The Red Sox enshrine the greats of their past, and the Yankees thwart the celebration. Yesterday, the Red Sox rejoiced in the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park. Former players including Carlton Fisk, Pedro Martinez, Luis Tiant, and former World Series winning Manager Terry Francona were present for the festivities. Once

Kyle Lohse (credits below) The idea that pitchers who generate more swinging strikes are likely to have more strikeouts is an easy one to understand.  Last year, four of the top five pitchers in swinging strike rate were in the top 13 in K/9.  We like swinging strikes because it

Curtis Granderson had a pretty good week in just one night. The Yankees' center fielder had the fantasy performance of the season, going 5-for-5 with three homers, three runs scored, and four RBIs. He began the day hitting .208 with three home runs and six RBIs before boosting his average by

A widely held opinion at the start of the 2012 season was the best pitching staff in baseball resided in the NL East. It's true a dozen or so games into the season, but surprisingly the staff is in Washington DC, not in Philadelphia. The Nationals are sitting at 10-3

All is well in Yankee-town (a crazy place where Santa is a floating image of George Steinbrenner), as C.C. Sabathia finally won a game. Sabathia went 7.1 innings with seven K’s. Francisco Liriano was his usual terrible self, while Andruw Jones continued killing lefties. Josh Willingham hit his fifth HR

Matt Moore (credits below) Welcome back to the Rookie Report, week 3. As always, everyone is waiting for that moment when they can brag to their buddies that they were ahead of the curve and knew that their “phenom” was ready to dominate the Bigs. Unfortunately, there is this thing

Mark Teixeira (credits below) Yesterday was Patriots Day in Massachusetts, one of the best days to live in the Commonwealth. Patriots Day is a holiday in just two states, Massachusetts, where the day commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord – battles that began the American Revolutionary War – and

Is there anybody left out there still calling Matty Wieters a bust?  I'd sure hope not, especially after his performance on Monday night in the Orioles extra innings win over the White Sox.  Wieters mashed a 10th inning grand slam, finishing 3 of 4 from the plate as he clubbed

Trevor Bauer (Credits below) In the coming weeks, I am going to be writing up a series of prospect ‘Cage Matches’ to see how different prospects stack-up from a fantasy perspective. However, instead of going through the typical Harper vs Trout debate that we see almost every week on a

Bobby Valentine (credits below) Bobby Valentine continues his big mouth style of managing. Yesterday on Boston's WHDH, he basically called out Kevin Youkilis and said "I don't think he's as physically or emotionally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason…"  The assumption is that