The Yankees easily dispatched the Minnesota Twins last week, but they've got their work cut out for them in facing the Angels of Wherever in the American League Championship Series...
The Twins won their division in dramatic fashion last night, as I had hoped they would, since the Yankees have owned the Minnesota Twins for the last several years...
Hey, remember Mike Stanton?No, not that one. He's retired now.I mean Mike Stanton 2.0, or, wait, 3.0.Mike Stanton extreme...
The Yankees won their 102nd game of the season last night and will easily have the best record in baseball this year, for whatever that's worth...
Rob Neyer (mercifully back from vacation this week) mentioned today how the Kansas City Royals are seeing a significant increase in attendance this year, this despite fielding perhaps the worst ...
Golly, why didn't I think of that?The Yankees have struggled to find an effective fifth starter all year. The top four pitchers in the rotation have all been reasonably healthy and effective, compiling a solid 38-20 record and a 3...
Sean Smith at the Hardball Times has a lengthy article about Ichiro Suzuki's chances of being voted into Cooperstown and/or the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and he does some interesting analysis ...
Well, you can't say the Giants aren't trying.Yesterday, as reigning Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum made perhaps the best start of his young career, the Giants front office was completing ...
I detailed a few weeks ago, when Chien Ming Wang went back on the DL, how I thought that Joe Girardi had dropped the ball with regard to managing his bullpen...
From the Iron City comes this bit of disturbing news: The Pittsburgh Pirates aim to keep shortstop Jack Wilson and second baseman Freddy Sanchez...
While the pause in official games for the mid-summer classic is not exactly the half-way point of the season (most teams have played 86-88 games) it's a convenient place to stop and take a look around, seeing what's happened up to now...
Just when I thought I knew what was wrong with Chien-Ming Wang, suddenly it no longer matters. Whether the problem before was is slider failing to slide or his sinker failing to sink, the real ...
What's "Rzepczynski" spelled backwards, if it isn't already?The Blue Jays are starting a young lefty named Marc Rzepczynski today against the Tampa Bay Rays—one of many starters in the Jays' patchwork rotation this year...
ESPN's Buster Olney writes, at the beginning of a 2,800-word "blog post", that Rockies closer Huston Street has experienced dramatic improvement due to the smallest of changes: .....
On the heels of yet another loss to the hated Red Sox, and entering a crucial series with the hated Mets, the New York Yankees have some 'splainin to do...
Well, it's been a whole month, so I guess we were due to resume the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. As you'll no doubt recall, when last we met our heroes—or, at least the last time the Red Sox ...
Rob Neyer commented yesterday on the Dodgers' pitching staff and their general manager's efforts to improve on the (apparently) un-improvable: The Dodgers could cruise to 90 wins and the division title without making a single move the rest of the season.
In light of the Big Unit's chase for his 300th win, Joe Posnaski recently wrote a column for Sports Illustrated with Bill James and just blogged his own piece on the nature (and unpredictability of) 300-game winners...
The Yankees completed a four game home sweep of the Minnesota Twins last night, stretching their current winning streak to six games, four of which were won by only one run. This improves the Yankees' overall record to 21-17, bringing the team within 4..
In these harsh economic times, I have to wonder why the Yankees think this view is worth $85 per ticket. They call it the "Batter's Eye View" because the seats are in the Bleachers Cafe, above the batter's eye (i...
As the field manager of the New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007, Joe Torre epitomized class and dignity on the baseball field, so it's fitting that even his book's title and cover are classy...
The Good News: Phil Hughes pitched well last night against the Tigers. He used 99 pitches to shut them out for six innings, allowing only two hits and two walks while fanning six...
MLB.com's Chris Haft writes that the San Francisco Giants are issuing fewer walks this year, and their pitchers are therefore having more success at preventing runs...
There is a new ballpark from which balls are flying out at a record pace. Home runs are jumping off the bats of both the home team and its opponents, much more so than in the team's road games, ...
Carl Pavano made his (not) much anticipated return to a major league mound this afternoon, toeing the rubber for the Cleveland Indians against the Texas Rangers in Arlington...
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