The Toronto Blue Jays were already considered contenders this season, but they wanted to ensure a playoff berth so bad, they willingly gave up some of the most promising players from their farm system. Perhaps the biggest acquisition of the season was the addition of David Price from the Detroit Tigers, who no doubt played…
In the Wild Card game that was played last night, the Yankees were on the leash of Dallas Keuchel. The ace of the Astros limited the Yankees to three hits. The Yankees went 0 for 2 with runners in scoring positon and that says it all. Of course as a fan you have some hope…
After the 6-3 defeat vs the Dodgers, the Padres announced that interim manager Pat Murphy was fired. Murphy took over around half way the season after the Padres fired Bud Black. Murphy stepped in with a 42-53 record and with the Padres in fourth place. At the end of the season the club was still…
Yesterday was the last day that Don Orsillo was in the broadcast booth of NESN, the New England Sports Network. Earlier this year NESN announced that Orsillo would not come back as their TV announcer of Red Sox games. Tricky part in this is that the Network asked Orsillo to tweet that the parting was…
Photo: Howard Simmons/New York Daily News After being put on the rack by the Red Sox in the previous three games, the Yankees clinched one of the two American League wild cards with their 10,000th win in franchise history. Three solo homeruns by Carlos Beltran, Greg Byrd and Rob Refsnyder made the difference. In the…
After Sunday’s brawl between Nationals’ closer Jonathan Papelbon and outfielder Bryce Harper, Papelbon will be suspended for three games by MLB and for another four by the Nationals, who claim that Papelbon’s actions cannot be accepted. MLB claims that he has behaved in a way that players aren’t expected to behave. But what was the…
Joe DiMaggio or the Yankee Clipper or Joltin’ Joe, may be the most worshipped baseball player of all times after Babe Ruth. Known for his 56 game hitting streak in 1941, the year that Ted Williams was the last man to hit .400, and known for his marriage with Marilyn Monroe. But Joe had a…
I have been mulling all afternoon if I should write something about Yogi Berra’s passing. A bit cheap to write about it as all other baseball websites wrote about it already. But on the other hand, as a Yankee fan I should spend some words on it. Berra signed with the Yankees in 1943 while serving…
With the lease of Disney’s Wide World of Sports ending in 2017, the Braves look to move elsewhere. Disney’s Wide World of Sports lured the Braves when the complex was just finished to use it as their Spring Training complex, but nowadays, the Braves are just a minor player at the complex; in other words,…
After two previous years in which the Toronto Blue Jays played a couple of exhibition games in Montreal, it looks like it starts to become a tradition for the Blue Jays to there before the regular season starts. Next year the Blue Jays will take on the Boston Red Sox to conclude the 2016 Spring…
