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Mike Sheets lays out his Baseball Challenge roster and explains his reasoning behind owning each player.

Are Rangers the best team in MLB?...

Paul Swydan breaks down the chances for the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers to remain elite throughout the season. He also writes why the Red Sox have struggled as of late.

Story | Conversation | May 13, 2013

About the ESPN Hot Zone • Use the dropdowns to select sortable information about the player. • A color will appear when there are at least five at-bats using the selected criteria. • Click on the image to recei...

Throwback Uniforms

The Boston Red Sox move into the top spot in Week 6 of our Power Rankings.

John Schuerholz spent 26 years as a general manager with the Kansas City Royals and Atlanta Braves, the last 17 of those with his Atlanta until he was named club president in the fall of 2007. His success with the Braves is well documented, but le...

Blog | April 24, 2013

If the Los Angeles Lakers do the improbable -- the very, very improbable -- they would join quite the exclusive club. Ditto the Boston Celtics (or the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks or Milwaukee Bucks). And over in hockey, there'...

Small sample or sign of trouble? A closer look at some teams and players off to worrisome starts.

Our first full weekend of the 2013 regular season will start with numerous Friday afternoon games, including the 1980 World Series rematch between the Kansas City Royals and Philadelphia Phillies, with Hall of Fame third basemen George Brett and Mike...

Cardinals-Giants Preview

Every year we at You Can't Predict Baseball try to predict baseball with some, well, rather bold predictions. At the end of the season we like to go back and see just how right or wrong we were. Sometimes, we nail it. Sometimes, we predict Vernon Wel...

Tristan H. Cockcroft discusses how lineup positions (and the more or fewer plate appearances that come with it) can affect fantasy values.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Matt Harvey was charged with four runs (three earned) in five innings and the Mets lost to the Detroit Tigers, 9-4, Sunday at Tradition Field. In the other split-squad game, Jamie Hoffmann, Zach Lutz and Mike Baxter homered...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Here are the Mets' Sunday lineups against the Detroit Tigers at Tradition Field against the St. Louis Cardinals in Jupiter. HOME Mets Kirk Nieuwenhuis, dh Justin Turner, 2b Ike Davis, 1b Marlon Byrd rf John Buck, c ...

Tigers 3, Cardinals 0