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The Arizona Diamondbacks will be hosting the 2011 All Star Game in the backdrop of the recent illegal immigration laws that have been past over the last year.  Several players have threatened to boycott the game if the laws aren’t changed and it…

I had grand ambitions for this site and while I finished the 1977 Yankees, that’s about all I was able to accomplish after a few fits and restarts.  Still, I’m excited about getting things going and what a better way to kick of the restart…

One of Greg Johns more recent pieces is on the Mariners prospects and how they’re doing during the Winter Leagues.  Dan Cortes gets a lot of play in the piece and he’s been very solid in the Venezuelan League.  He still needs to work on h…

Jason Bartlett is gone.  Add that to the long list of top notch players Rays fans have seen depart the team over this off-season.  Of course with all of the defections and trades, you have a new player who will be given a chance and one of those guys…

With the Winter Meetings in the rear view window, it’s now time to look ahead and with not a lot of news, we get a mail bag column by Kelly Thesier.  She talks about the dome collapsing, the backup plan if the Twins don’t nab Carl Pavano a…

Orioles beat reporter Brittany Ghiroli recently took a stab at answering readers questions earlier this week.  At the top of the list was how Buck Showalter might be able to influence a big name free agent (or two) to come to the Orioles.  Most staye…

Baseball America’s latest is on the Tigers possibly rushing their top pitching prospects to the major leagues.  There’s a ton of great stuff in there by Rick Knapp and the focus is how Rick Porcello and Andy Oliver both struggled in their …

In a very cool series, Minor League Baseball is breaking down each organizations minor league systems and picking the best player at each position.  The latest was the Blue Jays and recent pickup Kyle Drabek and catcher J.P. Arencibia were the top guy…

I’m still reeling a little big after the Padres sent Adrian Gonzalez out of town.  I understand why they did, it just doesn’t make it any easier.  Anyway, the Padres are close to signing Brad Hawpe to take Gonzalez’s place.  He&#82…

Not too long ago, Baseball America released the Braves top ten prospect list.  I consider Baseball America to be more traditional in their evaluation of talent which while not horrible, means they disregard a lot of sabermetric analysis.  Still, thes…

David Laurila sat down with Tigers infielder Will Rhymes.  He talks about how he got started in the sport as well as his call up with the Tigers.  Of course Rhymes will be fighting for a job as a team’s second baseman, which is one of the Tiger…

Kevin Goldstein’s latest has the list of the top eleven Marlins prospects.  The last three years, the Marlins have hovered around .500 and exceeded most people’s expectations using mostly young talent.  It’s nice to know that well h…

The Rockies sent two minor league relievers to the Astros for most-time closer Matt Lindstrom today.  On the one hand, Lindstrom is a pretty mediocre closer.  Opponents hit over .300 against him and his career WHIP is just shy of 1.500.  Still, he&#…

Houston traded Matt Lindstrom to the Rockies today for a pair of minor league minor league pitchers.  With guys like Brandon Lyon and Wilton Lopez in the fold, the Astros must have felt they could part with Lindstrom who saved more games in 2010 then …

The Rangers picked up some left handed help out of the bullpen today when they signed the venerable Arthur Rhodes to a one year deal.  At one point in time, Rhodes was one of the dominant relievers and while he regressed pretty quickly, he’s had…

It’s always interesting to compare prospect lists.  This time we have the top ten from Baseball America.  Coming in at the top is no surprise because they agree it’s Bryce Harper.  They speculate he’ll jump right to High-A and he s…

With Magglio Ordonez in the fold, the Tigers now basically have their starters.  Yeah, I know there’s going to be a lot of days where the fourth outfielder (take your pick between Boesch, Kelly or Wells) is going to get some time and there are a…

With money to spend, the Angels have been the odd man out.  They’ve missed out on most of the big names and the lone player left in their sites is Adrian Beltre.  Of course you don’t have to go too far back to remember another AL West tea…

It seems like the Dodgers have been jumping ship more then they’ve stayed pat and you wonder how much this has to do with the uncertainty surrounding the McCourts divorce.  Say what you want about Walter O’Malley back in the day, but the g…

The Cardinals are in a bind and you wished Albert Pujols would do something about it.  Pujols is almost certainly going to re-sign with the Cardinals but there hasn’t been much talk about a deal.  Until we know how much Albert is going to cost,…

The White Sox have definitely been busy this offseason.  First they made a big splash by signing Adam Dunn to short up their lineup.  Then they re-signed Paul Konerko.  What’s interesting about that is that it almost didn’t happen.  App…

In Chris Kahrl’s latest, she takes a look at what the Giants both are and should be doing in the aftermath of their World Series win a few months ago.  She talks about how the rotation is already pretty set and the bullpen probably will be in sh…

Rich Harden made his name in the A’s system and now he’s back after a number of injury plagued seasons.  Harden signed a one year deal with the team for $1.5 million plus some incentives as he returned home.  For now, Harden will be one o…

Jon Papelbon will be the Red Sox closer to start the season, but the Red Sox will rely on another closer to set him up because they signed Bobby Jenks to a two year deal worth $12 million.  Jenks could have probably gone to a team that would have let …

The Indians were impressed enough by Austin Kearns second half and with the batch of free agent outfields slowly being depleted, the team decided to bring back Kearns for one more year.  The once top flight prospect has bounced around the past few yea…

You knew this was happening, but the Royals dealt their ace, Zach Greinke, for an impressive list of prospects.  While short term, you’d think this hurts the team, long term it’s another matter entirely.  In return for Greinke (and Betanc…

Sometimes it pays to be a fence sitter.  The Brewers were relatively quiet during the winter meetings but now they’ve given fans an early Christmas present by bringing former Royals’ ace Zach Greinke to town.   This was shortly after the…

Yesterday, the latest edition of THT forecast launched.  With lots of new features, THT forecasts is a must have for the elite fantasy player but it also has some outstanding benefits for just about anyone interested in the game.  Do you want to see …

Now this is what I’m talking about.  Way back before the 2005 season, Magglio Ordonez didn’t appear to have any suitors.  Not only the Tigers step and take the risk on him, but they signed him to a big deal.  Now in 2011, Ordonez appears…

Chris Kahrl’s latest at Baseball Prospectus is all on the Tigers offseason moves.  They’ve been busy and you have to think there’s a move or two left but it’s nice seeing things all in one place.  The first thing I noticed (be…