Brewers ace Yovani Gallardo isn’t a household name, not yet anyway. The young righty and his electric stuff are no stranger to most baseball fans and fantasy baseball owners, and at 25 years old, Gallardo will enter 2011 with over 500 innings under his belt and a career ERA of 3.67. Given his [...]

With a little over a month to go in the 2010 Major League season, the Cy Young race in the American League is still wide open. We have a least as many candidates as we did in May, probably more, and while there is still time for someone to step things up and [...]

Yesterday, Ubaldo Jimenez struck out 9, walking none, in a complete game shutout. Jimenez hasn’t allowed a run in his last 27 1/3 innings. It’s June 1st, and his ERA stands at .78. He’s 10-1, and he also has a no-hitter. So yeah, he’s having kind of a good season. But is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Who would have guessed that on April 20th, Livan Herandnez and Carlos Silva would be first and second in the Major Leagues in ERA. Early season surprises are to be expected. But we are now at the point where most starters have made their third start of the season. While three starts is [...]