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Detroit Tigers starter Max Scherzer looks to go 10-0 tonight and become just the second starter of the wild-card era to win his first 10 decisions. Roger Clemens started 11-0 for the '97 Toronto Blue Jays (Clay Buchholz and Patrick Corbin are also 9-...

Haven't done one of these all week, so some quick thoughts on Thursday's games ... I was watching the Detroit Tigers-Pittsburgh Pirates last night but on my laptop I had on the Kansas City Royals-St. Louis Cardinals game to check out Michael Wach...

Call it early, call it April, tell me there are still 143 games left in the 162-game schedule, but the fact is that the Kansas City Royals have developed into a legitimate wild-card contender. They're off to a relatively fast 11-8 start. They sit...

Blog | April 26, 2013

MINNEAPOLIS -- Mike Pelfrey had lunch Thursday with David Wright and Mets bullpen catcher Dave Racaniello. He then joined them for an afternoon card game with Jonathon Niese. Pelfrey, the Mets' first-round pick in 2005, who was non-tendered in Dec...

I've been meaning to run the final poll results from all the offseason report cards we published before and early in spring training. Here are the American League tallies. Keep in mind that the polls were conducted before some recent developments too...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Matt Harvey was charged with four runs (three earned) in five innings and the Mets lost to the Detroit Tigers, 9-4, Sunday at Tradition Field. In the other split-squad game, Jamie Hoffmann, Zach Lutz and Mike Baxter homered...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Here are the Mets' Sunday lineups against the Detroit Tigers at Tradition Field against the St. Louis Cardinals in Jupiter. HOME Mets Kirk Nieuwenhuis, dh Justin Turner, 2b Ike Davis, 1b Marlon Byrd rf John Buck, c ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- John Buck had a two-run homer and Anthony Recker and Collin Cowgill contributed solo shots, but the Mets lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 12-4, Wednesday at Tradition Field. Game tidbits: SUB TEXT: Starting in place of s...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. FIRST PITCH: Zack Wheeler, who tossed two scoreless innings against the Washington Nationals in his Grapefruit League debut, gets the start against the St. Louis Cardinals at 1:10 p.m. today at Tradition Field. The Mets tho...

OK, now that I've finished all 30 offseason report cards, we can essentially use my final grades to give us Power Rankings (you can get all the report cards at the bottom of this page). Washington Nationals: A Atlanta Braves: A- Cincinnati Reds:...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Last year, well into January, Prince Fielder remained unsigned. But as colleague Jerry Crasnick wrote at the time, it wasn't going to cause his agent, Scott Boras, to sweat: "In Boras' world view, the trade market is almost tapped...

Blog | December 07, 2012

Major League Baseball announced the playoff shares for the 2012 postseason, which included the Texas Rangers' appearance in the AL wild-card game. The Rangers' share of the players' pool was $980,452.04. The value of each full share was $16,999.09...

We finally know the World Series participants and maybe it's good news the second wild-card team didn't reach the World Series. Instead, we do end up with two first-place teams and two of the game's historic franchises. Here are three key players fro...

Sam Holbrook, the umpire who made the controversial infield fly call that enraged the Atlanta Braves and their fans in the NL wild card game, is part of the crew for the AL championship series.

Scott Barry, completing just his second season as a full-time major league umpire, has been selected to work the AL division series between Detroit and Oakland.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Mark Lowe will never forget Adrian Beltre's reaction one day a few years ago in Seattle when he was told one of the Mariners' trainers took him out of the lineup. "I remember he got really upset and pulled the trainer aside in ...