Pitcher Dan Straily agrees to $575,000 deal with Orioles BALTIMORE—Seeking to boost a thin starting rotation, the Baltimore Orioles agreed to a $575,000, one-year contact with Dan Straily. The 30-year-old right-hander’s deal was announced Friday. He would get a $250,000 assignment bonus if traded. Baltimore rotation includes Alex Cobb, Andrew Cashner, Dylan Bundy and David…
DetailsWill Ervin Santana join the White Sox starting rotation soon? Will Ervin Santana be with the White Sox soon? It’s seemed like just a matter of time — a matter of the schedule, to be exact — before the White Sox needed to summon the veteran right-hander from Arizona to join the major league rotation.…
DetailsMarte, D-backs pummel Red Sox with 7-run 6th Ketel Marte hit two home runs, including a grand slam, and Adam Jones — Boston’s former American League East nemesis with Baltimore — belted another homer in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 15-8 win Friday over the Red Sox in Phoenix. Boston is 2-7 in its 11-game West Coast…
DetailsBill James says MLB can improve fan safety by punishing bat tosses, broken bats Noted baseball historian, sabermetrics creator and Boston Red Sox consultant Bill James has an idea to improve fan safety, and it includes punishing batters for throwing and breaking their bats. In a tweet sent Friday afternoon, James says bat tosses and…
DetailsDavid Price blasts MLB for failing to market Red Sox star Mookie Betts David Price wants to see more of MVP teammate Mookie Betts on TV, beyond the on-field show Betts puts forth daily. Price told reporters Friday that MLB is wasting an opportunity to attract younger fans, specifically fans of color, by not making…
DetailsEntertaining ‘Screwball’ makes mockery of baseball’s ‘Steroid Era’ It’s called the “Steroid Era,” but even that moniker is a fake. Labeling a period of time suggests that there was a beginning and an end. When it comes to performance enhancing drugs in baseball, you’d have to be painfully naive to think much has stopped. Regardless,…
DetailsStudy Shows MLB Baseballs Are Still Juiced and That’s a Good Thing A few years ago, baseball fans were hit with a persistent rumor that the baseballs were juiced, hence the increased number of homers and the skyrocketing distance of each blast. You may recall this initial chatter coming to a head during the wild,…
DetailsMets experience another travel delay when player struggles to go to the bathroom The New York Mets own opening day and for much of April they instill hope in a fan base that has been known to lose it by June. They’re still the Mets, though, and oddities follow them around like incessant groupies. Noah…
DetailsBruce Bochy receives lengthy standing ovation before final home opener SAN FRANCISCO—At some point in his media session Friday morning, Bruce Bochy tried to politely hint to reporters that he was tired of talking about his future. Bochy had already answered about a half-dozen questions about his decision to retire at the end of this…
DetailsThe Beginning of the End This post has been more than 12 years in the making and I still don’t know how to start it, so I’m just going to come out and say it: We’ve decided it’s time to shut down RAB. More accurately, I’ve decided it’s time to shut down RAB, since I’ve…
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