Category: Major League Baseball
Friday, June 5th, 2009
No Rickie Weeks? No Ben Sheets or CC Sabathia anymore? No problem. The Milwaukee Brewers are playing solid baseball to start the 2009 season and closer Trevor Hoffman is a big reason why. The baseball season is just about a week into its third month and former longtime closer for ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Here's your stat of the day: 63 suspensions have been issued this year under baseball's minor league drug program and only two under the major league program. Fishy, yes? Or, are there different stipulations between minor and major leaguers? Like, different laws for minors and a different set of rules ...
Posted in Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds, MLB | No Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Anytime there's a big performance enhancing drug story that comes out, there's one guarantee - Jose Canseco is lurking right around the corner. Canseco wrote his book "Juiced" in 2005 basically outing Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmiero, Pudge Rodriguez, Juan Gonzalez and many others as steroid users. They all denied it ...
Posted in Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Lance Berkman doesn't quite get the same national publicity that some of the other big bats in the Big Leagues. That's not to say he's totally off the radar, but if you think about the type of numbers he's put up for the Astros in recent years, you'd think we'd ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
SRI continues our Spring Training Roundups with the American League East. When most people think about the American League East it's always the Yankees and Red Sox. Last year, perennial doormat Tampa Bay Rays and all their young talent finally put it all together and won the division and represented the American ...
Posted in Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, MLB, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
SRI continues our MLB Spring Training Roundups with the American League Central. I believe this will be the most competitive division in all of baseball. Last year the Tigers were predicted by most experts to win the division and by many experts to win the World Series. Their lineup was ...
Posted in Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 6th, 2009
SRI continues along with our Spring Training Roundups today with the National League East. Outside of the Yankees-Red Sox, the Phillies and Mets has become the fiercest rivalry in all of Major League Baseball. These teams generally don't like each other and the trash talking is off and running again ...
Posted in Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Nationals | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
SRI continues our spring training roundup with interviews from around the AL West Division. There are twenty interviews with players, managers, and general managers from all four of the teams in the AL West.
The AL West was the least competitive division in all of baseball in 2008 and it sure ...
Posted in Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, MLB, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Has it already been over four months since the World Series ended? Seems like it was yesterday I was sitting in the stands for game 5B of the World Series. It was the most surreal experience as the home team Phillies were up to bat first and people stood for ...
Posted in Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
On Monday, here at SRI, we did a monster posting with over twenty-five different interviews and storylines regarding A-Rod and the steroid story broken by Selena Roberts and David Epstein of Sports Illustrated.
This story isn't going away anytime soon, especially with spring training right around the corner. Once again, many ...
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