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Chat day! We talked the Orioles, the playoff races, Mike Trout versus Rickey Henderson (and Darin Erstad), where Josh Hamilton could end up, the Tigers, the NL Cy Young race and more more! Click here to read the wrap....

When people look back on the previous generation of Angels, they tend to focus on Tim Salmon and Garret Anderson, power hitters whose careers took place in that hazy place between very good and great. Because they generally remained healthy and we...

We'll start off with Ohio State stuff and go from there. Hope you have a great weekend. The father of Ohio State linebacker Storm Klein threatens legal action against Sports Illustrated, colleague Joe Schad reports. The father of Buckeyes defe...

Former major league All-Star Darin Erstad has been hired as the baseball coach at Nebraska, his alma mater.

It was through travel that I got a chance to meet an Angels fan in Fargo, N.D., (a holdover from the Darin Erstad era), a Padres fan in Aberdeen, S.D., a Mariners fan in Nashville, Tenn., many Rays fans in Orlando, Fla., and a whole bunch of Red Sox ...

Blog | January 02, 2011

Whether it's expanded replay, Albert Pujols' deal, urgency in Milwaukee, the window the Rays have left or 33 other scenarios to watch and debate, Buster lays out the key storylines of 2011.

Blog | Conversation | January 02, 2011

It's hard to figure out what an Anaheim crowd will do when a former Angel returns. Vladimir Guerrero and Darin Erstad were warmly greeted. Garret Anderson and Adam Kennedy were pretty much ignored. Mark Teixeira was -- and still is -- booed mercil...

Darin Erstad, one of the most decorated baseball players to come out of Nebraska, has rejoined the Cornhuskers team as a coach.

Can we find a stat that somehow measures baseball intangibles -- that helps us evaluate players like Derek Jeter, Chone Figgins and David Eckstein? Well, we can try.

Story | Conversation | May 28, 2009

With names like Carlos Beltran, Kerry Wood and Nomar Garciaparra, the 1994 and 1995 drafts were memorable ones.

Blog | Conversation | May 20, 2009

Darin Erstad hit a game-ending home r in the ninth to lift Houston to a 5-4 win over the Braves.

Maybe WGN's Bob Brenly said it best, moments after Carlos Zambrano struck out Darin Erstad to complete the first no-hitter for the Cubs since 1972 ... A lot of questions surrounding this start for Carlos Zambrano. It had been 12 days since he pi...

Pinch-hitters Darin Erstad and David Newhan had back-to-back run-scoring hits in the eighth inning, lifting the Houston Astros to a 7-5 win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday.

Brad Ausmus led off the 10th inning with his second homer of the season, Darin Erstad connected for his third three batters later and the Houston Astros rallied against the New York Mets' shaky bullpen for a 6-4 win Sunday.

Darin Erstad hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th as the Astros beat the Mets 5-4 Saturday.

St. Louis Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright left the game after spraining his right middle finger in the sixth inning Saturday night in Houston.