Jarred Cosart of the Astros made his long-awaited major league debut last night. The results were…stunning. His MLB debut came against a Rays team that had won eight games in a row. Opposing him was David Price, the reigning AL Cy Young winner who has been positively dominant since coming off of the DL. All […]

If you’re a baseball fan who loves good food and hates cancer, then MasterCard’s new “Dig In and Do Good” campaign should be right in your wheelhouse. Last night, at an event at the MLB Fan Cave in New York City, MasterCard and Stand Up 2 Cancer launched this new campaign with the help of […]

Derek Jeter made his season debut for the Yankees on Thursday after missing the first 91 games of the season recovering from a broken ankle suffered during last year's playoffs. The captain didn't play the field at all, and went 1/4 with an RBI and a run scored. His lone hit was an infield single, […]

The Final Vote competition for the All-Star Game is completed, and the winners are…Freddie Freeman of the Braves and Steve Delabar of the Blue Jays, who led wire to wire in the competition. Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers was the runner-up in the National League, while the American League runner-up was David Robertson of the […]

One thing we know for certain about the 2013 MLB trade deadline is that several notable players will be dealt. Perhaps some of the names we expect to be traded will end up staying with their current teams. But a few general managers may also surprise us by who they were willing to deal.  Some […]

Derek Jeter wasn't supposed to return to the Yankees until Friday. In typical 2013 Yankees fashion, though, injuries have forced New York's hand. With Travis Hafner getting hurt Wednesday night and Brett Gardner nursing a bad ankle, the Yankees are bringing Jeter back at day early, activating him from the 60-day disabled list and hitting […]

Throughout the 135 or so years of baseball, every team had beaten every other team…except for one. The Pirates had *never* beaten the A's. Oakland was 11-0 vs Pittsburgh throughout history, and when the A's won the first two games of their series at PNC Park this week, the streak looked like it had the […]

When the New York Mets gave starting pitcher Shaun Marcum an incentive-laden, one-year, $4 million contract in January, I was cautiously optimistic about the signing for New York. The 31-year old Marcum didn't have a bad year for Milwaukee in 2012, and a bounce back year could allow the Mets to spin him off for […]

The 2013 All-Star Game takes place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York. As has become tradition, statues were placed all around the host city representing each team in the league. This year, on the tenth anniversary of the first statues and the fifth anniversary of Statue of Liberty replicas all across New York City, […]

After beating the Washington Nationals 4-2 on Tuesday night to improve to 45-46, and 5-1 in their last six games, the Philadelphia Phillies might not be selling off all of their assets at the trade deadline. Instead, they could be looking to *buy*, despite being 7.5 games out of the NL East lead and 5.5 […]

Writing the Los Angeles Dodgers off in April (as some may have done) was probably a mistake, if for no other reason than it was so early in the schedule. There was so much more baseball to be played.  We also didn't know how the Dodgers' competition in the NL West would play. The Diamondbacks, Rockies […]