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 [...]

The Yankees and the Red Sox and oh yes, the Rangers have been battling the last couple of days for the best record in baseball.  Most East coasters probably hadn’t noticed the Rangers- who ended an 11 game win streak earlier this week as inter-league came to a close.  These Rangers can hit, and they [...]

Harvey Araton of the New York Times writes an very interesting and telling piece about the core four of the Yankees, and what might be their equivalent with the Mets.  We all can point to the suspected Mets core, but are they really the same as those on the Yankees?
And what is the difference?  Jason [...]

This thing about the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx striking the ‘core four’ Yankees, is ridiculous.  The reason they got that semi-lame moniker is because they have been playing the game and playing together for so long- which means they aren’t that young anymore.  If you thought that Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera were [...]

Great piece by Ian O’Connor about Ed Whitson and playing in New York when the fans are against you- even if you are on their team!  Whitson rarely speaks about this, but here is a very graphic picture of what it was like for him in the mid-1980s.  Whitson speaks to Javier Vasquez, who is [...]

Today’s contest features a giveaway of a copy of the What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports, reviewed by our own Michael Street last summer. If you have not won a prize in the month of April, this contest is [...]