Defensive Indifference

Video highlights … directly to my phone … right after they happen. Seriously, if Major League Baseball and Apple keep teaming up like this every year, I’m going to have to buy a new iPhone every year and be in indentured servitude to AT&T for the rest of my life.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m […]

When third base prospect Evan Longoria was sent down to AAA Durham to start the season, a popular interpretation was that the Rays were simply trying to delay starting Longoria’s abritration clock so as to save money in the long term at the (possible) expense of performance in the short term.
Following Willy Aybar’s injury about […]

MLB salary figures came out this week, and since then, I’ve been delving into the data a and analyzing trends since 2000. Here are four quick tidbits (with visual aids!)

1. The Yankees are still dominating. See that line above alllll of the others. Guess who. With the additional money the Bronx Bombers will be saving/making […]

Before he has even played one regular season game for them, the Tigers have signed Miguel Cabrera to an 8 year extension worth $153.3 million. The contract is the fourth largest contract in MLB history, and will be finalized once Cabrera passes a physical.
In general, I would argue that a contract of this length is […]

Believe it or not, the Pirates might finally be crawling their way out of the deep dark hole they have inhabited for the past decade and a half. Granted, it will be a few years until they can compete, but the new leadership looks like it actually has a clue, re-signing young starter Ian Snell […]

Apologies to the comic that I’ve never heard of who I saw on Comedy Central and stole the joke for that headline from, but I’m raging right now. Yes, Dusty Baker finally did it, folks. It took him like a couple of weeks and tons of scrounging amongst the refuse of the free agent market, […]