Today is Opening Day in baseball and every team starts out 0-0 and a dream. Well, every team starts out 0-0 except for the Seattle Mariners, Oakland A’s, Miami Marlins, and St. Louis Cardinals. Be it as it may, this year baseball is wide open. You could make the argument for at least 12 teams [...]
One of my favorite awards in baseball is the Rookie of the Year award. This award has jump started the careers of Cal Ripken Jr., Derek Jeter, Mike Piazza, and Albert Pujols. It has also been the one shinning moment for players such as Pat Listach, Bob Hamelin, and Jerome Walton. Which direction will these [...]
Next up in our “Key” player series is the key player for each National League West team. Without any further adieu, let’s get to it. Arizona Diamondbacks – Stephen Drew: Drew saw his season end after 86 games last year due to a brutal ankle injury. He wasn’t having a typical Drew year, but losing [...]
Ho hum, another day, another player goes down with an injury. This has been the spring training from hell. I can’t remember a spring training where so many players went down. And we are not talking about jabroni’s either. We are talking about some key players. The latest player to go down is San Diego [...]
The San Diego Padres are owners of one of the best — if not the best farm system in baseball. They are loaded with prospects like Yonder Alonso, Casey Kelly, and Rymer Liriano. Another prospect that is turning heads so far this spring is Jaff Decker. Decker had another big game Friday against the Los [...]
With spring training right around the corner and all of the major free agents signed and ready to go with their respective teams, I thought it would be interesting to see which teams have positioned themselves for a playoff run in 2012. Obviously things are going to change from now to Opening Day, but it’s [...]
