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Dugout Digest - all hail Harvey
Matt Harvey just cannot be stopped. The Mets rookie improved to 5-0 on the season in New York's 3-2 win over the Cubs on Friday night, giving up just two runs in 7 1/3 and striking out six without a walk. His fastball averaged 96 over the 106 total pitches he threw over the evening, topped out at 99, and he *still* broke 96 in the seventh inning. With Harvey, Shelby Miller, and...
MLB Watchability Rankings - 5/17/13
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1
+1
vs. DET
vs. OAK
The Darvish-Verlander duel was a bust, but we still get to see the two best teams in the AL face off and that is more than OK with us.
2
-1
@ LAD
vs. MIN
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What's in a number?
The other day I was bored and started shuffling through which players have worn certain numbers throughout the history of our game. This led me to start looking at current rosters and what numbers are particularly popular. I happened to stumble across what I believed to be an anomaly. There are a lot of players that like the number 27. It seems like such a random number,...
LSU player does full flip in vicious home plate collision
Check out this bit of craziness from the college ranks. During Thursday night's Ole Miss-LSU matchup, LSU left fielder Raph Rhymes hit a sinking liner to center field. Ole Miss CF Auston Bousfield dove to make the catch, but whiffed, and the ball rolled all the way to the wall. Rhymes got on his horse and tried to score on the play. The throw was up the third base line, and Rebels...
Can anyone stop Miguel Cabrera from winning another Triple Crown?
Miguel Cabrera is the reigning 2012 MVP. There was much debate over whether he should be or not, and in case you missed it, the Cabrera-Trout argument eventually morphed into a misguided old school vs new school battle for legitimacy. Last year, clearly old school won the fight among the among the BBWAA, as Cabrera’s Triple Crown topped Trout’s incredible all-around season...
Dad returns from Afghanistan, surprises daughter by catching first pitch
How about a feel good story to start your Friday? Before Thursday's Red Sox-Rays game, a video message played from Lt Col. Will Adams, stationed in Afghanistan, telling his daughter Alayna that he loved her and would be seeing her soon. His daughter then threw out the first pitch to the catcher in Rays gear...who unmasked as her father Will,
Adams was due home from Afghanistan...
Dugout Digest - the disappointing duel
Everyone was extremely excited about the Yu Darvish-Justin Verlander pitching matchup in Texas on Friday night. When all was said and done and all the smoke was cleared...the matchup was an extreme disappointment. In the Rangers' 10-4 win, Verlander tallied just eight outs and allowed eight runs on six hits, walking two (with the bases loaded, mind you) and striking out just...
David Price lands on DL with strained triceps
It's been a rough start to the season for the AL's reigning Cy Young winner. David Price came into Wednesday night's start against the Red Sox carrying a 4.78 ERA, opponents were posting an OPS near .800 against him and the Rays were 2-6 in his starts. Things got worse against Boston, as Price gave up four runs in just 2.1 innings before leaving with a strained triceps...
Jonny Venters has second Tommy John surgery
Atlanta Braves reliever Jonny Venters, who hasn't thrown a pitch this regular season, will miss the 2013 season following the second Tommy John surgery of his career.
In his first two years with the Braves (2010-11), Venters was simply incredible as the primary setup man to Billy Wagner (in 2010) and Craig Kimbrel (in 2011), striking out 189 hitters in 171 innings and a...
How do these starting pitchers still have jobs?
As the baseball season heads passed the quarter pole, the players that are struggling are running out of excuses. Proclamations of bad luck and small sample size simply don't hold much weight anymore. At this point, teams need to make the tough decision of whether or not to stick with a struggling player to hope he turns things around or to cut their losses and move on to someone...
Start Mo in the MLB All-Star Game? Let's just say no
In his 19th and final season, New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is having a typically excellent year. His 16 saves are tied for the major-league lead, one of several reasons the Yankees are the surprise of the early season with a 25-15 record (as of May 16) and a two-game lead in the AL East. He has a 1.56 ERA in 18 appearances thus far. If that holds up, it would be the third...
Dugout Digest - just one of those games
Let's put together a brief recap of the Mariners-Yankees game from last night, shall we?
-Yankees starter Phil Hughes didn't make it out of the first inning, allowing seven runs on six hits and getting just two outs.
-Raul Ibanez drove in six runs. Combine that with his two RBI from Tuesday, and you've got nearly half of his 17 on the season coming in the last...
Zack Greinke to return on Wednesday for Dodgers
After initially being expected to miss eight weeks following a fractured collarbone that he suffered in a brawl with Carlos Quentin last month, Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Zack Greinke will make his return to the team tonight against the Nationals after just four and a half weeks on the shelf.
