Home › Articles by charlie miller ›
Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly version

10 Players Most Likely to be Named National League MVP

MLB What a fascinating season 2012 proved to be. A Triple Crown, a division champion having spent just one day in first place and 19- and 20-year-olds taking the league by storm. As postseason baseball...
36 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

10 Players Most Likely to be Named American League MVP
MLB What a fascinating season 2012 proved to be. A Triple Crown, a division champion having spent just one day in first place and 19- and 20-year-olds taking the league by storm. As postseason bas...
36 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News

Top 6 Candidates for Baseball's 2012 Manager of the Year

MLB What a fascinating season 2012 proved to be. A Triple Crown, a division champion having spent just one day in first place and 19- and 20-year-olds taking the league by storm. As postseason baseball...
36 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News

6 Players Most Likely to be Named Baseball's 2012 Rookie of the Year
MLB What a fascinating season 2012 proved to be. A Triple Crown, a division champion having spent just one day in first place and 19- and 20-year-olds taking the league by storm. As postseason baseball...
36 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: Sept. 17
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 for Septemb...
39 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

10 Players Most Likely to Make Baseball's 500,000th Error
MLB According to the greatest baseball research website in the world, Baseball-Reference.com, MLB and its players are approaching the 500,000th recorded error since 1876. Wow, a half-million miscues. ...
40 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Alex Gordon, Asdrubal Cabrera, Elvis Andrus, Pedro Alvarez, Ryan Zimmerman, Starlin Castro

15 Greatest Rookie Pitchers of All-Time
MLB Baseball has been filled with great pitchers who started their careers with average performances and slowly developed over the course of several seasons. But for a select few hurlers, success came ...
40 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Andrew Bailey, Craig Kimbrel, Dwight Gooden, Fernando Valenzuela, Hideo Nomo, Joe Black, Mark Fidrych, Neftali Feliz, Pete Alexander

15 Best Rookie Seasons in Baseball History
MLB The Angels’ Mike Trout continues to chase history as a 21-year-old rookie bidding to become just the third rookie to win AL MVP honors. How does his season stack up against the best rookie season...
40 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: Sept. 10
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 for Septemb...
40 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: August 27
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 for Au...
42 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: August 20
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 for Au...
43 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

MLB Trade Deadline: Winners and Losers
MLB Every summer August 1 is something like New Year’s Day in baseball. General managers around the league work frantically through July 31 to reshape their teams into contenders or sell off spare pa...
43 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Monthly, Hanley Ramirez, Ichiro Suzuki, Joey Votto, Prince Fielder, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays

The 50 Best Baseball Nicknames of All Time
Overtime 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...
44 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: Overtime

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: August 6
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 for Au...
45 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: July 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 for Ju...
46 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

Penn State Sanctions: NCAA Out of Bounds
College Football After dictating the heaviest sanctions ever on an athletic program, NCAA President Mark Emmert said, “Our goal is not to be just punitive, but to make sure the university establishes an athletic ...
47 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: College Football, Big Ten, Penn State

2012 MLB Pennant Races: A to Z
MLB A A’s A’s, as in the Oakland Athletics, are in a pennant race for the first time since 2006. We have the second wild card to thank for this, but the no-name A’s have been the hottest team...
47 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Albert Pujols, Andre Ethier, Andrew McCutchen, Aroldis Chapman, Dan Uggla, David Freese, Derek Jeter, Jordan Zimmermann, Jose Quintana, Josh Hamilton, Kyle Lohse, Lance Lynn, Mark Trumbo, Melky Cabrera, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout, Paul Konerko, Robin Ventura, Ryan Zimmerman, Yadier Molina, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: July 23
MLB Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for July 23, 2012.   1. Rangers...
47 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

Andrew McCutchen’s 56-game run among baseball’s best ever?
MLB While the wiry Pittsburgh centerfielder with dreadlocks continues his march toward his first MVP, does the season he has put together rank among one of the all-time best? We’ll be able to jud...
47 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Andrew McCutchen, Joe DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates

3 Terrible Trades MLB GMs Would Love to Do Over
MLB Trading baseball players between teams has been part of the charm of the game since the 1800s. Ornery players traded after disputes with managers, struggling players traded for one another in hopes...
48 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Hector Noesi, Jed Lowrie, Jesus Montero, Jonathan Sanchez, Mark Melancon, Melky Cabrera, Michael Pineda, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: July 16
MLB Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for July 16, 2012.     1. Ra...
48 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

2012 MLB Pennant Races: Sizing Up the Season's Second Half
MLB In the 17 seasons that have concluded with a postseason since baseball expanded to the three-division format in 1994, 66 of the 102 teams that were in first place at the All-Star break went on to w...
48 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Albert Pujols, Evan Longoria, Matt Kemp, RA Dickey, Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals

2012 MLB All-Star Game: Fixing its Problems
MLB This is the 11th season that the All-Star Game has “counted.” If you recall, way back in 2001, both teams ran out of pitchers and the game ended in a tie after 11 exciting innings, leaving fans...
49 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Brandon Phillips, David Wright, Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, Pablo Sandoval, Randy Johnson, Tom Glavine, Tony La Russa, Yogi Berra

2012 Home Run Derby: 3 Ways to Make it Better
MLB I don’t care much for the Home Run Derby. Never really have. I usually watch parts of it, but I can’t stay in front of a TV and watch the entire spectacle. And what little time I will spend wat...
49 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, News, Robinson Cano

2012 Major League Baseball Power Rankings: July 9
MLB Each week during the season Athlon Sports looks at the best and worst baseball teams in the league. Here's our MLB Power Rankings for July 9, 2012.     1...
49 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals

Contests & Promotions

Athlon Sports Fantasy Racing!
Enter the Athlon Sports Fantasy Racing game. Just head over to athlon.myfantasyracing.com and register for your chance to win a chance to watch a 2014 race from the grandstands. You'll also have a chance to win other amazing prizes such as an autographed Kyle Busch helmet.

Bracket Breakdown
Take your shot at $100,000 in the Athlon Sports Bracket Breakdown game. Sign up before March 21st to submit your bracket and your chance at perfection.

Authentic Hand Signed Sports Memorabilia
One of the nation's largest selections with over 7,500 in stock items. Guaranteed authentic from the trusted name in sports since 1967.

Popular Links