Josh Deitch follows up with a look at the divisional races in the N.L. and sets odds for the division winners.  How much did the Manny Ramirez trade shake up the balance of power in the league?  Find out inside…

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The trade deadline looms, the dog days of August approach, and the divisional races simmer.  What are the odds that your team will win the division?  Josh Deitch has the answers.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the seventeenth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Goose Gossage is being inducted into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. Here are some highlights from his 22 year career.

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From the trivial to the serious, accountability is not always the top priority. From performance-enhancing drugs to trade rumors to enforcement of the rules on the field, sometimes accountability is a priority and sometimes it is not.

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Heading into Friday night’s game at Kansas City, the Tampa Bay Rays had lost seven straight road games, while scoring all of nine runs and batting .181, including .128 with runners in scoring position. The team has one of the league’s best records at home (40-16) but are just 19-26 on the road. For a team that has thoughts of playing into October, that has to change.

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The New York Giants were in Brooklyn to make up a game that was canceled due to rain on August 27^th, 1900. Despite a 9-2 loss to the host Superbas, the eventual National League champions, the Giants had an unusual starting pitcher on the mound. His name was Luther Taylor and while the human eye could not see his disability from the bleacher seats at Washington Park, Taylor was a deaf-mute.

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Oakland Athletics vs. Tampa Bay Rays

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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With six days of baseball after the All-Star Break, the author had a lot of ideas, but none deep enough to fill an entire column.  Here are some more random musings… 

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the sixteenth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria sure has done a lot since being recalled from Triple-A Durham on April 12.

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Next Sunday, Rich “Goose” Gossage will become the fifth relief pitcher inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. 

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 Oakland out of running, Texas needs some Pitching plus more in this weeks Climbing the Ladder with the American League.

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Baseball Digest Daily’s Eric SanInocencio and I had a 15-minute discussion about my book Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League yesterday on BDD’s blogtalkradio show. Eric also spoke with Matt LaPorta, a top minor league prospect who was recently traded by the Milwaukee Brewers organization to the Cleveland Indians in the deal that sent CC Sabathia to Milwaukee. Click here to listen.

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In case you missed it this week, Hideo Nomo decided to hang it up at 39 years old. After a two year absence from the Majors, Nomo attempted a comeback with the Kansas City Royals and after three relief appearances was released. In honor of his retirement, Seamheads presents 10* things you might not have known about Hideo Nomo:

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The New York Mets went into the All-Star break riding one of the longest winning streaks in team history. If the veteran club hopes to play in October, the recent hot streak is going to have to continue, and then some.

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This weekend, the baseball universe gathered in the Bronx to celebrate the life of an American icon.

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The following is from the unpublished manuscript LOST LEAGUES: The 1928 Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues. An article based on this manuscript appeared in the SABR publication “Mound City Memories.”

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the fifteenth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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If you haven’t been paying attention this year, Jimmy Rollins is having a special year on the base paths.  With just two games remaining before the All-Star break, J-Roll has recorded the fourth most stolen bases without getting caught.  With 22 steals in 22 tries, Rollins needs to make it through two more games to finish behind Vince Coleman (39-for-39 in 1989), Julio Cruz (28-for-28 in 1981) and Mitchell Page (24-for-24 in 1977) to land fourth on the list. 

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