With Opening Day just about two weeks away and 25-man rosters starting to take shape, it seems as good a time as any to start to preview the upcoming season. For a change of pace, I’m going...

It is that time, once again, to start taking a look at each of the major year end awards. As I did last year, I will be submitting a ballot here on the blog for each of...

Once again, courtesy of Buster Olney’s latest: Highest Average Fastball Velocity (among starters, 2011 season) Michael Pineda – 95.9 MPH David Price – 94.5 MPH Alexi Ogando – 94.2 MPH Josh Johnson – 93.9 MPH Justin Verlander...

An annual tradition for writers and bloggers alike involves making predictions for the upcoming season. Most of these posts appear throughout Spring Training, before things formally get underway. Over the course of the past two months I...

Earlier this morning I posted Part One of my look at how the 2011 projected starting rotations compared to one another. As promised, here is Part Two. Once I was able to project the starting rotations for...

The biggest topic of discussion for much of the holiday season has been: Who has the best starting rotation in the majors going into 2011? The question is one that doesn’t have a single answer, or at...

Some quick thoughts on this week’s non Cliff Lee related happenings … With their signing of Jesse Crain to a three year, $12 Million contract a number of people (most notably ESPN’s Buster Olney) have been speculating...