Instead of burning another relief pitcher, last night Tigers manager Brad Ausmus sent shortstop Danny Worth out to pitch the top of the ninth of a 9-2 blow out at the hands of the Texas Rangers. Worth performed better than any of the Tigers who
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
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
The big news in sports this week is the lifetime ban NBA commissioner Adam Silver slapped Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling with. Sterling isn’t the first sports figure to get that maximum punishment. Approximately 40 baseball players have been banned for life, although a
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
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;
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
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