Baseball’s latest scandal, the release of financial documents for a variety of Major League teams, could not have come at a worse time for the Florida Marlins.
Already having engaged in a prolonged battle with Miami-Dade County over who should pay for their new stadium that is scheduled to open in 2012, the released documents show [...]

Despite Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Rays, on the 2010 season the Oakland Athletics are sporting an impressive 29-13 record during day games this year.  Even with the loss their day game winning percentage of .695 is an astounding 295 percentage points higher than their night game winning percentage on the year (32-49, .395).
During a [...]

Ever since the (non)retirement of Barry Bonds following the 2007 season the easy storyline on the San Francisco Giants has been that they are an all pitch/no hit kind of team.  Despite marked improvement from their offense since 2008 (the team finished last in the league in runs in 2008, 13th in 2009 and is [...]

If ever a July win felt like a season-saving victory, the Detroit Tigers’ Sunday night’s come-from-behind victory was it.
For a team that on paper is in the thick of a playoff race but in practicality on the fringes of it, their worst news of the week was not the mounting losses (nine out of their [...]

At this point in the 2010 season it is no secret that the Detroit Tigers owe a large part of their success so far to the play of two first year players, Austin Jackson (1.4 WAR) and Brennan Boesch (3.1 WAR). The two have combined for 548 plate appearances and have helped keep the Tigers [...]

Following a final month flameout in 2009 the Detroit Tigers knew that a roster shakeup was necessary. After an offseason in which they either traded or declined to resign aging veterans, and then added even older veterans to the roster, the Tigers found themselves with completely raw rookies in key positions with Austin Jackson and [...]

One can’t help but wonder if the Tigers had their eye on their upcoming interleague series with Arizona when they traded Dontrelle Willis to Arizona soon before they were to face the Diamondbacks in interleague play.
With his underwhelming performance on June 19 against Detroit, Willis made his 27th consecutive start while allowing a minimum of [...]

What turned out to be the biggest off-the-field story for the Detroit Tigers in 2009 is barely getting a whisper in 2010.
As Magglio Ordóñez mysteriously struggled to begin the 2009 season (posting a first half triple slash line of .330/.343/.673) the calls for the team to release Ordóñez, and avoid being on the hook for [...]

Though the Athletics and Red Sox are playing a series this week with one team in first place and the other in fourth place their positions in the standings are not where they have typically been in the past few years.
Entering the season many viewed the A.L. West as something of a tossup, though for [...]

Just as I have done the past few years, I have uploaded and attached the new Top Prospects Compilation file to this blog posting. Prospect rankings from Baseball America, BP’s Kevin Goldstein, and MiLB.com are just some of those that you’ll find in the file.
The Excel workbook contains several tabs at the bottom representing each [...]