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Baseball is witnessing the most competitive balance in more than two decades. As a result, general managers of contending teams already are preparing and targeting potential trade partners for the July 31 trade deadline. All the same, non-contenders ...

Blog | April 10, 2013

Stephania Bell has quick hits on a number of injured players heading into the start of the season.

Stephania Bell discusses the injury statuses of a number of star players and whether they're worth trusting down the stretch.

Pitching in road games versus at home is not a skill. Let's get that out of the way first. Sure, members of certain rotations are aided by spacious home ballparks, but not everyone in that situation is unusable on the road. Those in fantasy base...

Blog | July 20, 2012

Eric Karabell discusses pitchers who should be benched on the road, as well as those whose splits don't tell the entire story.

Blog | Conversation | July 20, 2012

CHICAGO -- Like his teammate Ryan Dempster, Chicago Cubs starter Matt Garza saved his best outing since April for some of baseball's top talent evaluators to watch during Sunday's 3-1 win over Arizona. The Cubs have talented starting pitching to t...

Ryan Dempster's six scoreless innings for the Chicago Cubs on Saturday were probably his last with the team, because now is the best time to trade him. Dempster is healthy now, after being on the disabled list earlier this year, and if the Cubs ...

Blog | July 15, 2012

Ryan Dempster is pitching better than he has at any point this season, piling up scoreless innings, and Buster Olney writes that now is the time for the Cubs to trade him. That would also open up the market for Matt Garza later this month.

Blog | Conversation | July 15, 2012

With increased parity and two wild-card berths available, there are fewer sellers this season than ever just before MLB's July 31 trade deadline. Because of that, conventional wisdom dictates it could be a slow go for teams in search of help. How...

Blog | July 03, 2012

Ryan Dempster pitched very well on Friday, shutting out the Boston Red Sox offense over seven innings. It was the third straight start in which he tossed at least seven shutout innings, reducing his ERA to 2.11 in the process. With his typically stro...

With just more than six weeks before the July 31 trade deadline, the difference between buyers and sellers remains blurred. Parity and the addition of two wild-card berths has many teams on the fence about being a buyer or seller. For now, there are ...

Blog | June 12, 2012

One of these nine standouts will be chosen as the 2012 honoree and would join an exclusive club of Cal-Hi Sports players of the year that dates back more than 100 years. Here are the nine players who have been selected as finalists to be 2012 ESPN...

To me the biggest concern for the Yankees is their starting pitching. After CC Sabathia, do you really have a lot of faith in any of the Yankees' other starters? I don't, except for maybe Andy Pettitte, if he can stay healthy. So with the Cubs awf...

Tristan H. Cockcroft has his latest Top 100 starting pitcher rankings and forecasts the value of Chris Sale, especially with the potential of an innings cap looming.

Tristan H. Cockcroft deconstructs earned run average (ERA) to show the factors which are beyond a pitcher's control and why a pitcher's past ERA is not a good predictor of future performance, and then looks at a few specific examples from 2011.

Slugger Carlos Pena is excited about returning to the Tampa Bay Rays and bolstering hopes for another run for the playoffs.