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The Yankees have announced that they have called minor league outfielder Colin Curtis up from Triple-A Scranton.  Curtis, 25, has played 35 games at the Triple-A level this season. In those games, he has 125 at-bats, a .280 average, .357 OBP, .368 SLG, and a .725 OPS. He split 2009 between Double-A and Triple-A. In 132 games last season, he had a combined .250 average, .321 OBP, and a .686 ...

In the world of sports, there are no absolutes. Especially in baseball, absolutes simply don't exist. Home runs are ruled as ground rule doubles, perfect games are ruined by wrong calls, and strikes are called balls. Leave the absolutes to the sciences (and vodka, I guess?). But with baseball? Everything is open for evaluation and change. Unfortunately, the San Francisco Giants have a personnel team that believes in absolute untouchables. Or at least they will ...

The list of struggling Orioles in 2010 is nearly as lengthy as their 25-man roster, but few are more noticeable than Adam Jones, the club’s starting center fielder and one of the faces of the franchise. Jones is a key cog in the Oriole’s rebuilding process and after winning his first Gold Glove and appearing in his first All-Star game in 2009, he appeared to be on the path to stardom. However, ...

The 2010 Cubs are a team I think of as being full of geezers, with Marlon Byrd, Mike Fontinot, Ryan Theriot, Kosuke Fukodome, Xavier Nady, Alfonso Soriano, Aramis Ramirez, Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly, Ryan Dempster and Carlos Silva all over 30.  However, the Cubs have been quietly slipping a number of promising rookies into the mix this year. The position players are SS Starlin Castro and OF Tyler Colvin.  Castro is ...

Balloting for the American League All-Star team is not over, not until July 1, and the Yankees currently have two players with the most amount of votes for their positions, SS Derek Jeter and 2B Robinson Cano. Mark Teixeira , Alex Rodriguez , and Jorge Posada are all in second place at their respective positions, but only Teixeira is close enough to still have a chance. In the outfield the Yankees ...

After taking a look at the American League All-Stars for this year's game, I will now take the time to discuss who should be suiting up for the National League. Once again, a few of the current voting leaders do not deserve to be in the starting lineup. Here is who should be taking the field first:   Catcher: Miguel Olivo The Rockies catcher is off to a great start. He is hitting about ...

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg called for a press conference on Monday without revealing his intentions to the public. After meeting with St. Petersburg mayor Bill Foster, Sternberg stepped up to the podium to tell us what we already knew: Tropicana Field isn't good enough. Though for the past two seasons the Rays have had the best home record in all of baseball, the Trop is quickly becoming a relic ...

Fellow Yankee fans, before you accuse me of high treason or blaspheming our dear captain, please heed my plea for understanding. As a lifelong fan of the team, I have long loved Derek Jeter and cherish his numerous contributions to the latest run of success in the Bronx. I am fully aware that the Yankees just won a World Series last year and the team is currently claiming ownership of the ...

Over the weekend, the Yankees overtook the Rays for first place in the American League East division. But it has now become a three team race since the Red Sox are playing better and are now on the Yankees Rays coat-tails. The Yankees have been playing well in the month of June, but they are entering the dog days of summer and the A.L. East pennant race will only be getting tougher. There ...

A couple of days ago I noticed how well Rays' rookies catcher John Jaso and 2B/SS Reid Brignac are playing.  I’ve seen very little written about either of them, so I thought I’d try to fill the void. Brignac is 24 this year, and he’s splitting time almost evenly for the Rays between second and shortstop.  Regular shortstop Jason Bartlett is back after a hamstring injury put him on the DL ...