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The Mets are the hottest team in baseball right now, finishing their second consecutive sweep on the road. The Mets had been struggling for most of the season on the road, not even being able to win a series before sweeping through Baltimore and Cleveland. The Mets have been doing everything right, getting great pitching, fielding, and hitting. They have been hustling, getting key hits, and adding on extra runs when needed. The Mets go ...

Here we are, New York Mets fans. It's nearing the midway point of the season, and the team we love is a half-game out of first, and 10 games above .500. Who would have thunk it? Certainly not me. I went into this season with mixed feelings about this team. I felt that if they could stay healthy, they could put up a fight, and maybe sneak into the playoffs via ...

The Double G Sports Expert Panel has been polled once again to come up with our Major League Baseball Power Rankings for June. This is the third installment of our power rankings this season. For last months rankings, click here . Once again there was quite a bit of movement up and down the rankings. The biggest jump was the Atlanta Braves who moved from 20th in May ...

It's been a while since Atlanta Braves fans have had much to cheer about. Long gone are the days of Maddox, Glavine, and Smoltz. The Jones boys broke up after 2007. The streak of 14 consecutive NL East Championships ended five seasons ago. The 1995 World Series is but a distant memory. We all knew that their reign atop the NL East couldn’t last forever. Still, it’s been hard to watch ...

During his 12 years in Toronto, Roy Halladay was usually lights out against the Yankees. Now with Philadelphia, Halladay was looking to continue his dominance of New York Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees roughed up Halladay for six runs, including three home runs, and topped Philadelphia, 8-3, in the opener of three-game series that is a rematch of last year's World Series. New York won their ninth consecutive ...

Just when it seemed as if things were getting brighter for the Los Angeles Dodgers pitching staff, the team was dealt another blow on Tuesday afternoon, when they announced that Chad Billingsley would be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a groin injury. According to team reports, Billingsley suffered the injury sometime during his start in Friday's 10-1 loss against the Los Angeles Angels. The results of an MRI revealed nothing, ...

The MLB Player Draft has brought some gems to the Mets in recent memory. On the other hand, on several occasions, drafting hasn't really yielded much talent Simply put, in terms of the quality of their number one overall picks, the Mets organization has had ups and downs throughout the 2000s. This is a look at where the Mets went right and wrong in their top draft selections since 2000, and ...

Key player notes from AA's Eastern, Southern, and Texas Leagues. The latest on phenoms like Domonic Brown, Simon Castro, and many more. Who's moving on up and who's failing to distinguish themselves?     POSITION PLAYERS Domonic Brown, OF, Philadelphia AA —.313, 10 HR 37 RBI   The 6' 5" phenom has all the tools. In his first full season of Eastern League ball, Brown is making mince meat ...

  Matt LaPorta was bad early on this season. There were high hopes for him entering the year, a prospect with immense talent that would finally receive regular playing time.  Clearly it didn’t happen: 119 At Bats .218 Batting Average (26 Hits) 1 Home Runs 7 RBI 13 Runs 0 Stolen Bases .290 On Base Percentage .277 Slugging Percentage .269 Batting Average on Balls in Play He had a chance to earn regular ...

Fantasy Baseball’s Pitching Line of the Week: Stephen Strasburg (SP-WAS)  7 IP, 4H, 2R, 0 BB, 14 K, W The long awaited Major League debut of Stephen Strasburg is officially over. The dust has settled, but some fans have yet to pick their chins off of the ground from the amazement that was a dominating fourteen strikeout performance. Strasburg schooled the Pirates with remote like control of ...