JAV Baseball

Following up on my midseason awards, I have decided to add my favorite plays of the season’s first half. I’ll be looking at four categories: offensive, defensive, pitching and feel good story of the year. There have been many superb plays made throughout the league this season. These four plays stand out the most to [...]

As we get ready to start the second half of the 2010 season, let’s take a look back at the first half of the Major League Baseball season. There have been many surprises this season already. There have been four no-hitters pitched (Ubaldo Jimenez, Dallas Braden, Roy Halladay and Edwin Jackson), two of which were [...]

Oakland Athletics reliever Andrew Bailey and Florida Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan have been named the American League and National League Rookies of the Year for the 2009 season. Bailey is a native of Haddon Heights, New Jersey and was a struggling minor league pitcher as recently as the 2008 season. Coghlan is a native of [...]

Baseball has seen its fair share of renovations and realignments over the past three decades, but one of the most significant changes in the history of the game came in 1995 when commissioner Bud Selig put a whole new spin on the way the league would operate. 1995 saw the creation of a new division [...]

The Houston Astros announced on Tuesday that the team had hired former Boston Red Sox bench coach Brad Mills as their new manager. General Manager Ed Wade made the announcement at an afternoon press conference. Mills was not the first choice of Wade or the Astros, as the job was originally offered to former Nationals [...]

The Philadelphia Phillies are on the verge of history with their 5-4 come from behind win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night in South Philadelphia. With the win, the Phillies have a commanding 3-1 series lead in the NLCS, and are only one win from their second consecutive National League Pennant in an [...]

The Chicago Cubs, baseball’s lovable losers, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The franchise is owned by the Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. This step will aid in the process of selling the club for $845 million transaction. The filing took place in Wilmington, Delaware and the Cubs [...]

Only three players drafted in the first round of the June First-Year Player Draft did not sign by the midnight deadline on Monday night.

Stephen Strasburg has signed a $15 million contract with the Washington Nationals. The Number One overall pick in the 2009 MLB First-Year Player Draft, Strasburg attended San Diego State. It has yet to be decided where Strasburg will make his professional debut; whether it will be with a Nationals Minor League affiliate or once rosters [...]

With less than two hours remaining for Major League teams to sign their 2009 draft picks the San Diego Padres have signed the number three overall pick Donavan Tate.