Don’t hate the messenger Rays’ fans: While there was a lot of whining about being stuck in baseball’s toughest division, Tampa Bay played down to the rest of the weaker American League, posting a 31-41 record against the AL Central and AL West. In the elite division in baseball, that’s just not going to get [...]

In working on some stuff for the site, I ran into a link to a top-50 position players list I’d published 2 years ago: link. There are many ways to dissect something like this, and I think I can deservedly pat myself on the back for ranking Desmond Jennings the 7th-best position player prospect [...]

Only Steve Bartman appreciated Milton Bradley for what he was worth. Then again, Bartman moved down the scape”goat” list thanks to Bradley’s antics in Chicago. Now that baseball is the #1 attraction in Wrigleyville, the Cubs look to reclaim the division that was there’s for two consecutive seasons before Milton Bradley’s “Game of Strife” hit [...]

Last week, I looked at the Asian pitchers and how they’ve started Spring Training, so this week I’ll look at the hitters and how they’re leading off the season. We lost Kenji Johjima in the offseason, of course, and there weren’t any position player imports—these kinds of imports are a rarity in any year—but these [...]

Greetings from your friendly editor. Funny story about the Milwaukee Brewers. When I was a kid, my cousin and I realized the Brewers “glove” logo was actually an M and a B. We were amazed. What’s that have to do with this preview? Well, nothing. Let’s hand this thing over to Michael Street… Read on [...]

By now “Yes we can!” is so played out that even using it to introduce the President’s favorite baseball team is lame. It’s difficult to keep a White Sox intro short, though. There’s the obligatory mention of Ozzie Guillen’s Twitter, the South Side, and, for the nostalgic, throw in a Black Sox reference, too. Were [...]

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 [...]

The Rockies don’t seem to have much of a question mark around their fifth starter as the Dodgers or the Diamondbacks. Jason Hammel is generally being conceded the job, but a discussion at Inside Pulse reminds us of the presence of Jhoulys Chacin and southpaw Franklin Morales. Morales pitched in relief quite a bit in 2009, [...]

With the news of Joe Nathan’s elbow and Angel Guzman’s shoulder coming down the pike during this past week, Jason Frasor has become a very popular name in trade rumors. I bet most of you are asking the same question: “Who is Jason Frasor?”
Without getting too existential (Who are we, really?), I will tell you [...]

Our guess is that if you found a Padres fan who woke up from a coma, he was awfully confused when looking at a newspaper last season. For those of us who weren’t in a coma, it probably still was a little surprising to see Tony Gwynn grace a Padres lineup again… especially a less [...]