When you read the headline of this post, you’re probably thinking “oh great, another silly hot take. OF COURSE Tulo is a franchise player!” And while I agree that Troy Tulowitzki is a fantastic player when he’s on the field, I don’t think he’s a guy that you can build your franchise around, like the […]

One of the most baffling things we’ve seen in the second half of the 2014 season is the San Diego Padres, who looked like a truly wretched team over the season’s first three months, playing competent baseball and actually making some rumbles in the National League playoff picture. Obviously, the Padres won’t be putting themselves […]

We’ve got another week of great defense in the books, and some of these guys really shined and thrived this week as the pennant races began to heat up.

Earlier this season, I wrote a post asking whether the Atlanta Braves were even a good team this year. As we roll along here in the middle of August, I think the answer is a resounding “noooooooooooope”. The Braves lost to the Dodgers for the fifth time this season on Tuesday night, falling to just […]

I feel like I’m talking a lot about the Baltimore Orioles lately, but they deserve it. The team is 16-8 in the second half, beating the pants off of a schedule that has been one of the toughest in baseball since the All-Star Break. They haven’t played one game against a team under .500 so […]

Whew. There was no shortage of excitement this week. There were a couple of marathon games that ended dramatically, and a few wild comebacks as well. And hey, even though some of these teams have a bleak future over the rest of the year, they’re not going down without a fight.

The San Francisco Giants are a very streaky team – and right now, they’re not streaking in the right direction. In the second half, the team is 10-13. In their last 17 games, the club is 5-12. In August, they’re 4-6. And over the past week, they went just 2-5, which includes a 1-5 stretch […]

I’m not going to break down the *specific* bad decisions that took place last night, if only because I don’t want to completely turn this column into a mess of analysis. But we had one game on the east coast start at a time that would be considered late for a west coast game, and […]

With star center fielder Andrew McCutchen on the shelf, you’d expect the Pirates to wither away and die in the National League playoff race. Of course, that hasn’t happened. Since McCutchen last played on Sunday, Pittsburgh is 3-1, scoring 19 runs over that four game stretch. Then again, the Marlins and Padres aren’t exactly the […]

Another week of bombs is behind us. Some of the names are familiar, some are not. However, one thing is for sure – a couple of these blasts are truly majestic.

The two largest division leads in baseball reside in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The two teams that do battle in the Beltway Series every year in interleague play are seemingly rolling to division titles. Over in the American League, the Orioles have a five game lead on both the Blue Jays and […]