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All-Star Teams Announced for the 2014 All-Star Game
On July 15th, the best of the best will take the field for the 85th All-Star Game at the dazzling Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Twins. Baseball fans have been submitting...
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Breaking Down This Year’s Upcoming Free Agents
Now that the trade deadline has past, it’s time to take a look at what is available this upcoming offseason. Free agency provides general managers with the opportunity to change the fortune of their...
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Nelson Cruz, Orioles Have Mutual Interest in Possible Extension
Following his 50-game suspension for PED’s as a member of the Texas Rangers in 2013, slugger Nelson Cruz signed a 1 year, $8 million dollar contract with the Baltimore Orioles. Many regard this as the...
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Rangers decline option on Alex Rios, will become a free agent after World Series
The Texas Rangers have declined the $14 million option on Alex Rios, and will buy out his contract for $2 million. Although he’s probably not going to get very many big offers, he’s more than likely to...
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Orioles offered Cruz 3-year deal during season, the sides expected to talk...
The Baltimore Orioles offered designated hitter Nelson Cruz a three-year deal before he hit free agency, ESPN’s Buster Olney reports. The dollar value wasn’t reported, but the average yearly value was...
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Predictions: Will the Mariners pass on Nelson Cruz again?
Last season was a crazy one for Nelson Cruz. The thirty-four year old signed a 1yr/$8M contract with the Baltimore Orioles. When the Birds first signed the hard hitting right-hander they weren’t...
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Seattle Mariners Sign Nelson Cruz to Four-Year Deal
According to reports, Nelson Cruz has agreed to a 4-year deal with the Seattle Mariners. Roch Kubatko, who covers the Baltimore Orioles, Cruz’s now former team, tweeted the deal and the fact the...
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Following Cruz’s signing, M’s seek more OF help
With the recent signing of Nelson Cruz to a 4-year, $57-million deal, the Seattle Mariners don’t believe they are finished. According to Bob Dutton of The News Tribune, Nelson Cruz could be their...
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How will the O’s address the loss of Nelson Cruz?
When the Baltimore Orioles signed Nelson Cruz to a one-year, $8-million contract, they didn’t know what they were getting, and the question marks surrounding the 34-year old were the reasons for such a...
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Melky Cabrera Aims for 5-Year Deal
Melky Cabrera might be the next outfielder to find a home this offseason. The ‘Melk Man’ is reportedly looking for a guaranteed 5th year on his next contract, as reported by Ken Rosenthal: Melky wants...
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Orioles Can Add Two Birds With One Move
Well, Baltimore Orioles GM Dan Duquette didn’t get much time to enjoy his 2014 Executive of the Year award. Maybe it was a good thing that Duquette was able to re-sign shortstop J.J. Hardy before the...
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Mariners’ pursuit for Melky Cabrera is “serious”
After signing right-handed slugger Nelson Cruz to a 4-year deal, the Mariners have hopped right back into the free agency market, expressing “serious” interest in outfielder Melky Cabrera. The news was...
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Orioles Re-sign Delmon Young
Delmon Young will not sign with the sixth different organization of his career, as the 29-year-old outfielder/designated hitter was re-signed by the Baltimore Orioles. Delmon Young deal is 1 year for...
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Why the White Sox Should Wait to Trade Dayan Viciedo
Rick Hahn has been very busy before the new year, as he has added bullpen pieces Zach Duke and David Robertson, traded for Jeff Samardzija, and added key pieces Adam LaRoche and Melky Cabrera. Dayan...
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Ranking Each AL Team’s Best Offseason Move
The offseason is one of the most important parts of the MLB year. It allows teams to improve their roster via trades, free agency, scouting and extensions. It gives teams a better perspective of where...
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Downside To Each Team’s Biggest Free Agent Signing: American League
Every team makes moves in the offseason with hopes of improving their chances of playing October baseball, but these big moves can often backfire as nothing is ever guaranteed in the sport of baseball....
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Power Rankings: Top 5 Designated Hitters in ’15
We are nearing the end of my 2015 positional rankings. This, the shortest of the series, is one of my favorites. Ranking the DH position is so much harder, due to the fact that there is no defense to...
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Interesting Position Players to Watch in 2015
With spring training getting underway, Major League teams are starting their process of trying to figure out their opening day rosters. As fans, we’re all quite used to hearing about the superstars of...
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Does Steve Pearce Hold the Key to Orioles’ Offense in 2015?
For the first time in his professional baseball career, Steve Pearce entered Spring Training assured of the fact that he would be going north with the big club. A minor league journeyman who finally...
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Five Bold Predictions for the 2015 Seattle Mariners
The 2014 version of the Seattle Mariners gave their fans some serious glimmers of hope. With new manager Lloyd McClendon at the helm and the quarter-billion dollar Robinson Cano adding some meat to the...
