American League MVP: Mike Trout After being bested twice by a great player who actually had an inferior year, Trout wins one (and wins one for sabermetrics) in 2014 Projected stats for 2014: R:126 HR:32 BA:311 RBI:106 SB:34 For top fantasy first baseman click here. Second baseman
Here is the latest in Fantasy relevant spring training injuries with timetables for return. Arizona Diamondbacks P. Patrick Corbin — out for the season, likely Tommy John surgery P. Daniel Hudson — to miss at least a couple months. OF. Cody Ross — On DL, may return in
Going into the off season, free agent pitcher Ervin Santana was looking for deal in the six year $100 million range. But after comparable right handers Matt Garza signed a four-year 50-million deal with the Milwaukee Brewers and Ubaldo Jimenez did four and fifty with the
Bryce Harper first came on the radar in May of 2009 when the-then 16-year old was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, hailed as “Baseball’s Lebron.” “His name is Bryce Harper. You don’t know him, But every big league scouting director does. He hits
The first athlete to get a high profile farewell tour was basketball great Kareem Abdul Jabber. The sky hook artist formerly known as Lew Alcindor was feted with gifts during the 1988-1989 NBA season as he played for the last time in the arenas he
Breaking up is hard to do. Ian Kinsler was a vital cog for the Texas Rangers for eight years. The second baseman made three All-Star games with the team and helped led them to back-to-back World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011. But the Rangers
Whenever a baseball team makes a big trade fans hold their breath. “Will this one come back to haunt us?” Here are a collection of trades that certainly have fans wondering what could have been. Read on for the ten worst trades in baseball history.
Some baseball manager are tacticians, whereas others are ego-juggling players’ coaches. Some skippers turned to managing after successful baseball careers, whereas others never even made the major league. There is no formula for what makes a successful baseball manager. We can, however, analyze results and
Baseball players are among the highest paid athletes in the world, with salaries so astronomical that they are hard for even the most mathematically inclined fan to keep track of. That’s where Cot’s Baseball Contracts comes in. The website, which is named for Cot
When compared to the NBA NFL or NHL, the Major League Baseball draft is a crapshoot, with only 66 percent of players selected in the first round ever making the Major Leagues. In fact, three times the first overall pick in the MLB draft never