Jerry Sands Rookie pitchers are still dominating the very young 2011 season with some minor breakthroughs now being seen from a variety of talented young phenoms. Here is a look at a few of the upcoming stars and how they are progressing. SP-MICHAEL PINEDA (SEATTLE): Pineda has a 2.33 ERA

Brian Sanches The apprenticeship of an elite closer can begin at the most unlikely of places. In the case of some of the game’s best like Mariano Rivera, it begins as a starting pitcher. Rivera broke into the Yankee farm system in a starting role but due to his lack

Jed Lowrie On this day in 1999, the “Iron Man”, Cal Ripken, Jr., hit the DL for the first time in his 19-year career with a sore back. Caught “Red Handed”  – Apparently Mike Leake’s $425,000 salary isn’t enough to put clothes on his back. The Cincinnati Reds pitcher was

David Murphy Welcome to Week Three of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is.  I was right about Aaron Harang, Matt Harrison, and Sam Fuld last week, so once again, I’ll do a weekly review of five players who are available

Grady Sizemore As if allowing 11 base runners to the futile A’s offense wasn’t sufficient, Justin Verlander produced this epic failure. Barry Zito has been placed on the 15-day DL for the first time in his twelve-year career. Thank you mid-foot sprain for sparing us from his 83 MPH heater and

If we here at The Fix possessed the resources of the Elias Sports Bureau, I would give you some clever stat about how often there is only a single one-run game on a day with a full slate of games. As it is, we are not Elias so I will just

Carl Pavano Two-Start Pitchers To Start  Carl Pavano | Minnesota Twins | (25.6%)– The longtime veteran has only given up 1 run in his last 16 innings. The weak lineups and strong history for Carl Pavano are further evidence that should compel fantasy owners to start him this week.  The

On this day in 1961, the Yankees’ Roger Maris crushed his first home run of the season off the Tigers’ Paul Foytack en route to the historic chase of Babe Ruth’s 34 year-old single season home run record. Maris concluded the ’61 season with 61 moonshots, a record that stood

This week in The Closer Report, we’re going to take a look at some 20-something closers that are well-entrenched in their jobs despite varying degrees of success, and a tag-team effort wins the Blown Save of the Week. But first, some quick news. Quick News Huston Street is the most

The biggest news of the week is clearly the Barry Bonds trial, but truthfully I’m not sure who really cares. People have either forgotten about it or gotten over it. At this point there is a whole new generation of kids who don’t even know who the guy is anymore.