To say Seattle Mariners catchers have been “abysmal” is disrespectful to the word abysmal. Just how bad have Mariners backstops been? The club’s collective catchers are batting .150. The Mets (.176), Reds (.174), Giants (.165) and Nationals (.160) pitching staffs (> 100+ plate appearances) all have better averages at the plate. That’s horrendous. Seattle hoped 24-year-old Mike […]

The second half of the 2015 MLB season begins on Friday, with four of the six division races still close and looming dogfights for those second wild-card spots in each league. As always, that should make for some compelling baseball during the final two-and-a-half months on the regular season schedule. Of course, the trade deadline […]

Each week, we count down the five longest home runs from the week that was. With only a three game sample size to work with (and the Home Run Derby, which we’re totally not breaking down), this week’s feature will be kicked back to next week. Thusly, we decided to instead recap the ten (well, […]

Yesterday, before the All-Star Game, Commissioner Rob Manfred was doing his typical “state of the union” luncheon with the BBWAA. It was pretty much all the standard talking points you’d expect from him: fan safety improvements, progress on the pace of play, making instant replay reviews faster and how the league is open to the idea of […]

We’ve reached the midway point of the 2015 season, and though we dished out awards earlier this week, how about a more objective view of the best and worst players of the first half? Sure. a lot of the names will be the same, but we’re also going to be pointing the finger at some […]

The American League knocked off the National League 6-3 in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game, their third straight win in the midsummer classic. The AL champion will now have homefield advantage in October’s World Series. The win went to David Price and the loss went to Clayton Kershaw, who allowed two runs on three hits in […]

Skimming through the All-Star game roster this year, there are some names that shouldn’t surprise: Mike Trout, Josh Donaldson and Bryce Harper. Not all All-Stars are MVP candidates and studs. In 2012, the Chicago Cubs needed a first baseman with Anthony Rizzo still in the minors and journeyman Bryan LaHair snatched up the starting job. […]

MLB tweaked the rules for this year’s Home Run Derby, instituting a bracket system and a timer for each player’s round. The changes were initially met with much scorn, but after Monday night, the critics have been silenced. Todd Frazier of the hometown Cincinnati Reds prevailed over Joc Pederson in the final, 15-14, hitting the […]

The Cleveland Indians set an MLB record last season with 1,450 strikeouts as a pitching staff, 946 of them coming from the starting rotation. The staff ERA of 3.56 sat in the middle of the league, but that was largely thanks to the five starters who filled in the back end of the rotation behind […]

Now that the first half of the 2015 season is in the books, what storylines caught our attention the most? There were plenty of interesting talking points throughout the first three months of the year, but these are what we were compelled to watch the most. The revitalization of Alex Rodriguez. No one know what […]