0 comments by Pat Lackey on 3/3/2013
Day 2 of the World Baseball Classic gave us the debut of both the vaunted Cuban National Team and of the not-so-vaunted Chinese team. We also got to see Japan, Chinese Taipei, the Netherlands, and Brazil all in action for a second time. "See" being a subjective term relating to how much you like sleep. […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 3/2/2013
While you were sleeping last night, the 2013 iteration of the World Baseball Classic kicked off over on the other side of the globe with games in Taiwan and Japan. There was a little bit of everything in the three games; a fallen MLB star making good for his home country in the Australia/Chinese Taipei […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 3/1/2013
Spring Training can sometimes make for strange bedfellows, especially when it comes to veteran players still trying to cling to the remnants of their career. But no coupling may be any more unexpected than the recent news reported by the Cincinnati.com that Mark Prior has signed a minor league contract with the Reds. What makes […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
With a team payroll of over $200 million, and ten players making eight figures this year, it's tough for someone to fly under the radar with the Yankees. Just because a player makes a lot of money doesn't mean he's going to be a superstar, but a lot of the higher priced players on the […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey
And finally we come to Pool D. The Pool with the United States and Mexico and Canada and … Italy? Yes, and European baseball powerhouse Italy (seriously). It would appear at face value that there's a pretty big gap between Team USA and everyone else in this Pool, but this being the World Baseball Classic, […]
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. It's funny…a nightmare for the Yankees […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Continuing from our season preview of the Yankees earlier today… Are the Yankees going to be healthy enough to contend in 2013, or is this the beginning of the end? The Yankees have a *ton* of injury questions going into the season. In fact, let me list all of the injuries suffered by Yankees in […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Jeffrey Loria's open letter to Marlins fans, and his response a couple of days later, has drawn the scorn of fans of all teams across baseball. One of the players most affected by Loria's rantings has been new Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes, who was dealt to Toronto from Miami in the megadeal between the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
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. In what many fans consider a nightmare, the New York Yankees are once again champions of baseball. […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey
After spending the early part of the week looking at WBC rosters that most American baseball fans can't make head or tails of, today we get to tackle Pool C, which includes talent-laden rosters from Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Venezuela made it all the way to the semi-finals in 2009 and seem pretty well […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
There are more questions about the Yankees in 2013 than perhaps any year in the last 15 for New York. They're going to be without two, potentially three, starters on Opening Day, and they have two other starting spots filled with potentially sub-replacement level players. Warning signals are going off in the Bronx going into […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Today, we're gonna roll up the AL East by previewing the defending division champion New York Yankees. The Yankees are actually a very interesting team heading into 2013, something that hasn't been said about them in years…there are significant questions surrounding the team, and they're getting picked to finish in all five of the spots […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/28/2013
The Chicago Cubs are modifying their long-time tradition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. The song, sang during the break by legendary Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray until his death in 1998, has been sang by a revolving door of celebrities in recent years. The Cubs will still honor the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The odd injury train keeps rolling on.
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The Orioles got a lot of random, unexpected contributions from a variety of sources in 2012. Castoffs like Nate McLouth, Chris Davis, and Jason Hammel all played huge roles on Baltimore last season, and they were critical to the team's success when combined with guys like Wei-Yin Chen, Adam Jones, Jim Johnson, and Matt Wieters. […]
