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Stephania Bell discusses the hamstring injury suffered by Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton.

Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton expects to be sidelined for about a month because of a strained right hamstring.

On Monday afternoon, colleague Tristan H. Cockcroft and I debated the relatively disappointing early-season numbers from Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg, touching on his lack of wins, his lower strikeout rate and the fact that the...

Blog | April 30, 2013

Some quick reactions to Monday's fine major league baseball action ... The good news for the Giants: A 6-4 win over the Diamondbacks to snap a five-game losing streak and a win for the first time when Matt Cain started. The bad news: Cain scuffle...

Eric Karabell looks at the fantasy-relevant news and notes from Monday, including Stephen Strasburg's forearm tightness and Giancarlo Stanton's placement on the DL because of a hamstring strain.

Blog | Conversation | April 30, 2013

MIAMI FIRST PITCH: Now what? The Mets lost a Matt Harvey start for the first time this season. They now send Jeremy Hefner to the mound at 7:10 tonight against right-hander Kevin Slowey, trying to snap the team's five-game losing skid. After...

Giancarlo Stanton #27 RF Miami Marlins 2013 STATS GM20 HR3 RBI9 R8 OBP.341 AVG.227 MIAMI -- In a blow to the Miami Marlins, slugger Giancarlo Stanton has been placed on the disabled list. Stanton left Monday's game with a right hamstring...

WHAT IT MEANS: The New York Mets were three outs from victory twice. Which made the ending doubly gut-wrenching. After Bobby Parnell failed to hold a one-run lead in the ninth, Shaun Marcum also failed to do so in the 15th. The Mets ultimate...

Nick Green drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly, and the Miami Marlins rallied for two runs in the 15th inning to beat the Mets 4-3 on Monday night, handing New York its fifth consecutive loss.

Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring.

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Miami Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton worried many a fantasy owner the first three weeks of this season; he entered last Wednesday hitting .176 with one lonely RBI in 14 games. But good things come to those who wait: Stanton launched his first h...

Blog | April 29, 2013

Eric Karabell looks back at the fantasy-relevant notes from this weekend, including big games from Giancarlo Stanton and Tony Cingrani.

Blog | Conversation | April 29, 2013

Giancarlo Stanton homered twice and drove in four runs Sunday, and the Miami Marlins beat the Chicago Cubs 6-4 to avert a four-game series sweep.

Let's go inside the longball and summarize some of our best notes on the day's most notable homer-hitters. Harper and Ott ... expect that a lot Bryce Harper's ninth home run came in the Nationals 24th team game. The Elias Sports Bureau tells us tha...