The 2012 season has not been too good to the Philadelphia Phillies. They’ve been in last place most of the season and just got their first three-game winning streak of the season on Tuesday. Not good for a team with a huge payroll and World Series aspirations. Now, the team gets some more good news. [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies are off to a rough start. They are hovering around .500 while the rest of the division (minus the Marlins of course) is thriving. Not only that, their offense is absolutely butt awful. So, they’ll need that starting pitching, huh? Of course they will! Well, they better hope some other people step [...]
Anyone that watched last night’s Braves/Phillies game not only saw a great game, they also saw a hobbled Chipper Jones who can still hurt opposing teams. Even if he himself is hurting pretty badly. He went 2-for-4 with a run scored and seemed to be a problem for Phillies pitchers most of the night. So, [...]
The Boston Red Sox have sent their pricey centerfielder to the disabled list. Carl Crawford was diagnosed with a Grade 1 hamstring strain and the Sox aren’t taking any chances. The strain isn’t thought to be all that serious, but the $142 million man relies heavily on his legs and it’s better to be safe [...]
If you haven’t seen it yet, just be warned. Chicago Cubs outfielder Marlon Byrd got popped in the face with a pitch this weekend against the Boston Red Sox. It was so bad that you could see the horror and concern on the face of Red Sox 3B Kevin Youkilis. Byrd got popped pretty good [...]
By now, you have heard that the Philadelphia Phillies will be getting their stud 2B Chase Utley back from the DL. He’s scheduled to join the team on Monday after rehabbing his bothersome knee down in Florida. But, is Utley coming back too soon? By all accounts, they have been very patient with his knee. [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies have a miserable outfield. So much so that the 610 WIP mid-day crew of Glen Macnow and Anthony Gargano were discussing the worst Phillies outfields of all time. You only do that when the current one is so awful. So, it doesn’t help them that the one good outfielder that they do [...]
The Boston Red Sox have place Daisuke Matsuzaka on the disabled list with a swollen and bloated ERA. There was hope that the swelling on the 5.30 ERA would go down after more starts, but it just wasn’t happening. “We had our trainers take a look at his ERA and we didn’t initially think he’d [...]
Barry Zito has finally done something that the San Francisco Giants are happy about. Specifically, he has landed on the disable list with a mid-foot sprain. Amazingly, it’s his first trip to the DL in 12 years. The Giants were probably hoping he’d spend more time there. The left-hander probably is the worst free agent [...]
This won’t come as any surprise to anyone who has followed the New York Yankees this season. Phil Hughes, a guy who has shown flashes of brilliance at times, has been put on the disabled list due to a dead arm. Hughes has been awful this season, with his fastball topping out in the mid [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, and judging by the attendance you have, the Washington Nationals are a bad baseball team. Jayson Werth isn’t a cure-all and who knows when Stephen Strasburg will pitch this year? In other words, they can’t afford to be missing any top talent for any prolonged period of time. That’s why [...]
It’s funny that NFL players get paid way less than MLB players. And all we heard about all year long in the NFL was about concussions and retired players dying from their football-related ailments. And in baseball, we get…this. The Colorado Rockies have place pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez on the DL with a cracked cuticle on [...]
Well, isn’t this a shocker. The Boston Red Sox have been brilliant this season in knowing when to bring their injured players back off the DL. Second baseman Dustin Pedroia didn’t sound like someone who was confident in the health of his foot when he came off the disabled list and now we know why. [...]
The Washington Nationals have activated pitcher Stephen Strasburg from the disabled list today. He missed the last two weeks with shoulder soreness, which has to be scary when you throw 200 mph. Right now, he is scheduled to start Tuesday night against a struggling Florida Marlins team. Hell, with the way the Marlins play defense, [...]
The Tampa Bay Rays are in a heated battle with the New York Yankees for first place in the AL East. The last thing they need is to lose one of their serious power hitters. But, that’s what it looks like as the Rays have put Carlos Pena on the DL. “#Rays are playing 1B [...]
The inevitable has finally happened. After all of the optimistic talk coming from the Philadelphia Phillies and Ryan Howard about how his ankle isn’t too bad and he shouldn’t miss more than a few games, it turns out is was all rhetoric. The Phillies have placed Howard on the 15-day DL retroactive to August 2nd [...]
Great news, Phillies fans! That stud 2B you have? He’s going to be out a while! That’s right, sources tell MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki that Chase Utley is headed to New York to have surgery to repair torn ligaments in his thumb. The team hasn’t given a timetable for his return, but Peter Gammons estimated earlier [...]
Just days after going 5-for-5 with three home runs in a single game, it seems that Boston Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia has a little bit of a busted foot. The Red Sox have placed him on the 15-day Mark Prior List (DL). They are calling it a non-displaced fracture in his left foot. Doctors [...]
According to MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki, the Philadelphia Phillies have activated Jimmy Rollins from the disabled list, just the way he guessed they might do earlier. But, the Phillies made a series of moves that includes sending Carlos Ruiz to the Mark Prior List and designating Greg Dobbs for assignment. Zolecki gives us the whole story [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies have generally had pretty good starting pitching this season despite having Kyle Kendrick and Jamie Moyer in the rotation. Moyer imploded Friday night against the Boston Red Sox and Kendrick is iffy at best. What hasn’t really been discussed is injured LHP J.A. Happ. He’s been on the Mark Prior List with [...]
The Boston Red Sox have placed OF Jacoby Ellsbury back on the Mark Prior List (DL) with rib-cage pain. The move is retroactive to May 25. So essentially, the Red Sox are saying that his ribs never really healed perfectly before. It remains to be seen if he’ll be ok in two weeks. In the [...]
Ken Rosenthal of Foxsports.com tweets that the Los Angeles Dodgers will place outfielder Andre Ethier on the Mark Prior List (DL) with a busted pinkie finger. He could miss more than the scheduled 15 days. “Source: #Dodgers’ Ethier headed to DL today. X. Paul likely callup. He can alternate with R. Johnson with G. Anderson [...]
Philadelphia Phillies closer Brad Lidge who has been lights out lately in the minors is on pace to be activated from the Mark Prior List this Friday. Tuesday night he pitched another scoreless two innings with four strikeouts and zero walks. OTR understands that he is pitching very well against minor league competition, but it’s [...]
After a Vicente Padilla fastball popped him in the face on Friday night, San Francisco Giants CF Aaron Rowand is headed to the Mark Prior List, according to Andrew Baggary (who?) on Twitter. Rowand suffered a mild concussion and fractured cheekbones and could require surgery. “Aaron Rowand to DL. Out a minimum of 2 weeks. [...]
Chicago White Sox pitcher has been activated from the Mark Prior List as expected and will make his first start for the club Saturday night against the Kansas City Royals. This will be his first start since 1997 June 8, when he went down like a Saigon whore with a strained tendon in his ankle. [...]
