Believe it or not, Tom Tango has just opened his tenth (!) annual scouting report. This is a chance for all baseball fans to come together and create that Wisdom of the Crowd thing we hear so much about. Simply go to Tango’s scouting web page, select your favorite team, and fill out the fielding […]

100 years ago today was one of the greatest pitching showdowns of all-time. It was advertised in advance as a classic pitchers duel, and it lived up to its hype. On Sept. 6, 1912, Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators faced off against Smokey Joe Wood of the Red Sox with more than just a […]

Orioles 12, Blue Jays 0: Zach Britton throwing seven shutout innings + Mark Reynolds driving in four + Yankees losing = First place for the Orioles dudes. Rays 5, Yankees 2: This is that Yankees loss I just mentioned. Freddy Garcia allowed five runs over five. I know this isn’t the case, but as I sit […]

Orioles 4, Blues Jays 0; Rays 4, Yankees 3:  As mentioned yesterday, this combo brings the Yankees’ lead over the O’s down to one game in the AL East, with the Rays only two and a half back. I don’t suppose we’re so lucky to have a Yankees collapse come a year after the Red […]

Ten years ago today was one of the most famous regular season games of the 21st century. It was such a wild and improbable game that you’d think it came out of Hollywood script. Instead, not only did it happen but it ended up in a Hollywood script. It was the Moneyball game. The A’s […]

Well, August is in the books. Another month done. So what were the highlights and most memorable games of the month? As it happens, I have a system I debuted last year that ranks how exciting a game is. There’s no point getting into a full account of how it works (methodology given at the […]

Orioles 5, White Sox 3: Zach Britton strikes out ten, gets sent down to the minors. That’s fair. That aside, heady freakin’ times for the Orioles who, apart from the Yankees fans, I think everyone on the planet is wanting to sweep New York and make the AL East a dead heat by Sunday night. […]

Twenty years ago today, baseball had one of its real blockbuster trades. A player in his prime,widely regarded as the best player in baseball, a key cog on a team that had won the pennant in three of the last four years, was traded for three players, two of whom had already been All-Stars. It […]

Nationals 8, Marlins 4: Bryce Harper hit two homers, bro. Jacob Turner: not really ready for the major leagues yet, bro. Mets 3, Phillies 2: Matt Harvey continues to impress (6.1 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 6K). The Phillies pitcher listed in the box score is named “Tyler Cloyd.” I’m calling b.s.  That’s a name […]

Major League Baseball celebrated Otherwise Good Teams Get Shut Out Night last night. It was quite festive. Marlins 9, Nationals 0: Look, maybe this will start a conversation no one thinks we’d ever have about an ace pitcher on a first place team, but maybe the Nationals should consider shutting Stephen Strasburg down (5 IP, […]