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, already a multiple time winner of the "Worst Owner in Sports" award, is at it again. This time, Loria is overruling personnel decisions by Miami's front office because of petty grudges. Check out this tidbit from Jeff Passan's 10 Degrees column at Yahoo! Loria is the East Coast Moreno, dirtying […]