“Down Year” for Pujols Could Produce Triple Crown

For the first time in many years, we have a Triple Crown race in Major League Baseball. Not one, but two players are within striking distance of one of the most elusive achievements in all of sports. Not since 1967 has anyone led either Major League in home runs, RBI, and batting average. Not since [...]

Stephen Strasburg to undergo TJS

Last Saturday, Stephen Strasburg, in his first game back after a short DL stint, left his start againts the Philadelphia Phillies with an injury to his pitching arm. This morning, the news came down from GM Mike Rizzo that Strasburg will need to undergo Tommy John Surgery to repair a significant tear in his UCL, [...]

Blue Jays Extend Ricky Romero

The Blue Jays on Saturday signed 25-year-old former top-10 pick Ricky Romero to a five year, $30.1 million contract that will keep him signed with the team through 2015. Romero, the teams first round pick in 2005, has a 3.53 ERA and 3.40 FIP on the season. Not much of a strikeout pitcher in the [...]

Your National League MVP is…?

Who has been the most valuable player in the National League so far this season? Ask that question to ten different people, you’ll probably get four or five different answers. By this point last season, Albert Pujols had already pulled away from the pack. He was hitting .328 with 26 home runs, and an OPS [...]

Minor League Watch: Five Guys Ready for Promotion

How far into the season is it fair to sit down, and really take a hard look at a players statistics? Depends who you ask. The New York media would like to put that somewhere around the fifth inning of opening day. Most fans really start to pay attention a month into the season. Statically [...]

Time To Make a Move

It’s May 16th. The baseball season is nearly a fourth of the way over. And if you’re like me, the seasons hasn’t been too kind so far. I was doing fine in my AL league, until Nelson Cruz and Brett Anderson went on the DL. I lost a dozen points, and now I’m in the [...]

Roberts, Hill to DL

A day into the second week of the 2010 Major League season, and several teams are dealing with serious injuries in their middle infield. The Baltimore Orioles have placed Brian Roberts on the DL, retroactive to Friday, with a strained abdomen. Roberts has been dealing with pain from a herniated disk since the spring, an [...]

Can Garrett Jones Keep It Up?

Last June the Pittsburgh Pirates traded Eric Hinske to the New York Yankees. In order to fill his roster spot, Neal Huntington called up a 28 year old career minor leaguer by the name of Garrett Jones. Jones was a career .252 hitter in the minor leagues, but his .307/.348/.502 line at AAA earned him [...]

An NL-Only Auction

Last week I went over my AL-Only team, so today I’ll take a look at my NL-only roster. The auction was last night. This is an 11-team, 5×5 roto league. My strategy going in was to spend most of my budget on hitters. I wanted to come out of the draft with at least one [...]

An AL-Only Auction

Every year I end up in quite a few leagues, but it seems like a single league always rises to the top, commanding my attention more than any other from April through September. Last year, that league was the AL only, self proclaimed “Cafe Experts League.” The league is standard. Well at least it is [...]

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