Wednesday was a big day for the SF Giants.  Madison Bumgarner struck out 11 as the Giants beat the Cubs in the afternoon.  About that time news was breaking that an accountant for the Giants was being held for embezzling $1.5 million from the team.  There are highs and there are lows in baseball.
And speaking [...]

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 [...]

OK- could very much write a piece about the Yankees and their weaknesses, but that really is just filler at this point, so I thought I would go to something that truly is filler.
Felipe Lopez was placed on waivers on Friday, and claimed by the Padres.  He had the ability to veto any trade and [...]

There was about a month at the beginning of the season where reporters were dogging Chipper Jones about whether he might retire at the end of the season.  It went on for weeks, because Jones had been the cornerstone of the Atlanta Braves for so long, and the only manager he had ever known was [...]

The San Diego Padres have surprised everyone this year.  Expected to be at the bottom of the heap, they were running away with the NL West for much of the early season.  Expected to trade Adrian Gonzalez as they neared the trade deadline, they did exactly the opposite, they kept Gonzalez and added payroll with [...]