Reigniting the Phillies/Mets Rivalry

The New York Mets sure don’t need any extra motivation playing against the defending World Series champions.

Daniel Murphy hit a two-run homer, Mike Pelfrey pitched 5 1/3 effective innings and the Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 on Friday night in the first meeting between the two rivals.

Before the game, general manager Omar Minaya backed off comments …

Randy Ruiz Profile

In early January of this year, Kman commented on the Jays’ decision to sign journeyman minor leaguer Randy Ruiz:

The Blue Jays recently signed longtime minor league Randy Ruiz to a contract. In my opinion, this is the best FA signing by the Jays this offseason. While the over-the-hill Matt Clement is expected for some reason to contribute positively …

Unanimous Hall of Fame Entrant?

Rickey Henderson

Not long ago Kman and I had a discussion about Greg Maddux’s career.  I argued that Maddux was a candidate to be the first ever player inducted to the Hall of Fame with a unanimous vote.  Surprisingly, this has never happened before – not even Cal Ripken received votes from 100% of the BBWAA.

This …

Phillies Power Too Much for Rays Pitching

Some text from our 2008 World Series Predictions

The reason that I don’t like the Rays here is due to the starting pitching match-up… they love to give up the longball, Shields (24 in 215 IP), Garza (19 in 185) and Kazmir (23 in 152).

Vegas odds have game one as a push, due to Hamels …

All-Time Strikeout Race Results

This is an update to an earlier article: The Record No One Wants

Since we last checked in Mark Reynolds was on the cusp (not Cust…) of breaking the all-time single season strikeout record. Trailing closely behind were Ryan Howard and the bad pun, Jack Cust. Well, the results are in and the winner, and NEW all-time strikeout …