Baseball players make a lot of money. Some make a lot more money than they should. But there are also a bunch of baseball bargains out there. The ten best contracts of 2014 are below. 10. Chase Utley, 35 2014-2015, 2 yrs/$25M. $15M team options
Remember when everybody was impressed with how ripped Bryce Harper is? Well, the Nationals outfielder is a wee girly man compared to Aroldis Chapman‘s left arm. Chapman has been recovering from taking a line drive off of the face, resultin in a metal plate being
Horrible news for Tampa Bay Rays fans. The team announced today that star pitcher Matt Moore has a torn ulnar collateral ligament. A visit to renowned surgeon James Andrews yesterday hinted at something being seriously amiss with Moore’s left arm. “Anytime a pitcher goes on the
Whenever a hitter emerges from the batters box or a pitcher is called to the mound during a home game they have the opportunity to request walk up or entrance music. We’ve compiled a list of our 25 favorite walk up songs from over the
When a baseball player wins a championship or switches teams fans are more likely to buy his jersey. That’s the lesson we can take away from the list of bestselling jerseys at MLB.com from this offseason, which is measured from October 31, 2013 to March
10a. Jonathan Papelbon 33 2012 – 2015, 4 yrs/$50M, 2016 option for 13 million vests with 100 games finished between 14-15 or 55 finished in 15. Paying big money for closer has become passe, but Ruben Amaro didn’t get the message when he signed Papelbon
If you been watching baseball over the last couple days, you’ve seen that MLB’s new replay system has already become very much a part of the game. How it is works is that a manager gets at least one challenge over the first six innings.
The baseball season is just one day old, but the closer carousal is already spinning. Toronto Blue Jays We’ll start in Toronto where incumbent closer Casey Janssen was placed on the disabled list for a strained left abdominal. The 32-year old had been excellent as the
Spring training stats are typically useless. However there are some cases, when combined with other factors, a strong spring suggests a player might be ready to break out in the regular season. These players have posted the type of spring training numbers that you should
American League MVP: Mike Trout After being bested twice by a great player who actually had an inferior year, Trout wins one (and wins one for sabermetrics) in 2014 Projected stats for 2014: R:126 HR:32 BA:311 RBI:106 SB:34 For top fantasy first baseman click here. Second baseman