Marlins' no. 2 prospect injures no. 4 prospect in knife prank Your browser does not support iframes.The best teammate pranks should be groan-inducingly awesome. It should be something everyone thinks is funny, but has that little edge of pain for the person being pranked. Like driving his car into center field for batting practice, or convincing him that he's been traded to Japan. But a … [Read more...]

Baseball Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Profar, So Good Jurickson Profar knew he’d get another shot at the big leagues. He just didn’t know that opportunity would come with Texas. “Maybe I have to go to another team,” said Profar a month ago when he was stuck in Triple-A. “I have no problem with that. I know I’m going to be in the big leagues pretty soon.” Not that long ago, Profar was considered the … [Read more...]

The Walk Off: Jose Fernandez outduels Matt Harvey with 14-K outing 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.  Sunday's battle of the aces between Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and New York Mets … [Read more...]

Madison Bumgarner would like to be in the Home Run Derby San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner is no stranger to participating in All-Star weekend. The 27-year-old has made the National League All-Star in each of the past three seasons. This year, however, Bumgarner has his sights set a little higher. Instead of just participating in the All-Star game, Bumgarner also wants to be in the … [Read more...]

Jake Arrieta picks up first regular season loss in nearly a year Chicago Cubs ace Jake Arrieta is human. He's not an alien, he's not a cyborg sent from the future and he's not from Krypton. He's just like any other pitcher. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] We wouldn't blame you for thinking Arrieta was of another world recently. The reigning Cy Young winner had been on a … [Read more...]

Strike Zone: Notes: Raisen The Reliever The Cardinals are planning on shifting Jhonny Peralta to third base upon activating him from the disabled list on Tuesday, which would put Matt Carpenter at second base. The idea is that Aledmys Diaz is now the long-term shortstop, and while I don’t necessarily disagree with that, I worry about the ramifications of the move for the rest of this year. Diaz … [Read more...]

Vin Scully once called 36 innings in 29 hours in two cities For over 67 years, baseball fans have marveled at the brilliance of broadcasting legend Vin Scully. A big part of Scully's allure is that everything about his presentation is seamless and timeless. He's simply baseball's greatest living storyteller, and he achieves that without ever making himself the story. [Vin Scully announces … [Read more...]

Week That Was: Week That Was: Mookie Mania In most fantasy leagues, Mookie Betts was drafted somewhere in the 20-to-40 range. What an amazing value he's turned out to be. As the leadoff hitter for a Red Sox lineup that is by far the best in baseball, Betts is in prime position to put up huge numbers and he has taken full advantage. The right fielder leads the majors with 53 runs scored and ranks … [Read more...]

Phillies investigating after fan throws beer bottle at Ryan Howard The Philadelphia Phillies are investigating an incident following Saturday's game in which an aluminum beer bottle was thrown at Ryan Howard. According to Matt Breen of philly.com, the incident occurred as Howard walked back to the dugout after grounding out to end the game, which the Phillies lost 6-3 to the Milwaukee … [Read more...]

Matt Harvey looks to build on breakthrough outing New York Mets right-hander Matt Harvey has made 80 starts — including four in the postseason — during his career, and every one of them has been an event unto itself. That will be the case again on Sunday as Harvey looks to build on his best outing of the season on Memorial Day against the Chicago White Sox. This time, Harvey will take on the … [Read more...]