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Sports Central
June 28, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
Orioles Are Birds of Pray Baltimore's Orioles jumped out in front on strong pitching. As the season unfolds different factors come into play.   |
Sports Central
September 20, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
Charm City Season A group of baseball teams with various levels of expectation and familiarity by the casual fan have some to the fore, such as the A's, Nationals, Reds, and Orioles. |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Led by closer Kazuhiro Sasaki, the pen is no longer a Seattle headache |
Sports Central
March 5, 2007
Mike Round |
Under the '07 MLB Fantasy Radar Here are 10 speculative picks for this year's draft. |
Sports Central
August 9, 2009
Eric Engberg |
Time For Smoltz to Hang 'Em Up In the world of sports, there is seldom something sadder than watching a one-time great player trying to hang on to the glory days trying to play well past his prime. Such was the case Thursday night for Boston pitcher John Smoltz. |
Sports Central
September 16, 2005
Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Sports Central
May 17, 2005
Adam Russell |
Baseball's Five Biggest Surprises As it is nearly every year, the early part of the Major League Baseball season includes a number of surprises. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Upstarts and Stalwarts What makes the baseball season so special is that no individual player's achievement or any team's success is greater than the entirety of the game. |
Sports Illustrated
April 9, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Fish can't fly without stronger arms The Marlins aren't going anywhere unless they address their bullpen... |
Sports Central
September 30, 2008
Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Divisional Series Breakdown A closer look at the four MLB playoff match-ups. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has. |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
High on Lowe The hurler's emergence could put Boston over the top. |
Sports Illustrated
May 9, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Expected to be one of the Rangers' strong points, their relief corps has been absorbing a Texas-sized pounding |
Sports Central
July 23, 2004
Vincent Musco |
Three Cities, Three Candidates Like Ralph Nadar vs. John Kerry and George Bush, the Orioles play spoiler to the Red Sox and the Yankees. Thank God just the American League Pennant is at stake. |
Sports Central
September 19, 2006
Zach Jones |
Orioles Thinking Big, Spending Small If the Orioles aren't going to spend like the big boys, they need to start thinking like the little kids and resist the temptation to grab the next aging former star that hits the market. |
Sports Central
June 12, 2004
David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central
March 29, 2007
Seth Doria |
2007 MLB Preview: American League Here are a few thoughts about MLB's American League, in order of predicted finish. |
Sports Central
July 14, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Diamonds in the Rough Who are the no-names shaping first-half pennant races? |
Sports Central
July 10, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
Sports Illustrated
May 30, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Even when closer Matt Mantei was out, Arizona was relieved by its bullpen |
Sports Central
September 8, 2007
Jeff Kallman |
Now Ear This Apparently, in Baltimore, when you commit a balk that invites an opposing run on the house, at a time when you're already down 2-0 against a bristling opposing pitcher, you shake it off by sticking the next pitch in the hitter's ear. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2007
Rich Lyons |
Down 3-1, Sox Look to Their Ace The Red Sox entered the season as one of the favorites to win the World Series, but find themselves in the precarious playoff situation of win or go home. |
Sports Central
May 25, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Who's Stealing Baseball's Limelight? With Major League Baseball's perennial sluggers just digging in, with their big bats finally coming around as the season's second quarter begins, we have been treated to the feats of several players who have unexpectedly captured the pastime's attention. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
5 Big Red Sox Flops The Red Sox fell apart after the All-Star break. Here is a list of some of the bigger flops in Red Sox history. |
Sports Central
August 23, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Nobody Asked Me This Time, Either, But... Colon breaks Angels' 20-win drought... Red Sox find losing 6 of 11 is destabilizing... Ken Griffey, Jr. suffers yet another season-ending injury... Davis and Waxman may someday walk and chew gum at the same time... The American League East not the only spellbinding dance in town... |
Sports Central
February 27, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2009
Eric Engberg |
American League Cy Young Race These are the pitchers who are the front runners and dark horses for the Cy Young award right now. |
Salon.com
September 19, 2002
King Kaufman |
Curt Schilling needs the ball The five-man rotation steals starts from aces and gives them to lesser arms. When will a manager have the guts to ditch it? |
Sports Illustrated
June 17, 2003
Albert Chen |
Batting out of Order The Orioles' Melvin Mora heads a list of improbable hitters on the topsy-turvy American League leader board. |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Closers and Cooperstown Have you been wondering about managerial vacancies around baseball, what's going to happen to the Braves or how the heck a relief pitcher is supposed to get into the Hall? So have your fellow readers... |
Sports Central
June 15, 2007
Rich Lyons |
The Uprising of the Yankees The Yankees make their inevitable climb towards the top of the division. |
Sports Central
July 17, 2007
Nick Feely |
Cleveland Rocks: Tribe Resurgence? A quick look at the Indians' offensive statistics offers most of the reason for Cleveland's success this season. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Red Sox, Raised From the Dead Today, the Red Sox sit, stand, scamper, and strut as the American League East champions. |
Sports Central
May 28, 2008
Mike Round |
MLB Contenders or Pretenders? Buy or sell the Marlins as an NL East threat?... Buy or sell Detroit making the playoffs?... Buy or Sell Lance Berkman as NL MVP?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
September 12, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball The key to the American League playoff chase may not be in the stars |
Sports Illustrated
June 5, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Seattle's offensive Boone Second baseman's bat has exceeded M's expectations... |
Sports Central
January 2, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
Paterinty Test Revealed: Yanks Are Pedro's Daddy Management is different, the players are different, the game is different, but the Red Sox remain unchanged. Maybe there really is a curse. Or maybe Vegas and the prognosticators were wrong, and the Yankees really are the better team. |
Sports Central
October 10, 2005
Zach Jones |
Ozzie Guillen's "Not So Smart" Ball The three most important factors in the Chicago White Sox' success this season, in order of significance, as well as some thoughts on Ozzie's offensive philosophy. |
Sports Central
January 18, 2006
Eric Maus |
Don't Count Out Red Sox Just Yet The Red Sox have the potential to be very good, possibly even great this year. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2015
Joe Messineo |
The Top Five Bullpens in Baseball When things are going well for a Major League Baseball team, it's easy for fans to undervalue the role of the bullpen. |
Sports Central
October 3, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
Indians Face Long Winter Ahead Nine out of the last 10 years, 93 wins was good enough to earn a wildcard berth in the American League. Unfortunately for the Cleveland Indians, this year it wasn't. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Mike Flanagan, RIP: Why? What drove Mike Flanagan -- once a tenacious but abundantly-humorous Baltimore Orioles pitcher, to leave himself with a bullet in his head, to be found dead on a trail of his property at 59. |
Sports Illustrated
September 10, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Boston Blues After a promising start to the season, the high-priced Red Sox have inexplicably fallen out of the playoff race. |
Sports Illustrated
September 5, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Batteries charged Astros' young guns thrive with help of veteran backstops... |
Sports Central
May 1, 2013
Andrew Jones |
April's Early Warning Signs All in all, the 2013 season looks to be an interesting one. Every division seems to have three or four potential contenders. But most likely May will weed out the weaklings and early overachievers. |
Sports Central
January 5, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting. |
