NL East Michael Bourn to the Atlanta Braves: The Braves get a much-needed center fielder and a bat at the top of the order. Bourn is benefitting from a higher-than-average BABIP but, overall, his defensive metrics have been above average, and he should be a solid leadoff bat for the Braves through next season. Hunter […]

Since Max Marchi will be out of town for a few weeks this summer, he’s asked me to help with his weekly “Top games of the week” column. Here’s a look at this week’s top games according to Max’s methodology, which can be found in this article. date game stars 07-25 Royals @ Red Sox […]

Ubaldo Jimenez (age 27; owed roughly $5.5 million through 2012; has club options in place for 2013 at $5.75 million and 2014 at $8 million) On Saturday morning, it was reported by a major source that the Rockies might bring down their price, which made the Yankees very interested. By Saturday evening, the Rockies pulled […]

After a week of mulling over the Phillies’ offer, the Houston Astros finally agreed to trade Hunter Pence to Philadelphia for High-A prospects Jarred Cosart, Jonathan Singleton and two throw-ins. Speculation said the Astros also wanted either Jesse Biddle, Domonic Brown or Sebastian Valle included in this deal and were willing to wait until the […]

Don’t look now, but San Francisco reliever Sergio Romo is putting together one of those relief-specialist seasons that just blow one’s mind. Let’s put it this way: Romo’s going to have one hellacious Strat-o-Matic card this year. As of this morning, Romo is sporting a 1.78 ERA, but that isn’t his best stat. Not by […]

Rays 10, Athletics 8: Oakland scored five in the first so it looked like another shellacking was on the way for Tampa Bay. But no! The Rays put up a seven-spot in the seventh thanks in part to Desmond Jennings who had a whale of a ballgame. Every Tampa Bay starter either got a hit or […]

Ten years ago today, baseball witnessed an interesting debate of those unwritten rules of how the game is played. It was the top of seventh inning of a Padres-Brewers game in Milwaukee. With the Padres comfortably ahead 11-5, future Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson came to the plate and singled in a run, giving San […]

Recently, Yankee starting pitcher CCSabathia celebrated his 31st birthday. Shortly afterwards, he won his 172nd career game. That’s not bad, 172 wins less than a week after turning 31. It brings up the question: How does Sabathia compare with other pitchers prior to their 31st birthdays? Where does he stand historically? Let’s look it up […]

Angels 3, Indians 1: The no hitter for Ervin Santana.  We told the story as it happened yesterday, broke out some analysis of it a bit thereafter and threw on some perspective a bit after that.  Most notable: man, I had no idea that the game started at noon, so it was the sixth inning […]

Earlier today, the Blue Jays agreed to send reliever Jason Frasor and starting pitcher Zach Stewart to the White Sox for Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen. Later, the Blue Jays flipped Jackson along with Marc Rzepczynskii, Octavio Dotel and Corey Patterson to the St. Louis Cardinals for Colby Rasmus, Trever Miller, Brian Tallet and P.J. […]