For your planning purposes Bedard, Pineda and Vargas will pitch in the series against the Rangers in that order. Then the rotation gets shuffled again because of the off day. Once again Felix will stay on regular rest and pitch the opener against the White Sox on Friday. It seems like we have seen more […]

Enjoyable road trip so far and I am not just talking about the Coney Dogs . I have found myself having to practice saying things like “extra base hit” and “three run homer” and “runs score”.

What will we see from Erik Bedard tonight? Good question. Over his first four starts we have seen just about everything. We have even seen some things we haven’t seen from him before.

Sometimes things just go right . How much did you want to see Justin Smoak hit a home run in his return to his team just three days after burying his father? How much did Miguel Olivo and his teammates need to see a break go their way in dramatic fashion? Forget the record, sometimes the guys just need an opportunity to breath.

Bud Selig announced earlier this week that baseball was moving swiftly toward expanding the playoffs to include 10 teams as soon as 2012. Selig made his intentions to expand the playoffs first known during the World Series last year. At the time the commissioner said that implementing the new format in 2011 would be a […]

The clubhouse was a little louder this morning than it usually is on a Sunday . Maybe it was the Easter Peeps . Felix Hernandez was watching the Heat and Pacers game, he is a huge Dwayne Wade fan, and yelling “Defense!” when the game was tied in the third quarter.

Franklin Gutierrez has returned from the Mayo Clinic with a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome . “They found something that was very common, IBS . ” Gutierrez said at his locker, “So I need to take some medication and see if it works.

Five days ago in Kansas City Felix Hernandez sat in the dugout for two innings trying to figure out how the Royals were able to hit him.

Before you jump all over me I am very aware of the the shortcomings of this team . There are a lot of things a lot of us would like to see happen but I want to focus here on getting this team back to square one.

When I walked into the clubhouse today I saw a face I did not expect I would see for at least a couple of months.