With less than three weeks left in the baseball season, all sorts of aliments can become season ending. Especially if the injured or exhausted player’s team is out of the playoff picture. Yesterday two prominent players — David Wright and Drew Smiley — were officially
Vladimir Guerrero already comes from a major league family. Early in his career he actually played with his light-hitting older brother Wilton. There is a good chance the Guerrero MLB family will get a little bigger in the future. Vladimir’s son, 15-year old Vladimir Guerrero
We were among the many who argued that Derek Jeter‘s retirement tour is beginning to look like a funeral, complete with commemorative Jeter #2 patches. The tour’s most important stop was yesterday, his big official “Derek Jeter Day” send off at Yankee Stadium. Word is
The juiciest news on a slow baseball day comes from an interview Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke did with the Los Angeles Times. Greinke, who is considered one of the league’s smartest and most interesting players, suggested that his brains aren’t necessarily working to his advantage
During his 14-year big league career Ichiro Suzuki has always communicated to the press through a translator. But don’t think that’s because he lacks foreign language skills. Ichiro is actually pretty fluent in English, he just uses a translator because he doesn’t want to end
Jorge De La Rosa hasn’t been as good in 2014 as he was in 2013. But the left-hander has pitched well enough to score a two-year $25 million dollars contact extension with the Colorado Rockies. The deal will pay the 33-year old $12.5 million in
Derek Jeter’s retirement tour is winding down, and to commemorate the future Hall of Famer 20-year career the Yankees will be bestowing #2 with an honor one usually has to die to receive. Beginning on Sunday — Derek Jeter Day at Yankees Stadium — the
Craig Biggio is an Astros legend. Is he also about to be an Astros manager? Houston fired skipper Bo Porter last week and the latest speculation is that Biggio, who compiled 3060 hits during his 20-year career playing only for the Astros, is the leading candidate
Clayton Kershaw is a safe bet to win the National League Cy Young. How safe? Online gambling website Bovada.lv have taken Kershaw off the board. Kershaw, who has a 16-3 record and 1.73 ERA with 194 strikeouts despite missing the first month of the season
Adam Dunn, acquired by Oakland right in front of the August 31 postseason roster deadline, started his A’s career with a bang Monday, homering in his first at-bat. The blast helped the A’s break their four game losing streak, which had included a 29 inning