Initial thoughts on the stunning news reported on Tuesday evening UK time that Prince Fielder is heading to Detroit
Read the full story »Jorge Posada announced his retirement on Tuesday, formally bringing to an end a seventeen year playing career spent with just one team: the New York Yankees.
However much spirit, passion, fight and commitment a player has, there’s one opponent he can never beat. The impact of the ageing process affects people differently, but the one constant is that it will get the better of you eventually.
One day you just have to accept that the treasured life of earning a living by playing the sport you love has to come to an end.
Calling time on the one thing you’ve always dreamed of doing must be incredibly difficult, particularly for sportsmen who generally face this fate at a relatively early point in their lives. The competitive spirit must always be there, telling you that you might just have one more good season left in you.
Consequently it’s easy for a player to stumble into retirement instead of going out in a manner that fans want to remember them by. Read the full story »
Major League Baseball will welcome a new international talent to its roster this season after Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish signed a six-year contract with the Texas Rangers
Mark George reviews a book that provides an insight into what goes through a player’s mind when at the plate, and what can happen when you overthink and fall victim to your ego
It turns out that the Oakland A’s are not going to field a team of rookies and MLB youngsters in 2012 after all. Not completely, anyway
Now that the Yankees are on course to make two significant additions to their starting rotation, there aren’t many squares left to fill in on the MLB offseason bingo card. The one big square remaining that stands out concerns the star slugger Prince Fielder
In one of the least surprising pieces of news in recent months, ESPN’s Buster Olney is reporting that 2012 may well not be Bud Selig’s final year as MLB Commissioner after all
We end our review of the offseason so far by looking at the five teams in the American League East
The American League Central is the latest division to go under the microscope as we look at each team’s ins and outs so far this offseason
Alan Smith has been one of the most significant Project COBB collaborators since its inception back in October 2008. As just one example of this, the backbone of the modern top-tier stats archive comes from …
We now move onto the American League section of our offseason (so far) review, starting in the West
We complete the National League section of our review of the MLB offseason so far by taking a look at the ins and outs among the NL East teams
As so often seems to be the case, we are being treated to a grandstand finish to the MLB season. Would two more Wild Card spots double the fun?
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