The Miami Marlins have a hidden gem stowed away behind home plate. J.T. Realmuto ranked third among all Major League Catchers in WAR last year, and did so very quietly. He’s not flashy. He doesn’t hit dingers like Mike Piazza or throw people out like Pudge Rodriguez. Realmuto knows who he is, and he plays…
Logan Morrison of the Tampa Bay Rays is tearing the cover off the ball this year. Through 51 games he has already matched his 2016 total with 14 bombs. I remember watching a young Logan Morrison when he was just a prospect with the Marlins, and I thought him and “Mike” Stanton were going to…
2017 is turning out to be a great year for boxing. We’ve already had an instant classic in the Joshua-Klitschko fight, we have Ward-Kovalev II just over the horizon, and now we’re finally getting the fight that everyone’s been clamoring for since the letdown of Mayweather-Pacquiao. Following Canelo Alvarez’s beatdown of Julio Cezar Chavez Jr.…
What do you do when one of the most prolific rookie catchers in history hits the disabled list the first week into his sophomore campaign? How do you replace the bat of Gary Sanchez, a bat that produced 20 home runs in 53 games? Well, if you’re the New York Yankees you just throw Aaron…
Derek Jeter and Jeb Bush are heading a team that is pushing to buy the Miami Marlins from owner Jeffrey Loria, and it was reported yesterday that they won the auction to purchase the team. This is a huge step for the Marlins franchise. It means they are finally getting rid of Loria, and bringing…
Dustin Pedroia should be the unquestioned leader of the Red Sox locker room now that David Ortiz is gone, but he seemed to have forgotten that the other night. Red Sox Pitcher Matt Barnes threw a pitch dangerously close to Manny Machado’s head a couple days after Machado dinged up Pedroia on a questionable slide.…
There’s something brewing in the horizon that could shake up the fight world. The two most polarizing figures in combat sports are strongly pushing to meet inside a boxing ring. The crazy thing is that one of these men is one of the greatest boxers of all time while the other has not boxed one…
