NEWS The BBWAA elected two new Hall of Famers. Ken Griffey Jr. (99.3) highest % ever and Mike Piazza (83.0). The next closest were Jeff Bagwell (71.6), Tim Raines (69.8), Trevor Hoffman (67.3), Curt Schilling (52.3), Roger Clemens (45.2), Barry Bonds (44.3), Edgar Martinez (43.4), Mike Mussina (43.0), Alan Trammell (40.9), Lee Smith (34.1), Fred…
NLCS: Chicago Cubs (97-65) at New York Mets (90-72) To me we have a matchup of the Cubs young bats against the Mets young arms. Two very hot teams in what should be a well played and well coached series. Usually I lean towards the pitching but I’m not sure any can stop the Cubs…
NLDS: New York Mets (90-72) at Los Angeles Dodgers (92-70) Dodgers win!!! That’s all that needs to be said. I bleed blue!!! NLDS: Chicago Cubs (97-65) at St. Louis Cardinals (100-62) How the Cardinals won 100 games with all the injuries they had this season is amazing. You can’t ever count them out. Even…
When MLB made the decision to add the 2nd Wild Card team for the playoffs the Trading Deadline forever changed. 28 teams made trades in the last week with 16 of them making multiple deals. This is a great thing for the game of baseball. Biggest surprise for me was the Blue Jays making a…
Baseball is a game of numbers whether is old school numbers or some of the newer school numbers. I remember as a kid always wanting to know when players would reach milestones and still find it amazing to this day. So I will keep track month to month to let other people know which players…
NEWS The Golden Era committee did not elect anyone into the Hall of Fame. Dick Allen and Tony Oliva fell one vote short, Jim Katt fell two votes short. The Blue Jays are eyeing Orioles GM Dan Duquette and White Sox Executive VP Ken Williams to become Blue Jays President. Korean SS Jung-Ho Kang expected…
NEWS Tim Hudson of the Giants has said that the 2015 season could be his last season. He will be a free agent after this season. Rob Manfred was officially given a five-year term as MLB Commissioner. Manfred has served as the head of labor negotiations for 19 years since the strike of 1994. The…
With opening day officially done and every team having officially announcing their rosters and their injuries I am now ready and as confident as I’ll ever be to make my 2014 predictions. Last season I didn’t do bad, but compared to Trevor’s perfect predictions last season, I looked mediocre at best. So here I go…
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