Phillies 10, Dodgers 4: At some point this winter, Ned Colletti and Joe Torre are going to have an epiphany in which they realize that having to rely on Vicente Padilla to save their butts in an elimination game means that they screwed something up somewhere along the line. Torre may not have deployed his […]

Don Fehr’s severance package comes in at about $11 million. He made $1 million a year for the past decade or so, which is way below his worth based on what he does and who he tangles with on a day to day basis. His work has put hundreds of times that amount of money […]

I don’t have anything snarky to say about Steve Phillips’ situation. Some bad judgment on his part has led to an ugly and possibly scary situation, and that’s no good for anyone involved, whatever their foibles. But man, if the dude was going to get kicked off ESPN for a week, you’d at least hope […]

Now at the end of his third season in the majors, Billy Butler has shown great strides at the plate over the last few years. What does the future hold for the Royals’ first baseman?

A look at whether big players lose their speed at a younger age than smaller players.

Yankees 10, Angels 1: I-95 Series here we come. As the geniuses out there predicted, CC was studly on short rest. As has been the case all postseason, A-Rod was huge (3-for-4, two-run homer, three runs scored). Man, that umpiring. Calling Swisher out on the tagup play was an obvious makeup call. Of course, like […]

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The Mariano Rivera stuff obviously struck a nerve today. For what it’s worth, I stand by my posts on it, both here and at NBC. There was a video that showed something interesting. I raised some questions about it and doubted whether simply saying “Mariano would never do such a thing” was enough to put […]

I suppose this closes the case: The Commissioners Office reviewed available video and still photography from Mariano Rivera spitting toward a baseball in ALCS Game 3 and “found no evidence that Rivera spit on the ball,” a spokesman for the commissioner told the Post. The initial reaction by the league had been that the video […]