Randy Johnson

Last night, Detroit Tigers’ RHP Justin Verlander once again flirted with history. Verlander was going for his third career no-no and carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but with one out in the ninth inning,...

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The great thing about doing something great in the majors as a pitcher is that you get a few days to savor it. Since starters only start every fifth day there is actually some built-in celebration time. That means Phil Humber has had a few days to li...

Over the last twelve MLB seasons, there have been some legendary pitching performances.   The Factor12 Rating is able to quantify each successful season or failure.  Where does your favorite pitcher rate against the competition? Since...

Miami Marlins pitcher Mark Buehrle held out his hands, palms up, the gesture meant to show off the callouses he earned in spring training re-acquainting himself with the use of Louisville Sluggers. It has been about 15 years since the left-handed thr...

Jamie Moyer is old enough to have helped prompt the Chicago Cubs to trade Dennis Eckersley to the Oakland A’s in the spring of 1987, when Moyer was a rising prospect displacing Eckersley as a starter, and to have been traded along with Rafael P...

What are the best individual baseball seasons ever at every position during the fantasy baseball era? Keith Mullett decided to find out, and it turned into his Ultimate Roster Project - the greatest possible and lineup and pitching staff in fantasy b...

In the aftermath of the Arizona Diamondbacks non-tendering Joe Saunders — the mediocre left-handed pitcher who was the only Major Leaguer in the package sent by the Angels to the Snakes for Dan Haren in July 2010 — last month, it occurred...

  The Red Sox did not pull the trigger on the Gio Gonzalez deal, saving their prospects rather than sending them to Oakland.  While it was good news, but still doesn’t solve the starting rotation.  There are still free agents that the Re...

Within a twenty-four hour period, two of the more polarizing figures in professional baseball during the 1990s and 2000s were making headlines. Manny Ramirez applied for reinstatement to MLB after a “forced” retirement and Pedro Martinez informa...

Jurors found Lee Evans not guilty of ten murder-related charges.