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If you're younger than 28 or so, you don't remember when the Toronto Blue Jays were the preeminent franchise in Major League Baseball, unless you're Canadian and weaned on sports history other than Paul Henderson. They won American League Eas...

2012 in review Record: 73-89 (74-88 Pythagorean) 716 runs scored (7th in AL) 784 runs allowed (11th in AL) Big Offseason Moves Traded Henderson Alvarez, Yunel Escobar, Jake Marisnick, Justin Nicolino, Adeiny Hechavarria, Jeff Mathis and Antho...

Last weekend, I presented the top 10 teams in my personal power rankings. That was before the Blue Jays officially acquired R.A. Dickey, so I updated my top 10 after that trade, and, to spur on more debate, now present the rest of my rankings. Agree ...

Wait, who let Karabell take a vacation during trade deadline week? Mark Simon and myself hosted Monday's Baseball Today podcast as we discussed Power Rankings, the trade deadline and more! 1. We review the Zack Greinke trade from Friday and his pe...

Kenny Williams never seems to get a lot of respect. During his tenure as Chicago White Sox general manager, which began after the 2000 season, he's built two division winners, including the 2005 World Series champions. Maybe the most impressive as...

Which best describes the Miami Marlins? (A) Train wreck (B) Artistic disaster (C) Something to watch until the Miami Heat's season begins (D) Should have seen this coming And the correct answer ... (D). There's nothing that surprising about ...

Thank you for showing up, Boston Red Sox. There are mini tests throughout a baseball season -- a series that maybe in the big picture is just another three games of 162, but hold revelations about a ballclub. The Red Sox entered their weekend s...

It was another eventful chat session as we discussed Albert Pujols' homerless April and asked readers to project his final numbers. We discussed many things about the Minnesota Twins, gave a shout-out to the awesome Jose Altuve, tried to figure out w...

The season is young, but never too young to raise a few issues we've seen so far. Here are 10: 1. Yu Darvish's control In Japan, Darvish was known not only for his terrific stuff but his ability to throw it with precision. In 2011, he walked just...

I'm still trying to catch my breath. What a first weekend of games, from ace starters dominating to bullpen implosions to clutch home runs. The first week of the season is always entertaining for the rash judgments and choleric reactions to a few los...

There are few events in baseball more exciting than Opening Day. Or Opening Night. Er ... let's just go directly to some observations from the Cardinals' 4-1 victory over the Marlins, ushering in Marlins Park in disappointing fashion for the home crowd...

Considering the Phillies have three Cy Young candidates by themselves, it's not easy picking a three-man Cy Young ballot in the National League. Roy Halladay collected 14 of 39 first-place votes to edge out Clayton Kershaw, with nine different pitche...

As we learned in 2011, baseball teams can survive the loss of even a superstar player. When Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright, who had finished second and third in the Cy Young voting the previous two seasons, went down in spring training with season-end...

Among the topics in Tuesday's awesome chat: the Chris Carpenter situation in St. Louis, bold predictions from readers, the most vital player in baseball, should the Tigers play Miguel Cabrera at third, the Oakland A's and giving up, Brett Lawrie, And...

I just wrote up a position-by-position analysis for the Miami Marlins and came up with the prediction of 86 wins, a 14-game improvement over 2011. That's a fairly optimistic total: I assumed good health for Jose Reyes and Josh Johnson, and a nice ...

I like to do a rough estimate of a team's strength by starting off with their 2011 totals for runs scored and runs allowed, adding and subtracting for new players and projected performance, and see where we end up. Here is an estimate I a did a coupl...