I’m not the first person, nor will I be the last to blah blah blah about how Brandon Phillips is the most miscast cleanup hitter in the league today.
To me, it’s a mental thing.
Phillips is a tremendous player. Excellent power. Excellent glove. Excellent speed.
He just doesn’t seem to feel comfortable hitting cleanup. Maybe he tries [...]

Imagine last year’s fantasy football season if you owned Jay Cutler, he threw 5 INT’s against the Niners, and your team was permanently scarred because of it.
Categorical scoring does not allow team owners to exhibit the riverboat gambler tendencies which are hallmarks of champion teams in head-to-head league play. Rotisserie scoring is kind of like [...]

Expectations often act like an Acme anvil, dropping from a high desert cliff onto the shoulders or heads of young, heralded pitchers.
For every guy who is brought along the right way, there is a Bill Pulsipher. When fans, and team brass expects what a scout tells them about a guy to translate onto the field, [...]

There are a few things you can be sure of about this year’s Cincinnati Reds: IF all of their talent plays up to their full potential, the young Red Machine will be tough to handle; IF it doesn’t, we’ll blame Dusty Baker. Sorry, Dusty, that’s just how it works with you… We don’t make the [...]

BDD’s Isaac Thorn considers himself a simple man… that joke writes itself, doesn’t it? Actually, Mr. Thorn is a datacaster for MLB.com and while he already has a “job in baseball”, the guy still wants to “earn a living writing about baseball.” The nerve! Terms of the deal were undisclosed but Isaac is signed to [...]

Like most of us with siblings, I have often been motivated to prove that my brother doesn’t know what he talks about.
Upon hearing of Jason Bay’s pending four-year, $66 million pact with the Mets my brother opined that Bay will be the best left fielder the Mets have has since the days of Garbage Pail [...]

The Reds need to hammer out a deal with free-agent catcher Miguel Olivo. Hopefully Reds ownership resists the urge to cut payroll and trade away Brandon Phillips and/or Bronson Arroyo.
I feel strongly that if the Reds inked Olivo that he would have the best offensive year as a catcher by a Red since the not [...]

In today’s New York Post David Wells suggests that Andy Pettite’s first pitch to Chase Utley should knock him down. As an ex-player, Wells can certainly make a valid argument about the function and necessity of throwing inside to hitters.
It’s even easier to make that argument after Alex Rodriguez has been hit. It might seem [...]

Missed calls by umpires in both League Division Series were scrutinized intensely, and used as a rallying cry by those in favor of making Instant Replay a more integral part of the game. What I fear they fail to see is that human error is a big part of baseball, and how it is played. [...]

Minnesota has leaped from the fire of a one-game playoff and into the frying pan of a very talented Yankee team. Most pundits don’t think the Twins will be able to parlay the emotional high of an extra inning win over Detroit into enough momentum to knock off New York.
It makes sense to believe that [...]