Baseball Analysis

20th August, 2005 Shea Stadium, Queens Livan Hernandez (14-5) vs Pedro Martinez (12-5). Two of baseball's best pitcher's go to the mound in key NL Wild Card game. Read more »

If the Cubs can get to the 89 or 90 win plateau, then they will have an outside chance at making the playoffs. With the way the team has played this year, quite frankly, that is all this team can hope for. A chance. Read more »

The RealGM Baseball Player Ranking are back and we have the usual suspects at the top of the list with Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez leading the way, but surprise names like Brady Clark and Jeff Francoeur have come from nowhere to be part of our top-26. Read more »

A Baltimore Orioles clubhouse, which for weeks had been trying its hardest to keep its heads from hanging down, had nowhere to look but up yesterday after completing the unlikeliest sweep of AL wild-card leader Oakland. Read more »

Ichiro is not the only player in Seattle with superstar qualities, 19 year-old pitcher Felix Hernandez is already invoking comparisons to Dwight Gooden (the good years). Read more »

The opening act of Monday?s circus provided some anxious moments for those in attendance. Cook was clearly battling himself early, and he struggled in the first inning with his control . . . and that?s being kind. Read more »

The best possible substitute for Frank Thomas would be a guy who is hitting around .286 with 27 homers and about 81 RBI?s going into play on Tuesday. Ken Griffey Jr. anyone? Read more »

Greg Maddux gave the Cubs another brilliant outing, pitching seven innings while giving up just one run on three hits in the Cubs' 4-1 victory at Houston. Read more »

17th August, 2005 Minute Maid Field, Houston Roy Oswalt and the Astros host Carlos Zambrano and the Cubs in a Wild Card showdown. Read more »

As the two of them got a tad stuck in neutral since last Monday, the Yankees, Phillies, Nats and Marlins realized that treading water might be mildly amusing --and at least stops you from drowning-- but it won't get you to the other side of the pool. Eyebrows are furrowing in the cities of Cleveland and Texas, while Blue Jays and Twins fans can still hold onto a string-thin hope of actually staying in this mediocre mixer. Read more »

The Reds have a major decision to make. They can trade their marketing centerpiece to help build the future or they can sell tickets for the rest of the season and seasons to come. The choice is clear-cut. They need to move Junior to the highest bidder and build for the future. Read more »

15th August, 2005 Jacobs Field, Cleveland Two of the AL's best left-handed pitchers Kenny Rogers and C.C. Sabathia face off. Read more »

The Giants' Randy Winn joined the elite group of players who have hit for the cycle during San Francisco's 7-3 win over the Reds. Winn completed the feat in his first four at-bats. Read more »

The A's have plans for a new ballpark that would have condos built into the stadium and the idea of condos in the Green Monster is an intriguing one. In 1999, Sox owners pitched replica version of Fenway, adjacent to the standing stadium, only much larger. This plan was just a few signatures away from completion; but in retrospect, I think most fans are happy this never happened. The renovations that have taken place the past years, and the ones to come, respect the stadium in geography and history. I don?t think any fan wants to see Fenway gone. This being said, I do enjoy myself a new and improved stadium for some other club. Read more »

With both the NL and AL Central Division locked up, all attention focuses on the race for the other six playoff spots. Between the Red Sox, Yankees, Athletics and Angels, one of these very good teams will be on the outside looking in. Same goes for the NL, with either the Marlins, Braves or Astros going home early. Read more »

Pedro Martinez had never pitched a no-hitter, and the Mets had never thrown one. For seven-and-one-third innings in Los Angeles on Sunday, Martinez looked ready to put himself and the Mets in the history books. Read more »

At this point in the season, it does not seem to matter how LA creeps into the postseason, just as long as they get in. Read more »

He turns 47 in about a week. Think about that one. Forty-seven! The man will be getting his AARP enrollment forms in the mail before long. He?s beginning to smell his well-deserved Taco Bell senior discounts. His golden years will apparently have little resemblance to any of ours. Read more »

13th August, 2005 Turner Field, Atlanta Russ Ortiz returns to Atlanta to face his former team, as they send John Thompson to the mound. Read more »

On a night of left-handed brilliance, Johan Santana was king. He pitched a complete game shutout of the A's, giving up just three hits, beating fellow ace Rich Haren. Read more »