April 2013
MLB Ballplayers on Vine
A couple of weeks before getting traded from Oakland to Houston, Travis Blackley set off his first Vine. It was a simple film, six stages of his iced coffee. In other clips, Blackley shares candid moments with his A's…
Penguins Visit the Tampa Bay Rays
Penguins visited the Tampa Bay Rays' clubhouse today, reinforcing the fact that Joe Maddon is a progressive thinker. FWIW, I wouldn't leave Kyle Farnsworth alone with one of those things. Go Rays! I checked with Elias.…
MLB Team-by-Team At-a-Glance
More than half of today's games are matinees, including a couple of 12:35 ET starts in Baltimore and Cincinnati. So, we don't have all afternoon to craft a comprehensive This Moment in Baseball post. Instead, let's run…
2013 Leadoff Hitter Power Rankings
The importance of batting order construction is a polarizing debate. I tend to lean towards evidence that batting order construction ultimately means very little. The one spot in the lineup that tends to be the most…
Quick Notes around Baseball
Starling Marte , of the Pirates, has 2 hits in 4 straight games. Colby Rasmus has 4 this year, 3 of which are home runs. He'll probably hit 20+ HR's and hit .220 for the Blue Jays. Make no mistake, Matt Harvey is a…
What Happened Last Night?
In honor of MLB's first 15-game day, and as we did in June of '09 , we present our brief notes from perusing the box scores, attempting to answer 'What happened last night?' Cubs 0 at Pirates 3 Caught much of this game…
Baseball's Season of the GIF
We have yet to determine the finest GIF from Sunday night's game, but Monday had A.J. Burnett messing around with a white powder . Tuesday night, at a Blue Jays game, a fired up fan caught a bat that flew into the…
A.J. Burnett and Things Fall Apart
Courtesy of something called DeckersDelight on the burgeoning /baseball subreddit, we get an Opening Day gif for the ages , starring the Pittsburgh Pirates' A.J. Burnett and his resin bag. Is it rosin bag? Or, resin…
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