What is an MVP? We debate this throughout each season in the world of stat-overload. A couple of years ago Joe Mauer brought the Twins back from the dead to win the AL Central. His numbers at the catching position were historic. That is an MVP. Last year Josh Hamilton put up the best numbers [...]

It was pre-ordained. It was a team that was predicted by so-called baseball experts to be one of the greatest in baseball history. A team personally handcrafted and built by a genius named Theo Epstein, a man many considered to be one of the greatest GM’s in baseball history. Yes, everyone celebrated from Harvard Yard [...]

3:59, 3:16, 4:21 That is how long each game took during this Yankees-Red Sox series. These two teams have the longest nine inning game in history (4:45), which was accomplished in 2006. You heard the complaints from umpire Joe West last year. Mark Teixeira even chimed in how the games are too long. The one [...]

Curtis Granderson should win the AL MVP. There shouldn’t be a question about this, despite the Red Sox having three players with outstanding seasons- Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, and Adrian Gonzalez- and Jose Bautista demonstrating extraordinary power in a post-steroid era. Going into tonight’s action the “Grandy Man” leads the American League in hits, triples, [...]

Sometimes, they say, timing is everything. In the case of the Boston Red Sox and their contract extension with first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, you could amend that to sometimes, timing is suspicious. If you believe the convenient P.R. spin of Theo the Boy Genius and the Nation of Idiots, it was the end of a [...]

Two hours of radio tonight as we kick off the Winter Meetings. To kick off the night we will talk about the upcoming Veterans Committee Hall of Fame vote with author Doug Gladstone. Earlier this year Doug talked about his book “A Bitter Cup of Coffee”which discussed how MLB and the Players Association have left [...]

I like the Adrian Gonzalez deal for Boston, but I wonder how many Red Sox fans realize 2011 Gonzalez will be a downgrade from 2010 Beltre?less than a minute ago via TweetDeckDavid Camerond_a_cameron I like Dave Cameron, but this statement to me is a ridiculous, and may go down as a bigger blunder than his [...]

We are just hours away from the beginning of the Winter Meetings so let’s start it off with some rumblings from Tampa. In talking to our main Yankee source, the meeting between the Yankees and Carl Crawford is more than exploratory. Right now there is a feeling that Crawford may prefer to play in a [...]

Earlier in the offseason we heard how the Yankees were standing firm to keeping their payroll at 2010 levels. Depending on how you look at it, that meant it was a tight squeeze fitting in their own free agents (Jeter, Rivera, Pettitte), and Cliff Lee. There are reports the Yankees will meet with Carl Crawford [...]

Both David Wright and Robinson Cano are have outstanding seasons for the local teams. Is it far fetched to think both could be in the running for their respective league MVP’s? Going into yesterday’s action Cano was leading the American League in batting, while Wright leads in RBI. According to Baseball Reference only Justin Morneau [...]

The Mets lost yesterday’s game long before Adrian Gonzalez deposited a grand slam to left field in the 11th inning. Once David Eckstein tied the game with a 17 hopper up the middle it was a matter of when, not if, the Padres would complete the heartbreak. You could have played that game till next [...]

Last spring I suggested the Mets “deal the farm” for Padres first basemen Adrian Gonzalez. The package I proposed was Jenrry Mejia, Jonathan Niese, Fernando Martinez, Daniel Murphy and Brad Holt. A rich package, no doubt, but this is a player that hit 40 homers and put up an OPS+ of 166 while playing half [...]

I will be hosting a mid week hot stove show tonight. Hear me give my thoughts on the Jason Bay negotiations, the impact of Halladay and Lackey deals on the locals, and Bud Selig’s newly minted advisory committee. I will also give some thoughts on why Jeff Francoeur might be the leader of the Mets, [...]

I have mockingly called Theo Epstein “boy wonder” because he often gets too much credit from the media when he succeeds, and not enough blame when he fails- at least nationally. Yesterday he may have earned that moniker as he made a couple of bold moves that could vault the Sox back atop the AL [...]

I hope Mets fans had a chance to either watch or DVR the latest “Yearbook” on SNY. Yesterday they aired the 1984 Mets which is a great way for fans to see how a championship team was born. Since it appeared the film was more internal propaganda than a hard hitting look at the season [...]