By James Bailey It’s too early to panic or celebrate, with only a week in the books. But one week of regular season says more than a month of spring training. What have we learned so far? Roy Halladay is even better in the National League. Jon Rauch might just be up to the task [...]
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By James Bailey You don’t generally see a team 11 games under .500 trading for veteran help at the July deadline, but that’s exactly what the Reds did Friday in acquiring third baseman Scott Rolen from the Blue Jays. Cincinnati parted with third baseman Edwin Encarnacion and righthanders Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart to pick [...]
By James Bailey Since May 18, when they sat atop the AL East with a 3.5 game lead, the Blue Jays have gone 17-32 and sunk to fourth place. An injury ravaged starting rotation finally caught up to them and the team’s overachieving offense came back to earth. With a 44-46 record at the break [...]
By James Bailey The interleague exhibitions are over and divisional matchups resume in a big way this weekend. There will be movement in some of the closely bunched divisions, like, well, pretty much all of them with the exception of the NL West, where Manny Ramirez returns to the first-place Dodgers after his 50-game suspension [...]
By Bill Begley Someone, some day is going to take control of the NL Central. Hopefully before the end of the season. For a while there, it was Chicago. Then St. Louis. Now, it’s Milwaukee. The Brewers completed a sweep of what had been a red-hot Cincinnati team with a 5-2 win Sunday.
By Pete Sabatini After 53 games and nearly two full months, it’s about time to take another look at how the divisions are shaping up. To get things started we’ll check in with baseball’s most feared, and hyped – the American League East. Last time we discussed how the division was shaping up the Blue [...]
By Michael Cooper One week removed from interleague play, baseball returns to normalcy with a couple of big division matchups and the much-anticipated debut of one big time prospect—Orioles catcher Matt Wieters. The Brewers, who have been battling division rivals for most of the season already, earn a break from NL Central foes next week, [...]
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By James Bailey It was a busy week on the transaction front, even with Padres ace Jake Peavy scotching a potential deal to the White Sox. The Orioles finally dumped Adam Eaton; Daisuke Matsuzaka and Carlos Zambrano came off the DL while Rich Harden and Edinson Volquez went on; and several highly touted prospects were [...]
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By Michael Cooper The surprising first-place Blue Jays are 27-16 this season, ahead of the Red Sox, Yankees and defending American League champion Tampa Rays. It’s a start no one expected except the folks in the Toronto clubhouse. They’re doing it with great pitching from ace Roy Halladay (8-1, 2.78 ERA) and young starters like [...]
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By James Bailey At the three-week mark we felt it was an appropriate time for a checkup on how the division races were shaping up. We’ll kick off our reviews with the AL East. The great debate prior to the season was which of the three best teams in baseball was going to finish out [...]
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