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The Cardinals agreed to terms with Adam Wainwright this week on a five-year, $97.5 million deal, the latest reminder that baseball is swimming in cash, and that salaries will continue to soar. Let's start with this: Wainwright is a very good pitch...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. The New York Yankees are out. CC Sabathia struggled and the offense remained dormant as the historic franchise lost 8-1 and were swept out of the ALCS. ...

The San Francisco Giants have their hands full: They might have just lost their starting second baseman, and after Game 3 of the NLCS, their starting rotation becomes a total mystery. But that doesn't matter today, because they are heading back to St...

Nine things we learned on a quadruple-header Thursday that sent two teams to the next round and set up two more Game 5s today (making it four Game 5s out of four): 1. The Baltimore Orioles are baseball's home for wayward children ... if each of...

Great Moments in Mets Sadness: Carlos Beltran's bat slumped on his shoulder, his knees made of pink slime; Doc Gooden lost in a crack house while his teammates celebrated a World Series in the streets; Luis Castillo's too-early pop-up squeeze; Bobby ...

Injuries and a few giant question marks haven't stopped St. Louis from lighting up the league.

After a week of stingy defense and mashing the ball, Texas grabs the top spot in our rankings.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Grantland's weekly MLB Power Rankings. Every Monday we'll size up all 30 teams, evaluating each one based on a combination of recent play, overall team quality, and statistical spelunking. Most teams have p...

We've already established the limitations of small samples and how tough it is to glean useful information from one game. But occasionally, we can in fact learn some things from a single game, when we're watching something we've never seen before. Fo...

Breaking down the winners, the losers, and every award-winning performance before they even happen.

Which two sporting events would you say draw the most betting interest in your circle of family and friends? Gotta be the Super Bowl and March Madness, right? If you don't enter some kind of Super Bowl squares pool or at least bet five bucks on the g...

Starting today and rolling straight through to Opening Day, Grantland will preview all 30 teams for the 2012 season. We start with the defending World Series champs. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Albert Pujols is gone, but the Cardinals might be better t...

Four games, one jam-packed day of ALDS action. Here's what went down in the early games (check back this afternoon for the late games): RANGERS 4, RAYS 3 (Rangers win series 3-1) In leading the Texas Rangers to the ALCS with the seventh three-h...

Craig Robinson, the brain behind Flip Flop Fly Ball, presents the 2011 MLB playoffs — in rad graphics form. Robinson's book, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, is available now. Follow him on Twitter at @flipflopflying. ...

Would losing Albert Pujols really be a terrible thing?