Today the Cleveland Indians flipped Justin Masterson to the Cardinals for outfield prospect James Ramsey, and if the latest rumors are correct the surprisingly bad Red Sox are trading surprisingly solid John Lackey to the surprisingly almost-average Marlins. Here nine other players, besides Lackey, who should be
Today, six very worthy candidates will be inducted into Cooperstown’s hallowed halls. Tony La Russa, Joe Torre, and Bobby Cox enter as managers — and they are each among the best skippers in baseball history. But for the purposes of this article, we’re going to
For the second straight year, Jake Peavy has been moved from a struggling team to a contender. The San Francisco Giants acquired the 33-year old from Boston for pitching prospects Edwin Escobar and Heath Hembree. Like most of the Red Sox, Peavy has been disappointing
Since winning 92 games in 2010, the Padres have been a non-factor in the National League East. Their poor play cost GM Josh Brynes his job in June, and this year’s deadline sell off will be conducted by the three-headed interim co-GM beast of A.J.
Cuban names are little different, and Padres right-hander and MLB ace of the moment Odrisamer Depaigne certainly has the kind of name spell check isn’t going to recognize. He also threw 7 2/3 no hit innings against the Mets Sunday afternoon, improving his ERA to
Your browser does not support iframes. Last night, White Sox slugger Adam Dunn incorrectly thought he had his 455 home run. Twice. On the same play Actually, at first it looked like Astros leftfielder L.J Hoes was going to scale the wall and catch the drive
The biggest fake baseball game of them all has affected the regular fake baseball schedule this week, with no games until today because of the All Star festivities. It seems like forever ago, but last week two players slated to participate in the midsummer classic
On Thursday night, Clayton Kershaw had his scoreless innings streak snapped at 41 innings. It was a home run by Padres third baseman Chase Headley that broke the two-time Cy Young winners string of zeros. The sixth inning blast was one of only three hits
In April, when Major League Baseball last released a list of top selling jerseys, it was David Ortiz‘s name and number which had moved the most merchandise. The popular slugger was still basking in the afterglow of leading the Red Sox to a World Series
We don’t now much about Taiwanese baseball outside of pitchers Chien-Ming Wang and Wei-Yin Chen, who both came to the United States and made their mark in MLB. Judging from this video, it’s safe to say things are little different in the island nation when it