0 comments by Joe Lucia on 3/20/2014
The news regarding Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Brandon Beachy was not good on Thursday morning – he’ll need to undergo
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When you have a team like the Rays that is so well-run and so well-constructed, finding weaknesses is tough. However, digging a little deeper, maybe it’s not that hard. Tampa Bay’s two biggest weaknesses are rather obvious – their terrible stadium situation and as a result of that, their limited payroll. Think of the stadiums […]
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Near the end of the 2013 season, the Rays were faced with an interesting situation. The AL Wild Card race was extremely tight between Tampa Bay, Cleveland, and Texas. With three teams vying for two spots, the Rays needed to keep winning to ensure that their season would continue. They won the final game of […]
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Well folks, here we are at the second to last day of our season preview series, focusing on the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays won the second AL Wild Card in 2013, beating the Texas Rangers in Game 163 to break a tie and advance to Cleveland, where they beat the Indians to advance to […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 3/19/2014
An absolutely horrifying sight took place at Surprise Stadium on Wednesday night – Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman was
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The “Core Four” is all but gone for the New York Yankees. They are now embarking on a new era in which they will be waving a long goodbye to Derek Jeter and trying to build a new championship core around him at the same time. To make that happen, they are going to have […]
[on the question of whether or not he’s bothered by trade rumors]
“Because I can’t be traded,” he said before leaving for Dunedin, Fla., to play the Blue Jays in a Grapefruit League game at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium. “It doesn’t matter. I don’t care which way it is tried to be twisted or said, or if it is exactly how it was said, or even if it was said — I can’t be traded. It doesn’t matter. If I was tradable, it may have weight because that means I could be moving soon. But I am not tradable, and so it doesn’t matter.”
[on the question of whether or not someone is slandering him]
“It might be a little late for that,” Rollins said. “That’s probably happened years ago. You’re persecuted long before the day you’re sentenced. You’re already found guilty or innocent by the people, so it’s a little late for that.
“Everybody wants to be loved or liked. But good or bad, right or wrong, people are going to love you, and some are going to hate you regardless. You can’t change their opinions to swing either way.”
-Jimmy Rollins to MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki
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0 comments by Garrett Wilson
When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars in one offseason and still have a roster that elicits a collective “maaaaybe” regarding their odds of competing for a playoff spot, you know that said team is going to have some questions to answer. Well, New York Yankees, what do you have to say for yourselves? […]
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Only in Australia, folks. No word on whether or not the bowler (which I think is the correct term) bowled his next ball at Puig’s head for being disrespectful, but I’d imagine not (unless he was the Australian Kirk Gibson).
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At some point, the Yankees having an old roster is something that we should be used to, but this isn’t going to be the year that happens. For all their big moves and big spending, the New York Yankees are old. So very old. They’re so old that they had two players over 40 years […]
“I expressed that seven months in Port St. Lucie is a long time,” he said. “For me, I strongly felt that my best opportunity, and my motivation to come back quicker, stronger, work harder would be to be with the teammates. That’s kind of what I have always said. I have worked so hard to get to the big leagues and be with this team, it just felt like all of a sudden I was shooed to the back.”
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“It’s just the fact that I have been not allowed to talk to anybody, and that every tweet or Instagram I send is, do not write,” Harvey said. “My locker — me and (Jeremy Hefner, also rehabbing) was basically in a closet. I didn’t think that was right. I don’t know exactly who was in charge of the situation. [“That was a decision made by clubhouse personnel,” GM Sandy Alderson later told me].
“I have worked so hard to get to the point where I was, and all of a sudden I get hurt, and it’s ‘you’ve got to stay in Florida,’” Harvey said. “‘You’ve got to disappear from New York, you’ve got to do this.’ I took pride in living in New York, and being a New Yorker. I live there all year round. It’s a place I love being.”
-Matt Harvey, speaking with Andy Martino of the New York Daily News
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The Yankees entered the offseason with some real uncertainty about their offseason plans. Everyone knew they would do what the Yankees do and sign some big names, but how many and for how much? Supposedly they were committed to getting underneath the luxury tax line and would only go so far. Welp, so much for […]
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Shut down the Internet: pic.twitter.com/z2vlYQ9ko5 — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) March 19, 2014
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We’re getting really close to the end of the line, folks. Today, AL East week reaches its midway point with our preview day highlighting the New York Yankees. The Yankees finished a disappointing third in the AL East in 2013, and they took care of that by spending nearly half a billion dollars this winter […]
0 comments by Randy Holt on 3/18/2014
It isn’t at all difficult to discern what the Baltimore Orioles need in order to become successful in 2014. They need a healthy Manny Machado, the offense to continue to come through like it has in the last couple of years, and for their pitching to jump from one of the more inconsistent units in the […]
