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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
