During the offseason, the New York Mets pitching staff looked to be the best in baseball, in terms of both talent and depth. Plus, their starting pitchers were all young. Unfortunately, things went downhill once the season started, injuries eviscerated their depth, Matt Harvey continued to decline and now the Mets starting pitchers have the…
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Halfway through May, the contenders and pretenders across the MLB are beginning to take shape. Can these pitchers keep it up until October? The Good: Dallas Keuchel (Astros) and Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers) For the first time this year, Keuchel has topped our AL Cy Young rankings, surpassing the red-hot Chris Sale. While Keuchel’s strikeout numbers…
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It’s not often that we see a quarterback controversy surrounding the defending Super Bowl champions and it is even less common for it to happen to a team with a surefire Hall of Famer, but it looks like that’s exactly what is starting to happen in New England. Ever since Mo Lewis nearly killed Drew…
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The Padres knew this wasn’t going to be their year and barely have anything invested in the team, shown by the fact that 21 players on their active roster make less than $1 million. For teams in the middle of a rebuild like San Diego, signing a veteran for a cheap, short-term deal is a…
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1. Chicago Bears – Arden Key (DE/OLB/LSU) The Bears had a terrible draft in 2017, which included moving up to take Mitchell Trubisky after already handing a ton of money to Mike Glennon, making a huge reach for Adam Shaheen in the second round and giving up their third rounder to pick Trubisky. Chicago has…
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After a relatively quiet week, our Cy Young picks remain the same, but other pitchers are knocking on the door. The Good: Chris Sale (Red Sox) and Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers) Sale wasn’t spectacular this week and arguably had is worst start of the season Sunday against Minnesota, where he allowed four runs in six innings,…
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For the first time this season, Mets ace Noah Syndergaard doesn’t top the list as our favorite for the NL Cy Young Award. Syndergaard had a rough outing on Sunday before it was revealed that the flamethrower had a partially torn lat muscle and will be out indefinitely. The Good: Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers) and Chris…
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Self-described “soul punx” letlive. have announced via Facebook that the band will have “no further activity in the foreseeable future.” Although the band formed in 2002, it wasn’t until 2010 that the band finally broke through with their album “Fake History.” A year later, they were signed to Equal Vision records, where they re-released “Fake…
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33. Green Bay Packers – Joe Mixon (RB/Oklahoma) Green Bay traded out of the first round last night and instead will kick off the second round tonight. As I mentioned in my story last week about Mixon, Mel Kiper suggested that Green Bay could have taken the controversial running back at No. 29, so taking…
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1. Cleveland Browns – Myles Garrett (DE/Texas A&M) Cleveland has made it known that the brass is torn between Garrett and Mitchell Trubisky and leading up to the draft there has been rumors swirling that the team has decided to go with Trubisky, but I can’t imagine that even Cleveland is this stupid. As I mentioned…
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