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Five Players to Watch in the American League

Some teams are good. Other teams are bad. Sometimes, the difference is the performance of one player. Obviously, for a team to...

The Tampa Bay Rays are going to look quite a bit different when they start the regular season next month. Most people...

Don’t look at last year’s AL West Season Preview, please don’t. Actually, go ahead, click on the link. What you’ll find is that...

The potential impact of the Chicago Cubs trio of talented prospects was on full display Tuesday. The kids went back-to-back-to-back epic fashion...

Some teams are good. Other teams are bad. Sometimes, the difference is the performance of one player. Obviously, for a team to...

A year ago, I predicted an ERA improvement in three pitchers based solely on their swinging strike rate. Those three, Tim Lincecum,...

With Spring Training games suddenly on the horizon, we are about to be faced with an overwhelming amount of choice. While its...

Yesterday, MLB and the MLBPA officially rolled out three new “pace of play” rules intended to speed the game along. The measures are MLB’s...

I just finished reading ESPN’s jawdroppingly good piece on Alex Rodriguez’s year suspended from baseball, and though I don’t know if my...

Despite a quiet offseason, the Milwaukee Brewers look to build off of last year’s hot start and avoid another late season slide....