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Fantasy Baseball’s Pitching Line of the Week: Yovani Gallardo (SP-MIL) 9 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 12 K, W   According to reports out of Milwaukee, there has been another sighting of “El Chupacabra” at Miller Park. This legendary creature, who traditionally lives in the minds of Latin Americans, is said to attack an array of wild stock and leave them for dead after consuming their blood.    I know that Yovani ...

Nearing the midway point of the season, the differences between the "haves" and "have nots" have become relatively clear. With this, comes the debate of which players from the latter group could help teams in the former. This season, pitchers seem like the rage in the trade market, with various ideas for Roy Oswalt, Kevin Millwood, and the rejuvenated Brett Myers. However, many of the contenders, such as the Red Sox, ...

SAN JUAN, P.R.: So far this season, R.A. Dickey has been one of the biggest surprises in all of baseball. Seven starts as a New York Met, six wins for the 35-year-old knuckleballer. Tonight, he and the Mets will try and take their winning ways to another country, Puerto Rico. Major League Baseball moved this three-game series starting tonight from Miami to PR, so the Marlins will be the home team ...

While the Major League season may be a marathon, and not a sprint, a tweaked ankle still stings at any distance. Such was the case for Los Angeles on Sunday night, as the Dodgers positive weekend took a turn for the miserable over two painful innings. To make matters worse, a handful of roster staples played a part in souring the evening, and the club’s big time series with the Yankees. Now a ...

This week featured yet another no-hitter: a goofy eight-walk and 149-pitch performance by Edwin Jackson of the D-Backs. But it certainly still counts. Baseball is littered with streaks lately. Josh Hamilton and Jose Guillen both own 21-game hit streaks. Joey Votto has reached base in 35 straight games. The White Sox and Rangers have both ripped off double-digit win streaks. And the ageless Arthur Rhodes hasn't allowed a run in 33 ...

The reality of the Dodgers purchasing space on nearly 300 billboards around the Los Angeles basin before the beginning of the season advertising a renewed rivalry in baseball, one known as the East vs. West rivalry dating back to the purist era of baseball, was for relieving traditionally the most dramatic rivalry in America’s pastime. A legion of old timers, such as the elderly folks, still can recall 11 World ...

The Mets are red hot.   They are a different team, with new players that believe in themselves and each other, and this chemistry makes them a very tough club to beat.   How will Carlos Beltran's return effect this new Mets team? First, how long do you think it will take Beltran to get back into form, and will he be able to hit Major League pitching for average and power?  I ...

After Ozzie Guillen joked with the press about the White Sox being moved to the National League because of a 15-3 record in Interleague Play this season (the best record in the majors in those games), I thought about where Interleague Play is and where it should go in the future. As this is Bud Selig's baby, along with the All-Star game, which "counts" for the World Series home-field advantage, ...

Lots to cover in today’s blog, starting with the dysfunctional dugout of the Chicago Cubs, where Carlos Zambrano has made a spectacle of himself several times over the years. He’s ranted and raved, smashed a Gatorade machine, thrown gloves, bats and balls, left games prior to their conclusion, and generally been the proverbial ticking time bomb. In the past, his blowups have been mostly amusing. My personal favorite was the time ...

Today's date is June 26, 2010 and now the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees find themselves in another heated race with each other for the AL East. Once again, the most heated rivalry in baseball and maybe all of sports is getting better. In their history, these clubs have met over 2,000 times (2,072 to be exact), and each time they play each other everybody pays attention. The ...