Hours after announcing its plans to release a new console in 2017, Nintendo is stepping away from its majority ownership of the Seattle Mariners after 24 years, the team announced Wednesday. The Mariners announced the decision on their Twitter account hours before Seattle takes on the Houston Astros. According to the team, Nintendo will retain 10 percent of […]

Just as the Indians got good news on the injury front with Michael Brantley returning to the team on Monday night, things got much, much worse. On an odd play Sunday, Carlos Carrasco was covering first base when his left leg collapsed under him. By some miracle of foot placement, Carrasco got the out at […]

Baseball is the most superstitious of sports and with it, there is an overlying belief of some that once a team makes it to the promised land of the World Series, they are under greater pressure and scrutiny the following season that will make it more difficult for them to repeat their success early in […]

The Diamondbacks were baseball’s most entertaining team this winter by a long shot. The huge signings, the weird trades, the insane uniform redesign – everything they did made you take notice. It was the kind of offseason baseball writers dream about, where a team decides to throw everything they have against the wall and hope […]

The Phillies have a lot of issues. Their bullpen has been both really good and really bad. Their starting pitching started out great, but appears to be coming back to earth.  They have made the habit of making boneheaded base running mistakes. Their offense is putrid. Among all these issues, the most glaring one is […]

The Indians outfield is already considerably improved over the beginning of 2015, but they look to make a more significant improvement this week as both Lonnie Chisenhall and Michael Brantley are expected to return from the disabled list. Last year, it was Brantley in left, Michael Bourn in center, and Brandon Moss in right, and […]

Nobody ever seems to notice the bullpen until things go wrong. That’s been the case with the San Francisco Giants, whose three World Series championships since 2010 had as much to do with their strong ‘pen as they did with Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner, Tim Lincecum, or anyone else who grabbed more headlines. But now, […]

When the Astros blasted off in the AL West last year, ultimately winning the AL Wild Card game before falling to the Royals in five games in the ALDS, it surprised many who didn’t think they would be a contender until 2017. This didn’t keep the expectations of the Astros from exploding heading into 2016 […]

For a long time, the knock on the San Francisco Giants’ farm system was that it was awful at developing position players. While the organization could churn out quality arm after quality arm, they couldn’t do the same for bats as hard as they tried. All of that changed when Buster Posey arrived in 2010 […]

When the Orioles take the field against the Red Sox on Monday for Boston’s home opener, they do so with a 5-0 record, their best start since 1970 when they also won their first five games. The O’s won the World Series that year against the Reds and while that team was loaded with Hall of […]

While a recent report by comedian John Oliver has shown the Yankees to be as elitist as ever off the field, they were actually fairly conservative in their offseason strategy this year. Despite losing Greg Bird to offseason shoulder surgery and fielding a starting rotation that will strike fear in the heart of no one, the […]