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MLB If at first you don’t succeed — buy and buy again. Last winter, the Angels rocked the baseball world with the biggest one-day spending binge in the sport’s history. They committed over $320 m...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Los Angeles Angels
MLB Consider this about how far the Rangers franchise has come: Their 93 wins in 2012 were viewed as a major disappointment for a team that has disappointed often since coming to Texas in 1972. Fans in...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Texas Rangers
MLB Since these are the Oakland Athletics, subject of a popular motion picture you may have heard about, we can say it without exaggeration: The 2012 season unfolded like a movie. Billy Beane, their ma...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Oakland A's
MLB Every spring, major league baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to knock off the rust and get ready for the 162-game grind that is the regular season. While spring training is necessary for...
MLB Using Athlon Sports' Big Board as the barometer, here are some potential sleepers who roam the outfield to keep an eye on, as well some possible busts to potentially be wary of. Keep in mind that t...
8 weeks ago by Mark Ross Tags: MLB, Fantasy, News, Fantasy Baseball
MLB The Minnesota Twins aren’t calling this a rebuilding season, but there’s no question they’re a team in transition. After winning six division titles in nine years, they’ve lost 99 and 96 ga...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Minnesota Twins
MLB Over the 2011 and 2012 seasons, no team spent more days in first place in the American League Central than the Cleveland Indians. Getting there was no problem, but sustaining it proved much more di...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Cleveland Indians
MLB It’s possible that the Kansas City Royals, after more than two decades of often pointless meandering, can become truly relevant again in 2013 after a seminal offseason in which general manager Da...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Kansas City Royals
MLB Looking for a big finish, not just a fast start, the Chicago White Sox hope they can out-pitch their competition in the AL Central. That’s a tall order given that the Detroit Tigers line up behin...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Chicago White Sox
MLB The 2012 Detroit Tigers were a runaway pick to win the AL Central and a fashionable pick to win it all. But nothing ever seemed easy for them. They floundered below .500 for most of the first half ...
8 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Detroit Tigers
MLB This time of year, sports fans and many non-sports fans are thinking about one thing: their NCAA Tournament brackets. For the next few days hoops fans will dissect rebounding margins, three-po...
MLB Using Athlon Sports' Big Board as the barometer, here are some potential sleepers who play on the infield to keep an eye on, as well some possible busts to potentially be wary of. Keep in mind that...
9 weeks ago by Mark Ross Tags: MLB, Fantasy, News, Fantasy Baseball
MLB After years of making flashy purchases, the New York Yankees hunkered down after last season, treading carefully in the market with an eye on their 2014 payroll. Baseball's new collective bargainin...
9 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, New York Yankees
MLB Grab your hard hats and watch your step, Red Sox fans, because Fenway Park’s going to be a construction zone. After hitting rock bottom in 2012, the Sox aren’t beginning a remodel so much as a ...
9 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Boston Red Sox
MLB General manager Andrew Friedman talks about “always trying to thread the needle” in harmonizing the present and future. President Matt Silverman says the team is operated “as if we’re balan...
9 weeks ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB, Tampa Bay Rays