MLB recently announced an expanded playoff format for the 2012 season (and, one assumes, beyond). There will be two wild card teams in each league who will play a one-game “play-in” game, and for 2012 only, the LDS home-away format will be 2-3, as opposed to the more familiar 2-2-1. It used ...

I have no idea if Brian Cashman has ever seen Pirates of the Caribbean or its sequels, but it is a hard thing these days to be a Yankees fan and not be obsessively thinking about Pirates. Although there are four teams which have interest in A.J. Burnett, it’s the Pirates who have garnered the ...