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
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
Unexpectedly, the National League East has been baseball’s best division, with all five teams at .500 or above. The Miami Marlins got to the fifty percent mark Thursday by sweeping past the division leading Braves. It was a huge three game series for the Marlins,
The first month of the Major League season is in the books. Here are the players who’d be taking home the award hardware if the season only happened to be a month long. American League MVP Jose Abreu: The big-money Cuban import has so far
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
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
When you hear about the secret service these days, it’s typically a sordid tale of booze, hookers and sleeping one off when they should have been protecting the President. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in the Clinton administration the man in suits and
There is not a lot of joy in Astro-land. The squad has lost at least 106 games in each of the last three seasons, and last Monday their game against the Angels earned the dreaded (and extremely rare) 0.0 rating in the Houston market. With
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