The Baseball Experience with Scott Eiland

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker is getting a level of criticism for his managerial moves Sunday. For some reason, I am stepping forward to defend him. The issue at hand is the way he used closer Aroldis Chapman in the Reds’ nationally televised loss to the Tigers on ESPN’s Game of the Week Sunday night. [...]

The Rule 4 (Amateur) MLB Draft began June 4, and I am unable to speak properly. Thanks to a bad cold, I could not do a “normal” show today, but I could not let ONE MORE DAY pass without commenting on two cataclysmic events in baseball history, one of which took place on Friday night. [...]

Kerry Wood retired on Saturday. After striking out White Sox 3B Dayan Viciedo, Wood walked off the field as Cubs fans gave him one final standing ovation. Kerry Wood’s retirement depressed me. When he launched on to the scene in 1998, he was amazing and considered a future superstar. And it’s sad, because we’ll never [...]

Terri Schlather from Aerys Sports joins Scott for a one-on-one therapy session for the Astros fan in 2012. They discuss everything from the prolonged sales process to new owner Jim Crane, the hiring of Jeff Luhnow and how drastically different he is from his predecessor, fan psychology as Houstonians watch a gutted team start to [...]

Yes, I’m about one day late for this. The Cardinals beat the Marlins, 4-1, behind a stellar performance from Opening Day starter Kyle Lohse and timely hitting from David Freese (there’s that MAN again), and I finally broke down and recorded a long show in which I broke down the 2012 major league season. But [...]

Spring training games have finally begun, so it’s time to go crazy over Ryan Braun’s hitless streak to begin the spring. Just kidding. Seriously, though, we’ve finally reached that point – early March – where speculation and the hot stove talk can finally end and exhibition games (sorry.. “pre-season games.”) have begun. We’re four short [...]

Scott basks in the glory of the Giants winning Super Bowl XLVI and is the last person to report that his old hometown team defeated the Patriots juggernaut. He then acknowledges that this news isn’t technically baseball. After some off-mic prodding from his producer, he discusses the signing of Edwin Jackson, the Rockies trading for [...]

Scott breaks down the occasional hilarity that is the MLB arbitration process, using recent Dodgers signee Andre Ethier as an example. He then discusses the Marco Scutaro trade and the Red Sox subsequent signing of Cody Ross, as well as the Orioles’ peculiar hiring of Wilson Betemit to be their third baseman. He then briefly [...]

Congratulations to Barry Larkin, the newest baseball Hall of Famer! In today’s show, I react to the Hall of Fame election of Barry Larkin and discusses Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Jack Morris’s eventual inclusion to Cooperstown. I then discuss the Carlos Zambrano deal and talk about five (or six) under-the-radar transactions in the 2011-12 [...]

For the better part of 32 years, I have been a baseball fan.  I lived it and breathed it every season since the 1980 National League Championship Series between my Nolan Ryan-led Houston Astros and the hated Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose-led Phillies of Philadelphia. After the Astros narrowly lost, I was disconsolate, like any [...]