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For anyone overwhelmed and surprised by A.J. BurnettÆs early exit in Monday nightÆs World Series Game Five against the Phillies, here is some Earth-shattering news:
A.J. Burnett totally sucks.
IÆm not sure how this fact has been ignored to such extremes that not only is it not common knowledge, but two major league baseball teams have seen fit to invest tens of millions of dollars in the notion that it is ...
Orlando Cabrera Randomly Hitting His Way into the Record Books
Posted: 24th September 2009 by Jake Rake in MLB
With 10 sacrifice flies on the season heading into ThursdayÆs games, Twins shortstop Orlando Cabrera is tied with some guy named Marlon Byrd for the American League lead in that category.
If you are on the verge ofágiving up on this column, I donÆt blame you, as sacrifice flies are about the 258,000th most interesting metric in baseball.
However, what makes CabreraÆs prowess in hitting fly balls when a runner happens to ...
In preparation of the establishment of my own Baseball Hall of Fame to replace the Hall of Subjective Moralizing and Politics in Cooperstown, here are a few players currently enshrined that I can say right of the bat (no pun intended; but appreciated nonetheless) would not make it into my new Hall of Fame:
Paul Molitor: I would say that it’s pretty weird that Molitor got voted in while Harold ...