After the New York Mets fought back to score two runs in the bottom of the eighth and take a 4-3 lead against Kerry Wood and the Chicago Cubs, Mets’ manager was faced with an interesting decision in the top of the ninth. The Cubs had put two one with nobody out against closer Bobby [...]
This year more than ever, there seems to be an abnormal amount of players landing on the disabled list. Every morning when I wake up and surf the web, I can find a prominent player hitting the DL. Since there are so many quality players on the DL, I thought it would be a fun [...]
It happens every year in fantasy baseball. We draft a top-tier closer and either that closer gets hurt like Joakim Soria in 2009 or falls flat on their face like Jonathan Broxton in 2010. When this happens, we usually scramble to try to find a replacement and often times, that replacement is the setup man [...]
For one day, Chicago Cubs’ GM Jim Hendry was the smartest man in baseball. In an offseason where Joaquin Benoit, Matt Guerrier, and Jesse Crain get three-year contracts, how the heck did Hendry manage to sign Kerry Wood to just a one-year deal? I am befuddled. After a three year absence, the Cubs brought back [...]
If you listened to the New York Yankee fans here in the Big Apple, you would think that Cliff Lee beat up their first born. I really can’t get over the reaction to a guy who made a decision that was best for himself and his family. Yankee fans are reacting as if not getting [...]
I remember back in the day I was sitting in the dugout during one of my summer league games and after we scored a run on only one hit in an inning because the opposing pitcher walked three guys, my coach turned to me in while I was standing in the on-deck circle and said [...]
