Here it comes. Here comes the mess, and it’s heading straight for Cooperstown. This January, the Baseball Writers Association of America held its annual Hall of Fame election, this time voting Barry Larkin into Co

DECATUR - It must have been opening day in Decatur on Friday because hundreds of red-clad Redbird fans poured into the Decatur Conference Center and Hotel filled with joy, a little concern and an unquenchable appetite for hot dogs and cold beverages. Des

Reports as of Thursday night indicate Dave Duncan will be stepping down (on an as-yet-undetermined basis) from his job as the St. Louis Cardinals' official mad pitching scientist for family reasons—given Duncan's enduring love for turning batting practic

I wanted to prove a point about Dave Duncan, so I typed '1999 St. Louis Cardinals' into the very excellent site called BaseballReference.com. Remember the 1999 Cardinals? Yeah, I don't either. Looks like they went 75-86 and finished 4th in the division.

Who would ever have thought so many people would be envious of flies? Their lives are short and nobody likes them, but now they have something most of us do not: a chance to be on the walls of the Miami Marlins’ clubhouse. And right now, that seems to b

Say what you will about Chris Volstad, but the guy was a choir boy compared to the ticking time bomb the Marlins got for him, the short-fused Carlos Zambrano. (Actually, Volstad really did sing in his high school choir.) Let it be said that Zambrano isn'