The Pirates are having a weird and busy week The complexities of baseball scheduling are incredible. Every team has to play 162 games, but 81 of them have to be played at a team's home stadium. There's division play, non-division play, concerns about days off, travel times, the locations of road trips, and there's interleague play, too. It's insane. When the season starts, the schedule is as … [Read more...]

10 names you should know before the 2016 MLB Draft If this were the NFL Draft instead of the MLB Draft, your favorite sports outlet would have wall-to-wall coverage this week wondering, "What are the Philadelphia Phillies going to do?" It would be treated like a national crisis. But since this is baseball and the draft is a long game with 40 rounds spread over three days, nobody besides … [Read more...]

Fan jumps into McCovey Cove to grab AT&T Park's 69th Splash Hit The stadium of the San Francisco Giants, AT&T Park, is very special. Situated in McCovey Cove, it sits right on the water, providing a gorgeous view for both fans in the park and those hanging out in the cove on watercraft. So of course, every now and then a ball hit by a player will find its way into the water. It's been almost … [Read more...]

Baseball Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Vincent Chased Follow @drewsilv and @Rotoworld_BB on Twitter. Phillies right-hander Vincent Velasquez carried a cool 3.67 ERA (113 ERA+) and 10.7 K/9 into his start Wednesday afternoon against the Cubs, but he made it through just two pitches -- one at 86 mph, the other at 87 mph -- before leaving with a trainer in the bottom of the first inning. For a guy who … [Read more...]

The Walk Off: Astros snap long losing streak against the Rangers Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we'll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about.  The Houston Astros struggles against the Texas Rangers have been well documented this week. It … [Read more...]

James Shields booed off field following disastrous White Sox debut The Chicago White Sox were hoping Wednesday night would be a fresh start for newly acquired pitcher James Shields, and the beginning of a turnaround in the midst of their rough four-week stretch. Instead, both player and team must be wondering where their respective seasons go from here after Shields was booed off the field … [Read more...]

Young cancer survivor shows Cubs pride with custom prosthetic eye There are many ways to support a sports franchise. None more powerful or meaningful though than the way seven-year-old Beckham Zobrist chooses to support his Chicago Cubs.  According to WGN in Chicago, Zobrist, who is no relation to current Cubs player Ben Zobrist, was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer, in … [Read more...]

Madison Bumgarner dismisses concern about Home Run Derby injury If you thought Madison Bumgarner was only joking about participating in the 2016 Home Run Derby, then you obviously don't know Madison Bumgarner. The San Francisco Giants ace was dead serious when he told ESPN's Buster Olney on Sunday that he would like to compete in next month's event at Petco Park in San Diego. He's since … [Read more...]

Video: It's time for baseball's beanball culture to change Baseball proved again on Tuesday just how silly it can be. Yordano Ventura threw a 99 mph fastball at Manny Machado's ribs. They looked at each other and we knew what was coming next. It was time to fight. So they threw punches at each other, Machado looking more the part of boxer than Ventura. Then Machado pulled Ventura to the … [Read more...]

Snoop Dogg threw out a first pitch and, woof, it was bad Like most things involving the 2016 San Diego Padres, the first pitch thrown out Wednesday by famed rapper Snoop Dogg at Petco Park was a bit of an embarrassment.  It wasn't quite 50 Cent level of embarassment, but what celebrity first pitches really are? Snoop's almost took some innocent bystanders, though, and certainly was not a … [Read more...]