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I just picked this up on the Tigers’ FSN telecast and Rod and Mario talked with Ken Rosenthal, who apparantly plans on picking the Tigers to win it all.  When this makes print, I’ll be sure to link to it.
And since I’m here, Tigers are up 3-0.  Gary Sheffield hit a no doubt about it […]

MiLB.com previewed the Phillies minor league system today.  There’s profiles of players at each level of the system as well as a 2006 draft recap.  They then close with the players they think will be the best in the organization (Mike Costanzo and Carlos Carrasco).  There’s a ton of stuff in here and it’s a […]

For Royals fans, there hasn’t been a lot of faith and there’s been even less hope for the team.  Now Rany Jazayerli tries to paint as rosy of a picture as he can about the Royals upcoming season.  At the very least, I think this will be one of the more fun seasons the Royals […]

Jeff Sackman wrote up a five questions Brewers preview over at the Hardball Times today.  He talks about Bill Hall’s move to center as well as the team’s defense.  He then closes things out with a look at third base prospect Ryan Braun.

At Baseball America’s prospect blog, they take a look at sort of a post spring training look at the Twins top prospects.  They talk about Matt Garza’s great spring and subsequent likely trip to Triple A as well as Alexi Casilla, who also looks slated to start the season at Rochester.  And he closes with […]

John Walsh at the Hardball Times previewed the Mets today.  It’s presented as five questions and he starts off with a look at the rotation as well as the pen and the offense.  It’s a nice one stop resource with the season set to kick off here in a few days.

Rheal Cormier and Dustin Hermanson were touched up for four late runs as the Reds lost to Phillies 6-2.  Cormier was particularly knocked around as he gave up three runs on three hits and a walk.  In the meantime, Kyle Lohse was decent in his start.  He gave up two runs on five hits and […]

Joel Zumaya is perfect no longer as he gave up back to back solo homeruns to Andruw Jones and Brian McCann.  To Zumaya’s credit, he wasn’t dialing it in there like he usually does and he got burned with two mid-90s fastballs.  After that, he started touching 99 and he didn’t get into anymore trouble.  […]

Reggie Jackson is one of those Yankees I don’t think people appreciate anymore.  Yeah, the Yankees have the big names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, but right up there with all of them is Mr. October, Reggie Jackson.  This is a guy who belted 563 homeruns when that was huge deal.  He’s currently tied […]

Talk about a beat down.  The Padres beat the Rangers 24-7 today and racked up 25 hits.  Russell Branyan had a game fit for a video game. He went four for six with two homeruns, five RBIs and four runs.  Adrian Gonzalez also homered as did Kazmar.  There was a lot of offense in this […]

Alex Belth previewed the Yankees at Baseball Prospectus today.  Not too much to add, because the Yankees are the team to beat.  He does finish things up with the fact that health will be the primary issue this year for the Yankees.  Once again, Belth nails this dead on.

Nate Silver used his projection system, PECOTA, to see how the AL Central (and NL Central) will turn out in the 2007.  Not good news for Tiger fans because they have the Tigers in third place with 85 wins.   It projects the Indians and Twins to come in with 90 wins with the White Sox […]

Baseball American recently posted some very interesting notes on Adam Miller from an American League scout.  He describes him to Kevin Brown and has some pretty good things to say about him.  There’s no doubt this guy is talented and he’ll be in the rotation at some point this year.

MiLB.com continued their look at spring training camps with a look at the Orioles.  The burning question has to do with how well the Orioles have done the past two years in the draft and then there’s a Q&A with Jeff Fiorentino.  Good read with a ton of information.

