0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/27/2013
Next up in our AL East preview series…the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays made some Rays-like moves this winter, and are primed for contention once again in the AL East, but you knew that already. Yesterday was Blue Jays day here at TOC, and here's your recap. Blue Jays on TOC End of Season Postmortem […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 2/26/2013
I'm done with the Harlem Shake. It's nowhere near as fun as Gangnam Style or Call Me Maybe, not at least the videos are typically only around 30 seconds long. New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia put together a Harlem Shake video at his home, and
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Philadelphia Phillies outfielder is (inexplicably) fighting for a job this winter after the team signed veteran Delmon Young (who hasn't played in a spring game yet after offseason ankle surgery). Brown is having himself a solid spring so far, and on Tuesday, he hit his second homer of the preseason. This shot, a solo blast […]
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Everyone knows the key players on the Toronto Blue Jays: Reyes, Bautista, Encarnacion, Dickey, Cabrera, and so on and so forth. But after the stars that everyone knows, there's a dropoff to the lesser players: guys like Arencibia, Lind, and Rasmus, who have tons of potential, but have generally underperformed during their careers with the […]
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The World Baseball Classic is almost here! OK, so you're not excited, but we at The Outside Corner are. Accordingly, we're going to use the rest of the week to preview each of the first round pools. Today: Pool A. In the first two WBCs, the IBAF lumped all of the Far Eastern teams into […]
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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. A nightmare season for the Blue […]
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In December, MLB released the 2013 editions of batting practice caps for all of the teams across baseball. The Braves BP cap featured their logo from the 1980s, nicknamed the "screaming Brave". The Braves eventually backpedaled and released a more conventional (read: boring) BP cap, featuring their script A colored red on a blue cap. […]
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Manny Ramirez wants to keep playing baseball, even if it means going overseas. After a winter playing in the Dominican, Manny is apparently heading to Taiwan. ESPN Deportes says if Manny doesn't have an offer to play in the U.S. by March 7 — and judging by the lack of interest in him to this […]
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Continuing from our season preview of the Toronto Blue Jays earlier today… What makes the 2013 Blue Jays different from the 2012 Marlins? The Blue Jays-Marlins comparison is bound to come up a lot this season if the Blue Jays struggle out of the gate. Just like the 2012 Marlins, the 2013 Blue Jays experienced […]
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Prepare yourself for some heartbreak, baseball fans. You now have two seasons to steel your emotions for the retirement of Vernon Wells. Please try to hold back the tears. Yes, according to Alden Gonzalez of MLB.com, Vernon Wells plans on retiring after the 2014 season when his albatross of a contract expires. The stated reason […]
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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 Blue Jays have done it. They've avoided the perils that come with being an overhyped team […]
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Cliff Lee only made 20 starts for the Texas Rangers between regular season and postseason games, but that's not stopping him from speaking out about Michael Young's final years in Texas. Saying he's "baffled" by the way the Rangers treated his once-again teammate, Lee questioned the decision-making of the Texas front office. "I think that […]
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The Toronto Blue Jays didn't have a great 2012. Their season collapsed like a house of cards when Jose Bautista broke his wrist and the pitching staff suffered injury after injury. This offseason, Alex Anthopolous made his move. He had accumulated several talented prospects that weren't going to be ready for the majors in 2013, […]
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Former Boston Red Sox manager, and incoming Sacred Heart athletic director, Bobby Valentine had some final words for his former club in a brief interview with the Boston Herald on Monday. When asked to talk about what's happened this offseason, Valentine said this, apparently referring to his former team and players. “I don’t want to […]
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AL East week rolls on with the team that improved the most this offseason, the Toronto Blue Jays. Everyone seems to be very optimistic about the Blue Jays going into the 2013 season, and while they have a vastly improved roster from a year ago, nothing is guaranteed in baseball. Yesterday was Red Sox day […]
