While many of us were excited to hear that MLB and the MLB Player’s Association were considering adding another playoff team, and creating a play-in game of the the two wild cards in each division, the latest talk about realignment might be a different story.
Sure, it has been strange that one league has 14 teams [...]

Today’s Trivia contest is being sponsored by Fundex Games. Fundex makes a lot of wonderful games, but they also feature a free jigsaw puzzle club, and a lot of MLB licensed products. Today’s prize is very cool. Its Scrabble, but with a baseball theme. The tile racks represent teams, [...]

Two teams this week chose to do the right thing, versus acting purely out of the best interests of the business, and that is only fitting after yesterday’s Scout’s Honor piece on Billy Blitzer.
Astros area scout, Terry Pendergrass turned in a local pitcher who had been considered a prospect before becoming paralyzed by jumping in [...]

Jim Crane has agreed to purchase the Houston Astros, finally, pending the approval of Major League Baseball.  He tried to buy the Astros years ago, but the deal fell apart because Drayton McLane couldn’t bring himself to sell the team. Crane tried to buy the Cubs and the Rangers, but those teams were not the [...]

1983 - 18 years ago today, Nolan Ryan broke Walter Johnson’s 56-year old strikeout record.  Ryan recorded his 3,509 career strikeout by whiffing the Expos Brad Mills in the 8th inning of an eventual 4-2 victory for the Houston Astros, according to www.nationalpastime.com.  Ryan went on to pitch for another 10 years and set the [...]