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Anyone notice that Jason Heyward has been playing like, well… crap? That would be because since spring training, the big-boy phenom has been dealing with a sore right shoulder and numbness in his forearm. Hopefully an MRI will show nothing serious. Since practically hitting rock bottom in everyone's eyes, Derek

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SP – JULIO TEHERAN (ATLANTA) Teheran, the top pitching prospect in the Braves minor league system was called up from Gwinnett to start Saturday’s game against the Phillies. Not an easy assignment for the rookie as he posted a loss, striking out one batter and allowing two walks in 4.2 innings.

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Pressed up against the third base railing at Turner field during the summer of 1999, batting practice was a spectacle when Chipper Jones took his cuts, sending countless balls over the right field wall, ricocheting off the back rows of empty seats. Even though I was only 11 years old

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On this day in 1967, Hank Aaron hit his first and only inside-the-park home run of his career 755 moon shots… WIth his second walk-off hit of the homestand, Carl Crawford is starting to look like the player that demanded $142 million this past off season from the Boston Red

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Welcome to Week Six of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is. This week we’re going to go back to our regularly scheduled format – looking at the top 5 players you should look to pickup this week,

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Jacoby Ellsbury Jacoby Ellsbury increased his hitting streak to 17 games on Sunday with three more knocks. He has eight multi-hit games during the stretch, and has lifted his BA from .186 to .297. Over that same time period, teammate Dustin Pedroia has nosedived from .333 to .236. After throwing

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Sam Fuld ON THE RISEBARTOLO COLON (48.3% owned ESPN leagues) – Colon was hit hard last night by the Rangers but other than that start he has been amazing since taking over for injured Yankee pitcher Phil Hughes. Colon is 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA. He is averaging a strike out per inning

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Two-Start Pitchers To Start Brandon Morrow, Toronto Blue Jays (100%) – Morrow has a good matchup in his first start of the week. Tiger’s hitters are only batting .206, along with a .263 WHIP against Morrow. This start also takes place at home for him where his stats are a night

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Justin Verlander Justin Verlander tossed his second carreer no hitter, in an endearing moment, he admitted to thinking about the potential perfect game/no-hitter in the 4th or 5th inning. I hate it when pitchers say they don’t know until the 7th or 8th inning, you know some a-hole buddy is

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Justin Verlander has done it again. Saturday afternoon Verlander no-hit the Toronto Blue Jays and was 1 walk away from a perfect game. Verlander also threw a no-hitter in 2007 against Milwaukee. This was the 7th no-hitter in Tiger’s history. Earlier in the week Francisco Liriano pitched a no-hitter against

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