0 comments by Joe Lucia on 6/4/2014
I obviously know who Henderson Alvarez is. He’s a Marlins starting pitcher that they acquired from the Blue Jays two winters ago. But I have no idea who this guy wearing Alvarez’s jersey is. On Tuesday night, Alvarez threw his fourth complete game shutout over his last 13 starts (dating back to last year), walking […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Here’s an absolutely terrifying moment from Tuesday night’s Rays-Marlins game. Giancarlo Stanton got sawed off on a pitch by Rays starter Chris Archer, and his bat barrel flew towards the on deck circle and smashed Casey McGehee right in the gut. This could have been an awful situation, and McGehee could have been seriously hurt. Thankfully, he was OK, and stayed in the game.
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 6/3/2014
This weekend, it was Cardinals rookie Oscar Taveras who homered for his first major league hit. On Tuesday night, it was Astros rookie Jon Singleton who homered for his first career hit. The homer was a missile off of Angels reliever Matt Shoemaker that landed in Houston’s bullpen in right center field at Minute Maid Park. The future is now, Astros fans.
0 comments by Scott Allen
Normally this wouldn’t be news. Teams promote their prospects all the time and Cam Bedrosian, despite being a former first round pick with great bloodlines, has never once appeared on any Top 100 prospect lists. In fact, entering this season Bedrosian was ranked only 10th amongst a weak Angels minor league system. So what’s the […]
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Before Tuesday’s Blue Jays-Tigers game at Comerica Park in Detroit, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by…Robocop. It’s a pretty good toss from everyone’s favorite cyborg police officer, and makes 50 Cent’s throw from a week ago look awful, terrible excuse not withstanding.
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Just how did 50 Cent throw that awful ceremonial first pitch before last week’s (May 27) Pirates-Mets game so damn badly? Our culture needed an answer. Fortunately for us, the rapper provided an explanation during an AMA (Ask Me Anything) post on Reddit Tuesday afternoon promoting the release of his new album, “Animal Ambition,” and […]
Bad news on #Rays Myers – out at least 2 months. Has slight stress fracture, in cast 5-6 weeks, then starts rehab
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) June 3, 2014
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0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Earlier today, we took a look at the players who were leading the league in WAR to begin the month of June. If we are anything here at The Outside Corner, it is fair and balanced. As such, in the interest of equal time, let’s take a look at the other end of the leaderboard to see […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Everyone loves to track the potential award winners throughout the MLB season. MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year get more than their fair share of attention. Overlooked over the years, especially by the BBWAA, is WAR, the stat that actually provides a valuation of each and every player. In order to give WAR […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Were there awesome walk offs this week? Of course there were. Let’s stop screwing around and get right to it. May 27th, Rangers vs Twins All Joakim Soria had to do was grab this dribbler and throw it to a base – any base – before the runner got there. He couldn’t even do that. […]
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History was made on Monday at Citizens Bank Park – Bartolo Colon made solid contact with a pitch. Sure it was a foul ball, but this thing went into the second deck! Curtis Granderson leaped up from his spot on the bench in excitement, but it was all for naught – Colon would end up striking out in the at bat. But what does this say about Phillies starter Roberto Hernandez, who had four balls fouled off by Colon during the at bat? When he can get around on your fastball, you might have a problem.
For the record, Colon is still hitless this season, and hasn’t tallied a hit since his Cy Young winning 2005 season with the Angels.
0 comments by Joe Lucia
During Monday night’s Pirates-Padres game at Petco Park in San Diego, a police officer caught a foul ball (on a hop, mind you) off the bat of Russell Martin. The cop then proceeded to keep the ball for himself, instead of tossing it to one of the fans begging for the ball. If there was a kid around, I’d have more of an issue with this – there’s no reason to give away your ball to a teenager or young adult, dammit.
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The Pittsburgh Pirates are putting together a little bit of a hot streak in the NL Central. They’ve won four out of five games, and are now tied for third in the division with the Cincinnati Reds, just two games behind the second-place St. Louis Cardinals. After a 10-16 March/April, the Pirates are 17-14 since, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 6/2/2014
This week did a lot to tighten all of the races across baseball. Of the league’s six divisions, only the Giants have a lead of larger than 4.5 games. Consequently, no first place team has a lead smaller than three games. Breathing room was the name of the game this week. Most impressive team of […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Eventually, a top minor league prospect was going to accept a long-term contract — especially if it meant the player would get called up to the majors upon signing the deal — right? We don’t yet know if Jon Singleton and the Astros are starting a trend toward locking up young talent before they even […]
