0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 11/15/2013
MVP voting is always one of those things that no matter how the voting goes, people are going to be outraged over the way a someone voted. Bashing reporters for their voting choices has almost become a new sport, especially since the BBWAA chose to make all of the ballots public. One of the cardinal […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Well, this kind of sucks – the baseball season is really over. On Wednesday, the Cy Young Award winners were announced (Scherzer, Kershaw), and on Thursday, the MVP winners were announced (Cabrera, McCutchen). In more quasi-awards news, the NL Rookie of the Year and third place finisher in NL Cy Young voting Jose Fernandez was […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Miguel Cabrera and Andrew McCutchen were announced as the 2013 Most Valuable Players on Thursday night. It's the second award in a row for Cabrera in the American League. The 2012 MVP hit .348/.442/636 in 2013, homering 44 times and driving in 137 runs. He received 23 of 30 first place votes and 385 points […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 11/14/2013
Jose Fernandez's story has been well-documented this year. His journey from Cuba to America is well-known by now, and is more than enough to tug on your heartstrings. Before the announcement of the Rookie of the Year award winners on Monday, Fernandez was being interviewed at Marlins Park – when he was surprised by his […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
To the shock of no one, Max Scherzer won the AL Cy Young Award on Wednesday, and Clayton Kershaw won the NL award. Scherzer went 21-3 for the Tigers, throwing 214 1/3 innings, striking out 240 hitters, and pitching to a 2.90 ERA. His 6.4 fWAR led the American League, and his win marks the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 11/13/2013
When I saw that the A's had signed Nick Punto to a one-year,
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The free agent catching market is a bit slim. After Brian McCann and Jarrod Saltalamacchia, the next best option is 35-year old Carlos Ruiz. If you're one of the many teams that needs help behind the plate, you might be a little dissuaded by the mess in front of you. Texas' one-year contract with Geovany […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Veteran utility infielder Mark DeRosa has retired. The Blue Jays exercised a $700,000 club option on DeRosa for the 2014 season earlier this month, and expected him to be a crucial part of their bench for the 2014 season. The 37-year old spent parts of 16 seasons in the majors with eight different clubs, with […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Hey everyone, we have our first free agent signing of the winter! Of course, it's the Phillies. Of course, it's a veteran coming off of a career year. And of course, it's a multi-year deal that seems a little steep: Marlon Byrd for two years and $16 million. Also this week, MLB announced a new […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The BBWAA has revealed their 2013 Manager of the Year award winners, and they are Terry Francona of the Cleveland Indians and Clint Hurdle of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Francona received 16 of 30 first place votes and 112 points to win his first ever Manager of the Year award. Just two years ago, Francona was […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 11/12/2013
Baseball season is associated with certain smells: fresh cut grass, the dirt of the infield, pine tar on bats and so on and so on. These are smells we all know and love. But the baseball offseason has a certain smells as well. It is that time of year where a few teams begin to […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The Philadelphia Phillies have gone cheap in their search for an outfielder, inking former Met and Pirate Marlon Byrd to a two-year deal. Terms are currently unknown, though Adam Rubin of ESPN New York had a source tell him that Byrd would make
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Your 2013 AL Rookie of the Year is Wil Myers of the Tampa Bay Rays, and your 2013 NL Rookie of the Year is Jose Fernandez of the Miami Marlins. Myers received 23 of the 30 first place votes in the AL, and finished with 131 points out of a max of 150. Jose Iglesias […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 11/11/2013
All week, we waited with baited breath to see if any of the 13 players given qualifying offers by their former teams would accept the offers. On Monday we learned the answer: nope. All 13 players
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr
When the Twins signed Joe Mauer to his 8-year, $148 million deal, it was assumed that Mauer would eventually be moving to first base. It seems unlikely that anyone in the Twins organization thought it'd be happening this soon, but the team is announcing that Mauer will make the move after talking with the team's […]
