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The new baseball season has not been kind to Scott Kazmir. After beginning the season on the DL, his first start of the season came against the defending champion, New York Yankees. Previously, I wrote that there was a possibility that Kazmir, once so hyped, full of potential, had reached his athletic peak. There comes a point in one’s career when you realize that it will not get ...

If you're a Mets fan right now, you might be just a little nervous. If you look at the current situation, you see a shaky 3-7 team that isn't hitting, pitching, or winning like the way you thought they might. You see a team that is on the brink of spiraling into another season that could be as bad or worse than what you saw last year.  Well, don't panic just ...

The Oriole Way Peter Angelos, the Baltimore Orioles owner, has no idea what that means. It is a term every baseball fan in Charm City is well aware of, and a methodology that Angelos has seemed bent on destroying since he bought the ball club in 1993. The Oriole Way had been very successful before he bought the club. For over three decades, from ...

Red Sox third base coach Tim Bogar made a dunder-headed decision last night when he sent 1B Kevin Youkilis home on David Ortiz’ sixth-inning double into the right field corner. I don’t care how he tries to rationalize the decision, the fact of the matter is that there was NO reason to gamble in that situation. I am well aware that it was raining and the ball was wet, but the ...

By now, most of you have probably seen the video of younger Ariel Antigua and his extraordinary baseball talent. In case you haven’t, I’ve attached it to the post. The five year-old Lyndhurst boy can hit 85 MPH fastballs from both side of the plate and field like someone three times his age. Normally I’m not a fan of parents forcing their children to play sports, but it looks as ...

In baseball, there are such things as intentional walks on defense. Could there be such a thing as intentional strikeouts on offense? That is a question that may have been put to the Yankees last night. You're the home team, with one out in the bottom of the fourth. You have just made the breakthrough of a formerly tied game; first, having loaded the bases, and then scoring all three runners ...

If there has been one thing that has plagued the New York Yankees the past few years, it has been their slow starts to the season. The Yanks then have to finish the season strong to be in contention. However, 2010 is starting off great for the reigning World Series Champions. The Yankees are 7-3 entering Saturday's afternoon game against the visiting Texas Rangers. The Yankees are a half-game in front of ...

Game No. 12 in our journey to score 162 games this summer featured an Alfonso Soriano spotting and an unlikely performance from a less-than-desirable pitcher.  Game No. 12 – Houston Astros vs. Chicago Cubs Carlos Silva pitched the game of his life on Friday against the Astros, allowing two unearned runs on five hits and zero walks in seven innings. The 31-year-old also struck out five. Silva, who has a 4.70 career ERA, ...

Felipe Lopez, (center, wearing No. 3) is congratulated following his seventh-inning grand slam that did in the New York Mets. After St. Louis Cardinals' starting pitcher Chris Carpenter capped his sparkling 2010 home debut with two strikeouts to end the seventh inning, his offense strived to get out of a 1-0 hole and reward him with a victory. Rookie third baseman David Freese began the bottom of the inning against New ...

The 2010 season is just about to enter its third full week, and we've seen plenty of surprises already. Several players have unexpectedly emerged as seemingly-reliable fantasy options, while other normally productive players are off to slow starts.  Here's a rundown of who's hot and who's not as we begin the second half of April. Risers All Texas Rangers starting pitchers This list consists of Scott Feldman, Rich Harden, C.J. Wilson, Colby Lewis, and ...