Kory is a junior at the University of Kansas. He has written for the University Daily Kansan for the last two years as well as writing guest columns for Stlsportspage.com. He covered Kansas football in 2011 and has spent the last year covering Kansas men's basketball for the Daily Kansan.
In case the thousand mentions of the Robinson Cano/Kansas City feud weren’t obvious enough, the slowest days of the sports year are upon us. There’s plenty to ponder, though, as the second half of the season gets underway Thursday. First, the obvious question: Which National League Team Will Win the World Series? 15 of the Keep Reading
Read Part 1 Here. When dealing with one of the best unions in the country, you want leverage. You need leverage. Threatening to disband an entire franchise and thus eliminating 25 jobs can do the trick -if you can make the other side believe it’s a legitimate possibility. The Tampa Bay Rays are a fine Keep Reading
A few weeks ago I wrote about geographic realignment in baseball and said it wouldn’t be the craziest thing to happen to Major League Baseball in the next decade. That would be contraction, and it could be coming to a league champion near you. The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League in 2008 and Keep Reading
What’s the biggest story around Major League Baseball? -Craig in Kansas City I’m not sure what the biggest story was when I got your email, but Roy Oswalt signed with the Texas Rangers today for reportedly $5 million for the rest of the season and $1 million more if he makes 10 starts. Oswalt waited Keep Reading
A few weeks ago I wrote about the abomination that is the Designated Hitter. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig told Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci that there’s currently no discussions surrounding the National League’s adoption of the DH, but left an interesting nugget at the end: “I’ve always said it would take something of a cataclysmic event Keep Reading
We have a condensed mailbag this week. Send in your questions for next week HERE. How about that Reds fan catching two home run balls the other night? -Jay in Kansas City My first thought was “one in a million,” but the ESPN show Numbers Never Lie tells us the odds of catching two Keep Reading
Josh Hamilton isn’t just the second best player in Baseball right now, he’s also a pending free agent. Hamilton, who leads the Majors in home runs (18) and RBI (47) while hitting .389, is making $13.7 million in 2012, 11th among outfielders. And when guys like Vernon Wells, Carl Crawford, Jason Bay and Alfonso Soriano Keep Reading
Someone Who Deserves a Raise…Justin Verlander, of course. He’s currently 5-1 with an ERA of 2.13 and leads the Majors with a .80 WHIP (walks+hits/innings pitched). Last season he became just the sixth pitcher since 1968 to win the MVP award. The others: Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Willie Hernandez, Roger Clemens, and Dennis Eckersley. Verlander Keep Reading
Major League Baseball has always been nutty in that it has two leagues with two sets of rules, as we all know. The National League plays the game the way it was meant to be played while the American League whored itself out in 1973 in an attempt to generate more excitement and attendance, giving Keep Reading
Derek Jeter was overrated, which isn’t all that shocking considering he was a New York Yankee and he won a lot of baseball games. Yankee players that win a lot have been overrated for years, from Yogi Berra to Roger Maris to Whitey Ford and Jorge Posada. Derek Jeter was no different. He hit Keep Reading
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