On December 28th, 2006, the Giants signed 28-year-old left handed pitcher Barry Zito to a seven-year, $126 Million contract. At the time, it was...
Last night on ESPN’s Sunday Night baseball, Boston Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster threw at Alex Rodriguez his entire first at bat...
It’s mid-August and the Washington Nationals are below .500, 14.0 games back; the $159 Million Philadelphia Phillies haven’t been in contention all...
I wrote a post last week recapping what I had done for the previous two weeks because it felt like the appropriate...
Max and I disagreed on the deadline deal that landed the Kansas City Royals outfielder Justin Maxwell. Max championed the trade as...
Detroit Tigers pitcher Doug Fister has hit 14 batters this year. The prolific pace figures to put him among the single season...
For those of you who follow the blog, we’ve been a bit slow as the summer has progressed thanks to college graduation...
The 2013 non-waiver trade deadline has come and gone. As last year’s Dodgers-Red Sox deal can attest, big things can still happen,...
The Atlanta Braves have addressed their one true need this deadline season by announcing the acquisition of Los Angeles Angels reliever Scott...
In sport today, there seems to be an understanding that competitive edge can sometimes come from performance enhancing drugs, and the edge...
Each year, casual fans read some bleacher report article from some misinformed “baseball” writer proclaiming the biggest surprises of the early season....
It’s time for us at Off The Bench to rack our brains and come up with some good fake trades that...