Opinion

Already, the Florida Marlins are in excellent shape to make a run at the postseason for the first time since 2003. The Marlins have gotten a Cy Young worthy performance out of Josh Johnson and solid outings out of Ricky Nolasco and Anibal Sanchez, who nearly repeated his gem from 2006. Yet, they're still waiting on Chris Volstad and Javier Vazquez to follow suit.

The offense mustered by the Chicago White Sox in their 9-3 loss to Detroit is typical of the team's misfortunes of late.  With the loss to the Tigers in the first game of a weekend series, the White Sox have lost eight of their last nine games.

It's been a troubling year so far for 38-year-old Ryan Franklin.  The appointed Cardinal closer saved 38 and 27 games in 2009 and 2010 respectively, blowing just a total of seven combined over the two seasons. 

2011 has been a different story for Franklin.  He's blown four out of five possible save opportunities.  That's four more games the Redbirds should have in the win column. 

There is nothing better than winning the World Series and there is nothing worse than losing it, but despite the fact that nothing hurts more than losing the final game of the season, some World Series defeats are worse than others.

They say lightning never strikes the same place twice.

The Colorado Rockies almost disproved that in the span of five days. 

The greatest compliment you can pay a manager is that you can't imagine their team performing any better year after year. Unfortunately this can't be said of A's manager Bob Geren since his tenure began in 2007, and the trend has carried over into 2011.

I’m not a sabermetrics guy.

Instead of numbers and formulas, I prefer to rely on what I glimpse with my own two eyes, and judge what I see not with a calculator but with instincts that have been honed through a lifetime of watching baseball.

For the last year, sabermetrics supporters and analysts have been saying that Derek Jeter is done.

I have not believed them.

Buster Posey was a force of nature around the Bay Area even before he became a fixture in the San Francisco Giants' clubhouse.

It’s that time of week again—MLB awesome rankings. The Rangers are still sliding, the Rockies are still surging. Albert Pujols has decided to care again and the Indians and Royals are still battling it out. I can’t wait for September when this stuff gets worked out. Here we go:

Commissioner Bud Selig is ready to move towards his goal of expanding the current format of the playoffs from three to four rounds, and from eight teams to ten (five in each league). 

On Thursday, Selig had this to say to the Associated Press, "I would say we're moving to expanding the playoffs, but there's a myriad of details to work out, 10 is a fair number."