Around the majors report: News report
Lee Sinins is the creator of the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia, the most powerful baseball encyclopedia on the market. 1) Tigers 1B Miguel Cabrera had to leave yesterday’s game, due to a strained left...
View ArticleNine to Notes: Sunday, August 2, 2015
In the first month of the season, Nelson Cruz and Hanley Ramirez led the majors with 10 homers. Since May 1, teammates Albert Pujols and Mike Trout lead with 27 homers, Cruz has hit 18 more while...
View ArticleOffensively Historic Series at Fenway
If high scores are your thing, you definitely wanted to be at Fenway this past weekend for the 3 game series against the Mariners. Yes, it was a match up of 2 bottom of the barrel teams. Yes, the...
View ArticleJackie Bradley Jr.’s Bat is Back from the Dead
It has been another bitterly disappointing summer in Boston, with the Red Sox merely trying to avoid a third last-place finish in the AL East over the past four years. With high-priced free agents...
View ArticleWhat the heck were they doing with Jackie Bradley this year?
By now the narrative on Jackie Bradley Jr. for 2015 is ‘he should have been in uniform from opening day’. But that was not the case. Perhaps the game’s best defensive outfielder, Bradley seemed to be...
View ArticleCoffee and Clippings: MLB settlement a big win for out-of-town fans
Chad Finn (@GlobeChadFinn) of the Boston Globe discusses a recent legal suit settlement which brings good news for MLB fans outside of their team’s market… MLB settled a class-action lawsuit Tuesday in...
View ArticlePeter Gammons: Bringing along a top prospect
Prospects are like sophomore college quarterbacks. Play them. Now. It was that way in 2013 when Jackie Bradley Jr. tore up spring training, the Red Sox were coming off a meltdown season and talk shows...
View ArticlePeter Gammons: The 2011 MLB Draft, 5 years later
It’s been five years since that draft, which is approximately the time teams should realistically wait before assessing the MLB amateur draft. That 2011 draft was historically good, as Gerrit Cole was...
View ArticlePeter Gammons: Cora and Red Sox in search of identity for 2018 and beyond
It wasn’t as if the Red Sox 2017 season was 1965 all over again. They won 93 games and the division for the second year in a row. But even as they tried to battle back against the World Champion...
View ArticlePeter Gammons: A late January look at some 2018 story-lines
I get every argument. J.D. Martinez is older than Justin Upton, and, lord knows, the Red Sox are the only team in baseball over the luxury tax threshold because of Pablo Sandoval. I also get how hard...
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