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What with Jason Heyward’s, Wilson Ramos’ and Starlin Castro’s hot starts (to name only a few), there is perhaps even more hype than usual about the next top minor league prospects to get the call up.  One player I’ve been hearing a lot about is the Florida Marlins’ Mike Stanton. About the only bad thing I’ve heard about Stanton is that a clear majority of major league executives think Jason Heyward ...

The Dallas Braden/Alex Rodriguez feud is still going strong, and while part of me feels that Braden ought to let it go and move (which he appears to be doing tonight with eight perfect innings against the Rays so far), all of me feels that Alex Rodriguez is one of the bigger punks in the game. This article quoting A-Fraud on espn.com kind of says it all.  Rodriguez could have simply ...

The biggest news so far today is the Cubs’ decision to call up 20-year-old Dominican shortstop Starlin Castro all the way from AA ball.  Castro was hitting a robust .376 with a .990 OPS for the Tennessee Smokies in the Southern League, but that’s a long way from the Show. Castro is one of the more highly regarded prospects in baseball (Baseball America ranked him 16th among all prospects before the start ...

The Colorado Rockies’ Ubaldo Jimenez threw the first no-hitter of 2010, as well as the first no-hitter by a Rockies pitcher ever, yesterday against the Braves.  He gave up six walks and notched seven strikeouts, which meant it took him 128 pitches to finish off his no-no. That’s a lot of pitches for a mid-April game.  In fact, it was the highest single game pitch total so far in the 2010 season. Jimenez has ...