News and Notes from the Grapefruit League
Like the Army, baseball is filled with Hurry Up & Wait situations. That’s especially true for writers, who arrive hours before gametime in an often-frustrating effort to pin down players or...
View ArticleMusings from the Manager’s Office
Where to go on a rainy day in spring training? The manager of the Atlanta Braves, always a congenial host, held court with a half-dozen journalists before the rained-out exhibition game against the...
View ArticleFresh squeezes from the Grapefruit League
Making baseball predictions public is always a bad idea. Somebody always gets hot, or gets hurt, and players can stumble into hot streaks or slumps — some of them lasting a full season. Media types who...
View ArticleDan’s daring predictions for diamond action
Predicting the future — in any venue — is difficult even for Alison DuBois or others blessed with psychic powers. That is especially true when it comes to baseball, where teams play nearly 200 games...
View ArticleNL East Preview
Who can beat the Phillies? Â The Braves have some of the best young talent in the game, but no one will catch them. Â The arrival in 2010 of young phenoms Stephen Strasburg and Jason Heyward will be...
View ArticleJonrón de piernas (Inside the park home run)?
La mañana de este 10 de junio de 2010, escribÃa algo sobre el inminente Mundial de Fútbol, cuando mi compañera de trabajo, Meralys, me preguntó “¿Sabes qué es un jonrón de piernas? VenÃa...
View Article2010 midseason awards
MVP: Robinson Cano It’s hard to deny Cano’s talent the most valuable player award for the first half. Despite his numbers — his batting average is fifth in all of baseball — Cano has been the center...
View ArticleBuster Posey, Neftali Feliz Win Two-Man Races For Willie Mays Award
The battle for the Willie Mays Award, given by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance to the top rookie in each division, turned out to be a two-man affair in both leagues, with Texas Rangers closer Neftali...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Outlook: Top Five 1B Prospects For 2011
  In articles like this, many websites provide readers with the best overall prospects at any given position, but the intention here is to focus on those prospects that are likely to provide the...
View Article2011 Pre-Season Preview: NL East – Atlanta Braves
Braves 3B Chipper Jones The Braves begin the new season without long-time manager, Bobby Cox, who stewarded the team to a succession of fourteen consecutive division titles (from 1991-2005, absent the...
View ArticleFearless forecast for 2011 flag chases
The first rule in making baseball predictions is to expect the unexpected. Don’t go with last year’s winners, popular favorites, or big-money ballclubs. Unless they deserve it, of course. Now that...
View ArticleWhat Sunk the Braves
Good teams don’t fold for no apparent reason. Though buried by the publicity piled onto the Boston Red Sox, who also slipped out of the playoff picture in September, the Atlanta Braves should have seen...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
Well all of the fantasy rankings have been completed, it’s time to talk about real life baseball. There will be very little fantasy talk in this column as I will be making predictions on how the...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
Arizona Diamondbacks: Pretty tough week for the DBacks as they lose 2B Aaron Hill until June with a broken hand. Hill suffered the injury when he was hit by an Edwin Jackson pitch. Tried to play with...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
Arizona Diamondbacks: Starting pitcher Randall Delgado, you know, one of the key pieces in the OF Justin Upton trade, is off to a rough at AAA and may not be the first call up once the Dbacks need help...
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