Baseball Analysis

Opposing pitcher Russ Ortiz had his sights set on his first win of the season Sunday, but the Dodgers thought otherwise. The 0-3 right-hander was hit hard in the first inning, allowing four runs as the Dodgers won the series by beating Ortiz and the Diamondbacks 6-4 Read more »

Jeff Weaver picked up his first win as an Angel on Saturday in a 5-4 Angels victory. He made one mistake in the game and that was to Oakland?s Nick Swisher who took the blunder over the right field wall for a grand slam. The grand slam didn?t hurt the Angels as K-Rod and the boys closed down the A?s for the rest of the game. Read more »

The return of Nomar Garciaparra to the Dodger roster was welcoming, as Grady Little was finally able to assemble the lineup he had envisioned to place on the field Opening Day. However, Jae Seo allowed all five runs, enabling the Arizona Diamondbacks to beat the Dodgers 5-4 Read more »

The Angels headed over to Oakland for a three game series against their division rival Athletics. Going into the game you knew it would be a pitchers duel. The game was ugly, but not for that reason. The Angels pitching staff walked 10 batters, just handing Oakland the game. Read more »

The Kansas City Royals are off to another horrific start. It appears as if the Royals are trying to break a record, a record that they set last season. The Royals 19-game losing streak is in jeopardy as this year?s team has lost 11 straight. Read more »

The Dodgers opened up a three game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks on a good note, as starter Odalis Perez was able to go six innings, allowing one run. Led by Perez who won his third game of the season, Los Angeles defeated the D-Backs 6-3 Read more »

Relying on the unreliable. Depending on the undependable. This describes the Yankees season, and this is not a promising description. The reason for all this instability and question comes back to one name: Randy Johnson. The 42-year old that can no longer get the job done on a consistent basis. The basket that the Yankees foolishly put all their eggs in. Ladies and gentlemen, the basket is falling fast and the eggs are on the brink of shattering. Read more »

The Rocket-less Astros are currently first in arguably the toughest division in all of baseball. The NL Central has four out of five teams over the .500 mark, more than any other division in the major leagues. The Houston Astros 10-5 record is second best in the National League. All of this with out one of the greatest pitchers of all-time. Read more »

A day after blowing a save, Francisco Rodriguez closed out the Twins on Thursday picking up his 5th save of the season. That?s the good thing about baseball. You can fail one day and come back the very next day, facing the same team, and get revenge. Well, that?s what K-Rod did in a 6-4 Angels win. Read more »

J.C. Romero came in the tenth inning and gave up a two-run, walk off homer to his former teammate, Michael Cuddyer. The Twins traded Romero to the Angels for infielder Alexi Castilla. Apparently Romero thought he?d do the Twins a favor by allowing them the chance to hit a fastball right down the middle. I?m sure Cuddyer and the Twins thanked J.C. after the game. Read more »

The Dodgers finished their three game series with Chicago Cubs last night, but not before closer Danys Baez failed to pitch the final two innings with caution. The Cubs would score three times in the eighth to beat the Dodgers 5-4 Read more »

Kelvim Escobar razzled and dazzled the Twins on Tuesday. Escobar gave the Angels their best start all season by striking out 10 batters in just 6 2/3 innings. While Escobar supplied the pitching, Chone Figgins carried the offense. Put the two together, and you have an 8-2 win. Read more »

Turnout has been sub-par thus far for the Washington Nationals in 2006. One needs only to look to the usually crowded luxury suites for the answer. Any given afternoon, one would usually see jolly senators and congressmen stumbling drunkenly about, eating cocktail weenies impaled on mahogany toothpicks. With the king of lobbyists, Jack Abramoff, behind bars, the suites now resemble deserted brothels. Read more »

Mark Teixiera. Miguel Cabrera. Jason Bay. These are just a few players that in recent years have been pegged as future stars and have come through on that promise in fine form. How does one spot these diamonds? Well, a lot of them aren?t really in the rough. Read more »

Why does everyone in and around baseball, other than MLB Managers, know that our #1 ranked player, Albert Pujols, is the best hitter in the game? Why don't Managers walk Pujols on a more consistent basis? Our congratulations to (#19) Pedro Martinez, 34 and still slender, for his 200th win over the Braves, and to Greg Maddux (HM) who is off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 1994. Read more »

Derek Lowe tossed another decent game tonight, but was unable to lock up his second win of the year. Instead, RF J.D. Drew broke a tie ball game in the 9th with a base hit to right, scoring CF Kenny Lofton for the win Read more »

The Angels played Baltimore on Monday to finish off the four game series. The halos scored two runs while giving up four. In the past ten games, the Angels have managed to only win five of the them. Amazingly, the Angels are still in first place in the AL West. Read more »

The 40 year old workhorse, Greg Maddux, was nearly unhittable tonight against The Dodgers, allowing just one run through eight innings. Maddux received his third win of the season as the Chicago Cubs went on to win the game, 4-1 Read more »

The 2006 MLB season is now in session. There have been a few surprises like the Colorado Rockies and Cincinnati Reds and a few disappointments such as the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals. Now more than ten games into the season for every team, here are the latest team rankings. Read more »

Angels slugger Vladimir Guerrero broke his dry spell, by hitting his second and third homeruns of the season. Vlad hadn?t hit a homerun since opening day against Jamie Moyer and the Seattle Mariners. Read more »