• Chris Sale and James McDonald Are Among Cy Young Hopefuls You Wouldn’t Expect

    Last year’s Cy Young award winners were hardly all that surprising. Justin … [visit site to read more] Chris Sale and James McDonald Are Among Cy Young Hopefuls You Wouldn’t Expect – Call to the Pen – Call to the Pen – A Major League Baseball Fan Site – News, Blogs, Opinion and More

  • MLB Game Recaps: Kansas City Royals Walk-Off Winners

    Kansas City Royals fans haven’t had much to celebrate this year. They have the All-Star Game: Check. They have a MLB Game Recaps: Kansas City Royals Walk-Off Winners – Call to the Pen – Call to the Pen – A Major League Baseball Fan Site – News, Blogs, Opinion and More

  • Matt Cain Throws Quality Start in Giants Win Over Astros

    Matt Cain managed to throw yet another quality start last night, as the Giants bested the Houston Astros in San Francisco. Going at least six full innings and allowing three earned runs or less, the effort marked Cain’s 10th quality start of the season and 144th of his career, good for a quality start percentage [...]

  • Early Potential All-Star Snubs

    I’ve never been a huge fan of the All-Star voting process for Major League Baseball, admittedly, and I don’t think I’m alone in that department. There are lots of problems with the setup, in fact. For one, the game takes place in the middle of the … [visit site to read more] Early Potential All-Star [...]

  • MLB Game Recaps: Matt Cain Throws Perfect Game Against Houston Astros

    NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco Giants 10, Houston Astros 0

  • Trades, Rumors

  • Knobler On Pirates, Brewers, Morneau

    The trade market remains relatively quiet, but it’s starting to take shape, as Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com explains. Here are some details from Knobler: Pirates GM Neal Huntington said this week that “you can’t buy when people aren’t selling.” The

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  • Red Sox Sign Pat Light

    The Red Sox have officially signed supplemental first rounder Pat Light, according to Alex Speier of WEEI.com.  The hard-throwing right-hander out of Monmouth University agreed to a bonus of $1MM, shy of the $1.394MM bonus earmarked for the No. 37

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  • Indians To Sign Tyler Naquin

    The Indians agreed to sign first round pick Tyler Naquin, Kendall Rogers of Perfect Game USA reports (on Twitter). The Texas A&M outfielder will obtain a bonus of $1.75MM. Naquin “was one of the best pure hitters and had one of

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  • Team Updates

  • Examining the State College Minicamp Roster

    Yesterday, Pirates Prospects posted State College’s minicamp roster.  This serves as something of a preliminary roster for the early season, but there will inevitably be changes as more players from the recent draft sign.  In fact, some players have agreed

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  • Pirates Promote Gerrit Cole to Double-A

    The Pittsburgh Pirates have promoted right-handed pitcher Gerrit Cole to Altoona, per the team Twitter account. Cole is coming off a five shutout inning performance last night, where he struck out seven, and allowed two walks and three hits. The

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  • What’s Wrong With Jameson Taillon?

    Jameson Taillon has an 8.13 ERA in his last six starts. It was only a month ago today that most people were wondering when Jameson Taillon would be promoted to Double-A. The 2010 first round pick had a 1.47 ERA

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  • Other Recent Articles

  • You own this Mets cap: Gray Wilpon script

    Terence says: Road Grey with blue squatchee Wilpon script is pretty sweet! Related posts:What’s up with the lopsided M in this Mets script?The Wilpon Settlement: What You Need To Know | The LoHud Mets BlogShould Fred Wilpon Make An Appearance at the New York Mets Anniversary Conference at Hofstra?

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  • Fish Bites: Marlins’ 3-9 June Record Tells The Whole Story

    Typically, when a team is struggling, you can pinpoint one aspect of the game to determine what caused the slump. However, that has not been the case with the Miami Marlins thus far in June. Coming off of a disastrous June in 2011, the Marlins knew that if they wanted to stay in contention, they [...]

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