Last summer Rays’ owner Stuart Sternberg announced a novel idea—for the team to split their seasons between St Petersburg and Montreal. The proposal was for each city to build a $500M outdoor stadium, and to play the first half of … Continue reading
Okay, bad pun, but I’m not ashamed; I love bad puns. Yesterday was the deadline to offer contracts to arbitration eligible players. Those players who did not receive an offer have become the latest entries into the free agent market. … Continue reading
The commissioner will never read this, but just in case… Continue reading
The O’s have put Jonathan Villar on outright waivers. You know, a guy who hit .273/.339/.453 with 24 homers, who stole 40 bases, and was worth 4.0 bWAR. You know, one of the few guys on the team who was … Continue reading
Recently I posted articles reviewing this year’s BBWAA ballot for the Hall of Fame. Today I decided to look ahead to who will be on future ballots through 2024, and to play Nostradamus (Nostradumbass?) about who will get in each … Continue reading
Give beisbol a break for a moment. I was too old to have watched Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood as a child. My heroes were Godzilla, Rodan, Moe, Larry, Curly and Bela Lugosi. However, I was a somewhat older dad, my daughter … Continue reading
Word at the end of the season was that the Rays wanted to re-sign catcher d’Arnaud. It was understandable too, as he played well in his partial season as a Ray. He hit 16 homers and slashed .263/.323/.459 in 92 … Continue reading
The White Sox have signed Jose Abreu to a 3 year, $50M deal. Last week he signed the $17.8M QO, then parlayed that this week into the extension. Good for him. Good for the ChiSox too; the 32-year-old has played … Continue reading
Let’s not talk about how insanely stupid it would be to bring a third team to the state that already has the lowest two attended stadiums in MLB. Let’s talk about who ever the hell designed this logo? 1999 … Continue reading
in my last post, I reviewed the returning players on the ballot. This will discuss the players on their first HoF ballot. The obvious headliner is, of course, Derek Jeter—to whom I will give proper re2pect of course. However, it … Continue reading
Glue guy. Good guy to have in the clubhouse. Chemistry guy. Mentor to the young Latino players. Whatever you want to call him, Gerardo Parra’s impact on the Nationals in 2019 was measured more in intangibles than actual on-field performance, … Continue reading
There are 18 players appearing on the ballot for the first time, and 14 returning players. Among the newbies is no-doubt soon-to-be-enshrined Derek Jeter. The real question is whether any of the other 31 will also be selected this year … Continue reading
This year’s MVPs are: Mike Trout of the Angels and Cody Bellinger of the Dodgers, for a sweep by the two Los Angeles franchises. On the AL side, it was a close race between Trout and the Astros’ Alex … Continue reading
A quick note before I relate this latest misadventure of the star-crossed Macondo franchise: I will no longer waste my time trying to upload images to this lame, primitive site only to be greeted by a message that the file … Continue reading
Both winners garnered theirs second award tonight: Justin Verlander of the Astros (AL) and Jacob deGrom of the Mets (NL). Verlander won his first in 2012 with the Tigers; deGrom, of course, also won the NL CYA last year. The … Continue reading
