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Picking division winners and playoff teams is easy. What's harder is picking the final record for every team. So I will venture to project this year's final standings ... remember, wins and losses and runs scored and runs allowed must add up across t...

Does pressure exist in baseball? We've made heroes and goats of those who performed -- or didn't perform -- in the game's biggest moments. But those are usually isolated snippets of time in a postseason game, when the results of one at-bat or a few g...

Here are just a few things that have gone wrong for the Tampa Bay Rays this season: 1. Preseason MVP candidate Evan Longoria missed 86 games with a slow-healing hamstring pull. 2. Carlos Pena and Luke Scott, signed in the offseason to provide p...

Baseball's amateur draft takes place next week, beginning with the first round on Monday. (Check out Keith Law's latest mock draft here.) As a hopefully fun exercise I'd thought I'd research each club's all-time draft team. The draft began in 1965, s...

If my math is correct, the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees still have 17 games against each other. The Rays and Boston Red Sox have 18 games against each other. The Red Sox and Yankees have 18 games against each other. And all three teams have 18...

As we learned in 2011, baseball teams can survive the loss of even a superstar player. When Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright, who had finished second and third in the Cy Young voting the previous two seasons, went down in spring training with season-end...

Too much serious stuff around here. Let's tackle something a little more fun and lighthearted -- predictions for 2012, using Academy Award categories. Best Cinematography Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston Red Sox Matt Kemp, ...

The Boston Red Sox have had months like this before. They went 9-21 in August of 2006. They went 8-21 in June of 1965 and followed that up with a 9-21 mark in July. That was a rough year: the Sox lost 100 games. September of 1952 was difficult, as th...

On Aug. 31 at Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 9-5 behind home runs from Jacoby Ellsbury, David Ortiz and Jason Varitek, and Josh Beckett's seven innings and eight strikeouts. Daniel Bard pitched a perfect eighth, Jonathan Pa...

In the offseason, the Boston Red Sox traded a slew of prospects for Adrian Gonzalez, who is leading the American League in hitting and delivering an MVP-caliber season. In the offseason, the Tamp Bay Rays signed Manny Ramirez, who got one hit, tes...

As Yogi Berra didn't actually say but should have, "I'm not worried, but this slow start has me nervous." In baseball, it's never too soon to panic. Just ask fans of these fans teams: Boston Red Sox: The consensus World Series favorite, the Ran...