A 17-game schedule Wednesday provided enough baseball to last anyone…OK, about one day: The Indians impressed the hell out of me, sweeping a doubleheader at Fenway to move back into first place in the wild-card race and push the Red Sox ever so close to extinction. The Tribe got seven innings of one-run ball from…
Reaction to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ recent decision to increase the team’s debt load by $20 million has been loud and unanimous: the sky is, once again, falling. How could one of baseball’s "most successful" teams–a defending divisional champion–find itself in need of cash? As you might expect, there’s a lot more to this news than…
Olympic Prospectus series Exhibition Roundup Olympic Outlook Team USA Pitching Team USA Hitting "I don’t believe in pitch counts. We lost our counter, so I have no idea how long they worked. That pitcher [Japan’s Daisuke Matsuzaka] was outstanding. I think that’s the way it should be. I think a young pitcher has to strengthen…