We are about to enter the free agent frenzy that is the MLB offseason. Hundreds of millions (and probably into the billions) of dollars will be thrown around, players will join new teams, and fans will react in excitement or agony with the new pieces their club has acquired. It’s not all positive, however, as […]

Being the manager of a World Series team can’t hurt a guy’s job prospects. Mets skipper Terry Collins was in the final year of his contract, but the team is signing him to a two-year extension, according to the New York Daily News‘ Kristie Ackert. Sources:

The Washington Nationals have their new manager, as rumblings seemed to indicate on Monday night – it’s Dusty Baker, the former Giants, Cubs, and Reds head man. The spin on Baker’s hiring? Well, experience, of course. Via the Nationals’ Curly W blog… “We were looking for a manager to help us achieve our ultimate goal of competing […]

Last week, it looked like the Washington Nationals were nearing an agreement with Bud Black to be their new manager. Well, those initial reports were a bit preliminary, and it’s now being reported that the Nationals *won’t* be hiring Black. Their focus is now shifting towards…Dusty Baker. Jon Heyman of CBS Sports also reported that […]

On Monday, Don Mattingly was named the new manager of the Marlins. He’s the…11th? full-time manager in team history, and will be the 15th man to manage the team at all (which includes a pair of one-game interim managers, Brandon Hyde and Cookie Rojas). If that seems like a lot for a team that has only […]

The Kansas City Royals are the last team standing, and deserve congratulations as the undisputed best team in baseball for the 2015 season. While they should have been the favorite from day one after finishing just one game short of the title last season, they had to fight their way to respect. They never fell below […]

The Mets were expected to be a sleeper contender in the NL East behind the Nationals this year. But a playoff team seemed to be an unrealistic expectations by Mets fans, despite the belief that the team could compete with its young starting pitching. If the plan was to build toward truly contending in 2016, […]

Matt Harvey was dominating in the most important start of his career. The Mets ace was in the process of throwing a complete game shutout against the Royals through eight innings with New York’s season on the line, and entering the ninth inning he let manager Terry Collins know he wanted a chance to finish […]

The Kansas City Royals won the World Series championship that just escaped their grasp last season, beating the Mets 7-2 in a 12-inning epic Sunday night to seize the franchise’s first title since 1985. It was a classic Royals victory, typical of the way this team has won during the past two seasons, clawing back, […]

The clock is close to striking midnight for the New York Mets. On Saturday night, the Mets blew a 3-1 lead and fell 5-3 to the Kansas City Royals in Game 4 of the World Series, giving the Royals a 3-1 lead in the series and putting them one win away from their first World […]

There will be no sweep in this year’s World Series. The New York Mets won Friday night’s Game 3 9-3 over the Kansas City Royals, cutting Kansas City’s lead to 2-1 and ensuring that a Game 5 will be played on Sunday at Citi Field. The early innings of this game were chock full of […]

It appears that comments made by Mark Shapiro to now former Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos lead to him not accepting an offer of a multi-year extension. The report is that Shapiro chastised the current Toronto staff for letting so many prospects go in an effort to return to the playoffs in 2015. Of course, […]

The concept of “finalists” for awards is stupid, because it essentially means “these are the players that finished in the top three/five of the voting” rather than “here are the top three/five we arbitrarily decided you can vote on”. Anyway, Rawlings announced the finalists for the 2015 Gold Glove awards on Thursday, and of course, […]