0 comments by Randy Holt on 3/20/2013
After a fantastic season in 2011, the 2012 campaign proved to be quite the letdown for the Arizona Diamondbacks. They were middle-of-the-road as far as their offense goes, in nearly every statistical category. Same goes for their pitching, where they hovered around the middle of the league in every category there as well. Which is […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
And then there were three. Today's preview series features the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won the NL West in 2011, finished .500 in 2012, and moved some pieces going into 2013. It's a completely different team for the Diamondbacks this year, who are going all-in with a roster molded in the image of their manager, Kirk […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey
It's been apparent since the earliest days of the 2013 WBC that the team from the Dominican Republic was the best team in the tournament, and now they have a trophy to prove it. With a 3-0 win over Puerto Rico on Tuesday night, the Dominican Republic officially claimed their first WBC title and in […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 3/19/2013
Former UFC and Pancrase champion Bas Rutten posted this photo on his Facebook page today, featuring Detroit Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder in a gi wearing his white belt with two stripes. Pictured alongside Rutten and Fielder is Jon Burke, the trainer at VI Levels Fitness where Fielder has been training this offseason. Among Burke's […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
During Tuesday's Angels-Brewers game, home plate umpire Seth Buckminster got hit in the hand with a pitch from Brewers pitcher Wily Peralta. The injury was apparently severe enough to force Buckminster to leave the game, and since there are typically only three umpires at Spring Training games, that turned into quite the issue. Third base […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The 2013 Padres are pretty definitively Chase Headley's team. He's the star, the face of the franchise, and the best player on the team. I'd say that Yasmani Grandal and Cameron Maybin are the next most important members of the squad. But there's a player on this Padres team that really isn't getting much attention, […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The whole process surrounding MLB teams and how they construct their team-specific Hall of Fame tends to be pretty arcane and arbitrary, but the Kansas City Royals look to have taken that to a whole new level with their voting process for their 2013 class. Today, they posted the Royals Hall of Fame ballot online […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
In the This Is My Nightmare series, we'll take a look at what the absolute worst case scenario for each team would be in 2013. Think of it as the negative complement to our You May Say I'm A Dreamer series that we'll be running during our preview series. The Padres might actually be screwed […]
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The neverending saga of Miami Marlins management attempting to alienate their fanbase continues. According to a report from the Miami New Times, the Marlins are threatening to sue a pair of season ticket holders for requesting that their seats be moved after the Marlins installed a billboard that obstructed their view. Jan and Bill Leon […]
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Continuing from our season preview of the Padres earlier today… Can the Padres keep their heads above water without Chase Headley and Yasmani Grandal to start the year? Not having Headley and Grandal to start the year is huge for the Padres. Headley will likely end up missing most of April after breaking his thumb, […]
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What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I'm a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2013 title for all 30 teams. The cool thing about streaks is that they'll eventually end. In their 45th season of existence, the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The San Diego Padres looked like they'd be a dumpster fire over the course of the 2012 season in the first half of the year. They just didn't look like a good team at all. Then, something happened: the Padres improved tremendously in the second half, and finished with a respectable (if not overly great) […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey
When the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands faced off on Monday night in the second WBC semifinal, the game pitted the tournament's best team in the Dominicans against the tournament's best story in the upstart Dutch. As it turned out, the undefeated Dominican buzzsaw was too much for the Cinderella Netherlands team. The DR rode […]
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In Monday's 17-10 Braves win over the Phillies, Atlanta bashed four homers against Phillies pitching (while Philadelphia also added one of their own), but one of those homers came with a little help from Phillies left fielder Darin Ruf. In the bottom of the second inning, Freddie Freeman hit a fly ball to deep left […]
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And our preview series moves along to the next team in the NL West, the San Diego Padres. The Padres started 2012 very slowly before turning on the jets in the second half behind Chase Headley, but the team still doesn't have much starting pitching, and will be without Headley for the first month of […]
