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The Houston Astros have designated pitcher Philip Humber for assignment, a day after he gave up five runs while only getting two outs in a loss to the Texas Rangers.

The hottest team in baseball is those Cleveland Indians, and we don't need instant replay to prove it. The Tribe has won 10 of 11 with terrific pitching and more than a few home runs. Mark Reynolds leaves nothing to chance with 500-foot blasts. Scott...

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There is certainly no shortage of disappointing Toronto Blue Jays players, as the team enters the first full week of May in last place in the American League East and with a mere 11 victories in 32 games. The lone team with a worse run differential i...

Blog | May 06, 2013

Eric Karabell looks back at Saturday's and Sunday's games, from a fantasy perspective, and offers his take on struggling Toronto Blue Jays options such as Melky Cabrera, R.A. Dickey and Emilio Bonifacio.

Blog | Conversation | May 06, 2013

The New York Yankees played four excellent games against the Toronto Blue Jays and a stinker Monday night against the Houston Astros. Go figure. As the man says, "You know, Suzyn ..." What it means: That on any given Sunday ... or Monday, fo...

WHAT IT MEANS: The Yankees have swept the Toronto Blue Jays. They took all four games and, with the woeful Houston Astros up next in the Bronx, the Yankees could be looking at a potential seven-game winning streak. As it is, with all their injuri...

Yankees' makeshift roster keeps winning, proving Joe Girardi's declaration true.

Eric Karabell examines the Toronto Blue Jays' defensive positions in the wake of Jose Reyes' ankle injury, and has other fantasy-notable position eligibility info to pass along.

Blog | Conversation | April 15, 2013

Struggling starting pitchers will certainly be on display this weekend as teams -- both real and fantasy -- wonder if their aces will deliver. Of course, it's not even Tax Day yet, so in general it's wise to be patient. By the way, don't forget to pa...

Picking division winners and playoff teams is easy. What's harder is picking the final record for every team. So I will venture to project this year's final standings ... remember, wins and losses and runs scored and runs allowed must add up across t...

Every year we at You Can't Predict Baseball try to predict baseball with some, well, rather bold predictions. At the end of the season we like to go back and see just how right or wrong we were. Sometimes, we nail it. Sometimes, we predict Vernon Wel...

With the MLB season starting Sunday, Playbook takes a team-by-team look at the celebrities, food and other features you might see at American League stadiums this year. Corbin Bernsen, who played in the movie "Major League" about the Cleveland Ind...

Alex Rodriguez will make more this year than all the Houston Astros combined -- a lot more.

I've been meaning to run the final poll results from all the offseason report cards we published before and early in spring training. Here are the American League tallies. Keep in mind that the polls were conducted before some recent developments too...

Dan Szymborski projects the AL standings, including each team's odds of making the playoffs and winning the World Series.

Story | Conversation | March 25, 2013