Short Hops: Flies Continue To Attack Joba

New York Yankees 5 – Cleveland Indians 2: Despite the bugs, Joba Chamberlain was able to deliver eight innings and five strikeouts for the Bronx Bombers. Joba also made a diving catch on a bunt attempt, which topped ESPN’s top ten. Unable to will his team to victory was Victor Martinez, hitting just one [...]

Line-up Error Forces Rays' Pitcher To Bat Third

On the line-up card for the Tampa Bay Rays-Cleveland Indians game this afternoon, Rays manager Joe Maddon listed both Evan Longoria and Ben Zobrist as the starting third baseman for the game. Joe ment to have Evan as the DH batting third, but because of the mistake, Tampa Bay lost the DH spot for [...]

Yankees Get Embarred In Second Inning

It is about time to start worrying about Chien-Ming Wang.

The Yankees starting pitcher allowed 8 earned runs in 1.1 innings pitched today. In the photo above you can see that the Indians plated 14 players in the second inning alone. That is a franchise record for the Yankees and so were the 13 [...]

Prices Driving Fans Away From New Yankee Stadium

Here are some pictures from PaulKatcher.com from Friday’s matinee game between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians at the New Yankee Stadium. The game began at 1:05 PM.

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Rounding the Diamond: Are the Padres Trying to Be Good?

San Fransisco Giants 1 – San Diego Padres 6: After seeing that I called them the most boring team in baseball, the San Diego Padres did my fantasy team a disservice and knocked around Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum. Tim gave up 10 hits, 4 earned runs and 3 walks in 5.1 innings en [...]

Jamey Carroll to Miss 4-6 Weeks

The Cleveland Indians have announced that Jamey Carroll will miss 4-6 weeks with an injured hand.

From Ohio.com:

The Indians’ No. 1 utility player will be out four to six weeks with a fracture of the fifth metacarpal of the left hand, a consequence of being hit on the hand with a pitch by [...]

Rangers' Offensive Fire Power Already Hot

The Texas Rangers had the best offense in the major leagues last season, and they are well on their way to repeating that performance. The scoring started in the bottom of the second inning against Cleveland Indians ace and reigning AL Cy Young winner Cliff Lee, when both Jarrod Saltalamachia and Ian Kinsler drove [...]

Elvis Andrus Doubles In His First Major League At-Bat

Elvis Andrus took a Cliff Lee pitch and slashed it into the right field corner for a double. Ian Kinsler singled him in.

MLB Preview & Predictions for the 2009 Season

Well folks, the MLB season is just hours away so its time to get those predictions in. I’ll be previewing each team by division, then I will do playoff predictions and I will finish it off with and player awards.

AL East

1. Tampa Bay Rays – They didn’t make a big off-season [...]

Groin Will Keep Sizemore Out Of The Classic

A sore left groin will keep the Cleveland Indians’ star center fielder Grady Sizemore out of the World Baseball Classic.

From the AP:

“I wasn’t able to get through either game without pain,” said Sizemore, who injured the groin taking fly balls about a week ago.

Curtis Granderson, who was expected to split [...]