Justin Irvin Upton (twitter: @JUS10UP10)

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: August 25, 1987 in Norfolk, VA
High School: Great Bridge HS (Chesapeake, VA)
Drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed January 6, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 2, 2007 (Age 19)   vs. SDP 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Teams (by GP): Diamondbacks/Braves 2007-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed, 6 yrs/$50M (10-15) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.060, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: Larry Reynolds [*]
Relatives: Brother of B.J. Upton
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• 5/3 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated May.03/2013:   Dominic Brown went 3-4 including a home run and an RBI single leading the Phillies past the Marlins, 7-2. Dan Haren threw...
• 5/3 Splash Hit Blog: GIFPost: The Swings of Justin Upton’s Twelve Homers: Justin Upton‘s swing is a thing of beauty, and the good people of MLB have noticed and compiled a video of his twelve homers...
• 5/2 mlbreports.com : 2 And A Hook Podcast Episode #4: The Blue Jays Are Finished in 2013 + The Angels Are Close: Like us on Facebook here Friday, May.02/2013 People in this Podcast: Chuck Booth – Guest (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website...
• 5/2 Tomahawk Take: Atlanta Braves Rankings In April:   The Braves had an adventuresome opening month of April.  They leave the month with the best record in the National League...
• 5/2 New York Mets Report: Mets Matters: Andrew Brown To Join Team; Harvey Honored: ESPN reports the Mets will promote outfielder Andrew Brown for this weekend’s series at Atlanta. Brown’s numbers at Triple-A...
• 5/2 MLBTradeRumors: Mets Notes: Wheeler, Upton, Collins, Buck: Earlier today, Marc Hulet took a look at the prospects involved in this offseason's Blue Jays/Marlins and Blue Jays/Mets blockbuster...
• 5/2 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (May 1, 2013): Jordan Zimmermann: Mike Napoli had a great day at the plate, going 3-4 with 2 HRs, but that came in a blowout win. Jordan Zimmermann, however, went...
• 5/2 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated May.02/2013: Clay Buchholz pitched 7 shutout innings, striking out 8 and collected his sixth win as the first place Red Sox man handled the...
• 5/2 Baseball Ruminations: Live Game Recap: April 30, 2013 – Nationals at Braves: Tuesday, 7:10 PM Turner Field Atlanta, GA Game two of this four-game series between the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals was...
• 5/1 Braves Journal: Natinals 2 (by W.C.G.): So the night after Tim Hudson’s 200th win, Paul Maholm came out and reminded us why pitcher wins are stupid. Maholm pitched...
• 5/1 District On Deck: Lineups: Zimmermann Looks To Lead Rebound: The Nationals are 0-5 against the Braves this season, and were 13-14 in the month of April. But with a new page of the calendar,...
• 5/1 Beyond the Scorecard: The Muff and Boner Index Explained: Since I've managed to get it so that I can easily calculate the Muff and Boner Index, I'll update it monthly. This post gives...
• 5/1 Mets Merized: NL East Report: Stanton To DL, McCann Set To Return, Strasburg Injury Scare: Team News and Notes Atlanta Braves (17-9) Justin Upton launched his major league leading 12th home run of the season this week....
• 5/1 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 30): Tim Hudson: Tim Hudson threw 7 innings of 3-hit ball, giving up one run. But don’t worry, he got that run right back with a home run...
• 5/1 Splash Hit Blog: The Numbers of April: Surprise!: Hot starts don’t necessarily dictate the results of May through October, because that’s only one month of baseball...
• 5/1 TheLeadoffWalk: April All Stars: Hitters: Catcher:   Carlos Santana, Indians Despite a scare suffered mid-month when he took a foul ball off his...
• 5/1 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated May.01/2013: Edwin Encarnacion of the Toronto Blue Jays hit a pair of home runs including the go ahead shot in the 7th inning against first...
• 5/1 Baseball Musings: Players of the Month: Chris Davis ends April tied for the MLB lead in RBI due to his impressive power. Photo: Joy R. Absalon-USA TODAY Sports Picking...
• 5/1 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Fantasy Baseball - Unanti**** April's: We are just under 30 games into the MLB and Fantasy Baseball seasons but there are already tons of headlines.  The Boston...
• 5/1 Vigilante Baseball : Called Shots: Week 5: Justin Upton finally takes the top spot this week, as there seems to be no way of slowing him down.  David Ortiz makes the biggest...
• 5/1 Tomahawk Take: Tim Hudson Wins Number 200: When the chips are down the man Braves fans want on the mound is Tim Hudson. Tonight at the age of 37 years 290 days Huddy –...
• 5/1 The Captain's Blog: OPS Leaders and Laggards and Their Impact on Team Offense: Baseball is a team sport, but one hitter can disproportionately influence a lineup, in both a positive and negative sense. In...

• 4/30 FFLockerRoom: Fantasy Baseball Trading Block Candidates: Justin Upton, Chris Davis and More: Last night on the FF Locker Room Show, we discussed some players that could be on the fantasy trading block after the first month...
• 4/30 MLB Injury News: Nationals' Stephen Strasburg not expected to miss start: The Washington Nationals were given encouraging news earlier today, as word from General Manager Mike Rizzo has Stephen Strasburg...
• 4/30 Baseballhotcorner.com: Detroit Tigers Offense Starting to Growl: The Detroit Tigers were scuffling a bit offensively through the early weeks of this season. A combination of solid pitching by...
