Tom Froemming
MLB blogger
Tom Froemming is a proud Minnesotan and avid baseball fan. Before starting out as a blogger over five years ago, he spent time as a college newspaper editor, independent publisher and stringer for a daily. The best place to follow Tom outside of Rant Sports is on Twitter @BaseballByTom.
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AL West Predictions: Texas Rangers Stay On Top
The Los Angeles Angels were the most improved team of the offseason, but the two-time defending American League Champion Texas Rangers aren’t going to back down from anybody. The AL West will be a two-team race, but it should be a six-month slugfest that goes down to the wire. Everybody knows Texas has one of [...]
TweetAL Central Predictions: No Surprise, Detroit Tigers Will Dominate
The American League Central is the easiest division in which to pick a winner. The Detroit Tigers are going to win the Central again. Case closed. The Tigers won the division last year by 15 games and should be even better this season. When Victor Martinez tore his ACL this offseason, it looked like there [...]
TweetAL East Predictions: New York Yankees Reloaded, Ready for Another Title
If you’re a Boston Red Sox fan, you might want to do your blood pressure a favor and quit reading this article. Just a public service announcement. The American League East is still the best division in baseball, but there was very little consideration to who I was going to pick to win the division. [...]
TweetNL West Predictions: San Francisco Giants Pitch Their Way to Another Title
I love predictions. I love making them (even when they make me look bad), love reading them (even though, as a Twins fan, they usually make me depressed these days) and I even love looking back on them. Looking at last year’s National League West, however, makes it clear the rest of this article could [...]
TweetNL Central Predictions: Milwaukee Brewers Still Kings Despite Loss of Prince Fielder
Sometimes a team wins a championship and all the talk is about whether or not we’re seeing the next dynasty. That’s not the case with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals parlayed a surprise playoff run into a World Series title, but that was an entirely different team than the one that opens the season [...]
TweetNL East Predictions: Washington Nationals, Miami Marlins Capitalize on Philadelphia Phillies’ Slide
The Philadelphia Phillies have had a long stay atop the National League East, but the rest of the division played some serious catch up this winter. It wasn’t long ago when the Phillies were casing down the top of the division. They had to cut their teeth for years, learning to win the hard way. Philadelphia [...]
TweetDrew Smyly Earns Detroit Tigers’ No. 5 Starter Spot
Drew Smyly beat out Duane Below in the battle for the Detroit Tigers’ fifth starter. John Lowe of the Detroit Free Press was first to report the news. With extra days off early in the season, the Tigers won’t need Smyly until their tenth game. He’ll make one start in the minors before joining the [...]
TweetRelief Pitchers Are Baseball’s Unsung Heroes
When it comes to pitchers, you’ve got guys who want to start and guys who want to close. Nobody wants to be in the middle. All the glory and the big money contracts go for the guys who start or finish the games. For the guys in between, the best they can do is serve as a [...]
TweetMichael Pineda Could Solidify Spot in New York Yankee Rotation Tonight
The New York Yankees front office did a great job of improving their rotation this offseason. Maybe too good of a job. Their biggest move of the winter in terms of risk/reward was acquiring hard-throwing right-hander Michael Pineda from the Seattle Mariners. Immediately considered a lock to make the rotation, Pineda is now forced to compete [...]
TweetYoenis Cespedes Homers in Oakland Athletics 4-1 Win in Game 2 of Opening Series
Yoenis Cespedes hit his first major league home run in the Oakland Athletics 4-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners this morning in Japan. With the game tied in the bottom of the seventh inning, Cespedes crushed a Shawn Kelly pitch into the Tokyo Dome crowd with Kurt Suzuki on base. Things didn’t always look pretty for the [...]
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