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Justin Verlander should become the first back-to-back AL Cy Young winner since Pedro Martinez of the 1999-2000 Red Sox.

While there's much debate about the Nationals' likely innings limit on Stephen Strasburg, the White Sox are also handling Chris Sale with kid gloves this season.

Nine starts into his tenure with the Nationals, Gio Gonzalez isn't lacking for confidence, strikeouts or quality starts. He's an excellent pitcher.

There's one thing the White Sox and their fans can be sure of in 2012: New skipper Robin Ventura is going to handle things a lot differently than Ozzie Guillen.

Beginning with Jason Heyward, the Braves need new hitting coach Greg Walker to get their offense straightened out.

Exploring the rationale behind the unconventional managerial hirings by White Sox and Cardinals this offseason.

Mark Buehrle took the mound for the Chicago White Sox against the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night riding a streak of 18 straight starts with three or fewer runs allowed. Buehrle's string of exceptional performances goes back to April 22, which m...

In a time of need for their respective teams, several lesser-known players have stepped in and performed at a high level this season.

The recent Jorge Posada fiasco brings to mind other instances in which once prominent players had a bad ending with their respective teams.

It was a wild and active offseason in the AL Central, and no team recognizes that the stakes were raised more than the Detroit Tigers.

The Chicago White Sox have finalized a four-year, $56 million deal with free-agent slugger Adam Dunn, according to a source familiar with the situation.

White Sox's GM Ken Williams has a volatile relationship with his manager, and the Cubs' Jim Hendry went out on a bit of a limb in selecting his new manager. So, yes, in Chicago, the GMs and the managers are forever linked.

Which teams did the best job of upgrading at the July and August trade deadlines? And which clubs failed miserably?

Teams that have the ability to hit quality pitching usually thrive in the postseason. That said, which lineups among serious playoff contenders are the best?

John Danks and Gavin Floyd rest outside the radar since they follow Mark Buehrle and Jake Peavy in the White Sox rotation, but the two 20-somethings carry with them a lot of talent and just as much responsibility for Chicago's fortunes in 2010.

As Major League Baseball monitors the free-agent market, the players' association is monitoring comments from team officials that it believes are meant to put a crimp in the money spent on talent this offseason.