For as bad of a year as Rickie Weeks had in 2014 with the Milwaukee Brewers, he still averaged 412 feet on his eight home runs. This winter, Weeks signed with the Seattle Mariners, and on Saturday, he gave his new club some encouragement by obliterating this homer over the batter’s eye in dead center […]

University of Michigan (and former San Francisco 49ers) coach Jim Harbaugh is in uniform at Oakland A’s camp today…and he’s not holding back, even wearing stirrups! He’ll be serving as Oakland’s first base coach for a couple innings today, and here are a few pics from his day at HoHoKam Stadium. This is just lovely. I’m […]

This is why we can’t have nice things. Rangers ace Yu Darvish has a sprained UCL, and Tommy John surgery is on the table. Darvish left his start on Thursday with tightness in his triceps. The 28-year old Japanese star was shut down last August because of inflammation in his right elbow. Even if Darvish […]

Death, taxes, and Yasiel Puig getting thrown out on the basepaths for being too aggressive. Post by The Outside Corner. Yup, baseball is back.

Matt Harvey got the start for the Mets in their game on Friday against the Tigers, and he looked like the Matt Harvey that took the National League by storm in 2013, striking out three over two perfect innings. 98 on the black? An 84 mph hammer? Welcome back, Matt.

The San Francisco Giants’ defense of their 2014 World Championship got off to a tough start on Thursday after right fielder Hunter Pence was hit in the left forearm in the sixth inning. A later diagnosis confirmed that the arm was broken, and that Pence would be out 6-8 weeks. The Giants website officially called […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks are taking ridiculous ballpark food to the next level. Check out their newest creation – the churro dog. So, what’s *in* that delicious looking creation? Good question! Darren Rovell, take it away… The Churro Dog is a warm cinnamon churro sitting inside a Long John chocolate-glazed donut, which is then topped with […]

It’s no secret that the New York Mets ownership group is loathed by Mets fans. But a group of Mets fans raised a significant amount of money on Kickstarter to show their displeasure with the ownership on billboards, and one of those billboards went up today near the Mets Spring Training home in Port St. Lucie […]

During Tuesday’s Giants-Athletics Spring Training game, the A’s used Pat Venditte in the third and fourth innings against a pair of Giants hitters. On the surface, there’s nothing special about this…until you realize that Venditte pitches with both his left and his right arm. Venditte is unfortunately not on Oakland’s 40-man roster, so it doesn’t […]

Jung Ho Kang came to the Pittsburgh Pirates this winter surrounded by a cloud of mystery. How would the Korean infielder’s prodigious power translate to the major league game? Well, we can’t make much of Spring Training statistics, but this homer that Kang launched off of Marco Estrada on Tuesday was pretty impressive. Now that’s […]

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen this morning. Check out Cuban slugger Alfredo Despaigne in these two clips. Despaigne homered twice on Tuesday for Alazanes de Granma, and he didn’t exactly rush his trots around the bases. He’s not even at first base before the ball lands on each homer! Can […]

Earlier this offseason, the Tigers announced that freshly re-signed DH Victor Martinez would be undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus. He’ll likely be ready for Opening Day, but at 36 and coming off the best season of his career, this wasn’t the news that Detroit wanted to hear. But how did Martinez tear his […]

New Pirates first baseman Corey Hart has already gotten injured in camp…and he’s in the running for “most ridiculous injury of Spring Training”. Dammit, Corey. The cut was also serious enough that it required stitches! But given Hart’s injury history, I’m sure the Pirates are thrilled that he “only” suffered a cut foot. Imagine if he […]

We’ve taken a bit of a break from bringing you all of the ridiculous alternate jerseys that minor league teams will wear this season, but we felt the need to call attention to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (high-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs) and their Christmas Vacation jerseys. Find out what these are for and […]