Albert Pujols (see credits below) It wasn't pretty. It never is though. Albert Pujols, aka the best player in baseball for over a decade, went down with a sprained wrist and hurt his shoulder while making a play at first. Pujols just started paying his dividends too, quickly recovering from what was

Albert Pujols (credits below) Preliminary evaluations on Albert Pujols’ wrist revealed a sprain. Further tests will be conducted tomorrow. I'll let someone else hit you with the panic attack reaction. Let's see what the results bring..  Justin Verlander owns interleague play. In fact, Justin Verlander owns everybody. The most dominant

Travis Hafner Welcome to Week Twelve of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is (all players are owned in fewer than 50% of Yahoo leagues).  As always, I’ll review the top 5 players you should look to pickup

Josh Willingham (credits below) Sluggers to Start   Josh Willingham | Oakland Athletics | 34.6%  – Interleague play is back again this week and finding matchups with history just gets that more difficult. Josh Willingham has had his ups and downs this season but when you’re the only offensive threat in the

Dustin Ackley (see credits below) The Mariners called up Dustin Ackley this week and he is definitely worth keeping an eye on. He hit his first major league homer of his career against Vance Worley last night. Prior to the season, Baseball America had him ranked as the #12 prospect

Charlie Blackmon (credits below) Recent call-up of the Rockies’, Charlie Blackmon went 4-for-4 with two runs scored and two runs batted in last night. In ten games since being promoted, Blackmon is batting .410, collecting 16 hits in 39 at bats.  The Rockies’ outfielder is owned in just 12% of

Matt Moore Rays prospect Matt Moore pitched a no-hitter for AA Montgomery and the 2nd of his career. He struck out 11 and walked two. Moore is a strikeout machine, having 50 strikeouts in 34 1/3 innings in May! If at any point Moore gets the call-up, make sure to

Mike Trout (credits below) Mike Trout, CF LA Angels Still three months short of 20, Trout and his legit five tools continue to tear through AA. In a 57-game sample he’s batting .330 with eight homers and 22 RBI, including a .422 mark in June and four consecutive multi-hit games.

Jason Heyward (credits below) Atlanta’s Golden Child, Jason Heyward returned from the 15-day DL to the Braves after one day at Triple-A Gwinnett. He wasn’t much help as the Mets won 4-0 and their 2nd in a row at Atlanta. Heyward says his shoulder is feeling 100% so get him

Justin Verlander (credits below) Justin Verlander flirted with another no-hitter, bringing it into the eighth inning when it was broke up by a single to Orlando Cabrera. The only other hit was by Carlos Santana in the ninth. Verlander finished the night with 1 walk and 12K. Two things to