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MLB Rumors: San Diego Padres Aren’t Keeping Alexei Ramirez
It’s been a disappointing season for Alexei Ramirez with the San Diego Padres, and it’ll probably lead for the second straight season of his contract option being bought out.
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MLB Scores & Standings
The San Francisco Giants finally beat the Chicago Cubs thanks to Madison Bumgarner, while a Toronto Blue Jays loss allowed the Boston Red Sox to tie the lead on top of the AL East, and the Baltimore Orioles to get closer, while improving their odds of winning one of the wild card spots. In the National League wild card, the St. Louis Cardinals losing against the Cincinnati Reds allowed the New York Mets to get within one game.
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MLB Scores & Standings
The Chicago Cubs beating the San Francisco Giants again with a Jon Lester complete game didn’t help the Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost to the San Diego Padres. The same thing can be said of the St. Louis Cardinals loss, not letting their wild card standings chasers catch up, as the New York Mets, Miami Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates all lost. The Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles remain tied for the second wild card spot behind the Boston Red Sox, who got closer to the Toronto Blue Jays after their loss against the Tampa Bay Rays.
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MLB Standings & Scores
On a short night of MLB action, the Chicago Cubs used a late two-RBI single from Addison Russell to keep the San Francisco Giants second half of the season quite miserable, while the Miami Marlins stopped the losing streak and beat the New York Mets to narrow the distance between the two teams and their […]
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Kyle Hendricks Winning the ERA Title Despite a Sub-90 Average Fastball Velocity
In only his third year as a starting pitcher, Kyle Hendricks of the Chicago Cubs in on pace to end up leading MLB in ERA. If it does happen, he’ll be the first pitcher since data started being kept on pitch type 14 years ago to finish with the lowest ERA while averaging fastball velocity that’s under 90 mph.
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MLB Rumors: Cleveland Indians Won’t Help Coco Crisp Get His 2017 Option to Vest
The Cleveland Indians made it clear to Coco Crisp before making a trade with the Oakland Athletics for the 36-year old outfielder that he’s not likely to get enough playing time in order for his $13 million vesting option to trigger in 2017.
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MLB Standings & Scores
While the Chicago Cubs are destroying everything in their way and Kris Bryant is making his case for MVP, the AL Wild card race takes an interesting turn as the Detroit Tigers, sweeping the Chicago White Sox, tie with the Baltimore Orioles for ticket number 2, while the Houston Astros and New York Yankees get closer. In the NL, the St. Louis Cardinals losing puts the New York Mets only 1.5 games behind for the second spot after another win over the Miami Marlins.
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MLB Rumors: Tim Tebow Showcase Receives Mixed Reviews
The odds of Tim Tebow becoming a major league baseball player as he begins the road in a new sport for him (or at least something he hasn’t played in high school) aren’t the kind you wanna place your money on. But like Han Solo said a number of times, the odds don’t matter in this case. Tebow wants to play baseball, and he’ll get the opportunity to start in some lower level league, and try to work his way up from there.
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2016 MLB Season: Standings & Scores
The Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates again in a Kyle Hendricks shutout, mostly helping the St. Louis Cardinals increase their lead in the wild card race from their division rivals. The San Francisco Giants got further behind the Los Angeles Dodgers with an embarrassing home loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Baltimore Orioles, thanks to a late home run by Matt Wieters, get closer to the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox in the AL East, both losing their games.
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Los Angeles Angels? They Suck; Mike Trout Though, He’s Still Great
One of the interesting things in Baseball is how one player can still do great statistically, get recognized for it, while his team is an absolute disaster. Mike Trout in en route to lead the American League in WAR for a fifth straight season, not something that’s been done too much over the years, while playing on a Los Angeles Angels team that’s going nowhere.