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

Highlighting the most important, intriguing and bizarre stats in baseball.

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 week of May 6-12.

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Fantasy Baseball Bests, Busts and Waiver Wire: May 13

Athlon Sports takes a look at what took place this past weekend on the fantasy baseball diamond.

Stay tuned each week to Athlon Sports for a 2013 Fantasy Baseball Weekend Waiver Wire report every Monday. Our fantasy junkies cover the hottest hitters, best waiver wire pick ups, top starting pitching spot starts and sift through bullpens from around the league each week.

Top 25 fantasy baseball hitters of last week (May 6-12):

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Fantasy Baseball Bests, Busts and Waiver Wire: May 6

Athlon Sports takes a look at what took place this past weekend on the fantasy baseball diamond.

Top 25 fantasy baseball hitters of last week (Apr. 29-May 5):

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15 Most Indispensable Players in Baseball

Teams can ill-afford to lose these players

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 Sabermetricians who will argue each player’s effect on his team winning, commonly using the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stats. Traditionalists will focus on raw stats that can be calculated without logarithms. But what about the players that teams can ill-afford to lose, the truly indispensable? Some of the players mentioned below will get MVP consideration, others will not.

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Fantasy Baseball Bests, Busts and Waiver Wire: April 29

Athlon Sports takes a look at what took place this past weekend on the fantasy baseball diamond.

Top 25 fantasy baseball hitters of last week (Apr. 22-Apr. 28):

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Fantasy Baseball Bests, Busts and Waiver Wire: April 22

Athlon Sports takes a look at what took place this past weekend on the fantasy baseball diamond.

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Fantasy Baseball Bests, Busts and Waiver Wire: April 15

Athlon Sports takes a look at what took place this past weekend on the fantasy baseball diamond.

Stay tuned each week to Athlon Sports for a 2013 Fantasy Baseball Weekend Waiver Wire report every Monday. Our fantasy junkies cover the hottest hitters, best waiver wire pick-ups, top starting pitching spot starts and sift through bellpens from around the league each and every week.

Top 25 fantasy baseball hitters of last week (Apr. 8-Apr. 14):

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14 Amazing MLB Stats from Opening Week

Highlighting the most important, intriguing and bizarre stats in baseball.

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 last Sunday by reigning Cy Young winners

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Major League Baseball's All-Steroid Team

Baseball's all-time starting (allegedly) performance-enhanced lineup.

Steroids are now just as synonymous with baseball as hot dogs or cold beer. It is an unfortunate era of the game that fans of all ages must accept. Are the use of performance-enhancing drugs terrible for the body and a form of cheating? Yes, and this country should work diligently to combat their growth. But steroids are a part of why the game of baseball returned to the nation’s heart after a work stoppage and no World Series in 1994.

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2013 MLB Predictions: National League

Athlon Sports picks this season's NL division and award winners

The 2013 MLB season kicks off with Houston hosting Texas on Sunday night. It's an appropriate season opener considering the Astros are now members of the American League.