Angels going for best rotation ever?
Wednesday November 26, 2008
The lack of free agent news out there, along with reports that Jake Peavy would be willing to be traded to the Los Angeles Angels, has sparked this scenario:
Could the ... Read More
Free agency has begun, hasn't it?
Tuesday November 25, 2008
The free agent signing period started a week ago in Major League Baseball, but from the relative lack of action, you'd never know it.
Just one player has changed teams so ... Read More
Will there be a Moose sighting in Cooperstown?
Thursday November 20, 2008
Pedroia left off one MVP ballot: Why the indignation?
Wednesday November 19, 2008
The Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia was named American League MVP, capping the awards season with probably the most interesting vote of the season.
The baseball writers - two per city ... Read More
MVP Pujols is on a direct path to Cooperstown
Monday November 17, 2008
St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols is the National League Most Valuable Player for a second time, edging out Philadelphia's Ryan Howard after another superb season.
Pujols was the pillar in ... Read More
Female sidearm knuckleballer, 16, drafted by Japanese pro league
Monday November 17, 2008
Is professional baseball ready for another female pitcher?
There have been a few in the past. Jackie Mitchell was the first, signing for the minor-league Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931, and she ... Read More
So much for economics mattering
Monday November 17, 2008
The recession is affecting everybody, except perhaps the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have pulled up spring training stakes from Vero Beach, Fla., and are now based in Glendale, Ariz. How ... Read More
Logic took a Holliday in this deal
Thursday November 13, 2008
Most trades make sense for both sides in some way. But the Matt Holliday deal from the Colorado Rockies to the Oakland A's defies conventional logic.
The 2007 NL champs just ... Read More
Herb Score: The voice of Cleveland baseball
Wednesday November 12, 2008
Many baseball fans know the name, but only in passing. They might know Herb Score was a hard-throwing left-handed pitcher for the Cleveland Indians who won the 1955 Rookie of ... Read More
A baby face and a grown-up arm
Wednesday November 12, 2008
At 5-11, Tim Lincecum isn't the shortest winner of the Cy Young Award. Pedro Martinez is the same height, Greg Maddux is just an inch taller and Yankees legend Whitey ... Read More
Richest rookie earns top award
Tuesday November 11, 2008
Evan Longoria is the first Tampa Bay Rays player to win Rookie of the Year (or any baseball writers' award, for that matter). He's also the richest Rookie of the ... Read More
Gold Gloves tarnished by "popular" vote
Sunday November 9, 2008
Here's a trivia question with which you can stump your friends. Who has the most Gold Glove awards all-time?
Ozzie Smith? Nope. Brooks Robinson? No, but close.
It's pitcher Greg Maddux, who ... Read More
MLB 2008 award picks
Tuesday November 4, 2008
Seeing as it's election day, it's time to get in the voting spirit. (Of course, the baseball writers had to have these votes in back in September.) So with roughly ... Read More
GMs meet at posh resort, but many with bargain budgets
Tuesday November 4, 2008
At a dubious economic location, baseball's general managers met and put a start to the hot-stove season in Dana Point, Calif.
The GMs are staying and talking at the St. Regis ... Read More

