On Wednesday, the Oakland Athletics announced that they selected the contract of Barry Zito from Triple-A Nashville, bringing back one of the more colorful players in the history of a franchise which has a large number of colorful personalities.  Sure, Zito was a little out there, but he also was very successful during his stint with […]

The San Diego Padres found out the hard way that winning the offseason world championship doesn’t mean much of anything once April rolls around. The darlings of the winter, San Diego hoped their multitude of personnel moves would result in the team’s first playoff appearance since 2006; instead, barring a miracle they’ll finish under .500 […]

The Columbus Clippers are in the International League playoffs this year (up 2-1 against the Indianapolis Indians in the best of five series) and while that might not be big news on the national level, their approach to making the games more interesting was. During games three and four of the five game series against the […]

We’re getting down to the nitty gritty here – two more editions after today, and no one is coming close to surpassing Giancarlo Stanton at the top of the list. Without any further ado, let’s let the jockeying for the rest of THE LIST continue. 1. Carlos Correa vs Hector Santiago, 455 feet (September 12th) […]

On Tuesday night, the Chicago White Sox got shredded by the Oakland Athletics, 17-6. The game was a complete farce – Jeff Samardzija allowed ten runs, and recorded only nine outs. Daniel Webb recorded one out, allowed three hits, six runs (four earned), and walked three. Two position players – Leury Garcia and Alexei Ramirez […]

The 2015 MLB regular season concludes on Sunday, Oct. 4. The following day could be a bloody one for major league managers. We could very well be referring to it as Black Monday, as 10 managers could potentially be dismissed after the season ends — if not the very next day, then soon thereafter. A couple […]

Yoenis Cespedes is, quite frankly, kicking ass and taking names for the Mets. He’s played in just 41 games with the team, and is hitting .309/.356/.691 with 17 homers. In 102 games before the trade with the Tigers, he homered 18 times. Those 17 homers also rank third on the Mets (behind Curtis Granderson and […]

The Washington Nationals ended up signing Max Scherzer as their big splash move last winter, but they were in talks with the Rangers about a blockbuster trade involving Stephen Strasburg according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. Washington and Texas reportedly discussed a massive deal involving Strasburg, Steven Souza Jr, Juickson Profar, and others. The […]

The Brewers showed manager Ron Roenicke the door after a disappointing, MLB-worst  7-18 start that many blamed on poor luck. After replacing him with Craig Counsell, they played much more respectably, going 55-63 following Roenicke’s dismissal, right in the middle of the National League pack. So, could the Brewers end up holding their heads strong […]

The Reds went into 2015 with dreams of competing in the AL Central and the knowledge that if they didn’t, they wouldn’t have many more shots in the future with the current roster. Instead, they were more than ten games out of the Central lead at the end of May and things never got better […]

More than anything else with the 2015 Colorado Rockies, I’m surprised they weren’t the first team eliminated from playoff contention. I think that about sums things up – the same problems that have been prevalent in Colorado for years are still around. Preseason Prediction: Chances are if Dinger was going to be arrested for not wearing […]

Having a big lead in September is usually a good sign that a team is playoff-bound, but it’s definitely not a sure thing. You may think your team is sitting pretty with a 9 game division lead in the middle of the month, then cold hard reality smacks you in the face and your squad […]