C.C. Sabathia was the ultimate hired gun for the Brewers, and although they really did try to bring him back, the Yanks gave him 161 million reasons to bolt. Spring Training is underway and we’ll have actual boxscores to peruse come Wednesday! How sweet is that? With that in mind, we push forward ...

There is no question that MLB Front Office Manager is for very specific types of gamers - the ones that spend most of their time in the franchise/dynasty mode of current sports titles, building their rosters through savvy trades, drafts and free-agent signings. In essence, this game is a franchise m...

Last week I wrote about the log jam in Milwaukee regarding prospects Mat Gamel and Matt LaPorta. Well, Milwaukee solved part of that issue now that the organization has sent LaPorta to the Indians as part of the trade for C.C. Sabathia. Since we have already taken a look at the big-named prospect, l...

Brewers prospects such as Mat Gamel and Matt LaPorta get a great deal of attention, and deservedly so. However, the Brewers have a few ‘B-level prospects’ that are intriguing, including Michael Brantley and Cole Gillespie. Brantley is interesting because he is a ’small ball’ ...

MVN’s Cleveland Indians’ writer, James Pete, in Tribe Report wrote about it first (well, okay, it was the first I had read about it). Then I read JSOnline.com’s Tom Haudricourt’s blog on it. Even the Heller & Murphy show on Madison’s ESPN1070 affiliate devoted the b...

What? Huh? Did someone just say the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays were the front-runners for a stretch-drive run with the services of one C.C. Sabathia? That’s right fans in Tribeland, it looks like these two teams, if not at the front of the line for Sabathia, are slowly elbowing t...

For the first six innings yesterday Ben Sheets pitched lights-out and it appeared that if the offense could just tally a single run, they would take the game and series. That thought went up in flames in the top of the seventh. Sheets gave up six hits and six runs while only recording one out in the...