Salary clouds over young stars
Nick Markakis became the latest young star to have his contract renewed, following Jeff Francoeur, Prince Fielder and others. In two years, this situa...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2008
A ring to Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz
The Hall of Fame voting will generally be an ugly event the rest of our lives, an annual referendum on whether players suspected of using performance-...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2008
Rice production and OPS+
A lot of e-mail landed here about Friday's Jim Rice column, most of which suggests: First, that I cherry-picked statistics to make Rice look good; sec...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2008
The Yankees' Mitchell mess
Some baseball executives wonder whether federal investigators will uncover drug-dispensing trainers and batboys in other cities, in Los Angeles or Kan...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 10, 2008
Talk of instant replay to take place
A limited use of instant replay will be formally recommended by general managers for the first time next week, some GMs are predicting privately. The...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 01, 2007
Tejada, Schmidt, catching up
Well, I'm back. It was a fine vacation, but it had to end at some point. I'm feeling better today than quite a few of the fantasy players in the news ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 25, 2007
Fielder lumbers to history
We've often said our readers could easily launch their own Useless Information column. That's how sharp, creative and, well, crazed you folks are. (An...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 20, 2007
Useless No-Hitter Info
...saves (plus one in October) by Jason Isringhausen • 396 days on the disabled list by Matt Mantei • 6 teams for Kelly Stinnett • 2 retirements by Roger Clemens • 2 un-retirements...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 07, 2006
FLB: Tigers preview
Tristan H. Cockcroft, ESPN Fantasy GamesTristan Cockcroft previews the fantasy value of the Detroit Tigers.
Story | Conversation | January 27, 2006
FLB: Closer Report
Tristan H. Cockcroft, ESPN Fantasy GamesTristan Cockcroft discusses closer situations and ranks his top 50 closers.
Story | Conversation | January 13, 2006
Finding each team's weak spot
Rob Neyer, ESPN InsiderAll eight playoff teams have weaknesses that can be exploited. Rob Neyer points them out.
Story | Conversation | October 04, 2005
On March 17, Rafael Palmeiro stared at congressmen in Washington, jabbed his finger and insisted that he never took steroids. Ever. Only Palmeiro know...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 16, 2005
Red Sox have edge over Yankees
Rob Neyer, ESPN InsiderThe Yankees and Red Sox have performed roughly as we should have expected.
Story | Conversation | July 14, 2005
...Red Sox, with Boston pulling out a victory over the Jays, in the end ... Looks like Matt Mantei's season may be over . There already had been talk about the Red Sox looking for...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 03, 2005
Closer Report: April 20
Eric Karabell, ESPN Games Fantasy EdgeHere are the latest reports and trends involving all the firemen in fantasy baseball.
Story | Conversation | April 20, 2005
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