Another week closer to the half-way mark of the 2012 MLB season and teams are battling all over baseball. In the NL West the 2nd place Dodgers have hit just 6 homers, and the 1st place SF Giants made them miss Matt Kemp. In the AL West the Halos are leading almost every hitting category for the [...]
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2012 MLB Power Rankings – Week 8
And the baseball drama continues, as no division is safe in the 2012 season. Competition is ridiculously fierce, but the injuries are getting out-of-hand. Teams have to continue on without their stars, like the Phillies sans ace Roy Halladay; the dominating Dodgers without their dominator Matt Kemp; and the Cardinals add Lance Berkman to the [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers
Last season the Los Angeles Dodgers dominated headlines for everything other than baseball. The team was still at the mercy of now ex-owner Frank McCourt, whose divorce was a literal soap opera and the team took the fall too. Still, the team put up an 82-79 record thanks to a great second-half of 2011, and [...]
MLB: Steroids Are Still Baseball’s Dirty Mistress
When ESPN reported the news that 2011 NL MVP Ryan Braun had tested positive for PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) it reminded me that baseball still had a dirty mistress. I knew back on January 11, 2010 that MLB commissioner Bud Selig might have spoken too soon about the end of the steroid era, when he told NY Time’s Mike Schmidt: [...]
NL MVP To Ryan Braun Screw You Matt Kemp
The BBWAAvoters really screwed up this time. I mean the AL MVP debate was at least passable, but everybody knew who the NL MVP for the 2011 season was going to be. It would seem that the BBWAA’s blunders are coming from letting their wishes interpret all duties by having an open mind. It was [...]
2011 MLB Team Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers
From an internal mess, to Manny being Manny, to key players hitting the DL, was reality for the 2010 Los Angeles Dodgers. Talk about a ruff regular season, and then having to watch your bitter rivals win the World Series definitely put the icing on the cake for the Dodgers. Overall, not a good year [...]
Jeter, Teixeira And More Hardware For the Duo
AMERICAN LEAGUE: C: Joe Mauer, Twins 1B: Mark Teixeira, Yankees 2B: Aaron Hill, Blue Jays 3B: Evan Longoria, Rays SS: Derek Jeter, Yankees OF: Jason Bay, Red Sox OF: Torii Hunter, Angels OF: Ichiro Suzuki, Mariners DH: Adam Lind, Blue Jays NATIONAL LEAGUE: C: Brian McCann, Braves 1B: Albert Pujols, Cardinals 2B: Chase Utley, Phillies [...]
