Three mighty men sit atop this week’s hottest hitter of the week, but Boston’s 1B Kevin Youkilis edged out the other two with his 6HRs to go along with the rest of his week’s line of 10/14/1/.417/.421 (R/RBI/SB/BA/OBP).
The other two players were the Marlins 2B Dan Uggla who also hit .417 and smacked 5 HRs […]

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As of today, 5 teams have topped 20 wins. Some of them you would expect: Red Sox, Angels and maybe even the Diamondbacks. But who would have envisioned the rebuilding A’s or the Cardinals with their injury-riddled rotation? Predictions: The Sox, Angels and Diamondbacks have the best shot out of these five to stay atop […]

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My vote goes to the Arizona Diamondback’s Micah Owings. He’s probably one of my favorite pitchers of the past two years, but I don’t get to see him play much being from the east coast. To go along with his much improved performance on the mound so far this year (4-0 with a 3.48 ERA […]

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Swinging for the Stars!
This week’s hot hitter was by far, Houston 1B Lance Berkman. As you can see below, he hit for a BA over .400, OBP over .500 while hitting 4 HRs, 12 RBIs & even a SB!
Rounding out the top 5 hot hitters for week 4 would be the Ranger’s 5-tool CF Josh […]

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First, the Mitchell Report and now THIS!
The New York Daily News has reported that Roger Clemens (currently retired?) carried on a decade-long (1990-2000) romantic affair with country star Mindy McCready, who’s star has fallen from the country music scene in recent years. They first met when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and Clemens was […]

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D’Backs 1B Conor Jackson
 
This week was a tough selection, but with 10runs scored, 3 HRs, 10 RBIs to go along with a BA of .480 and an OBP of .519, Conor just edged out the Tiger’s Miguel Cabrera, the Phillies’ 2B Chase Utley and Boston’s Manny Ramirez.
Cabrera had more RBIs (11), Utley had more HRs […]

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Toronto Releases $8M Man
If you haven’t already heard, the Toronto Blue Jays have released Future Hall of Fame 1B/DH Frank Thomas (long time White Sox, short time A’s & Blue Jays). Blue Jays’ GM J.P. Ricciardi was quoted as saying,
“I don’t know that we have the luxury of waiting two to three months for […]

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Is it just me or does anyone else notice a fair number of major league pitchers (Borkowski, Verlander, Mussina, etc.) are experiencing a drop in their 2008 velocity? Could this mean that more pitchers than we had thought, were on the juice or is this just a coincidence?
Please report in the comments, for research’s […]

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Here’s a listing of the MLB’s hottest hitters for the second week of the season. They may not have hit the highest number of HRs, but they hit 2 or more while hitting for a BA over .400 and an OBP of over .500

Player
Team
Pos
R
HR
RBI
SB
AVG
OBP
SLG
OPS

M. Holliday
COL
LF
6
2
10
1
.480
.519
.880
1.399

J. Upton
ARI
RF
4
2
8
0
.476
.500
.810
1.310

C. Kotchman
ANA
1B
4
2
5
1
.455
.500
.818
1.318

A. Pujols
STL
1B
7
3
7
1
.417
.517
.875
1.392

2 players did hit 4 HRs and 9 […]

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I thought I’d give the starting pitchers a little more than a week before I decided to see who’s gotten off to the best start.
By looking at Wins (W), K’s, Innings Pitched (IP), ERA & WHIP; my choice for hottest pitcher thus far would have to go to Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka with 2 wins in […]

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