According to several reports, including this one by Bill Ladson, Mike Rizzo, General Manager of the Washington Nationals has made starting pitching his number one priority for the upcoming season, saying that the Nats have begun closing the gap with the Phillies.  Its a big gap, but I guess a step towards the Phillies does [...]

The Yankees clinched last night.  The Reds clinched last night.  The playoff teams are almost complete.  The Yankees clinched in Toronto where announced attendance was 18,000, but only about 1000 of those stayed until the end of the game judging by the video.  Who could blame Toronto fans for not wanting to see the end [...]

The Phillies clinched last night, finally.  They did it just down the road in the home of the Washington Nationals, which by all accounts might as well have been at home for the percentage of Phillies fans in the house.  Philadelphia is the strongest team in the National League, especially since they got hot at [...]

The Rangers clinched yesterday.  The Twins clinched last week.  Everyone else, apparently, wants us to care about the season for a few more days, and I have to say I don’t mind that at all, though I am glad the Yankees finally managed a win against the Red Sox last night.
Since there are only a [...]

OK, so we all know radar guns are iffy predictors of an actual speed of a pitch, but yesterday, Aroldis Chapman actually recorded the fastest pitch in baseball history- or well at least since such things began being measured, according to this Steve Henson piece. Chapman came into the game after the Padres had driven [...]