The Devil Rays won another one, and this time in a 1-0 pitchers duel.  Casey Fossum threw five shutout innings in which he gave up five hits and a walk with three strikeouts while four relievers combined for four shutout innings.
The lone run of the game came in the seventh inning.  Delmon Young singled and […]

In 1967, the White Sox offense was pretty bad.  I know this was a very pitcher friendly era, but the 1967 White Sox hearken back to the Hitless Wonders of 1906.  The finished eighth in batting average (.225) and ninth in both OBP (.288) and slugging (.320).  They also finished dead last in hits (1,209) […]

The Dodgers dealt for an outfielder yesterday.  They sent relief pitcher Elmer Dessens to the Brewers for Brady Clark, who had a solid season last year.  He doesn’t hit for a lot of power, but he has a good eye at the plate and he’ll take over as the team’s fourth outfielder now that Jason […]

The Brewers added another arm yesterday when they traded Brady Clark to the Dodgers for Elmer Dessens.  With a glut of outfielders, this move makes sense and the Brewers got a fair pitcher in return.  Dessens will start the season for the Brewers as a long reliever and Bob Melvin said that he’ll fill a […]

Marc Hulet at Baseball Analysts takes a look at what we should expect from last years’ rookie crop of hitters for the Marlins.  He provides what he thinks their lines will be in 2007 as well as who their best comporable player is.

It looks like the fight for the fifth spot in the Devil Rays rotation has come down to a two man race.  It looks like it’s now between J.P. Howell and Edwin Jackson.  Both are only 23, which is promising and at some point, both of these guys will be in the rotation, but for […]

Prospect guru John Sickels posted what he thinks centerfielder Chris Young will do in his career.  He has him leaving the Diamondbacks after he puts in his six years and he has him putting up a pretty solid career.  No 30/30 seasons but he comes close.  And I guess I could live with that 2007 […]

The White Sox lost another spring game, and outside of Tad Iguchi, the offense didn’t do too much.  Iguchi homered, tripled, and drove in both White Sox runs in the 3-2 loss while the rest of the team managed just five hits.
Javier Vazquez had another mixed outing on the mound.  He went 5 1/3 but […]

This is a drag but not at all surprising.  Now it’s Kerry Wood’s shoulder that’s bothering him and the end result will be a stint on the disabled list.  He’ll miss opening day and there’s no time table for his return.  I wasn’t banking on Wood doing much for us this year but it sure […]

This is definitely some good news.  Pirates pitching prospect and 2006 first round pick Brad Lincoln was given the green light to begin pitching again.  He’s going to start the season at Class A Hickory once he spends some time at extended spring training.  Hopefully this isn’t a false positive and Lincoln puts together a […]

Alright, here’s a story on what Neifi Perez had to do to keep his spot on the team.  Interesting read and for all of the bashing that goes on about how bad of a player he is, it’s all relative.  Yes, he’s one of the poorest hitters in major league history but the guy is […]

Craig Strain previewed the Marlins at the Hardball Times today in their standard five questions format.  He talks about whether all of the rookies the Marlins used will go into a sophomore slump and there’s also a discussion on the situation in the bullpen.  He closes the discussion with some details on the current state […]

Not a lot of people are expecting much out of the Nationals this year, but what about their minor league system?  Stan Kasten has been preaching about a bottom-up approach but what’s the state of the minor league system right now?  These questions are answered in the MiLB.com Nationals minor league preview.  You get a […]

Jason Weitzel previewed the Phillies today at the Hardball Times and he does it in a five question format.  He has an emphasis on Pat Burrell and then he also talks about who might be closing at the end of the year.  He also talks about the Freddy Garcia trade and then goes into the […]

The Reds didn’t get a hit until the seventh inning yesterday afternoon but that didn’t stop them from winning the game because they touched up reliever Craig Hansen for five runs in the seventh.  Daisuke Matsuzaka threw the five no hit innings and won the battle, but the Reds won the war. 
In the meantime, Bobby […]

Well, this is a drag but it’s not neccesarily surprising.  Edward Campusano will need Tommy John surgery to repair his injured elbow and he’ll miss the 2007 season.  He came out of the gate this spring like a mad man but now there’s speculation that he might have been hiding the injury since his velocity […]