It’s a safe bet Robinson Cano is going to get booed Tuesday night when he comes back to Yankee Stadium for the first time since signing a 10-year, $240 million deal with the Seattle Mariners. Cano even had a some fun with this inevitability during
Baseball’s year of bad thumbs continues with word out of Washington that Bryce Harper is being placed on the 15-day disabled list for a sprain to his most important digit. Harper will get a second opinion on the injury today or tomorrow, but at this
Royals rookie starting pitcher Yordano Ventura has been getting a lot of press lately for hitting almost 103 MPH on the radar gun. These days radar measurements are part of the PITCHf/x system, which tracks every major league pitch. PITCHf/x debuted in the 2006 MLB playoffs;
Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka have each lived up to their NPB reputations and more. That hasn’t always been the case with high-priced Japanese imports. Who could forget the late Hideka Irabu, George Steinbrenner’s least favorite “fat toad.” Then there was Daisuke Matsuzaka. The $103
He was already a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame, but by slugging his 499th and 500th home runs last night, Albert Pujols is pretty much guaranteed induction on the first ballot. Which current players who have already logged at least half of their careers
Mike Trout took round one of his first inter-league match-up with fellow phenom Bryce Harper on Monday, with the Angles defeating the Nationals 4-2. Raul Ibanez, who at 41 is just about twice Harper’s age, delivered the big hit, a three-run double that clinched the game
Is Ryan Howard back? Ryan Howard was never all that great of player, from a sabermetric standpoint. But there was a time not so long ago that he was a five category fantasy beast, averaging .274 with 44 homers, 96 runs and 133 RBIs a
These days, when somebody says literally they usually mean figuratively. However, we’re doing no such thing when describing Milwaukee Brewers backup catcher Martin Maldonado‘s at-bat against Pittsburgh yesterday. Facing Charlie Morton, Maldonado took a big cut at a fast ball. But he didn’t’ quite square the
From Ty Cobb to Barry Bonds, baseball has a long tradition of jerks. The ten biggest current baseball jerks are below. 10. A.J. Pierzynski Pierzynski used to be baseball’s leading jerk, and has been voted the most disliked player in the game by his peers
When you hear about the secret service these days, it’s typically a sordid tale of booze, hookers and sleeping one off when they should have been protecting the President. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in the Clinton administration the man in suits and