July 23, 2010 by Chris Pope

When is an All-Star Game actually going to be all-star? This year's MLB All-Star Game was for all intents and purposes a great ball game, not only to watch but to play in. All the players stuck around until the end of the game instead of leaving faster than Monica...

July 12, 2010 by John Matisz

Thanks to a number of remarkable single-game pitching performances thus far in the Major League Baseball season, there is a smidgen of acceptance for the lack of attention Colorado Rockies pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez has received for his execution of the National League. The levels of perfection reached by young Athletic...

July 12, 2010 by Joe Matisz

Thanks to a number of remarkable single-game pitching performances thus far in the Major League Baseball season, there is a smidgen of acceptance for the lack of attention Colorado Rockies pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez has received for his execution of the National League. The levels of perfection reached by young Athletic...

June 30, 2010 by Mark Milner

Earlier this summer, from April into June, Toronto-based blogger Navin Vaswani embarked on one hell of a road trip; or as he called it, The Baseball Road Trip of a Lifetime. It's hard to imagine any baseball fan would disagree. In just under two months, Vaswani visited all 30 Major...

June 28, 2010 by Dave Byrne

In light of Stephen Strasburg's fourth dominating start for the woeful Washingston Nationals, the buzz around the rookie pitcher's chances to represent his squad in July's All-Star Game in Anaheim have heated up. Despite his relative inexperience in Major League Baseball, Strasburg has quickly compiled some of the finest starts...

June 10, 2010 by Austin Kent

Stephen Strasburg made an appearance in Washington D.C. on Tuesday and proceeded to wreak havoc in every awesome way possible. It was more or less expected, but nevertheless the results were a pleasant surprise. On one single night, Stephen Strasburg was at once a caroling child singing on Christmas Eve...

June 2, 2010 by Eric Rosenhek

I owe Andruw Jones an apology. In April, I attended the Toronto Blue Jays' home opener against the Chicago White Sox. I found myself snickering after Jones' name was announced during the player introductions. I couldn't believe the White Sox were willing to take a chance on a player who...

May 21, 2010 by Jesse Michael

"Fred Lewis is just going to be one of the guys coming off the bench and we'll try to get him in there once in a while as much as I can." That was a quote from head coach Cito Gaston the day after the Toronto Blue Jays acquired the...

April 5, 2010 by Kirby Barber

When the calendar flips to March, not only is it time for spring training, but the baseball world is inundated with the nauseating clich© that players are in the best shape of their lives. Each year, dozens of players make this statement. Interestingly they're usually well past their prime, or...

April 1, 2010 by Kirby Barber

When the calendar flips to March, not only is it time for spring training, but the baseball world is inundated with the nauseating clich© that players are in the best shape of their lives. Each year, dozens of players make this statement. Interestingly they're usually well past their prime, or...

March 9, 2010 by Joe Scaringi

The game of baseball is colloquially known as America©s favourite pastime, yet, in 1984, as a demonstration sport in the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, baseball provided an unlikely platform for an improbable Canadian to live the Olympic dream. It was a sequence of chance occurrences that saw Henry Andrulis...

February 17, 2010 by Eric Rosenhek

There are many words that define Bernie Williams: clutch hitter, Yankee hero, All-Star, World Series champion, future Hall-of-Famer. But it's probably safe to say that most people would be surprised if they found out words like "guitarist" and "critically-acclaimed musician" could also describe him. As it turns out, the baseball...