The Jarrod Saltalamacchia era in Miami is already over. The Marlins designated the veteran catcher for assignment today, less than halfway through a three-year, $21 million contract signed last offseason. The 29-year old Saltalamacchia (who turns 30 on Saturday) was a disappointment in 2014, his first year in south Florida. Over 114 games, he hit […]

Kansas City Royals left fielder Alex Gordon is one hell of an outfielder. His defense is simply incredible. On Sunday, Gordon demonstrated his defensive prowess by leaping into the crowd to make this catch and retire Micah Johnson of the White Sox. But Gordon can’t do it all – Chicago scored five runs in the inning after […]

For everything that’s gone wrong in Philadelphia this season, one of the things that has gone *right* is the performance of closer Jonathan Papelbon. Papelbon has thrown 6 1/3 innings, struck out six hitters, hasn’t allowed a run or walked a hitter, and has converted all three of his save opportunities. But because the Phillies […]

The Detroit Tigers bullpen situation just got a bit more interesting. Closer Joe Nathan, placed on the DL earlier this month, will miss the rest of the season after tearing both his UCL and his flexor pronator tendon in his right elbow. Nathan will soon have season-ending Tommy John surgery. The 40-year old Nathan threw […]

Tuesday night wasn’t a good evening for the Orioles in Toronto. And in one of the most distressing moments of the night for Baltimore, catcher Caleb Joseph his a liner off of the butt of third base coach Bobby Dickerson. Well, that’s unfortunate. At least Dickerson was OK. The game would only get uglier for […]

This is horrifying, and something you would never expect or hope to happen. During Monday night’s Cubs-Pirates game, a fan behind home plate was struck with a foul ball hit by Starlin Castro through the netting. The netting didn’t snap, but the fan was standing close enough to the netting where it gave enough to […]

It’s not going too well for the Milwaukee Brewers. The team has the worst record in baseball at 2-10, and now they’re going to be without second baseman Scooter Gennett for a few days because of a hand injury. That hand injury? He cut himself in the shower. Dammit, Scooter. Can’t believe it! Literally trying […]

This isn’t good news for the New York Mets – catcher Travis d’Arnaud and reliever Jerry Blevins both fractured bones in Sunday’s 7-6 win over the Marlins. d’Arnaud fractured his hand after he was plunked by A.J. Ramos, while Blevins fractured his forearm following a line drive back to the mound off the bat of […]

The Kansas City Royals have a problem with the Oakland Athletics, and one beanball from Yordano Ventura to Brett Lawrie wasn’t going to fix that. In the first inning of Sunday’s game at Kauffman Stadium, Scott Kazmir plunked Lorenzo Cain (it looked accidental since if you’re going to throw at someone, you don’t throw at […]

The Cubs called up their top prospect in Kris Bryant, and now, it’s time for the White Sox to follow suit – starting pitcher Carlos Rodon is getting the call. Rodon was the third overall pick in last June’s MLB Draft out of NC State. He’s made just nine appearances in the minors since being drafted, […]

We seemingly see a play like this every season – the infielder fields a ball hit pretty hard in his glove, and the ball gets stuck. He has no time to pry it out, so he pulls off the entire glove and tosses it to first for the out. That’s exactly what happened with Cubs […]

During the Cubs’ 7-6, 11 inning win on Saturday, a fan at Wrigley Field caught a Yonder Alonso ninth inning foul ball in her cup of beer…and then proceeded to chug the beer. Hey, good on her for managing to make a beer that long after last call. She must have been double fisting to […]

Hanley Ramirez had an eventful day on Friday. During batting practice before the Red Sox-Orioles game at Fenway, he hit a line drive so hard that it cracked a pad on the center field section of the Green Monster. He also wore the wrong red jersey before the game started. The oddities didn’t exactly translate […]