The Texas Rangers are still waiting on their number one overall prospect to return from elbow surgery. But while Sebastian Walcott works his way back, someone else just walked into the Dominican Summer League and immediately demanded everyone’s attention. He’s 17 years old. He’s been a professional baseball player for approximately two games. And he…
103 miles per hour. Let that sink in for a second. Somewhere in Frisco, Texas, a 25 year old from the Dominican Republic has been quietly making batters look completely foolish — and the Texas Rangers have finally decided the rest of the world deserves to see what he can do. Wilian Bormie is…
The Chicago Cubs had a pretty decent Saturday. A walk off win at Wrigley, a series all tied up against the Giants, and somewhere in the middle of all that excitement — a quiet but interesting roster move that flew completely under the radar. Because the Cubs front office never really stops working. Even on…
When your two highest paid players aren’t delivering and the team is underperforming, that’s just how it goes — the criticism comes with the job title. But there’s one area where Hoyer keeps quietly proving his doubters wrong, year after year, and it’s time to give him his flowers for it. Building a quality bullpen…
The Chicago Cubs couldn’t have scripted a worse Sunday night. A 2-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants in ten grinding innings was painful enough on its own. But what happened in the second inning made the whole thing a lot harder to stomach. Their starting pitcher walked off the mound and didn’t come back….
The New York Yankees scored 13 runs in a single inning on Sunday. Against the Athletics. And somehow that’s not even the headline. The headline is that it still wasn’t enough to break a record that has been sitting in the history books since 1920. Over a century old and still standing. You genuinely cannot…
One day you’re on the roster. The next day you’re not. And in baseball, that’s just how it goes — brutal, businesslike and completely without sentiment. The Philadelphia Phillies made a roster move ahead of Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers that nobody saw coming. A veteran of six MLB seasons, a man who…