After getting eviscerated in Oakland, Juan Cruz now finds himself back in the NL. He’s the long-man in the Diamondbacks’ bullpen; but with a rotation featuring Orlando Hernandez, Claudio Vargas, and Russ Ortiz, it probably won’t be long until Cruz is getting his shot to start.
I banished Cruz from all my cheat-sheets last year, [...]

So if you are a baseball fan planning for an upcoming draft as the season looms around the corner this weekend, one of the questions on your list should be whether or not Zack Greinke is worth drafting and sticking on your bench for the start of the season. For those of you who don’t [...]

For my money, the best hockey action pic since Eastman met Kodak.

Credit to David Bloom, who took the picture. The guy getting stung is Saskatchewan Huskies student trainer Davin Peterson. No, not the guy crumpled on the ice…the guy on the bench who looks like he just stepped on the third rail. This is [...]

Edwin Jackson, late of the Dodgers, now a cog in the great Devil-Rays pitching wheel, is actually having a decent spring. Let me again stress the word decent. He’s 4.05 ERA/.149 OBA/ 13 IP/ 7 Hits/ 9:5 K:BB ratio. That’d give him a WHIP of 0.93.
The good thing about the deal that send Jackson [...]

I’m writing this in the wake of an almost-quality start for…Gavin Floyd. Yes, that Gavin Floyd. The Gavin Floyd with the BB rate of 5.1/9 IP. The Gavin Floyd who was removed from a game against the Nationals last year after almost hitting Vinny Castilla in the head (unintentionally) on two consecutive pitches, then [...]

Brandon Claussen: Fantasy Baseball Breakout Pitcher #2
Brandon Claussen started 2004 rehabbing from ’03 Tommy John surgery in AAA-Louisville. He went 4.86 ERA/ 1.45 WHIP/ 100 IP/ 98 Hits/ 111:47 K:BB. His K/9 IP was 10.2. At that point he was actually leading the International League in strikeouts. Why is any of that significant? Because last [...]

A few years ago I was watching a Jays-Angels game and Scot Shields took the hill as an emergency starter. He went 5 innings, picked up 8 Ks, gave up a run or 2, and won the game. I don’t think I’d ever seen him pitch before (how often do you tune into a game [...]

I was watching Fernando Rodney throw his 95 mph 2-seamer, slider, and wicked changeup today; and in-between wild-pitches I couldn’t help but think “this guy’s really good.” Well, his command is Gavin Floyd-esque, but his stuff is amazing. I really don’t see a difference between Rodney and Coco Cordero. Or even K-Rod (Francisco Rodriguez). All [...]

A few years ago we had something they called the “juiced ball” season in the MLB. Everyone was hitting HRs, and every stadium was suddenly Coors Field. Barry Bonds went .328/73/137, and you could actually make game-to-game bets on whether Barry would hit a HR. Turns out he was on steroids. My reaction: so what?
The [...]

Fantasy season rolls around and the cry of “sleepers! sleepers!” echoes through the ‘net like “soy!” on the floor of the NYSE. Everyone wants to know who’s going to bust out as a great $1 pick, and who’s going to succeed Austin Kearns in the role of Austin Kearns this year. The story’s always the [...]

If you need a reason why Alexander Ovetchkin is changing the face of hockey and has more skill than any player to come along since the Gretzky - Lemieux era just check out this video. Absolutely unbelievable in my humble opinion.

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