Albert Pujols played a grand total of three games as a Memphis Redbird in Class AAA in 2000, but it was clear he wasn’t minor league material. Pujols made the big club in St. Louis the next year and never looked back, batting .329 with 37 home runs […]
It is time to start speaking of Yadier Molina as the greatest St. Louis Cardinal ever. Yes, there was a man named Musial. Yes, there was a pitcher named Gibson. Yes, there was a slugger named Pujols. But as great as those Cardinals were, they were not Yadier […]
It’s beginning to look like the New York Yankees just plain messed up with Sonny Gray. As the Cincinnati Reds anticipate better days, with some projections having the Reds actually winning the National League Central Division this season, one of the deciding factors behind the optimism is starting […]
Pete Rose simply can’t help himself. Amidst all the uproar of the sign-stealing scandal involving the Houston Astros, one of the most perplexing turns in the saga has been Rose coming out of nowhere to argue that since Astros players aren’t being punished he shouldn’t be punished either. […]
New Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker is asking Major League Baseball to “try to put a stop to the seemingly premeditated retaliation that I’m hearing about” in regard to the Astros sign-stealing scandal. Baker knows about retaliation by brushing back a batter. He has ordered it as a […]
Dakota Hudson missed seeing a fantastic feat in the St. Louis Cardinals’ game Monday night against Milwaukee — which was sort of unusual since Hudson was the man accomplishing it. If the rookie right-hander is to be believed, he had no idea he had been pitching a no-hitter […]
His very name sounds like that of a Greek god. Aristides Aquino stands 6-4, a lean 220 pounds. Born in the Dominican Republic, he is 25 years old. That makes him something of a prototype of a rising star in baseball, akin to Fernando Tatis Jr., 6-3, 185, […]
He has a 6-6 record. He is on a team struggling in fourth place in its division. Yet former Smyrna High School and Vanderbilt right-hander Sonny Gray has climbed into the list of contenders for the National League Cy Young Award, accordiing to what ESPN.com calls the Awards […]
According to the Chattanooga police, he was clocked driving 97 mph in a 50-mph speed limit. That was in April of 2013, when Yasiel Puig, a 22-year-old Cuban defector, was a hot prospect for the Los Angeles Dodgers and playing for the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class AA […]
Ironically enough, Bryce Harper made the point better than anyone. When Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies in early March, after months of negotiations as a free agent, he talked about the significance of longevity in the life of a baseball player and […]
