In the heartland of Cardinal country, his ballcap is the color of Cubbie blue. He stands in line waiting for his coffee surrounded by men and women in business suits. The very recognizable face of Joe Buck, Fox Sports’ lead play-by-play broadcaster and son of Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck, blends into the crowd. […]

10,000 days ago, one of baseball’s brightest was born: reigning NL MVP Joey Votto. Still to be seen: if he can pass up Fergie Jenkins and Larry Walker to be the best Canadian-born player in MLB history. Happy, day-versary, Joey.

It sure is looking like it… When former general manager J.P. Ricciardi was ousted from the Blue Jays in 2009, Alex Anthopoulos (popularly known as AA) inherited a franchise widely viewed as a stagnant also-ran in the ultra-competitive American League East. Perhaps that is an unfair characterization for a team that has now eclipsed the […]

Milton Bradley was arrested on Tuesday afternoon on a felony count of making a “criminal threat.” Details have been sketchy so far (but Hardball Talk is doing a good job of keeping up on the story). “Code section 422” of the California penal code was cited. With $12 million remaining on the three-year, $30 million […]

Over a half-century later, it still wouldn’t be wise to mess with Frank Robinson. (Icon/SMI) 20,000 days ago, four different Hall of Famers made their MLB debut. This marks the only time in history four HoFers debuted on the same day. The greatest, by a damn good margin, was Frank Robinson. Playing left for the […]

Bill James is in the middle of a four-part series on his website (sorry, subscription only) that deals with the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot. Admittedly, the article is a bit late, but it’s laid out and written in the classic James style. Which, to me, makes it a must-read. In the section about Lee […]

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Steve Melewski of MASN wrote a nice article on Mark Reynolds yesterday, noting that the powerful corner infielder is looking to cut down on his hefty strikeout rate—that if he could “strike out 25 or 30 less times a year and put more balls in play, I could have a chance at a better average, […]

At some point today, probably around 8:50 p.m. Central Standard Time, it’ll be one billion seconds since the beginning of one of baseball’s nastiest beanball incidents. You can’t quite call it a beanball war, as this was pretty one-sided. In the top of the first inning in a Rangers-Royals game, KC leadoff batter Frank White […]

There’s a wonderful article today in the Florida News-Press. It describes the first meeting between two men so deeply aligned in my mind’s eye: one a great major league pitcher, the other his most ardent advocate. I didn’t realize that the two hadn’t met before; it’s about time. The story of Rich and Bert is […]