Follow The Clues

The philosophers Salt-N-Pepa once wisely declared, "Let's get this party started--Let's get this party started right"

Baseball Hall of Fame 2009: One Line For Each Guy

...higher. Rickey Henderson Absolute no-brainer yes, but read this if you want a good laugh. Tommy John Let him in, if only for what he did to pitching vernacular. Don Mattingly We'd...

Buy High ... Ask Questions Later

...Jaret Wright, Carl Pavano, Randy Johnson, Esteban Loaiza, Roger Clemens, Kenny Rogers, Scott Sanderson, Rick Rhoden, Tommy John and Ed Figueroa. The verdict: For each success, such as milking 17 wins for two straight...

Full Disclosure

Admitting to steroid use on the eve of the draft should have been career suicide. So how is it that Luis Castillo is playing in the NFL?

No Payments 'Til 2007!

The Magazine's Buster Olney checks out baseball's risky marketplace and finds very few bargains and only one guarantee: Buyers, beware

FANTASY WORLD: KEEPERS, OR... "FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS"

...go wrong with the obvious choices. The only red flag is that Pujols plans on having Tommy John this offseason if the Cardinals don't make it to the playoffs. If they do, he...

MLB DEPARTMENT

All the happenings from around MLB.

TAKES 100 TO KNOW 100: BEFORE ZUMAYA, THERE WAS WOHLERS

Mark Wohlers remembers exactly when he became what Joel Zumaya is today. A solid young set-up man on the Braves, Wohlers became THE hard thrower i...

7 THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

...spurs used to end seasons. Now we get players back on the field in weeks. Only Tommy John surgery, because we have to open up the athlete, still puts them on the shelf. We...

...thought not to throw hard. Never. Even when I'd lost some control, and after two Tommy John surgeries, I still went out there and threw as hard as I could

AUCTION BLOCK: THE BOBBLEHEAD WORLD

...a wetsuit, and Roy Oswalt tilling the soil on his tractor. Next up for Eric? The Tommy John "bobble-arm" giveaway, sponsored by the Bridgeport Bluefish on July 11th. Where else would a lover...

BREAKING ... KERRY WOOD COMPELS YOU!

...the great author was a general manager or pitching coach. Kerry has been wunderkind, NEXT-nominee, Tommy John survivor, Tommy John victim, back-on-track, damaged goods, reclamation project, bad closer, good set-up...

FANTASY WORLD: THE LETDOWNS, OR THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL LULLS

...to be magically healed by pixie dust, leading to expectations he could never meet this year. Tommy John's take a little time, people! Meche's horrible start after last year's 3.67...

THE WAITING GAME

What injured pitchers are worth waiting for?

CLIP REEL: INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY

...because he's bounced back quite nicely as a pro. Nice package on rotator cuff repair. Tommy John discusses the famed surgery named after him. Nice USA Today piece on Tommy John surgery. Cracked...