Ah yes, the NL Rookie of the Year award…now we're talking. Our top six finishers in the NL voting probably could win the AL award in a cakewalk, but it doesn't work that way. One thing I really like about the crop of NL rookies is how diverse the candidates are. You have heavily hyped […]

Every so often at the trade deadline a star player gets traded that nobody saw coming. We here at The Outside Corner, however, are not intimidated by the lack of prescience of others. As such, we shall attempt to identify who some of the players that are candidates for the big, deadline surprise deal could […]

National League manager Bruce Bochy and American League manager Jim Leyland have announced their starting pitchers and lineups for Tuesday night's All-Star Game, and the results aren't exactly shocking. National League Brandon Phillips, 2B Carlos Beltran, RF Joey Votto, 1B David Wright, 3B Carlos Gonzalez, LF Yadier Molina, C Troy Tulowitzki, SS Michael Cuddyer, DH […]

Before the season, most people picked the Philadelphia Phillies to finish third in the NL East behind the Nationals and Braves. Some picked them second, but those expecting the Phillies to return to the playoffs were few and far between. So here we are at the All-Star Break, and while the Phillies *are* third in […]

When getting ready to fill out my ballot for AL Rookie of the Year, I opened up the Fangraphs batting leaderboard, clicked on rookies, and was aghast at the AL rookies. The crop of American League rookies this year is absolutely terrible. It's pretty close to being the polar opposite of last year's crop, led […]

Before Matt Harvey. Before Stephen Strasburg. Before Clayton Kershaw. Before Kerry Wood. Before all the pitching phenoms in the past 25 years, there was Dwight “Doc” Gooden. The flamethrower who burst onto the New York baseball scene with the Mets in 1984 at the preposterously young age of 19 was more than a phenom — […]

Hello, friends, and welcome to the MLB All-Star Break. We're at the season's unofficially halfway point (even though we're more than 90 games into the season), and it sure has been an interesting season thusfar. Who would have imagined that the Pittsburgh Pirates would have been one of two teams in the league with a […]

Hey I just saw you At the Rays game That pitch was awful You should feel some shame Sorry about that awful bit of prose, but I felt it was necessary. Carly Rae Jepsen of "Call Me Maybe" fame threw out the first pitch at Sunday's Astros-Rays game, and the results were disastrous. Jepsen's pitch […]

Early in his career, Tim Lincecum looked like he'd be a lock to throw a no-hitter. That lock status diminished as Lincecum's pitching abilities also began to go down the tubes, especially with the shell of a player he's become over the last two seasons. But on Saturday night, the 29-year old lefty had a […]

Go ahead and cross Jose Altuve off of your possible trade target list, teams that need a second baseman: he's staying in Houston. The diminutive Altuve signed a four year contract extension with the Astros that will pay him $12.5 million over the life of the deal. The contract also contains a pair of club […]

NEW YORK — Chris Davis, Prince Fielder and Pedro Alvarez aren’t the only power-hitters going for glory during the MLB All-Star festivities. With all due respect to the star sluggers slated to send moonshots over the Citi Field fence in Monday night’s All-Star Home Run Derby, fans can enjoy another exciting power display by team […]

Cue up your bad puns about "changing his Sox", but the fact remains: Matt Thornton has been traded from the White Sox to the Red Sox. In return, Chicago gets Boston minor leaguer Brandon Jacobs. The 36-year old Thornton was traded away by the White Sox about two years too late, as he's not the […]