There are a few things you can be sure of about this year’s Cincinnati Reds: IF all of their talent plays up to their full potential, the young Red Machine will be tough to handle; IF it doesn’t, we’ll blame Dusty Baker. Sorry, Dusty, that’s just how it works with you… We don’t make the [...]

The Rockies don’t seem to have much of a question mark around their fifth starter as the Dodgers or the Diamondbacks. Jason Hammel is generally being conceded the job, but a discussion at Inside Pulse reminds us of the presence of Jhoulys Chacin and southpaw Franklin Morales. Morales pitched in relief quite a bit in 2009, [...]

Our guess is that if you found a Padres fan who woke up from a coma, he was awfully confused when looking at a newspaper last season. For those of us who weren’t in a coma, it probably still was a little surprising to see Tony Gwynn grace a Padres lineup again… especially a less [...]

The financial world has it’s Wall Street, baseball has Oakland. At least that is what it looked like last year as GM Billy Beane added Matt Holliday for a few promising commodities and some penny stocks then dealt him mid-season for a haul that had a better 52-week outlook from their analysts. Of the three [...]

Much like their divisional foes in Arizona, the Los Angeles Dodgers opened Spring Training with questions at the back-end of their rotation. Hopefully a lot of teams have this problem, and usually do. Otherwise this series will run its course quickly.
Both the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers have a favorite for the fifth slot, with some [...]

Just as I have done the past few years, I have uploaded and attached the new Top Prospects Compilation file to this blog posting. Prospect rankings from Baseball America, BP’s Kevin Goldstein, and MiLB.com are just some of those that you’ll find in the file.
The Excel workbook contains several tabs at the bottom representing each [...]

It was no secret that many fans in San Diego took quite the exception when Jake Peavy was traded to the White Sox at last season’s trade deadline. Peavy was not only one of the best pitchers in Padres history, but a fan favorite.
Now, almost seven months later, with baseball season once again upon us, [...]

We don’t know how the weather was at the beginning of March in your area but BDD’s Team Preview series comes in like a lamb with Jeff Lubbers’ preview of the 103-loss Washington Nationals. That’s 103 losses in back-to-back seasons, by the way. Manny Acta is gone but Lubbers isn’t as he returns for his [...]

BDD’s Isaac Thorn considers himself a simple man… that joke writes itself, doesn’t it? Actually, Mr. Thorn is a datacaster for MLB.com and while he already has a “job in baseball”, the guy still wants to “earn a living writing about baseball.” The nerve! Terms of the deal were undisclosed but Isaac is signed to [...]

Kahlil Greene, former San Dieo Padres prospect, had his contract voided by the Texas Rangers on Thursday. His ongoing battle with social anxiety disorder has flipped his career upside down.