The Contenders in Baseball This Season
This has been a really interesting baseball season. There are many good teams, and some great ones too. The Yankees and Phillies look particularly dangerous. ...
This has been a really interesting baseball season. There are many good teams, and some great ones too. The Yankees and Phillies look particularly dangerous. ... The AL Cy Young award is a wide open race. Should it go to the guy with the best stats? The one who plays for the best team? Let's take a look. ... All too often in fantasy baseball, people go after the big names. While many big names can give great stats, there are smaller names who don't stand out in any one category, but give a nice balance of stats across the board. These stats are often as valuable (if not more) as the ... Say what you will about Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz, but he's heard it all before: he's too immature, he's too skinny, he's not ready for this level of play, he's not worth the hype. ... With the lowest total of errors at the 3B position and the highest fielding percentage in the AL at the position, Joe Crede has obviously been effective at third base for the Twins in 2009. There's a new metric that's taken more seriously, though, and this is called the UZR. ... Attention: Lou Piniella ... Mr.Strasburg, or should I call you Stephen because of your very childish acts of late,just take the money and get to work. Tell your agent, Scott Boras, to take your record-setting deal, and go to whatever level of the Nationalsorganizationthey put you in. I know you want 50 million dollars, so does everyone else, but ... Denard Span has quickly emerged as one of the best Minnesota Twins. With his first appearance in the majors occurring last season (he filled in for Michael Cuddyer after he hit the disabled list), Span became the team's regular right fielder. Having played 104 games last year, he played over 80% of them in right ... The 2009 baseball season is all about the pitching. Some of the better performances of the decade are in the midst of taking place, and the Cy Young race in the National League is in full effect as several pitchers compete for the award. Who makes the list? Let's see. ... So many great pitchers in 2009! Lincecum, Carpenter, Cain, Kershaw in the NL, and then you have pitchers like Beckett and Verlander in the AL. But what about Josh Johnson? With an ERA in the 2s and a consistently dominant season, Johnson gets little due for what he's become. ...The Contenders in Baseball This Season
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An Overlooked Pitching Prospect
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