MLB: The National League earns a rare win over the American League The National League who hasn’t won since 1996 finally was able to get one. The National League just always would fall victim to last inning defeats, bloopers, errors and just plain out could never get the job done. Their Savior was the amazing…
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MLB: David “Big Papi” Ortiz powers past the competition at the Home Run Derby
MLB: David “Big Papi” Ortiz powers past the competition at the Home Run Derby First Round: Chris Young – 1 Homer (Eliminated) Vernon Wells – 2 Homers (Eliminated) Corey Hart – 13 Homers Nick Swisher – 4 Homers (Eliminated) Matt Holliday – 5 Homers (Eliminated) David Ortiz – 8 Homers Hanley Ramirez – 9 Homers…
Home Run Derby Contestants and Predictions
Home Run Derby Contestants and Predictions Contestants Detroit Tigers – Miguel Cabrera Toronto Blue Jays – Vernon Wells New York Yankees – Nick Swisher St. Louis Cardinals – Matt Holliday Florida Marlins – Hanley Ramirez Milwaukee Bucks – Corey Hart Boston Red Sox – David Ortiz Arizona Diamondbacks – Chris Young Predictions First 4 Eliminated:…
MLB News: Rangers up the ante and acquire Cliff Lee
MLB News: Rangers up the ante and acquire Cliff Lee The New York Yankees came close to having the most unimaginable rotation in baseball. The ace Cliff Lee was supposedly packing his bags for New York for Jesus Montero, David Adams, and a 3rd player. Instead the Texas Rangers upped the ante for Cliff Lee…
MLB News: Cliff Lee close to being a Yankee
MLB News: Cliff Lee close to being a Yankee The ace Cliff Lee is on the brink of joining an already beefed up pitching staff. After last night’s game verse the Yankees, the Mariners lowered there demands on Cliff Lee. There are other teams possibly brewing a counter trade but the Mariners seem to like…
MLB All-Star Team Rosters Announced
MLB All-Star Team Rosters AMERICAN LEAGUE Pitchers SP- Clay Buchholz – Boston Red Sox SP- Trevor Cahill – Oakland Athletics SP- Fausto Carmona – Cleveland Indians CP- Neftali Feliz – Texas Rangers SP- Phil Hughes – New York Yankees SP- Cliff Lee – Seattle Mariners SP- Jon Lester – Boston Red Sox SP- David Price –…
Fantasy Baseball Adds and Drops: Catchers Edition
Fantasy Baseball Adds and Drops: Catchers Edition ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— ADD Cleveland Indians – Carlos Santana Average: .333 Runs: 7 Hits: 16 Doubles: 7 Homers: 4 RBI’s: 14 Walks: 11 Since being called up Carlos Santana has been consistent with the bat. In his last 10 games he is batting .387, has 12 hits, 6 doubles, 4…
Edwin Jackson throws a rare no-hitter
Edwin Jackson threw a no-hitter on 149 pitches. Rarely you see a pitcher throw over 110 pitches but Jackson wasn’t going to stop until he gave up a hit. Jackson also walked 8 batters which can explain for 32 of the pitches. In the 9th inning Jackson showed no slowing down either being clocked throwing…
MLB News
MLB NEWS Florida Marlins fire coach Fredi Gonzalez and name Edwin Rodriguez interim Josh Hamilton’s hot bat has extended the Texas Rangers winning streak to 9 games Jamie Moyer tied the record for most homers allowed at 505 by surrendering the deep ball to Russell Branyan. Moyer also recorded win 266 Oakland Athletics designate OF…
Recent MLB Transactions
Arizona Diamondbacks traded 1B/OF Conor Jackson to the Oakland Athletics for RHP Sam Demel LHP Mark Mulder Retires 1b/OF Darin Erstad Retires Los Angeles Dodgers sign RHP Claudio Vargas Pittsburgh Pirates Call up 3B Pedro Alvarez New York Mets release OF Gary Matthews Jr Seattle Mariners designate RHP Ian Snell for assignment Detroit Tigers release…
A star is born in Stephen Strasburg
Stephen Strasburg drove off the hype ramp and cleared it. The phenom in his first major league outing pitched 7 innings in a win. Strasburg only let up 4 hits, 2 earned runs and had 0 walks. The biggest thing of this outing besides the win was the number of strikeouts he had. Strasburg struck…
Michael Stanton makes his silent debut
A silent debut due to the hype of Strasburg’s debut but a very good one overall. Michael Stanton tore it up in AA and the Marlins had to call him up. His numbers in 52 games: .311 average, 21 homers, and 52 runs batted in. He dominated in the minors and clearly was ready for…