Simply asking whether the San Francisco Giants will be buyers or sellers at the July 31 MLB trade deadline indicates that this season hasn't quite gone as planned. At the All-Star break, the Giants hold fourth place in the NL West. Yet they're only 6.5 games behind the first-place Arizona Diamondbacks in what could be […]

There really isn't a frontrunner for the NL MVP award. And honestly, I don't think there really should be. David Wright leads the league in fWAR, but he plays for a terrible team. Carlos Gomez is second in the league in fWAR, and that value is based primarily on his defensive superiority. The players with […]

Last year, the race for the AL MVP award between Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout was heated, and often times grew personal between the proponents of either side. The arguments really boiled down to "Triple Crown" versus "historical, five tool, balanced season". In the end, Cabrera won the award rather handily, and the internet grumbled. […]

The trade deadline is fast approaching and thus far there has been very little activity on the trade market. That isn't due to a lack of options though as there are a number of quality players who seem quite likely to get moved between now and July 31st. The question isn't so much if those […]

Well, the All-Star Game is behind us after a 3-0 American League victory. During the game, the non-player highlight was probably this fan runnin onto the field…because he got 1000 retweets. Oh. But where do we go from here? There's no baseball today. There's no baseball tomorrow. So I guess we're just going to take […]

The American League won the All-Star Game on Tuesday night, topping the National League 3-0 to earn home field advantage in  the World Series in . October. Mariano Rivera of the Yankees won the All-Star Game MVP award in his final All-Star Game after throwing a perfect eighth inning. The AL's win snapped a three […]

The NL Cy Young award, like the AL award, is a two horse race. Kershaw. Harvey. Kershaw. Harvey. It's interesting that the award has come down to these two pitchers, despite neither of them leading the National League in fWAR. But Kershaw leads baseball in ERA, and Harvey is fourth in the majors while leading […]

Are you going to watch the MLB All-Star Game tonight?  That might be a really dumb question to ask readers of a baseball blog. We're all fans of the sport, perhaps some more devoted or fanatical than others, but extremely interested spectators nonetheless. So chances are, you'll be tuning in for the 84th Midsummer Classic […]

At 46-50, it is hard to imagine that the Colorado Rockies would be seriously considering buying a the trade deadline, but thanks to the National League West being a collective disappointment, the Rockies find themselves just 4.5 games out of the division lead. For a franchise with memories of "Rocktober" still fresh in their minds, […]

It was a two horse race in our voting for the AL Cy Young award. And while neither of that duo involved is really a breakout star in 2013, they're new faces in the sense that neither finished in the top three in each of the last two years of voting. Oddly, neither of the […]

NEW YORK — Curtis Granderson hasn’t been able to contribute much to the Yankees on the field this season due to a broken hand, but that hasn’t stopped the center fielder from contributing off the field with his Grand Kids Foundation. Established in 2007 when Granderson played with the Detroit Tigers, the three-time All-Star has […]

It's time for the All-Star Game! Woohoo! American League vs National League, live from Citi Field at 8 PM! OK, maybe I'm the only one excited, but that doesn't matter. At the very least, it's baseball. We can handle that, right? Here are the lineups for tonight's game, started by Max Scherzer for the American […]

Your big winner at Citi Field on Monday night was Yoenis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics. Cespedes won the Home Run Derby, topping Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals in the final round with eight home runs to Harper's seven. Cespedes turned up the gas early in the competition, blasting 17 homers in the first […]