The Dodgers have struggled this season and are currently 6.5 games out of...
Dugout Digest - Dickey time
You know, maybe it really *is* the American League. RA Dickey started on Tuesday night against the Giants, and his performance was positively DIckey-esque: two runs on six hits in six innings, walking two and striking out ten. Dickey also tallied 15 whiffs on 115 pitches, a little above the rate he sat at last season. Unfortunately, Dickey's next start will come on Sunday...against...
Curtis Granderson is back, but who will go to the bench?
Curtis Granderson is in the starting lineup for the New York Yankees tonight, playing left field and batting fourth for their game against the Seattle Mariners. It's Granderson's first action of the season after breaking his forearm during Spring Training in March, and Granderson is also the first of the highly paid injured Yankees to play this season (in advance of Derek...
The Indians look like an AL Central and wild-card contender
Going into the 2013 MLB season, the Cleveland Indians appeared to be a fringe contender in the AL Central division.
The Tribe certainly raised eyebrows around baseball by suddenly becoming big spenders and adding significant talent to their lineup. But could the Indians really challenge a Tigers team that not only could be the best team in their division, but in the entire American...
Where would the Nationals be without Bryce Harper?
After Bryce Harper's injury last night, Nationals fans held their collective breath. Harper is the best player on the team and one of the best in the league, and any serious injury to him would spell trouble for Washington over the rest of the year. Thankfully for the Nationals, Harper avoided serious injury, and should be able to avoid a DL stint. But after this incident and...
Dugout Digest - Upton's return
Justin Upton played his first game at Chase Field last night as a visitor. His new team (the Braves) smashed his old team (the Diamondbacks) 10-1. More telling was Upton's stat line: 4/5 with two runs, two RBI, a double, and a homer. Chris Johnson, who came to Atlanta with Upton in this winter's trade, went 3/4 with three RBI,, a double, and a homer. But it's not all...
Bryce Harper injured after running into outfield wall
Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper had to leave Washington's game on Monday night in Los Angeles after running into the right field scoreboard at Dodger Stadium. Harper was chasing a fly ball hit by AJ Ellis in the fifth inning before simply running out of room and running straight into the scoreboard mounted on the right field wall. He didn't move after initially...
The worst MLB umpire gaffes of the season so far
We're not even a quarter of the way into the 2013 season, and the umpiring across MLB has had its fair share of awful moments. Perhaps the worst part about all of these gaffes is that there isn't really a consistent problem. Of the five gaffes listed below, they're all different and unique in nature. It's not as if strike zones have been egregiously bad all year,...
Chicago Cubs sign Anthony Rizzo to seven-year extension
During the 2012 regular season, the Chicago Cubs managed to lock up one of their core pieces for the future when they signed Starlin Castro to a six-year contract extension. On Sunday night, the nailed down another piece of that core with an extension of his own.
The Cubs and first baseman Anthony Rizzo agreed to a seven-year contract extension, on a deal that could pan out to...
John Gast gets the call for the Cardinals
The reason the St. Louis Cardinals have the best record in baseball is that their starting pitching has been dominant. They've posted a major league best 2.11 ERA, with their worst starter posting a 2.72 ERA. But that rotation took a hit today when Jake Westbrook was sent to the 15-day DL with a sore elbow.
The good news is that the Cards have a AAA pitcher who has equaled...
Dugout Digest - same ol' Valverde
It took Jose Valverde six games to blow his first save of the season. The Tigers fell to the Indians 4-3 in ten innings, dropping into a first place tie with Cleveland at the top of the AL Central, and Valverde's performance was a big reason why. Detroit's closer began the ninth by walking Michael Bourn, then allowing him to steal second. After getting two outs, he then walked...
Joba Chamberlain, Mariano Rivera get into verbal spat
In the latest edition of "stories that aren't really news, yet the New York media will keep shoving them down our throats", Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera of the Yankees reportedly got into a brief war of words before the Yankees-Royals game on Saturday. David Waldstein of the New York Times has the story.
Rivera was conducting a dugout interview after he had...
Dugout Digest - Rocky Mountain...low?
I think you can safely say that in regards to the Colorado Rockies, the other shoe has dropped. One day after Shelby Miller set down 27 in a row against them, Adam Wainwright threw a two-hit shutout against Colorado, pitching 7 1/3 hitless innings to start the game. Since topping out at 13-4 on April 20th, the Rockies are 6-13 as their schedule has gotten tougher. They've won...
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