This team is good, improving, but best of all, young. Youth has definitely been served in Arizona, and the message is loud and clear: this club is not only a contender this year, but is building a machine that should be capable of winning for years to come.
Youth Spurs Rising Phoenix Read Post »
But now, suddenly, Minnesota is riding another hot streak, one that has pulled it within a mere six games of the Wild Card lead. A scant couple of weeks down the road and a playoff spot doesn’t seem quite as farfetched.
Twins Thinking Wild Read Post »
Sanchez has now bookended shutout efforts against the Yankees (a very big deal) and the Astros (not that big a deal) around a couple of bitch-slappings at the hands of the Red Sox and the Nats. It’s a small sample size, but he isn’t striking out enough batters and not recording enough ground balls to sustain this kind of success. Having said that, he was averaging well over a strikeout per inning at Double-A before Florida yanked this young fish out of the Southern League waters.
Fantasy Notes: Sanchez Tops the Rocket Read Post »
Behind Beckett’s lofty win count (a total that earns him a share of the AL lead) are some pretty disturbing peripheral numbers.
Josh Beckett in Beantown: A Mixed Bag Read Post »
That’s a lot of star power missing, and with the exception of Schilling, none of those players deserve to be there, but is Guillen in the least bit apologetic that he played a role in leaving some of those future Hall of Famers out of the party?
Ozzie Shoots his Mouth off…Again Read Post »
Wednesday’s win over the sagging Dodgers was the Twinkies’ lucky seventh straight. Minny was a dismal 27-34 and 11.5 games back in the AL Central after getting beat by the O’s on June 10. Since then, the club has gone an unconscious 15-1. And guess how many games they’ve shaved off of the Tigers’ lead with this run?
Twinkies Out of Luck? Read Post »
What’s the deal with these Tigers? They just refuse to go away.
The Tigers Won’t Wilt Read Post »
