Broadcasters have been muttering this for weeks now, but really the idea that 2010 in some ways is showing a return in dominant pitching throughout baseball is starting to really come true. Pitchers are always ahead of hitters at the start of spring training and often the start of the season too.  Weather has an [...]

With both the Mets and the Yankees doing fairly well this season- in the case of the Mets, doing much better than expected even- the land of controversy seems to have moved to the Midwest.  Both the North and South-siders in Chicago are having an interesting summer.  Some of that is simply the play happening [...]

Contributed by Ryan Campbell
Events
1953 – Braves owner Lou Perini announces that he will seek the approval of the National League to move the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee.
1960 – Thanks to Bill Veeck, the White Sox are the first team to feature road jerseys that have the players name on the back.  This helps opposing [...]

The Chicago Whie Sox announced yesterday that they would “unretire” number 11, the number word by Luis Aparicio, for current Venezuelan Shortstop/Utility guy Omar Vizquel.  As I have written many times, there is a long history of Venezuelan Shortstops in the major leagues.  Chico Carrasquel began the line, Little Luis Aparicio followed along, as did [...]

While the mantra out of the south side of Chicago the last few months has been to go younger, the team has been signing the all-stars from the 2000 season.  In Omar Vizquel though, they get an extra coach.  In Andruw Jones, the latest player to be locked up by the White Sox, they get [...]

While my twitter account was filling up with announcements that players like Kevin Barker had filed for free agency, there were some actual pieces of news that strolled by as well.
The biggest pop, of course, has to be the trade of  JJ Hardy to the Twins for Carlos Gomez.  While right off the top of [...]