Texas Rangers Wish List for 2017
For the second year in a row, the Texas Rangers found themselves winning the American League West while drastically outperforming the public's expectations for the team. After being decimated by injuries in 201...
An Introduction to New Twins Closer, Brandon Kintzler
To call the Minnesota Twins' 2016 season abysmal could possibly be an understatement. After falling just short of making the playoffs in 2015, the Twins have become the worst team in the Majors in 2016, compili...
Dodgers Acquire Starting Pitcher Bud Norris
On Thursday afternoon the Los Angeles Dodgers made a trade to shore up their starting rotation, acquiring starting pitcher Bud Norris from the Atlanta Braves. The entirety of the trade involved the Dodgers gett...
Exploring the Marlins Improved Offense
At the beginning of the year, if you had said that Dee Gordon would miss half the season and that Giancarlo Stanton would be an approximately league average hitter, it would probably have been pretty damn safe ...
Dodgers Designate Carl Crawford for Assignment
Four years ago, Carl Crawford was run out of town by the Boston Red Sox, thanks to a severe lack of productivity and an enormous amount of money on his contract.
In 2010, Crawford made his fourth All-Star Ga...
Is there a new type of leadoff hitter emerging?
Over the weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays decided they needed to change things up. They were in quite a slump, as Adam Piede wrote about on Friday, so they made an attempt to rejuvenate the lineup by placing slug...
Has Nick Castellanos Finally Broken Out?
Coming into the 2014 season, Nick Castellanos was one of the premier prospects in the game. He had been a top-100 prospect in each of the last four years according to both Baseball America and Baseball Prospect...
Examining the Dodgers’ Struggling Rotation
Coming into 2016 the Los Angeles Dodgers were praised for their depth. Andrew Friedman and company had spent the offseason stockpiling any number of players who could hang out on the bench, in the bullpen, or i...
Kiké Hernandez as 2016’s Breakout Utilityman
When the Los Angeles Dodgers picked up Kiké Hernandez prior to the 2015 season, there was very little fanfare surrounding his acquisition. Hernandez had somewhat of a breakout season as a prospect in 2014, fina...