Update: The Nationals have placed Strasburg on the 15-day DL with right shoulder stiffness. The move is retroactive to July 22nd. This is a smart move by the Nationals just because they have so much invested in Strasburg. It wouldn’t shock me if Strasburg didn’t pitch again this season. Original Post: July 28, 2010 The [...]
Here is what I wrote about the Texas Rangers back in June during my “Trade Deadline Needs” series:” “Acquiring Lee solves the Rangers biggest need, so what else can the Rangers use? I feel they could still use a veteran backup corner or middle infielder. Getting someone who is capable of filling in for Ian [...]
The injuries keep piling up for the Philadelphia Phillies. Throughout the year they have seen Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Placido Polanco, Ryan Madson, JA Happ go down with injuries. Now they can add one more player to that list. Starting center fielder Shane Victorino went down on Tuesday night with an abdominal strain and has [...]
With the Major League Baseball trade deadline just three days away, we are starting to see the trades pick up. Early last night we saw the Cleveland Indians trade Jhonny Peralta to the Detroit Tigers and later in the night, we had another trade. The Kansas City Royals sent OF Scott Podsednik to the Los [...]
The other day I wrote that Detroit Tigers’ GM Dave Dombrowski had a tough job on his hands at the trade deadline because the Tigers need so many different things. They need a third baseman, a middle infielder, a starting pitcher, and a right-handed reliever out of the pen. Dombrowski decided to fill one of [...]
With Texas Rangers’ pitcher Rich Harden impressing in his last rehab start on Monday (10 K’s over six innings) in Triple-A, it has been speculated that Harden will take the struggling Scott Feldman’s spot in the rotation. It’s quite possible that Harden could start as early as this weekend for the Rangers against the Los [...]
