One day after the 2010 MLB regular season ended the New York Mets have decided to move on from GM Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel. Minaya is under contract until 2012 and owed $2.2 million declined an offer to stay on with the team in another front office position.[…]
Read More »Sluggers and Slugs: League Division Series The 2010 Major League Baseball regular season has ended, and the post-season Cincinnati at Philadelphia The Reds got a tough draw in the first round by catching the Phillies. Not only has this team represented the NL in the World Series the past two[…]
Read More »This is the final regular season edition of S&S, and I feel it is only fitting to hand out my season awards for 2010. I will end with American League The AL ROY is the one award I’m sure the voters will agree upon the most. Minnesota Twins third baseman[…]
Read More »The Toronto Blue Jays have few bright spots in their season. They’re barely above .500. They’re in fourth place in the AL East. No one takes them seriously, and they’re in the place where everyone thinks Roger Clemens started using steroids. So, when Jose Bautista comes along and hits 50[…]
Read More »ESPNDallas.com is reporting that Texas Rangers AL MVP candidate OF Josh Hamilton has been diagnosed with fractures to his seventh and eighth ribs. He and his doctors discovered this during a series tests that took place on Monday. Hamilton received a anti-inflammatory shot and a epidural in an effort to[…]
Read More »This week we start Sluggers and Slugs a little differently with a discussion on baseball ethics – was the Derek Jeter “hit-by-a-pitch” thing fair or foul? Then we’ll talk about Joe Torre stepping down in Los Angeles. Finally, we’ll take a look at the NL wild card race. Name of[…]
Read More »Los Angeles Angel’s manager Mike Scioscia stirred up conversation about shortening the Major League Baseball season. According to the Orange County Register, Scioscia came up with two interesting concepts when asked about the length of the baseball season last week. “If you went to 154 games, you would lose a[…]
Read More »This week in Sluggers and Slugs we will be taking a quick look at the We’ll start out East with the Phillies and Braves who are separated by one game. Atlanta has a one game lead in the wild card. The Phillies go to Florida for a series with the[…]
Read More »This week, Sluggers and Slugs will bring the heat like Aroldis Chapman to the most important Like the previous week, my predictions were anything but accurate. The Tampa Bay Rays have fallen 2.5 games behind the New York Yankees, the St. Louis Cardinals failed to close the gap, and the[…]
Read More »This week, Sluggers and Slugs will “suicide squeeze” My The Red Sox and White Sox have a big weekend series with Ramirez returning to Boston for the second time this season. In the early part of the week the Red Sox draw the Baltimore Orioles and the White Sox play[…]
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