Cole Hamels Looking Stoic Anyone who puts their fantasy opinion/advice out there for others to use at their discretion is kind of like someone who runs a gambling tips website. Essentially, both the fantasy baseball guy and the gambling guy are telling us what to do or simply providing us

Barry Bonds gives a thumb, sideways? In a “didn’t see that coming” moment, Barry Bonds has supposedly offered to pay for attack victim Brian Stow’s kid’s college. Barry, this is baby steps on your way to being a nice, caring human being. Jorge De La Rosa left his start Tuesday

Michael Pineda SP-MICHAEL PINEDA (SEATTLE) Grade A+ : The 22 year-old Pineda has dominated the league so far with a 6-2 record. Even more impressive is his 2.16 ERA and 0.94 WHIP. Pineda is averaging over a strikeout per inning. My concerns are that Seattle will begin to limit his

Corey Hart On this day in 1995, Dennis Eckersley became the sixth reliever in Major League History to record their 300th career save. Eckersley finished his 24 year career with 390 saves. Combo Meals: Corey Hart was 3-for-4 with thee moon shots, seven runs batted in, three runs scored and a stolen

Joe Mather Welcome to Week Eight of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is.  Once again, I take a look at the top 5 players you should look to pickup this week, with an AL-only and NL-only special

Don’t look now, but Asdrubal Cabrera is compiling an MVP resume: .302/9 HR/32 RBI. He went 5/5 with two HR, five RBI and a SB (two errors) as the Indians completed a sweep of interstate rival Cincinnati. Cabrera’s previous career high for dingers was six with a modest high of

Josh Johnson On this day in 1962, Roger Maris was intentionally walked four times. Maybe MLB pitchers need to consider this approach with Jose Bautisa. The Jose Bautista Watch: Is this man mortal? Bautista went 3 of 4 with two round trippers, four runs batted in, two runs scored and

Domonic Brown Domonic Brown got called back up to the majors with Shane Victorino going to the 15-day DL. He should make the start today. If he is still on your waiver wire, pick him! Every once in a while little brother gets to beat big brother. And when they

Yovani Gallardo Two-Start Pitchers to StartYovani Gallardo, Milwaukee Brewers (100%) – I was surprised to see Gallardo’s ownership at 100%.  His season totals of a 4.70 ERA and 1.48 are unattractive when pitchers like Hellickson and Ogando are owned less and impress more with their stats.  I can however, see

Matt Guerrier Some quick hitters from the past week in closer news as I get ready to bring you a new set of rankings next week in time for Memorial Day. Nothing says a good Memorial Day conversation like arguing over rankings… Vicente Padilla went on the DL with forearm