Russell Branyan signed as a free agent with Seattle this winter when the team promised him a job as a regular. Previously he had bounced around from team to team and despite a flury of moonshot home runs he didn’t truely find a place that seemed to embrace him playing everyday.
Looking at his numbers from [...]

Tom Glavine gave what can be only described as an unofficial announcement of retirement earlier today. As has been the case in recent months Glavine communicated the information via text message saying “I’m probably going to lay low for the rest of this year.”
While keeping open the possibility to take advantage of some part-time [...]

The Texas Rangers came up a little short yesterday and in turn dropped the final two games of a three game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers ace Chad Billingsley was his usual self yesterday pitching seven innings allowing two earned runs on five hits and one walk.
Last season the right hander went 16-10 [...]

The Tommy Hanson era as it has been called is set to begin on Saturday. Hanson will move into the rotation in place of Kris Medlen who will move to the bullpen as Jorge Campillio heads to the DL.
Glavine pitched well in his rehab starts, including six scoreless innings in his last start. The reasoning? [...]

Last season Mark Reynolds went where no man has gone before. Sure the 24-year-old third basemen of the Arizona Diamondbacks knocked in 97 runs, belted 28 homers and scored 87 times but it was his recording setting 204 strike outs that everyone remembers.
Well maybe we don’t remember them all because that’s alot of swinging and [...]

The lone star series has been one to forget for the Houston Astros, they’ve been swept in their own ball park by the cross state Texas Rangers.
To top it off: Brandon McCarthy did something he’s never done before on Sunday. He threw a complete game shutout, both of which were career firsts for the 25 [...]

Chris Young being hit in the face with a line drive last season may have been the scariest moment of the 2008 season. Young sat on the ground for several minutes after the line drive off the bat of Albert Pujols, would Young be the same pitcher he once was following this unfortunate incident?
An all-star [...]

The secret is out. Zach Greinke is pretty darn good. Ok. He’s downright nasty right now as the Baltimore Orioles found out last night. Greinke picked up his 7th win of the season against a good Orioles offense after he scattered around six hits, walked two and threw 72 of his 106 pitches for strikes.
Over [...]

Brandon Wood is hitting .260 with a homer since his demotion to Triple-A Salt Lake but the bigger news may be that the Angels have been playing him at shortstop again.
Wood who was called up briefly following Vladimir Guerrero’s DL stint starting appeared in just three games for the Angles going three-for-nine while scoring twice.
With [...]

Mark Buehrle was perfect through six innings of work and when he left after the eighth had allowed just one hit and two walks. He struck out five on his way to improving to 5-0 on the season.
After lasting just five innings on Opening Day Buehrle has recorded five straight victories pitching six or more [...]

For the life of me I can’t seem to figure out why everyone is making such a big deal out of Zack Greinke’s strong start to the season. In case you live under a rock or need a refresher Greinke became the first five game winner of the season last night after he pitched 7 [...]

When the Detroit Tigers dumped outfielder Gary Sheffield who would have guessed that the team would later make a trade with the Atlanta Braves for… an outfielder?
That’s  just what happened as the spring season was coming to a close and the Tigers who currently are in first place in the AL Central are reaping the [...]

With Vlad Guerrero out of action for the foreseeable future the Los Angeles Angels have turned their sights to Brandon Wood as a possible solution to an offense in search of some pop.
Thus far the Angels have combined for 8 homers this season though 4 have come off the bat of Torii Hunter. Over the [...]

After saying he wouldn’t talk about a contract extension during the season word is the Washington Nationals and third basemen Ryan Zimmerman are closing in on a six year deal in the neighborhood of the $66.1 that Baltimore Orioles outfielder Nick Markakis got over the winter.
My first knee jerk reaction was… what?
Leave it to the [...]

Los Angeles Angels rookie starting pitcher Nick Adenhart died early Thursday morning in a hit-and-run accident in Fullerton, Calif., according to a family member.
Three people were killed in the crash and another person was seriously injured.
Authorities are blaming the three-vehicle accident on a motorist in a mini-van who ran a red light. The driver of [...]