0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/21/2014
This is awesome. During Tuesday night’s Blue Jays-Red Sox game, Dioner Navarro hit a ground rule double to left field at Fenway Park. This Red Sox fan caught the ball without even getting up and barey moving his hands, and immediately (and rather smoothly, I might add) handed the ball to his female companion. Man…that’s one way to get brownie points.
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Yasiel Puig hit the streets of New York with the crew of MLB Off the Bat on MTV2, and taught various New Yorkers how to flip bats to celebrate any occasion. This segment showed me that the art of bat flipping is something that takes practice, and isn’t something that can be mastered quite easily. In fact, the only two bat flips featured that I considered acceptable were from the kid in the cap and gown and from the long-time Dodgers fan in the green polo. So while Puig’s bat flips are beautiful, they’re not something he picked up overnight.
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Last Tuesday morning, the Cardinals were coming off of a 17-5 thrashing at the hands of the Cubs. They were 19-20, 5.5 games behind a Brewers team that was coming off of a series win over the Yankees, and would complete a series win over the Pirates that week. Fast forward to today. The Brewers […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/20/2014
Here we all were minding our own business on an otherwise uneventful day of baseball news when Jon Morosi casually dropped a bomb on the Twittersphere: WHAT THE WHAT?!?! One can only assume that “displaced” is just fancy talk for part of Guerrero’s ear being partially or completely bitten off by Olivo. Oh, it is […]
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The winner of the Stephen Drew free agent derby is… the Boston Red Sox? As first reported by
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Tuesday night, Trevor Bauer makes his second start of the season for the Cleveland Indians. Since the D-Backs drafted him No. 3 overall in 2011, the 23-year-old right-hander has been considered one of the top pitching prospects in baseball. Bauer’s star has diminished somewhat over the past 16 months. The D-Backs even traded him to the […]
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This was one of those weeks were some teams just seem snakebitten, and they can’t get on the right side of the ledger when it comes to walk offs. Sure, that will happen when you’re on a week-long road trip, but I digress. May 13th, Red Sox vs Twins – snuffing the comeback. This was […]
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There were only five games last night. FIVE games. It’s disappointing for that to happen in the middle of May, but that’s life I guess. At least the five games we did have delivered – two went into extra innings, and one was decided by one run in nine innings. I guess nights like this […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/19/2014
Sabathia is going to be out until at least July, Cashman tells me. Story to follow shortly #Yankees — Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) May 19, 2014
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A couple weeks ago, Tigers reliever their plane broke, so they were stuck in Boston for another night in full zubaz gear. It
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This is a new feature we’re going to be rolling out at TOC, recapping the past week of events across the league. I figure it might be a nice companion for the players of the month/weekly highlights features we regularly roll out here, and might add some more context to what’s been going on across […]
On his desire to be a starting pitcher:
“That’s the role I thought I was going to be in when I came up here, so yeah, I think in the long run hopefully I can be a starter and show I can start at this level. That’s the plan.”
On whether or not he would have preferred to be called up to be a starter as opposed to a reliever:
“Obviously whatever opportunity you get to contribute at the big-league level you want to jump on it and go. But I’ve been groomed as a starter for the last year and a half, so it’s hard saying otherwise. So it’s tough but you just kind of take it in stride and see what happens.”
-Blue Jays reliever Marcus Stroman discusses his promotion to the majors, where he made five relief appearances after starting 25 games and making nine relief appearances in the minor leagues over the past two seasons. He was sent back to the minors on Sunday. (via The Toronto Star)
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There may not be a more polarizing player in all of baseball than that of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig. You’d be hard-pressed to find an athlete anywhere in the sports world that garners the type of love/hate emotions from fans than that of the Cuban product. We here at The Outside Corner fall into the former. […]
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The Oakland Athletics are kicking ass and taking names so far in the 2014 season. They’re 28-16, and only the Tigers have a better winning percentage. No team has a better run differential than Oakland’s +95 mark, which actually would have been better than all but six teams’ marks during the entire 2013 season. In […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/18/2014
Here’s the creepiest thing you’ll see today…during Sunday’s Reds-Phillies game, the Phillies celebrated the birthday of their mascot, the legendary Phillie Phanatic. Various animal, baseball-themed mascots called the ZOOperstars were at Citizens Bank Park, and things got…a little weird.
-You have Clammy Sosa, eating an umpire and then vomiting up its clothes.
-Shark McGwire spinning its head around enough to make someone dizzy.
-Harry Canary singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
So…are you terrified yet? If not, you should be.
