In the bottom of the sixth inning, as the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the New York Mets, the Dodgers had runners on first and second with no outs and Matt Kemp at the plate. Kemp hit a ground ball to Mets third baseman Eric Campbell. Campbell saw the opportunity and began what should have been a routine 5-4-3 double play. They play...
The best starting pitcher still available before the trade deadline has to be Tampa Bay Rays ace David Price. With his team having a rather disappointing first half of the season, the Rays must put some serious consideration into making Price available via trade. Price, 28 has been rumored to be on the trade block before, most...
The New York Mets starting pitching took a big hit at the end of last season when they learned that they would be without ace Matt Harvey for the entire 2014 campaign. Though they currently rank 14th in strike outs and 19th in ERA, it is their inability to get a hit that has Mets fans shaking their heads.
Through the...
The great baseball debate continues in week three as Sports Unbiased unveiled the third article in a series of debates that will encompass every position in Major League Baseball. The Best First Baseman in Baseball: The Best Of MLB Debate Series fired up the engines and the second installment, Best Second Baseman in Baseball kept the...
The Mets bullpen has been rather inconsistent early in the 2014 baseball season. After losing right-handed closer Bobby Parnell to season-ending Tommy John surgery, the Mets brought in veteran pitcher Jose Valverde to take his place. But after giving up four home runs in the last three games, manager Terry Collins pulled the plug on...
On Thursday Ervin Santana, having only been signed by the Braves on March 12 of this year, pitched two innings for the first time since last season in a game against the New York Mets. Having been on the free agent market for quite a while, Santana looked as though he hadn't missed a beat. Looking primed for a third inning, the...
The New York Mets obviously feel there is surplus with both Ike Davis and Lucus Duda on the roster. With that in mind the Mets clearly favor the upside in Duda since General Manager Sandy Alderson is contacting other clubs about Davis.
Ike Davis is a career .242 hitter in four MLB seasons but did drive in 90 runs while hitting 32...
After a three month long, hard fought, Twitter battle by the fans, David Wright the third baseman of the New York Mets was named Major League Baseball Network's (MLBN) Face of MLB for 2014. The competition began with 30 different "faces," one for each franchise, pitted against each other in a bracket-style competition. On Thursday it was...
If you haven't heard about it yet then you must not have a Twitter account. MLB Network's (MLBN) Face of MLB is a bracket-style competition that faces off each of the fan voted "face of the franchise" players against each other. The competition is now down to the Final Four: David Wright of the New York Mets, Eric Sogard of the...
The baseball world lost a true legend of the game when Jim Fregosi passed away Friday after being removed from life support due to complications from multiple strokes.
Fregosi was a baseball lifer in every sense of the expression by spending 53 years in and around professional baseball. Earlier this month, Fregosi was...
