I don’t think he’d be any good now, especially if he wears that helmet while he pitches.
Dude’s 53 now, but hey, Satchel Paige pitched a game at age 58, so you never know. 
Craig Kimbrel has an absolute disaster of an outing. Spring training means nothing, but you want your guys to at least be in regular season form.
1/3 of an inning, 4 earned runs, 4 hits with two of them homers, yikes!!
One suspects that the White Sox knew something when they traded him to the Dodgers the other day.
why am I thinking people are intentionally putting a curse on teams when all the writers and the like say a team “has too much talent”? sometimes it even sounds like a sour grapes complaint (like someone complaining someone else gets too much sex or money)
I mean the dodgers traded a few guys but the phrasing I’ve read goes like this " the dodgers let go /traded x which is a good idea because there’s too much talent on the team for that position so x wouldn’t see any playing time " and I wanna yell "shut up people before something bad happens "
The Angels DFAd Justin Upton.
I assume he was going to be a platoon guy at best and they wanted to give him a chance to sign on elsewhere where he could play more.
The Angels got 2.2 WAR out of their $106 million investment. They’ve had some terrible contracts this century.
No kidding. “Too much talent” is usually followed very quickly by “Out for the season” and “nagging hamstring injury” and the dreaded “Tommy John surgery.”
Really over the last decade or so. I can’t fathom having Mike Trout and being unable to win a single postseason game, let alone a series.
MLB’s power rankings are out.
Well, it’s a start. I definitely have my disagreements. I don’t think the Brewers belong at number 4, but they’ll have a weak NL Central to beat up on all season. The A’s down at 27??
As long as there are no serious objections, I strongly think we should continue with the monthly threads for MLB. They’ve generated enough activity each month in years past.
Absolutely agree. The monthlies work well.
I love the fact the AL East has 3 of the top 6 in the power ranking. The Red Sox at a respectable 11th and then all the way at the bottom, The O’s.
It’s reassuring that there are five teams thought to be worse than the Nats.
Oakland won 86 games last year. So far they have traded away at least 25 of the WAR produced last year.
While this may be true in terms of sheer talent, in terms of having a chance to win the World Series, it’s unlikely, since only one has any shot at a bye. At least two of those teams have to play an extra round of playoffs. Teams like the White Sox and Brewers, with fewer serious divisional rivals, have an easier path.
Yikes! Albert Pujols files for divorce from his wife.
His wife just underwent brain surgery for a tumor.
yeah sometimes with things like that there can be sone nasty personality changes before and after … wonder if that contributed to the divorce
In a feel good moment, Cubs pitcher Ethan Roberts made the big league roster. His reaction is heartwarming.
Brewers catcher Pedro Severino is suspended 80 games for testing positive for Clomiphene, an infertility medication that is considered a PED.
Albert on trusting the doctors: “As much as we take swings in the cage, they do surgery.”
So…the docs were just taking surgery practice? Or did he mean that he had confidence in their .300 average for such cases?
Hopefully she will recover well, and that the tumor was something benign like a meningioma (which the limited info suggests).
It makes you wonder. The players had 99 days without drug testing during the lockout. I’m sure many put that time to good use.
Ready for more nationally televised Yankees and Red Sox?
They really do want to kill the Golden Goose, don’t they?