Its about time.  Yesterday, as Dylan Hernandez writes, Jamie McCourt, President of the Dodgers, actually asked if the fans would rather see Manny Ramirez at Chavez Ravine or use that same money for the charitable contributions like building 50 youth ball fields around the LA area.  Thats the question isn’t it?  I believe, as fans, we [...]

Congratulations to Vinny, who knew that Craig Biggio broke Don Baylor’s modern record for being hit by pitches in 2005.  Vinny will receive  50 free cards from CustomSportsCards.com.  Additionally, here is a funny, related blog, called Plunk Everyone.com, and amusing site which tracks hit by pitches.

Interestingly, the Colorado Rockies have hired Don Baylor as hitting coach.  Baylor served as the original manager for the franchise, and lead the team to its first post-season in 1995. He had been working as a roving coach for the team since mid-summer, but, it seems was recruited by the current manager Clint Hurdle to [...]

Just a quick note to explain much of the transaction movement you might have seen last week.  Thursday was the date that rosters had to be set in order to protect a player from the Rule V draft.  Here are some basics about what that means. Players drafted out of high school or signed internationally [...]

Last year, many who pay attention to such things placed their bets on the Arizona Diamondbacks to lead a strong NL West.  Those souls were all wrong, both about the D’backs and about that strong NL West.  Since then we haven’t heard too much about the D’backs and their prospects for 2009, and thats probably [...]

First,  this Ken Davidoff column about the swagger that comes from having three pitchers that are lights out, such as the Blue Jays and the Rays had this past season.  The Yankees want to own that feeling instead of heading into those teams ballparks knowing they weren’t going to have a chance to breath for the [...]