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The Brewers will have just about everyone playing today as they kick off their spring season with a pair of split squad games.  They play at home against the Giants and then they hit the road to play the Cubs.  Only the Cubs game will be on the radio…

The Astros start their spring slate today with against the Braves.  Several regulars will be in the starting lineup and Wandy Rodriguez gets the start on the mound.  Henry Villar, Enerio Del Rosario, Fernando Rodriguez, Lance Pendleton, Sergio Escalo…

Well, this wasn’t a good start.  Carlos Zambrano pitched two shutout innings to open things up for the Cubs but then the A’s rattled off 15 runs in the next seven innings.  Garza gave up five of those while Justin Berg gave up seven.  No…

The Cardinals are one of the last teams to have their spring debut but the waiting is over as done with because they face the Marlins today.  Of course a lot of the news surrounding the leadup to spring training was the Albert Pujols signing situation…

Oh yeah, the Reds are back and while they needed six runs in the final two frames, they pulled out the 7-6 win over their spring training complex sharing rival, the Cleveland Indians.  Dave Sappelt and Chris Valaika both homered in the big eighth inni…

Pitching reigned supreme again as Detroit beat the Jays for the second straight time without giving a run.  The Tigers won 1-0 and the two teams combined for just seven hits.  Victor Martinez drove home hitting star Andy Dirks in the sixth inning wit…

In the spring training opener the defending AL champions lost to the Kansas City Riyals 4-2 in the Catctus League opener. In two innings of work C.J Wilson gave up two runs which were produced by a Billy Butler single.One of the interesting events surr…

Spring training as started for the LA Angels and has come with mixed results as the team started 1-1. The first victory came courtesy of the Florida State University baseball team in which the team beat 8-0, with the win going to pitcher Drew Naylor. T…

Outfielder Bryce Harper, the #1 overall pick of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, will make his Nationals debut Monday February 28th in Washington’s first Grapefruit league game. While not in the starting lineup, manager Jim Riggleman will insert…

Minor injury news with 2 stars marred the opening of camp for National league favorite Philadelphia Phillies.  Free agent signee LH SP Cliff Lee strained his left side while playing catch at home in Arkansas before reporting to camp. He flew to Philad…

21 yr old OF Mike Stanton, who hit a home run every 16.3 at bats in his rookie season, homered in his 1st at bat Sunday(February 27th) but also came up lame, injuring his right quad.  While running out a grounder, his leg gave out as he was half way d…

It was a great, great weekend for fans of the Atlanta Braves as the franchise icon and rookie stud made impressive debuts. Much ballyhooed 1B Freddie Freeman was 3 for 3 (All doubles to all 3 fields!)in his Grapefruit League debut Saturday(February 26t…

Some news and notes as well as who has looked good in week 1 of Mets spring training. Stock Up: 1- RHP Chris Young pitched well Sunday Feb 27th vs the Atlanta Braves over 2 innings and skipper Terry Collins was impressed. 2- RHP Jenrry  Mejia allowed…

Though Royals’ manager, Ned Yost, has already stated he doesn’t plan on contending this year. “I think we’re going to surprise a lot of people with our team. I think we’re going to have a much better team than all the &#82…

There don’t seem to be any major question marks with the Twins as Spring Training games approach. Cuddyer is expected to miss the first couple of games due to a bothering left foot, but he said it’s nothing to worry about this early in spri…

Good news as the Sox are approaching their Cactus League Opener, Jake Peavy is readying himself with the club. After a season-ending surgery last season on his right shoulder, Peavy is back with the team. Peavy through a 40 pitch bullpen on Wednesday f…

The Indians get ready to play the Reds today in their Cactus League season opener. There are still questions about who will be filling in some vacant holes that are still in question. There are 5 pitchers in the mix for the open 5th starter spot. Josh…

Spring baseball is here and the Pirates kicked off their spring season with a 9-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.  Charlie Morton didn’t allow a run in the first inning of his start but then he gave up two in the second.  Brad Lincoln gave a run in…

Seven Tigers pitchers held the hard hitting Blue Jays to five hits in their 4-0 win yesterday afternoon.  Phil Coke made the start and he pitched two shutout frames and he was followed by Duane Below, who pitched a pair of innings in which he gave up …

Did you ever see the movie, “Catch Me if You Can”? It stars Leo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks and is directed by Steven Spielberg. For all intents and purposes it’s a highly enjoyable flick. There’s a line in it, however, that I feel c…

When in god’s name did the city of Boston become so freaking cool? It’s seems as though every year, four new movies are set in Boston. The market is officially flooded for Boston in popular culture. You have the smartest people, your sports…

The Rays always get ragged on because no one shows up to their games even though they’re a young, exciting team that wins a LOT of ball games. I couldn’t watch games at that dump either. It’s not easy to enjoy a baseball game when you…

You know what really used to agitate me? Back before the internets, computers used to rely heavily upon the CD-ROM. One of the most popular CD’s was Encyclopedia Britannica. I think it came free with every computer from 1990-95 sorta how those ha…

Welcome to the first post in a season-long blog on your beloved Orioles. As an outsider looking in (and a Cleveland Indians fan) the two things about the Orioles that stir any emotion in me whatsoever are as follows — the bald bouncer from the Je…

This is courtesy of MLB.com’s Game Notes, Phil Coke is going to get the start for the Tigers and he’ll be facing Brett Cecil.  Duane Below, Alberto Alburquerque, Brad Thomas and Robbie Weinhardt are all scheduled to pitch today.  A famili…

Just about everybody got in on the action yesterday afternoon as the Tigers kicked off their spring season with their traditional opener against Florida Southern.  The Tigers scored runs in each of the first seven innings with most of the starters jus…

The Tigers start their spring season this afternoon in their traditional exhibition game against Florida Southern.  Game time is 1 pm and it looks like most of the Tigers regulars will start the game and get an at bat before they come out.  For sprin…

I’m listening to the press conference live.  Here’s a series of note I’m taking while it’s going on. 1)  Cabrera is resuming baseball activities tomorrow (Friday) 2)  Cabrera is giving his statement mostly in Spanish. He apol…

Miguel Cabrera is going to speak to the press at 4:30.  According to Jon Heyman on Twitter, he’s going to start training with the team tomorrow.

The 1961 had it’s share of mashers but the pitching staff was just as good.  Overall, the Yankees finished second in the AL in ERA (3.46) and were in the top half of just about every pitching category.  Whitey Ford was the ace and the Hall of F…