There is a distinct sound to baseball in December. It is not the pop of leather or the roar of a crowd. It is the hum of elevators, the rattle of rolling suitcases and the quiet frenzy of text messages that cannot afford to sleep. The game gathers this week for the MLB Winter Meetings, […]
BREAKING NEWS: Detroit Shocks Baseball Trading Ace Tarik Skubal to Diamondbacks, Tearing Hearts and Redrawing the Franchise’s Future Overnight Completely .nh1
Baseball awoke to a stunner as reports indicated the Detroit Tigers and the Arizona Diamondbacks had finalized a blockbuster involving left-handed ace Tarik Skubal. If confirmed, the move would send one of the American League’s most electric arms to the desert and plunge Detroit into a defining moment about who it wants to be next. […]
BREAKING NEWS: From Rotation Castoff to Trade Target, Sean Newcomb Stuns MLB With Reinvention That Has Contenders Whispering Once More.nh1
A year ago, Sean Newcomb looked like a pitcher searching for a role. Now he looks like a pitcher everyone wants to define. Clubs around baseball, according to multiple reports, have taken notice of a 32-year-old left-hander who has become useful in more than one way and dangerous precisely because of it. Newcomb opened the […]
GOOD NEWS: From Waiver Wire Afterthought to October Inferno, Cody Ross Writes Giants Legend and Rewrites Destiny in San Francisco Forever.nh1
In the churn of a long baseball season, waiver-wire moves are supposed to be forgettable. They are transactions for depth charts and contingencies, for injuries that might happen and ifs that may never come. In August of 2010, Cody Ross was exactly that kind of move when San Francisco Giants claimed him from the Florida […]
SAD NEWS: Red Sox No Hit Hero Dave Morehead’s Final Inning, A City Mourns As A Forgotten Legend’s Fire Fades Into Silence.nh1
Dave Morehead, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher whose arm authored one of Fenway Park’s most unforgettable nights, has died at 82. His passing closes the book on a career often remembered for a single page yet cherished by those who lived it for the entire story. Morehead’s name is etched into the Red Sox’s […]