ESPN's picks: AL Most Valuable Player

Check out the top candidates for AL Most Valuable Player award, and who ESPN experts would have picked.

Early Top 200 rankings for 2010

Tristan H. Cockcroft takes a first shot at a top-200 fantasy rankings for the 2010 season.

Pushing for a minimum payroll threshold

Cries for a salary cap were sparked by the Yankees' winning the World Series, but what baseball really needs is a minimum payroll threshold.

Hot stove myths (or not)

...Nobody bothers much with age except analysts, and the analysts absolutely love Mike Cameron (36) and Derek Jeter (35). Granted, I just happened to notice that if you make a list of the best...

'The Blind Side' specialist

Movie audiences won't tolerate unrealistic sports action anymore, which has provided a busy occupation for Mike Fisher, the football coordinator on "The Blind Side."

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: Derek Jeter #2 of the New York Yankees holds up the trophy as he celebrates with A.J...

Money talks, but baseball won't listen

Did the Yankees buy a World Series celebration? Their money didn't hurt, but that $207 million payroll is the least of baseball's competitive-balance problems.

The Weekly Best for 11/17

Welcome to the Weekly Best, giving you the cream of the crop in sports, pop culture and beyond.

Monday Mendozas

...t figure out how the Yankees lose if they wait until after next season to get Derek Jeter locked up for the rest of his career. Bob Klapisch says that would be "bad business...

Perhaps the offseason bar set too high, too soon

So much for the general managers meetings, which began five days after the World Series and 10 days before the free-agency period opens. They're reall...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009

My 2009 awards picks

...much as anything. Even putting him fourth is probably aggressive. AL MVP 1. Joe Mauer 2. Derek Jeter 3. Ben Zobrist 4. Zack Greinke 5. Roy Halladay 6. Evan Longoria 7. Felix Hernandez 8...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009

Jeter, Bay, Utley among Silver Sluggers

Cardinals star Albert Pujols and Yankees infielder Mark Teixeira were among those chosen Thursday to receive Silver Slugger awards.

Bay named to Silver Slugger team

...baseman Mark Teixeira (Yankees), second baseman Aaron Hill (Blue Jays), third baseman Evan Longoria (Rays), shortstop Derek Jeter (Yankees), outfielders Torii Hunter (Angels) and Ichiro Suzuki (Mariners), catcher Joe Mauer (Twins), and DH Adam...

The (harsh) lessons of the GM meetings

Executives and agents packed their bags and boarded planes in Chicago, thinking about what they had seen and heard over the previous 48 hours, such as...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009