The worst thing that can happen to a team is losing your best player to injury. But what could possibly be *worse* than that mess? Well, take a look at Denver yesterday, where the Rockies fell to the Nationals 5-4 due in part to a pair of balks by Wilton Lopez. Troy Tulowitzki broke a […]

Dodgers GM Ned Colletti is having a rough month. He spent the off-season handing out other people's money to build a team that he, and many experts, thought would contend for a World Series. Instead, the Dodgers are mired in last place in the NL West and Colletti is spending much of his time trying […]

A quick glance at the MLB standings might lead you to believe that everything is fine with the Detroit Tigers. As of June 13, Detroit has a 4.5-game lead over the Cleveland Indians, the largest first-place margin in the American League and second-largest in the majors. The Tigers also have the best run differential in […]

Something has happened with the Kansas City Royals. The butt of a lot of jokes through the first two months of this season, Kansas City is 8-3 in June and is now just 5.5 games out of first place in the AL Central. They rallied late to beat the Tigers last night, Detroit is still […]

Last night's Diamondbacks-Dodgers brawl was one of the ugliest in recent memory. Punches were thrown. Coaches were fighting with each other. A coach nearly got thrown over a rail into the dugout like he was being ejected from the ring in the Royal Rumble. As Vin Scully so eloquently put it, "That's fertilizer." The whole […]

The 2014 MLB season will reportedly begin on Saturday, March 22nd…in Sydney, Australia. The Dodgers and Diamondbacks will play on Saturday and Sunday, likely a week or more before the MLB season begins in full, over 7,000 miles from home. I understand the approach of "growing the game", but it seems silly to me that MLB […]

There was a pretty crazy brawl during the Diamondbacks-Dodgers game last night. The issues erupted in the sixth inning, after Ian Kennedy hit Yasiel Puig in the face. Zack Greinke retaliated by hitting Miguel Montero, and that should have been that after the benches cleared. But in the bottom of the seventh, Kennedy threw at […]

Few things are more dangerous to a baseball organization than a general manager desperately trying to save his job, and if there's a list of GMs on the hot seat, Jack Zduriencik is probably on it. With Seattle sitting at 28-37 — 11 games out of first place in the AL West, 10 games out […]

Really, Dodgers? We're going to do this again? Really? Just a few days shy of the first anniversary of Andre Ethier signing a five-year, $85 million contract extension, the Dodgers are said to be looking to trade away the former All-Star… for the third time. Yes, that fickle GM Ned Colletti is rumored to be […]

Can a baseball team ever have enough pitching? The general wisdom says no.  Yet the Atlanta Braves may end up facing a tough decision while attempting to answer that question over the next few weeks.  Right-hander Brandon Beachy is nearly ready to return to the Braves' starting rotation, approximately a year after undergoing Tommy John […]

Chicago Cubs third baseman Ian Stewart hasn't lived up to expectations since being acquired from the Rockies prior to the 2012 season. Stewart made $2.2375 million in 2012 with the Cubs, and played in just 55 games after surgery on his left wrist. Chicago nontendered him after the year, and re-signed him for $2 million. […]