0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/7/2014
The Detroit Tigers are obviously having a great year, and have dominated the AL Central from nearly wire to wire. But it’s August 7th, and their lead over the Royals is just 3.5 games. Somehow, the Tigers haven’t been able to pull away and coast to the division crown quite yet. In the second half, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/6/2014
The great defense got jacked up to another level this week. Some of these plays…man, I’m speechless.
0 comments by Joe Lucia
On Tuesday night, the two Chicago teams had very different highlights in their respective games. First, Adam Dunn made his pitching debut for the White Sox. It was as ridiculous as you could have possibly imagined. Then in Denver, Cubs stud rookie Javier Baez made his major league debut…and won the game for the team […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/5/2014
We live in a new era of Major League Baseball. Where once it would have been unthinkable, teams with wildly bloated payrolls had no choice but to wait out those contracts, now they can find trading partners willing to bail them out. The Dodgers did so for the Red Sox. The Blue Jays did so […]
0 comments by Randy Holt
Well, the Chicago Cubs did it. They finally did something interesting, outside of trading notable veterans. This is the point where it starts to become very exciting to be a Cubs fan, as their group of highly touted prospects start to make their way to the big leagues. That starts with the callup of super prospect Javier Baez (although Arismendy […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
A month ago, Seattle looked like they were going to cruise to the AL’s second Wild Card berth and make the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. Today, that race is a lot more muddled. The Mariners have gone 8-15 in the last month, and now sit two games behind Toronto for […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr on 8/4/2014
The Arizona Diamondbacks aren’t the only team to hit batters intentionally. They are, however, the only team whose GM publicly decreed before the season even started that they will retaliate, and any pitchers on the roster not willing to “protect” teammates won’t be on the roster very long. So when something like what happened on […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Unlike last week, we actually had a few walk offs that were actually exciting this past week! We’ve got marathon games that finally ended, walk off homers, and incredible comebacks that left contenders shocked.
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The Atlanta Braves went into this west coast road trip last week needing to string together some wines to keep pace with the Washington Nationals in the NL East. They got some help from the Marlins and Phillies, who each took two games from the 2012 division champs this past week. But the Braves did […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/3/2014
A number of players that were dealt at the trade deadline made their debuts with their new clubs on Saturday. The results weren’t exactly dynamic. Yoenis Cespedes went 1/4 with a run scored in his first game with the Red Sox. Jon Lester pitched the A’s to a win over the Royals, but allowed three […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/2/2014
It’s that time again, folks – your traditional monthly breakdown of the best and worst players of the past month of action. This month, several new players ended up breaking through, while others…well, you’ve seen them here before. AL Best Hitter of the Month: Jose Abreu. The White Sox rookie continues to just kill the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
I think the absolute worst possible outcome of the regular season for the Oakland Athletics, short of them completely collapsing and missing the playoffs, would be for them to have to play in the Wild Card playoff game. And right now, they’re just one step away from that game following two straight losses and a […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr on 8/1/2014
With three teams within 2.5 games of eachother, the National League Central figures to have one of the closest and exciting division races down the stretch. That’s why it was surprising to see none of the teams involved in the race — Milwaukee, St. Louis and Pittsburgh — go hard after any significant upgrades at […]
0 comments by Randy Holt
The Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox agreed to an Earth-shattering deal early on trade deadline day, as the A’s sent slugger Yoenis Cespedes to the BoSox in exchange for the coveted Jon Lester, in addition to outfield bat Jonny Gomes. In doing so, the A’s picked up two of the three most sought-after arms on the market this entire season, going back […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
A player making appearances on the list in multiple weeks is something that should be praised. But one player showing up on the list multiple times in the same week? Well, that just doesn’t happen too often. Don’t tell that to Billy Butler, of course.
