Jonathan Papelbon is back in Philadelphia with the Washington Nationals, and he’s not exactly being careful with his words. Here’s what Papelbon said before Monday’s series opener at Citizens Bank Park, via MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki. “If I say something I mean it,” Papelbon said. “I’m not going to take anything back that I’ve ever said or […]

Cue up all of the ridiculous comparisons and narratives – David Ortiz hit the 500th homer of his career on Saturday night at Tropicana Field against the Rays. I’m already getting a headache from all of the groups Ortiz is being dumped in after hitting his 500th – fourth player with three World Series rings […]

San Francisco Giants starter Tim Hudson has reached the end of his career. Following his start on Tuesday night in Arizona against the Diamondbacks, Hudson confirmed that 2015 would be his last year in the majors. Hudson’s decision, which he was strongly considering when he signed with the Giants two years ago, came on a […]

During Tuesday night’s Mets-Nationals game at Nationals Park, Michael Taylor hit a Little League grand slam off of Matt Harvey – on a ground ball. What happened was simple – Taylor hit a solid single up the middle, and it got by an overly aggressive Yoenis Cespedes. That turned an RBI, or perhaps two-run, single […]

Will Yoenis Cespedes be a New York Met in 2016? That’s a question that will be answered this offseason, but New York seems determined to keep him. On Tuesday, the New York Post reported that the Mets and Cespedes had agreed to remove a clause from his contracted that would have prevented the team from […]

This ball hit by Matt Wieters in the sixth inning of Friday night’s Orioles-Blue Jays game wasn’t going out of the yard. Hell, it was going to be caught. But Ben Revere lost control of the ball, dropping it over the wall and gifting Wieters an extremely easy home run. Well, I guess *something* had […]

Javier Baez was one of the prospects called up by the Chicago Cubs this week when rosters expanded to 40. Baez has a pretty simple rep as a player – he strikes out a lot, and he’s got ridiculous power. So when he came up in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s Reds-Cubs game against Aroldis […]

It’s all coming up Mets. During Wednesday night’s game with the Phillies, Ruben Tejada hit a sinking liner down the right field line. Domonic Brown charged the ball, misplayed it, and ended up flipping over a wall up the right field line, allowing Tejada to coast his way around the bases. Brown would stay in the […]

During Monday night’s Angels-Athletics game at O.co Coliseum, the much-maligned home of the A’s (and Raiders, for that matter) began to fall apart when Shane Victorino bumped into the left field wall. As soon as Victorino lightly hit the wall, one of the pads became dislodged and eventually completely fell off, requiring a short delay […]

Last week, Kevin Kiermaier became a meme when he hilariously posed on the center field wall at Tropicana Field as a Kendrys Morales homer hit a catwalk. On Monday night, the opposite happened – Kiermaier didn’t pose, but showed off some incredible hops to rob Manny Machado of a surefire home run at Oriole Park […]

August has been very good for the Chicago Cubs. With one day remaining in the month, the team has compiled a 19-8 record and built a 5.5 game lead for the NL’s second wild-card spot. And on Sunday night, pitcher Jake Arrieta built on his case for the NL Cy Young Award, throwing a no-hitter […]

The catwalks at Tropicana Field are awful, and make the lovely game of baseball look kind of stupid at times. On Friday night, Kevin Kiermaier looked really bad after scaling the wall for this Kendrys Morales homer…only for the ball to hit a catwalk and fall safely into middle of the outfield. Whoops. Get the […]

This video is making the rounds around the interwebs today, and it’s awesome. Check out every Blue Jays homer this year (through Wednesday) set to Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”. Well, that was amazing, though I never really expected to think about the Blue Jays and Johnny Cash at the same time.

Denard Span’s 2015 appears to be ending with a whimper. According to Mark Zuckerman of CSN Washington, Span is heading to the DL for the third time this season, and this time, it’s because of a sore hip. Span is out again, this time with inflammation in his left hip suffered as he attempted to […]

Buried in this early autopsy of the 2015 Washington Nationals is an interesting line from Robert Boswell of the Washington Post regarding deposed closer Drew Storen. What you have is demoted, dissatisfied Drew Storen wanting a trade that he will almost certainly get this winter. Storen was dragged from the closer’s role for the second […]