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Glimmers Of Hope After A Tough Week: Mariners Get Sunday Walkoff Win
The last time I wrote about the Mariners, I was basking in the excitement of an Opening Day win. Felix Hernandez was his usual dominant self and the bats, surprisingly, found ways to support him. Since...
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I See You – Weekly Awards
A new weekly column that is designed to be a little serious, as well as a little sarcastic. The idea for the column is based on the Luke Bryan country song “I See You,” as well as the Nationally...
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Now Is the Time for the Mariners to Make Some Roster Moves
After falling one game short of the second wild card spot in 2014, the Seattle Mariners came into 2015 with high expectations. They were already a good-looking team after last season, and after the...
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Ryan Braun Is No Longer Just Another Cautionary Tale
Ryan Braun is a guy whose reputation has been severely tarnished due to his admission of using performance-enhancing drugs. It wasn’t the admission of PEDs that made everyone turn their back on him,...
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Nelson Cruz: All aboard the regression train?
May 2015 did not look all that different from May 2014 for Nelson Cruz. In his first season with the Seattle Mariners, Cruz hit eight home runs and drove in 16 while slashing .346/.407/.607. Last May,...
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Is Alex Rodriguez an All-Star?
The short answer to the title question, of course, is most likely, but what kind of writer would I be if I was willing to leave it at that? Alex Rodriguez has turned the baseball world on its ear so...
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Why Royals dominating All-Star Game voting isn’t bad for baseball
Let me premise what I am about to write with the following statement. If you have not voted for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, you have no right to bellyache over the fact that after...
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Split Decision: Major League Baseball Splits Thus Far
So I had this idea the other week. Not the kind taken straight from a comic book where I become a madman take over a city. No, no, the kind where I become a madman and try to periodically update the...
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Edgar Martinez Named Mariners New Hitting Coach
On Saturday afternoon, the Seattle Mariners announced the hiring of former Mariners designated hitter and third baseman Edgar Martinez as their new hitting coach. Howard Johnson had been the hitting...
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All-Star Worthy Position Players: American League
Fan voting in the All-Star Game has been a largely controversial topic this season. Kansas City Royals fans have stuffed the ballot box for their players and their efforts will earn them as many as...
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Is Jimmy Paredes an All-Star?
The Jimmy Paredes show rolled on in Baltimore last night. The Orioles’ designated hitter, in the midst of a breakout season at 26, went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs. He drove in the first two...
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Seattle Mariners Face The Impossibility Of Preseason Predictions
Hey Mariners’ fans, any of you remember the preseason hype and hope? Remember how everybody was picking them to win the American League West division title? How about when ESPN looked into their...
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Nelly Cruz booming in Seattle
Some in the Seattle Mariners organization wanted Nelson Cruz before the 2014 season. Cruz was coming off a PED suspension and that likely played a major role in why the M’s didn’t sign him and the...
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Why Nelson Cruz Should Be The AL MVP
Safeco Field is known as one of the best pitcher parks in the big leagues, which is one reason why the Seattle Mariners are one of the most offensively-challenged teams in baseball. Camden Yards in...
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Where does Seattle go from here?
It was October 2008, the Seattle Mariners had just finished off the first 100-plus loss season of a ball club with a $100 million dollar payroll in Major League Baseball history. Bill Bavasi had just...
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2016 wish list: Seattle Mariners
The Seattle Mariners new General Manager, Jerry Dipoto, has a plan and I’m hoping it is a World Series contender blueprint. It seems Dipoto is zeroing in on a new manager in Seattle. Several reports...
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Mariners proving SafeCo Field is just another ballpark
For years it was said that free agents shied away from Seattle and SafeCo Field. But is that starting to change because of hitters having success or the Mariners fielding a better team? It always helps...
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What the Royals can Learn from the Orioles
The Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles are fairly similar Major League Baseball clubs. Both play in mid-sized markets. Both endured lengthy postseason droughts that covered much of the Nineties...
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Deriving Benefit from a One Year Contract
The list of higher profile free agents has not dwindled as expected as we exit 2015 and start the new year. Several big name players are still available, many that most pundits thought would have...
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Five Major Questions for the Seattle Mariners in 2016
(Sept. 29, 2015 – Source: Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images North America) The 2015 season was one full of disappointment for the Seattle Mariners. They went into the year with some experts predicting them...
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Seattle Mariners Facing a Crossroads
The American League West has been the home for hot teams this month. The Texas Rangers are trying to run away with the division with a record of 47-26 and hold a 10-game lead going into Thursday. The...
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Minnesota Twins Should Focus on Adding Positional Versatility
It seems like an offseason ritual that baseball fans alike discuss starting pitchers the Minnesota Twins should target. However, this drag of an offseason is different: the Twins should focus on adding...
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