Baseball – MLB

Baseball – MLB

New York Mets Fire Minaya and Manuel

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 »

MLB 2010 Division Series Previews and Predictions

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 »

Suspicious of Jose Bautista’s 50 Home Runs?

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 »

Rangers Josh Hamilton Has Two Fractured Ribs

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 »

Shortening the MLB Season: Less Is 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 »

MLB Week 22 Sluggers and Slugs: AL and NL Cy Young

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 »