Baseball Side of FanSided (5/14)

It’s Friday night and the Royals have started off the Ned Yost era 1-0.  That is all the backdrop needed to launch into this weeks edition of the Baseball Side of FanSided.

Now, lets get to the news and links.  […]

Staff Announcements:

Four new writers have come on staff in the last week.  Jeremy Stewart is the new lead for our Washington Nationals site, Teddy Never Wins.  Our Milwaukee Brewers site, Reviewing the Brew, also has a new lead thanks to the arrival of Dave McGrath.  Dave’s love of baseball extends beyond the borders of Wisconsin and has been a fan of the Florida Marlins since they came to be.  As such, he has elected to add the role of Marlin Maniac contributor to his responsibilities.  Both Jeremy and Dave have published several articles already.  The other two writers, Matt and Zac Snyder, are still in orientation but will soon join the Motor City Bengals staff as contributing writers.

Call to the Pen also has a new writer.  Details on this new addition will be covered in an upcoming post.

Help Wanted:

If you are interested in joining our MLB staff to write for one of the listed teams, please don’t hesitate to contact me at thebaseballfish@fansided.com.  We break our staff down into two roles.  Lead Writers are expected to write and publish content on a regular basis.  Contributing Writers are expected to write and publish at least one article per week but are welcome to write more if they choose to do so.

Lasorda’s Lair (Los Angeles Dodgers) Lead Writer
Rox Pile (Colorado Rockies) – Lead Writer
Southside Showdown (Chicago White Sox) – Lead Writer

The Content:

Birds Watcher (Orioles): Nolan Reimold sent to Norfolk;  O’s take Game 2 Against M’s as Bergesen Pitches a Gem

Blog Red Machine (Reds): Jinxing the Reds

BoSox Injection (Red Sox): 5 Questions with Ian Browne of MLB.com

Chicken Friars (Padres): This is Now How You Handle Kyle Blanks

Cubbies Crib (Cubs): Big Z acting like the Incredible Hulk … Again

Deep Left Field (Indians): Carmona Pads His Stats and Branyan Comes Alive

Frisco Fastball (Giants): Mark DeRosa’s Wrist Continues To Be A Problem

Halo Hangout (Angels): Player Preview – Scott Kazmir

Jays Journal (Blue Jays): Adonis Cardona

Kings of Kauffman (Royals):  Trey-ding Places

Lasorda’s Lair (Dodgers): Dodgers Slowly Climbing Back

Marlin Maniac (Marlins): Nunez’s slider – A secret to his success?

Motor City Bengals (Tigers): Max Scherzer and Clay Buchholz Face Off in Series Opener

Nolan Writin’ (Rangers): Derek Holland just needed a little more time

Rayhawk Review (Rays): What’s Wrong With Zorilla

Redbird Rants (Cardinals): Norris dominates Cards to finish Astros sweep

Reviewing the Brew (Brewers): Micro-Brew – Mitch Stetter’s fastball optional?

Rising Apple (Mets): Walk-Off HR Wins it for the Mets Thanks to Rod Barajas

Rum Bunter (Pirates): The Eyes of Pittsburgh Focus Solely Upon You Pirates, Can You Make The Pain Go Away?

Sodo Mojo (Mariners): The Future of the Seattle Mariners Lies in West Tennessee

Swingin’ A’s (Athletics): MLB, Meet Dallas Braden

Teddy Never Wins (Nationals): Bernadina is Dutch for I Will Crush Your Dreams

That Balls Outta Here (Phillies): Carlos Ruiz Hits Everything, Aware of What Month It Is

Tomahawk Take (Braves): Braves to retire Tom Glavine’s number in August

Twinkie Talk (Twins): On Jason Bartlett, erm, I mean Delmon Young

Venom Strikes (Dbacks): Arizona Bullpen Resembles Dow Jones Dump

Yanks Go Yard (Yankees): Breaking News – Vazquez has solid outing!

The BBSoFS is a weekly article designed to highlight one article from each of our MLB sites on the FanSided.com Sports Network.  The ultimate goal is to increase the exposure of our MLB team sites, highlight some the work of our writers and in doing so pass along some articles that are relevant to the “happenings” and topics of the week that was.  The BBSoFS also affords me the opportunity to announce new writers to our MLB staff and also to announce staff openings that we have.  Typically this will be published every Friday but from to time, it will be posted on a Saturday.

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