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San Francisco Giants ace Matt Cain struggled again on Thursday in Colorado, giving up six runs, including three home runs, although he managed to get the win as the Giants won 8-6. Cain's ERA rose to 5.43 and he's now allowed 13 home runs in just ...

The San Francisco Giants are built around their starting rotation. That would seem more a statement of fact than an assertion of opinion. After all, conventional wisdom tells us the rotation carried the Giants to a World Series title in...

The hottest team in baseball is those Cleveland Indians, and we don't need instant replay to prove it. The Tribe has won 10 of 11 with terrific pitching and more than a few home runs. Mark Reynolds leaves nothing to chance with 500-foot blasts. Scott...

Perhaps the most famous fight in baseball history took place on a Sunday afternoon in August of 1965, when San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal attacked Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro with his bat, upset that Roseboro's return thro...

One reason some people don't like statistics -- at least those fancy ones -- is they sometimes produce results incongruous with popular belief. For example, this: San Francisco Giants pitching staff 2012: 8.1 WAR (Baseball-Reference) Kansas Ci...

Quick thoughts on Tuesday's games ... Ahh, just a few short days ago the New York Yankees were 1-4 and the butt of jokes across baseball land. Now they've won three in a row after beating the Cleveland Indians 14-1. Andy Pettitte allowed just...

OK, here are my final AL standings. Here are the NL standings. Yes, we can all laugh at this at the end of the season. FYI: All runs scored and allowed totals add up, as do wins and losses. For wins and losses, I merely took each team's projected run...

Bruce Bochy will be managing the San Francisco Giants at least through 2016, which would seem to be a very good thing. Bochy has managed for 18 seasons in the major leagues -- which is a long time for any manager to survive -- but he's only 57 so ...

In my previous post, I ran down the American League poll results from the offseason report cards. Here are the National League results. As in the AL, fans are optimistic cross the board. For those who argue baseball lacks parity, tell that to base...

In our previous post we looked at the longest All-Star positional drought for each American League team. The longest: Oakland second base, where Phil Garner in 1976 was the last All-Star. Let's move on to the National League ... where we have to g...

Back in January, I did lists of the best one-hit wonders for each team. Except, as I was recently reminded on Twitter, I forgot to do the NL West. So here we go: These are guys who basically had one big season -- as opposed to one big moment or playo...

OK, now that I've finished all 30 offseason report cards, we can essentially use my final grades to give us Power Rankings (you can get all the report cards at the bottom of this page). Washington Nationals: A Atlanta Braves: A- Cincinnati Reds:...

Bovada.lv has released its 2013 over/under win totals. The following information is presented for entertainment purposes only: Arizona Diamondbacks: 81.5 Atlanta Braves: 88.5 Baltimore Orioles: 78.5 Boston Red Sox: 82.5 Chicago Cubs: 72.5 Chi...

It's time to look ahead to 2013. While we can all resolve to do more in our communities, respect our elders and be kind to dogs, here are a few resolutions from around baseball. San Francisco Giants: To acquire some overrated veteran in midseason ...

After the R.A. Dickey trade, the Blue Jays are the new favorite to win the 2013 World Series, at least according to the oddsmakers at Bovada.lv: Toronto Blue Jays -- 15/2 Los Angeles Angels -- 17/2 Los Angeles Dodgers -- 17/2 Washington Nationa...

Early odds to win the 2013 World Series from the online sports book Bovada: Detroit Tigers: 6/1 New York Yankees: 7/1 San Francisco Giants: 10/1 Texas Rangers: 12/1 Washington Nationals: 12/1 Los Angeles Angels: 12/1 Philadelphia Phillies: 1...