According to the Boston Globe, the Boston Red Sox have put third baseman Mike Lowell on the 15-Day DL with a right hip strain. The trip to the DL is retroactive to June 28. Lowell was hitting .282 with 10 HR’s, 41 RBI, and was playing his usual stellar defense for the Red Sox, so [...]
The New York Yankees today acquired Eric Hinske from the Pittsburgh Pirates for Eric Freyer and Casey Erickson. Hinske, who won the American League Rookie of the Year with the Toronto Blue Jays back in 2002 when he hit .279 with 24 HR’s and 84 RBI, is now more a utility player than anything else. [...]
The last full week of June means an end to interleague play and a return to normalcy in baseball. Last week was a really interesting week for fantasy baseball. How interesting? Two words – Chad Gaudin. That’s right, Chad Gaudin was a fantasy stud last week. Here are the other players who were studs last [...]
Heading into the 2004 season, Los Angeles Dodgers’ Adrian Beltre was known as a solid, everyday third baseman. He would hit around 20 HR’s, bat somewhere in the neighborhood of .260 to .275, and he would drive in around 70-85 runs during the course of the year. Good stats, but nothing spectacular. However, in 2004, [...]
Back in the 1990′s and early 2000′s the Atlanta Braves were rolling out quality starting pitchers like the Colorado Rockies were rolling out guys who could hit 30 HR’s. Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Kevin Millwood, Jason Schmidt, Denny Neagle, Jason Marquis, Damian Moss and even Odalis Perez were winning games for the Braves in their glory years. [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals have landed one of the most coveted players on the trade market in Mark DeRosa. The Cleveland Indians have traded IF/OF Mark DeRosa to the St. Louis Cardinals for RHP Chris Perez and the infamous player to be named later. DeRosa is batting .270 with 13 HR and 50 RBI for [...]
