By this morning you have no doubt read countless stories about Gary Carter, his playing career, and his character both on and off the field. The links came flying furiously yesterday, because his passing had been a foregone conclusion for quite awhile. S

Times are tough for Astros fans. The team is coming off a 106-loss season—a club record. Wandy Rodriguez, Brett Myers and Bud Norris will most likely begin the season as one, two, three in the rotation and Carlos Lee, JD Martinez, Jose Altuve and Jed Low

2011 was the ultimate roller coaster ride for Dodgers fans. By July 6th they were a season worst 14 games under .500, and really all fans had to look forward to were the amazing exploits of MVP Matt Kemp & Cy Young award winner Clayton Kershaw. Then some

Yesterday, I set a new low in the MLB.com Fantasy411 Industry mock draft when I drafted Gavin Floyd 57 spots below his current ADP. Floyd has a current ADP of 229, which ranks him 85th among all starting pitchers for the 803 mixed league drafts run over

I should probably preface this post by saying I’m an irrationally big Blake DeWitt fan, and have been for a while. That doesn’t mean he’s a great player or anything, I’m just being up front about my personal biases. Anyway, the Cubs designated the 26-yea

I should probably preface this post by saying I’m an irrationally big Blake DeWitt fan, and have been for a while. That doesn’t mean he’s a great player or anything, I’m just being up front about my personal biases. Anyway, the Cubs designated the 26-yea

The Cubs’ new regime continued its housecleaning Monday when it released infielder Blake DeWitt and claimed infielder Adrian Cardenas off waivers from the Athletics. DeWitt, a former first-round pick of the Dodgers, was the highlighted return in former g

Infielder Blake DeWitt, obtained from the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 2010 trade for pitcher Ted Lilly, was designated for assignment Monday by the Chicago Cubs, who also claimed infielder Adrian Cardenas off waivers from the Oakland Athletics. DeWitt, 26,

Today, I’m going to revisit the Blake Hawksworth/Ryan Theriot trade. On July 31, 2010 the Dodgers made a trade with the Chicago Cubs. They traded second baseman Blake DeWitt to the Cubs for Pitcher Ted Lilly, and infielder Ryan Theriot. As we all remembe

(Jason Giambi's seminal Yankee moment, a walk-off grand slam in the 14th inning in a May 17th game against the Minnesota Twins. The Yankees were down 3 when he connected off Mike Trombley.) Storytime, kids! 2002 was the first season that I closely follow

Reporting from Yosemite National Park -- Winter in the high country is usually a season of icy quiet. Birds leave, bears hibernate, and only a few hardy people on skis or snowshoes pass through en route to snow-covered granite domes. But Christmas and Ne

Entering this offseason, many Dodgers fans hoped general manager Ned Colletti would finally solve the offensive problems that have plagued the club since 2009. After all, the free-agent market had several great hitters available. In the past, the Dodgers

On May 20, 2011, the Dodgers played the first game of a three game inter-league series in Chicago against the White Sox. Most of the game was played with a layer of heavy dense fog covering the field, causing us to dubb the game as “the fog game”. The m

I am not the droids you're looking for... says: Totally agree. It sucks when you get reminded that baseball is a business. This is not at all the type of short-sighted, kneejerk post I was expecting to lead off today. Nicely timed. first time ever I have

Everybody's favorite starting pitcher A.J. Burnett was born January 3, 1977 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He was drafted by the Mets in the 8th round of the 1996 draft, one of just 3 players out of that round who made the majors. The Jays had the pick

If the most sincere form of flattery is imitation, franchises out West are falling all over themselves in praise of San Francisco's Giants. All across the nine-team landscape, covering three time zones from Texas to Seattle, front offices are putting tog

I've only done this once before and I apologize in advance for doing it again. We already did our Top 5 Storylines of 2011, of course we did those in October before the trade for Gio Gonzalez and before the Wilson Ramos kidnapping ordeal. Both of those s

2011 was a roller-coaster of a season that started out abysmal, but finished somewhat better. We witnessed both arguably the best player in baseball, Matt Kemp, and surely the worst player in baseball, Eugenio Velez. We suffered major rustiness and were

The first signing of the 2009 offseason was announced to be starting pitcher Ted Lilly. He was acquired at the trade deadline from the Chicago Cubs along with Ryan Theriot for Blake DeWitt and two minor league pitchers Brett Wallach and Kyle Smit. Lilly