The Cubs’ Infamous 2003 NLCS Loss — Tenth Anniversary

The 2013 Major League Baseball Season will begin before we know it. Spring Training started in mid-February, and the first game of the regular season is on March 31. Most teams – including the Chicago Cubs — will begin play on April 1. As the postseason plays throughout October, something special – in a negative [...]

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MLB Disabled List Pays Big Bucks, Costs Fans

MLB Disabled List Pays Big Bucks, Costs Fans

Oh, how we would all love to make millions of dollars to play Major League Baseball. The average salary of a Major League player is well over $3 million. Some make eight-digit salaries every year of their contract. I could go on about who makes how much to play, but this time, I want to [...]

Cubs / Anthony Rizzo Deal Is a Team Builder

Cubs / Anthony Rizzo Deal Is a Team Builder

We Chicago Cubs fans got one of the best pieces of news that we could possibly get all season. MLB.com’s Cubs beat writer Carrie Muskat reported that the Cubs have signed slugging first baseman Anthony Rizzo to a seven-year, $41 million contract, ensuring that Rizzo plays in Wrigley Field until at least 2019. With incentives, [...]

Kevin Gregg: Have the Cubs Solved Their Closer Problem?

Kevin Gregg: Have the Cubs Solved Their Closer Problem?

Six for six – that is the Chicago Cubs’ relief pitcher Kevin Gregg’s rate of success as closer in 2013. The Chicago Cubs’ bullpen began the 2013 season right where they left off in 2012 – by blowing save after save. Carlos Marmol was 2 for 4 and got removed. Kyuji Fujikawa was 2 for [...]

New York Yankees’ Make-Shift Lineup Not So “Make-Shift”

New York Yankees’ Make-Shift Lineup Not So “Make-Shift”

Okay, so the New York Yankees have not exactly run away with the American League East so far this season. However, considering that many so-called baseball experts keep predicting the fall of the Yankee Empire due to age and injury, a three-way first-place tie with the resurgent Boston Red Sox and the under-rated Baltimore Orioles [...]

Can MLB Protect Pitchers Better?

Can MLB Protect Pitchers Better?

We baseball-loving dads all want to see our sons pitch, and we dream of watching them do so in the Major Leagues – especially when we have a lefty such as I have. However, seeing how seriously a Major League pitcher can get hurt can calm down that eagerness for a while. On Wednesday, May [...]

Lyle Overbay: What Should the Yankees Do When Teixeira Returns?

Lyle Overbay: What Should the Yankees Do When Teixeira Returns?

Just before Spring Training ended, the New York Yankees signed first baseman Lyle Overbay to fill in for the injured Mark Teixeira. The Red Sox has just released Overbay, and the Yankees were in dire need of a first baseman after “Tex” went down early to a torn tendon in his right wrist. The Overbay [...]

Tigers’ Jose Valverde Should Have Been Closer All Along

Tigers’ Jose Valverde Should Have Been Closer All Along

There is no way to verify this now, but just before Spring Training started, I posted on Scoop Post.com that Jose Valverde was one of the five best free agents still available at that time. That site eliminated all sports, including that article, but I still held my position that some contending team should grab [...]

April Major League Surprises

April Major League Surprises

I just want to take a little time and space to post some random surprises (good and bad) and other observations that I have noticed about the Major League Baseball season through April. I know I will miss a whole lot of what others might have posted, but here goes anyway — in no particular [...]

New York Yankees April, 2013, Report Card

New York Yankees April, 2013, Report Card

We have finished the final weekend of April, and the New York Yankees find themselves in second place, 2.5 games out, in the American League Eastern Division with a record of 15-9. I predicted – and still predict — them to win the division. To quote a few clichés, it is still very early, anything [...]

Chicago Cubs April 2013 Report Card

Chicago Cubs April 2013 Report Card

We have entered the final weekend of April, and the Chicago Cubs already find themselves in the cellar of the National League Central Division with a record of 8-14. I predicted them to finish in 3rd place and near the .500 mark. It is still very early, and the Cubs could get it going, but [...]