Signing Mauer a percentage play

There are a couple of Dodgers fans in Aberdeen, S.D., as I learned over the last week, and a lot of Orioles fans, because of the team's past minor lea...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009

...R): Dick Farley, Billy Kenville, Center Row: Earl Lloyd, Captain Paul Seymour, Head Coach Al Cervi, George King Jim Tucker, Rear Row: President Daniel Biasone, Wally Osterkorn, Business Manager Bob Sexton, Dolph Schayes, John...

Cashman casts praise far and wide

As the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009

A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia

The old friends pitched against each other in the first game ever at new Yankee Stadium back in April, and then afterward, CC Sabathia took Cliff Lee ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009

La Russa may be leaving St. Louis

Nobody will know how the St. Louis Cardinals' season might have ended if the third out hadn't escaped them in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 11, 2009

Instant replay must be expanded … immediately

There were mistakes made by professionals this week. The gritty Ryan Raburn played a pop-fly single into a triple in the Metrodome. Chris Carpenter le...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009

Tigers, Twins and my award picks

Carl Pavano seemed almost out of breath Sunday night, naturally, at the end of a day in which he and the Twins had won a game they had to win, after t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009

The King becomes a craftsman

It wasn't the optimal situation for a new pitching coach to get to know a star pitcher. In spring training, Felix Hernandez was away from the Mariners...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009

Duensing among unlikely September stars

The crises come daily in the pennant races, and all the stuff that really matters at the outset of spring training -- pedigree, salary, past statistic...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009

For a night, Penny is prime currency

Mike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009

Joe Torre's Straw man acquisition

Joe Torre loved having Darryl Strawberry on his bench in the days when the two were manager and player with the New York Yankees. Strawberry didn't pl...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 01, 2009

Nady out; Yankees pat?

As George King reports, it looks like we won't have Xavier Nady to kick around anymore. Not...

The return of baseball's great divide

There have been nine different teams that have won championships in the past 10 seasons, from the Yankees to the Diamondbacks to the Angels and Marlin...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 04, 2009

Trade deadline ripples

Some rippling after the trade deadline: The Padres had to trade Jake Peavy lest they run the risk of having one guy take up 30 to 40 percent of their...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 02, 2009

The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it

The day after Bill Madden wrote a story saying commissioner Bud Selig was thinking seriously about reinstating Pete Rose, there is another story from ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009