The Trenches were made up of seldom used bench players Derek Bell, Ed Sprague and Turner Ward. But don’t call them bench players because they didn’t ride the benches – they worked the trenches!

Sprague didn’t play much after being called up—he had only 47 at bats—but he and two other Blue Jay reserves, outfielders Turner Ward and Derek Bell, started something …

At this point of the 2009 post-season playoffs (Oct 21st), 21 games have been played. Obviously 21 games have been won and lost. Of these losses, 9 have been charged to bullpens.

This is more than the entire 2008 playoff cycle, which witnessed 8 bullpen losses.

There have been a total of 19 save opportunities. Only 10 have been converted.

WHIP ratios for …

Over the course of the last week I’ve had the opportunity to Liveblog a couple of Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins games for The Score.

Each club has positives and negatives. I’m not here to debate those. What I am here to debate (maybe not debate, let’s say point out) are the split stats for each club.

Detroit Tigers

vs Central: 39 – …

2009 World Series

Welcome to the 2009 World Series and playoff page on mopupduty.com . This page will be updated throughout the post-season with all of our coverage leading up to and including the 2009 World Series.

2009 World Series Tidbits

This years fall classic is scheduled to start on October 28th, which will be the latest start ever for the Series. The …

Darvish to Toronto?

Today I was participating in an online chat with Baseball America’s scouting guru Jim Callis.  It contained most of the typical post-draft jibber-jabber until one question piqued my interest:

Adam (Top of CN Tower about to jump)
Just a recap.. the Jays “save” money letting Rios go. Plus other moves to “save” money.. then they don’t sign 3 of their …