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2013 MLB Power Rankings: May 20

MLB Each week during the baseball season Athlon Sports looks at the best (Texas Rangers) and worst (Houston Astros) baseball teams and players in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings and Players o...

13 hours ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Homer Bailey, Joey Votto, Justin Masterson, Miguel Cabrera, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers

12 Amazing MLB Stats for the Week of May 6-12

MLB Cincinnati can win only against bad teams, Dee Gordon is fast, the Texas bullpen is good and the Astros may have trouble when they play at Texas. Here are these and other amazing stats from the wee...

2013 MLB Power Rankings: May 14

MLB Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best (Texas Rangers) and worst (Houston Astros) baseball teams and players in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings and Players of the Wee...

6 days ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News

Blown Home Run Call Exposes Flaw in MLB Replay System

MLB Last night, Adam Rosales of Oakland launched an apparent game-tying home run in the ninth inning at Cleveland only to have it ruled a double by the umpiring crew. After reviewing the call via repla...

1 week ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Adam Rosales, Cleveland Indians, Oakland A's

16 Amazing MLB Stats of the Week: April 29-May 5

MLB There's never a shortage for cool numbers in baseball. Cleanup hitters struggle, a former utilityman goes off and some dude who's never closed games before is perfect. Go figure (which is what we'v...

2013 MLB Power Rankings: May 7

1 week ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Carlos Gomez, Justin Verlander, Ryan Raburn, Sergio Romo, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers

15 Most Indispensable Players in Baseball

MLB At the end of the season, the major awards voters will evaluate players in their own way, with a variety of definitions applied to the word “Valuable” in Most Valuable Player. There are the Sab...

2 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Bryce Harper, Buster Posey, Clayton Kershaw, Joey Votto, Justin Upton, Yadier Molina, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals

15 Amazing MLB Stats of the Week: April 22-28

MLB Each week during the 2013 MLB season, we highlight the most important, intriguing and bizarre stats in baseball. .516 David Ortiz’s Batting Averag...

2013 MLB Power Rankings: April 30

MLB Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams and players in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings and Players of the Week. 1. Red Sox—Big ...

2 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers

16 Amazing MLB Stats of the Week: April 15-21

MLB The Chicago White Sox finally passed Joey Votto in the Walk Chase, but there remain some amazing digits from the Week of April 15-21. 8-of-9 Batters struck out by Greg Hollan...

3 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

Baseball’s Best Rookies at Each Position

MLB It’s tough to gauge just which rookies will emerge this season. Some players—like the Rays’ Wil Myers—are expected to become stars, but the Rays haven’t called Myers up from Durham yet. O...

3 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

10 Amazing MLB Stats of the Week: April 8-14

MLB Just two weeks into the season, the sample size is small, but it’s fun to dissect a few notable numbers from the early going. Here are a few from the week of April 8-14. 20 ...

4 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

A Look Back at Jackie Robinson and Baseball’s Slow Integration

MLB Today, MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, honoring the man who broke baseball's color barrier amid tough circumstances in 1947. Perhaps no other man had such a far-reaching effect on the game...

5 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Jackie Robinson

14 Amazing MLB Stats from Opening Week

MLB Baseball is a numbers game. Always has been. Always will be. And here are a few notable numbers for the opening week of the season: March 31-April 7. 15 Earned runs allowed l...

Predicting Baseball’s 2016 All-Star Teams

MLB Now that baseball is back in full swing, we started thinking about the future. And there’s nothing more fun than projecting where today’s baseball stars will be playing three years from now, an...

6 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Albert Pujols, Andrew McCutchen, Bryce Harper, Evan Longoria, Joe Mauer, Joey Votto, Matt Cain, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout, Prince Fielder, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals

50 Greatest Nicknames in Baseball History

MLB Nicknames and baseball players just seem to go together like bat and ball. For as long as young boys and men have been batting baseballs around, they have given each other descriptive nicknames for...

6 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Overtime, News

101 Amazing Baseball Stats to Kick off the 2013 Season

MLB The 2013 Major League Baseball season kicks off on Sunday night with the Astros taking on the Rangers. Before the first pitch, here are 101 stats to know for the 2013 season. 101 Stats to Kick ...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News

2013 MLB Predictions: American League

MLB The 2013 MLB season is almost here. Texas and Houston will get things started on Sunday night as the Astros play their first-ever game as an American League team. That's not the only change basebal...

2013 Baseball Preview: Colorado Rockies

MLB The Rockies will try to rise from the ruins of a 98-loss season, the worst in franchise history, and steer a new course under manager Walt Weiss. A popular, heady shortstop for four seasons with th...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL West, National League, Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler, Michael Cuddyer, Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado Rockies

2013 Baseball Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks

MLB General manager Kevin Towers was at his wheeler-dealer best again this offseason, and his acquisitions should return the Diamondbacks to contention in the NL West, the division they won in 2011 in ...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL West, National League, Aaron Hill, Brandon McCarthy, Ian Kennedy, J.J. Putz, Jason Kubel, Martin Prado, Miguel Montero, Paul Goldschmidt, Trevor Cahill, Wade Miley, Arizona Diamondbacks

2013 Baseball Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers

MLB It has been a billion-dollar makeover. The Dodgers have emerged from bankruptcy and the dark days of the McCourt ownership transformed into one of baseball’s heavyweights. Armed with deep-pockete...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL West, National League, Adrian Gonzalez, Brandon League, Carl Crawford, Clayton Kershaw, Hanley Ramirez, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Josh Beckett, Kenley Jansen, Matt Kemp, Zack Greinke, Los Angeles Dodgers

2013 Baseball Preview: San Francisco Giants

MLB A band of misfits won the World Series in 2010. Two years later, the Giants simply banded together. Their second title in three seasons felt more scripted than ad-libbed, as a fantastic defense mad...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL West, National League, Buster Posey, Hunter Pence, Madison Bumgarner, Matt Cain, Pablo Sandoval, Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants

2013 Baseball Preview: San Diego Padres

MLB Despite new ownership and a new TV deal, it looks like it’s going to be more of the same for the Padres. While the NL West rival San Francisco Giants are coming off a second World Series title in...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL West, National League, Cameron Maybin, Chase Headley, Edinson Volquez, Huston Street, Yonder Alonso, San Diego Padres

2013 Baseball Preview: Chicago Cubs

MLB Back in December, Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney introduced Jim Deshaies as the team’s new television analyst and said he would be “the guy who will call the next World Seri...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL Central, National League, Alfonso Soriano, Anthony Rizzo, Carlos Marmol, Edwin Jackson, Jeff Samardzija, Kyuji Fujikawa, Matt Garza, Starlin Castro, Chicago Cubs

2013 Baseball Preview: Cincinnati Reds

MLB The Reds dove head-first into the 2012 season determined to make a run at more than just the NL Central division when they traded away Edinson Volquez and two prospects to acquire starting pitcher ...

7 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, NL Central, National League, Aroldis Chapman, Brandon Phillips, Homer Bailey, Jay Bruce, Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos, Shin-Soo Choo, Cincinnati Reds

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