This isn’t going to go down as Scott Boras’s best moment. Stephen Drew, who rejected a $14 million qualifying offer with the Boston Red Sox this off-season just signed with the club for $10.17 million. That sum is the $14 million pro-rated, but it still
Former closer Mitch Williams is taking a leave of absence from the MLB Network, where he serves as an analyst, after eyewitnesses reported bizarre and aggressive behavior from “Wild Thing” during a ten-and-under Cal Ripken Baseball tournament last weekend. Williams, who coaches the team, was
Yesterday, C.C. Sabathia, who’s been out since earlier this month, was diagnosed with a degenerative condition in his knee. Then Carlos Beltran followed him on the disabled list with a bone spur in his elbow that could keep him off the field for up to two
David Ortiz broke up Texas Rangers ace Yu Darvish‘s no hitter on Friday. Twice. The first time came with two outs in the top of the seventh. The burly DH hit a towering pop up into shallow right, not far from where rookie second baseman
Marlins fans — and yes we are sure there’s a few — are feeling what Mets fans felt last season and Rays fans felt earlier this year. Like Matt Harvey and Matt Moore before him, Miami‘s young stud pitcher Jose Fernandez is expected to undergo
During Sunday’s Washington Nationals loss to the Oakland A’s starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez got into it with shortstop Ian Desmond after catcher Jose Lobaton and third baseman Anthony Rendon allowed a pop up to drop between them. Although he reportedly had to be restrained, the
Yesterday, the New York Yankees announced that Goose Goosage, Joe Torre, Paul O’Neill and Tino Martinez will each be getting a plaque in Monument Park — essentially the team’s Hall of Fame — in 2014. One of these things is not like the other. That thing
During yesterday’s game between the Dodgers and the Nationals at Nationals Park the wind was blowing in from center at 5 MPH. Although that hardly enough explains what transpired during Yasiel Puig‘s at-bat in the top of the eighth inning against Nat’s reliever Tyler Clippard.
In the hierarchy of game ending dramatics, the rare walk-off inside-the-park home run ranks the most exciting. We almost had that last night in Pittsburgh; with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game Pirates outfielder Starling Marte tripled over the
Something very unusual happened last off-season. The Yankees allowed themselves to be outbid in free agency for the services of one of their own homegrown stars. Make no mistake about it, the deep-pocketed Evil Empire could have signed Robinson Cano to a contract comparable to the