0 comments by Joe Lucia on 4/2/2013
During Monday's Braves-Phillies game, I was forced to watch the game on the Phillies local station as opposed to the national feed on ESPN due to my proximity to Philadelphia. And on that local feed, I saw something that blew my mind: a series of commercials starring Phillies catcher Erik Kratz advertising turkey bacon. The […]
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Yesterday's Opening Day scheduled featured great performances from starting pitchers in nearly every game. Only two games (Braves-Phillies and Brewers-Rockies) saw both teams score at least four runs, and only six of the 22 teams that played yesterday scored at least five runs. Three teams also got shut out, meaning that they're still looking for […]
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Before Monday's Mariners-Athletics game, Seattle starting pitcher Felix Hernandez gave Oakland catcher John Jaso a gift: a brand new gold Rolex. What's the occasion? Well, the former Mariner Jaso was the catcher for Hernandez's perfect game in Seattle last summer. The back of the watch is inscribed with "8/15/12", the date of the perfect game. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 4/1/2013
In today's Dodgers-Giants game, goose eggs filled the scoreboard for the first seven and a half innings. That is, until the bottom of the eighth, when Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw smashed the first pitch he saw from Giants reliever George Kontos over the center field wall to give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead. The […]
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Everything is sick to death of Bryce Harper, but once again, he's become the youngest player in baseball history to do *something*. Today, in Harper's first Opening Day as a major leaguer, he became the youngest player to homer twice on Opening Day. The 20-year old was responsible for all of the Nationals' offense on […]
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During a wild and exciting (at times) day of baseball, the first walk-off win of the season came in Milwaukee. Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy drove in Rickie Weeks with a sac fly with one out in the tenth inning of a 4-4 game to give Milwaukee the 5-4 victory. The Brewers trailed 3-1 going into […]
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The Miami Marlins caught fans offguard on Sunday when releasing their Opening Day roster. Among the roster of castoffs like Placido Polanco, Casey Kotchman, and Kevin Slowey, was a name that no one expected to see: pitcher Jose Fernandez. Fernandez was an early cut in Marlins camp, and the 2011 first-round pick was expected to […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr
'Tis the season for mega-extensions. First, the Tigers locked up Justin Verlander through 2020 on Friday. Then, the Giants signed reigning National League MVP Buster Posey through 2021. Now, it looks like the next young star to cash in is Texas shortstop Elvis Andrus. Fox's Ken Rosenthal
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Welcome one and welcome all to our third MLB season at The Outside Corner! If you joined us over the offseason and have only seen the Dugout Digest as a link dump, things are a bit different during the regular season. The DD will serve as a nightly recap of the previous day's games, and […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/31/2013
Ah, Reno. Yes, it's in Nevada and yes, you can gamble there, but Tahoe's only an hour away and it's got water and better snow sports. But what Tahoe makes up for in glitz and glamour, Reno takes the edge in having easy access to some very competitve sports books within a two block radius. […]
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To add something to the "this really isn't news, but it's a distraction at the very least" category, the wife of New York Mets Opening Day starter Jon Niese revealed in an interview with the New York Post that on Opening Day, and during all of Niese's starts in 2013, she plans on wearing her […]
0 comments by Randy Holt on 3/30/2013
Lost in the shuffle of all of the nonsensical contract extensions that were signed through Major League Baseball was the fact that the Arizona Diamondbacks and Paul Goldschmidt agreed to a contract extension of their own. This one may actually pan out to be the best signing of the day, if not the most rational. […]
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During Friday's exhibition game at Citizens Bank Park between the Blue Jays and Phillies, CSN Philadelphia cameras caught a glimpse of Phillies Opening Day starter Cole Hamels in the dugout. Hamels, who sported a beard for most of the spring, shaved the beard off…but left his mustache, giving himself a stache that Tom Selleck would […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 3/29/2013
Well, the San Francisco Giants have their man locked up. The defending World Champions will go into the 2013 season with reigning NL MVP Buster Posey signed for the next nine years, at a total cost of $167 million. Posey already had agreed to a one-year, $8 million deal for 2013 to avoid arbitration, and […]
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Predictions are always fun to look at. Here's what we predicted last April going into the 2012 season. Some are laughably bad, especially mine. With the new season upon us, it's time for another round of staff predictions for the 2013 season. Joe Lucia Pat Lackey Garrett Wilson AL East Blue Jays Rays Blue […]
