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Angel fans have been spoiled. From 1996 to 2008 it was just about automatic, the game was over in the 9th inning. Between Troy Percival and Francisco Rodriguez , Angel fans saw the two relievers combine for an amazing 524 saves. Rodriguez lead the league in saves three times including a Major league record 62 in his final season with the club in ...

It’s time to check in on three more prospects from around the minor leagues. Are any of them primed to make an impact in the not too distant future? Let’s take a look: Desmond Jennings - Tampa Bay Rays - OutfielderTriple-A: .301 (59-196), 1 HR, 21 RBI, 43 R, 19 SB When we last checked in on Jennings he had not yet gotten going, hitting .236 over his first 110 AB ...

Giacomo Casanova once said, "By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel." We could say that about quite a few players on the Red Sox roster, and the Red Sox franchise itself. It's funny how you can use a quote by a ladies man ...

Mat Latos continues to roll on the mound.  Max Scherzer continues to put his early season struggles behind him.   A.J. Burnett finally had a good outing.  Let’s look at these stories and all the rest from yesterday’s games:   Hitters: Brandon Phillips (1-3, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R) - Cincinnati Reds He’s now hitting .309 with 10 HR, 27 RBI, 62 R, and 10 SB.  While the RBI ...

Bruce Bochy hasn't done anything differently from the San Francisco Giants' fast start in April to the roller-coaster ride that got them spiraling downward in a seven-game losing streak. Bochy didn't make Tim Lincecum, oddly, less dominating. The manager didn't have anything to do with Pablo Sandoval's struggle at the plate. The bullpen many like to insist he mismanages really just isn't very good. There's no reason to fire Bochy, unless you ...

For the second time this season, the Rockies made Tim Lincecum, the two-time defending Cy Young winner, look like just another pitcher. This time, 22-year-old Jhoulys Chacin kept the Rockies in the game long enough to win 6-3. Chacin shook off a two-run first inning in which Aubrey Huff hit a long home run to right field. He held the Giants scoreless for the next four frames before serving up another home ...

It was pretty well known around here last season that I was not a fan of A's righthander Trevor Cahill. That wasn't so much because I didn't think the former top prospect had great potential. It was more due to the fact that Cahill wasn't performing well and had completely ditched his best pitch, a big curveball. Cahill throws five pitches: a four-seamer in the low-90's, a two-seamer around 90 with unbelievable ...

As we approach the middle of the season and the All-Star break, I thought it would be a good idea to see how our position players stack up against the rest of the league. To be eligible for the batting average and on-base percentage category, a player must have 175 at-bats or more up to this point in the season. The Jays have had some surprises from players like Jose Bautista, ...

Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek was the Babe Ruth, so to speak, of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the only women’s professional baseball league in baseball history.  She passed away on May 17, 2010 at age 84.  The Gina Davis character in A League of Their Own was named after Dottie and loosely based on her. The AAGPBL lasted 12 seasons from 1943 through 1954.  At its inception, the “girls” played a ...

So how did we get here? How did we get from a bull-in-a-china-shop football player at Michigan State University to the manager of a big league baseball team? Well, first of all, Kirk Gibson was a bull-in-a-china-shop baseball player, too. So nothing new there. Gibson played baseball with the temperament of a bear awakened early from hibernation. He reported to spring training every February scowling, and got crabbier. His face was affixed into ...