Feeling a little “angelic” this week as my report includes the status of four Los Angeles rookies doing their thing at the major league level. Early season injuries to regulars Kendry Morales, Joel Pineiro, Fernando Rodney and Scott Kazmir have thrust some not so household names into the lime light

Bartolo Colon pitched his third straight quality start, although the win went to Joba Chamberlain. Alex Avila hit 2 solo shots of Colon, but otherwise it was a strong start, giving up 7 hits and 7 strikeouts. Mariano Rivera got his league-leading 11th save. Although Madison Bumgarner still stands winless,

Welcome to Week Five of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is. This week I’m going to do something a little bit different, and focus only on third basemen. With Pablo "Big Panda" Sandoval and David "Tasteee" Freeze

Welcome to the 52 Pick-Up Big Board for the fantasy baseball season. This is the list of top 52 players that I would draft today in a 5×5 rotisserie format, and should be updated every seven to fourteen days. Why rank 52 players? Because as Mr. 52 Pick-Up, what better

Osama Bin Laden is finally dead and a sigh of relief pours over America. Chants of USA, USA, USA fill Citizens Bank Park. Police & Firefighters march towards Ground Zero chanting as well. Hopefully this is the boost America needs.  Now onto America’s pastime and what makes it great… Baseball.

HURLERS Start ‘Em Josh Tomlin, Cleveland Indians (45.4%) – Tomlin has had some surprising success this year and has dominated lefties so far in his short career. In 228 at-bats facing Tomlin, lefties are hitting .216 against him. Fortunately for Tomlin, both of his opponent’s lineups (Angels and A’s) are predominantly

It is the last day of April, so time to hand out some awards for the biggest surprises and disappointments:   Surprises:Best imitation of a sports movie award goes to:  The Cleveland IndiansThe surprise division leader has to be the Cleveland Indians, with a comfortable 4.5 game lead in the

Pablo Sandoval Pablo Sandoval, hurt.  Evan Longoria, still hurt.  Ryan Zimmerman, hurt longer.   You, the fantasy owner, hurting without them.  Mercifully, Longoria is set to return on Tuesday, but Panda is out 4-6 weeks with a broken hamate bone, while Zimmerman is having surgery to fix a hernia that

Mariano Rivera Sunday marks the first day of May and also marks one full month of baseball, meaning its a good time to step back and rerank the top 40 relievers for fantasy. These rankings are my answer to the question, "Who would you rather have right now and for the rest of

Jose Bautista keeps on keeping on. He hit his 9th yama-lama-ding-dong last night against the Yankees. Last year Bautista biggest weak spot was hitting for average, but so far he is hitting .372. Bautista is leading the AL in homers, average, runs, walks, OBP, SLG & OPS. Forget the Triple-Crown,