Posts Tagged Were

  • Were We Wrong in Crowning the Washington Nationals as MLB’s Next Great Team?

    Amidst a wave of great expectations, the Washington Nationals are scuffling. Losers of four straight, including a sweep at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals, the National League East favorites are under .500 for the first time since 2011.Before dismissing their issues to small-sample variance, th...

  • Robert Griffin III’s Injury Shows How Smart Nats Were with Stephen Strasburg

    The Washington Redskins prioritized the present over the future on Sunday, as head coach Mike Shanahan allowed superstar rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III to keep playing against the Seattle Seahawks even though his right knee was clearly not 100 percent.In fact, it was basically hanging by a th...

  • Winter Meetings: Media Types Thought Yankees Were Kidding About Payroll Edict

    A couple of amusing pieces came out of the winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn., regarding the New York Yankees’ lack of activity at said meetings. David Lennon of Newsday wrote Tuesday how strange it was to see the Yankees “rummaging through the bargain bin” as the team tries to fi...

  • Anonymous player says the Yankees were ‘spooked’ by the fans booing

    If any excuse the Yankees could make for their poor ALCS showing would be off-limits, I would have to think it would be blaming the fans. Nothing New York fans say should surprise the players, no matter how vulgar, inappropriate or unsupportive it may be. According to one anonymous Yankee, it did th...

  • Career, Interrupted: Top 25 MLB Careers That Were Cut Short

    Baseball became America’s pastime almost immediately from the sport’s inception. The game’s greatness shines for several reasons.  The methodical pace of play between pitcher and catcher, as well as batter and fielder, allow for easy conversation among friends. ...

  • Why the Seattle Mariners Were Smart to Hold onto King Felix Hernandez

    The trade deadline has come and gone, and to the appeasement of Mariners faithful, the club decided not to part ways with their most valuable asset, former Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez.King Felix let it be known that he wanted to stay in Seattle, and general manager Jack Zduriencik said he was go...

  • Why the New York Mets Were Smart to Hold on to Bobby Parnell

    Relievers that consistently throw in the upper-90s are valuable commodities for obvious reasons. In some cases, however, they are more valuable to a team as a trading chip than as a contributor.Perhaps I was the only proponent of it, but I vehemently believed that the Mets were better off packaging ...

  • Were the Atlanta Braves Right to Demote Jair Jurrjens?

    Jair Jurrjens isn’t getting any better. Since suffering a knee injury in the second half of the 2011 season, Jurrjens has looked uncomfortable on the mound has has vastly underperformed for an Atlanta Braves team that needed him to be one of the consistent starters in their rotation. So far in...

  • John Smoltz’s Jersey Retirement a Reminder of How Fortunate Braves Fans Were

    When John Smoltz's No. 29 jersey is retired this June, the Atlanta Braves will have retired four jerseys in the past four seasons.Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Bobby Cox each had their numbers retired in similar ceremoniesas Smoltz. Chipper Jones will probably have his jersey retired next season...

  • Duke and Cust were worth a look for Astros

    The Astros released outfielder Jack Cust and pitcher Zach Duke early Tuesday. It should have come as no surprise. Neither had performed at all as expected during the spring. Since both had to win spots on the roster with nothing guaranteed, their failures spelled their doom. Cust and Duke had once ...

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