• 4/30 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated April.30/2013: It was a wild night of baseball with many heroes. But only four can own baseball. Despite the heroics of Brandon Moss and the...
• 4/30 District On Deck: Moments That Mattered: Clippard Cracks, Offense Flails: Source: FanGraphs Early runs, anyone? Stephen Strasburg struggled in the first again, and had another start like the rest he has...
• 4/30 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 29, 2013): Brandon Moss: Well, there was a 19-inning thriller between the Athletics and Angels last night, and the A’s finally came out on top when...
• 4/30 FFLockerRoom: Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Trading Etiquette and Strategy: “How about Willingham, Moreland and Eduardo Nunez for Miggy?” Is there anything worse in fantasy than seeing you have a trade...
• 4/30 Tomahawk Take: Simmons, Schafer Help Braves End Skid:   After a long road trip and through all kinds of distracting weather, the Atlanta Braves returned home to take on the Washington...
• 4/30 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/30:   Bleacher Report Atlanta Braves: Fredi Gonzalez Gets Decisions Right inWin over Nationals The Atlanta Braves did not have...
• 4/29 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Blue Jays, Rangers, Yankees, Brewers, Upton: Here are a few notes from around baseball: The Blue Jays are already looking at an uphill battle to achieve a postseason...
• 4/29 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 28, 2013): Giancarlo Stanton: Giancarlo Stanton didn’t do well in the WBC, he wasn’t so hot in Spring Training either, if memory serves. And he...
• 4/29 The Beanball: Justin Upton Trade Already Haunting Diamondbacks: In 2011, Justin Upton emerged as an elite hitter in the major leagues. Upton, then 23 years old, already had a 26-home run season...
• 4/29 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated Apr.29/2013: Giancarlo Stanton hit a pair of homers and delivered an RBI double as the Marlins got a very rare win. Clayton Kershaw threw...
• 4/29 MLB Injury News: Braves may move Evan Gattis to left when Brian McCann returns: It's a subject that's been covered thoroughly at this point.  What will the Atlanta Braves do when Brian McCann returns...
• 4/28 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 27, 2013): Carlos Gomez: Going 3-5 with a HR and 2 RBIs that helped the Brewers to a 6-4 win over the Dodgers, Carlos Gomez is the MVP of Yesterday. Go...
• 4/28 Baseballhotcorner.com: National League East Title Race: The National League East Title race could be one of the more exciting if not the most exciting Division title races in the MLB...
• 4/28 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Aceves, Red Sox, Orioles, Angels: One month doesn't tell the entire story for a team, but clubs are trying to look at April performances and figure out what direction...
• 4/28 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated Apr.28/2013: Travis Hafner homered and tripled as the Yankees overcame shaky pitching to beat the Toronto Blue Jays. Matt Moore of the Rays...
• 4/28 Rising Apple: Who Is Ruben Tejada?: The turning point of yesterday’s Mets 9-4 loss to the Phillies came in the top of the fifth. The Mets had narrowed the Phillies’...
• 4/28 Baseball Musings: Heart Transplant: The Yankees replacement players continue to provide more than enough offense to keep the team in contention. I expected Vernon...
• 4/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Day 27 Observations: Hitters: Tigers 7, Braves 4 Austin Jackson: It’s been a bit since Jackson’s name graced an observation piece, but his...
• 4/27 fantasyteamadvice.com: MLB Power Rankings May 2013 – Boston Strong edition: This will be my second go at creating MLB Power Rankings.  Relying on no one else but the standings and my own instincts, here...
• 4/27 Braves Journal: Tigers 7, Braves 4: Well, this weekend is not off to a great start. The Braves have found warmer weather in the upper Middle West, true, but both...
• 4/27 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated Apr.27/2013: Pitching ruled Friday in an unbelievable way. How much so? Kyle Kendrick threw a complete game shutout against the Mets and Wei-Yin...
• 4/27 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday: Jordan Zimmermann: Anibal Sanchez may have had 17 Ks, but Jordan Zimmermann‘s 1-hit, 1-walk complete game 1-0 shutout victory over the Reds...
• 4/27 Baseballhotcorner.com: Why Justin Upton will Win NL MVP: In the 2012/2013 MLB off-season, a lot of rumors were swirling around the Arizona Diamondbacks and their young 25 year old phenom Justin...
• 4/27 Tomahawk Take: Saturday Braves Vs Tigers:   The Braves try to regain their pride as they take on the Detriot Tigers in the second game of a three game interleague...
• 4/27 MLBTradeRumors: NL Notes: Mets, Lincecum, Cardinals, Upton: Let's start the last weekend in April with some notes from the National League: As expected, offseason acquisition Shaun...
• 4/27 Tomahawk Take: Braves Saturday Morning Chop: Fearless editor Jeff is out of town and left me to prepare the Saturday Chop.  Lucky you … Fox Sports Braves-Tigers Preview...
• 4/27 Tomahawk Take: Braves Surrender to Anibal Sanchez 17 Strikeout Night: After a brief bit of trouble early on Anibal Sanchez sliced and diced the Braves lineup, amassing 17 strikeouts while allowing...
• 4/26 MLBTradeRumors: Padres Notes: Headley, Trades, Upton: The Padres' 6-15 record is the second-worst in baseball and fans are starting to get impatient, judging by the tone of several...
• 4/26 The Pesky Pole: Upton and Hamilton Injured, Red Sox Struggle: The virtual 2013 Red Sox are playing like the experts predicted and nothing like the actual Red Sox. The AL East standings so...
• 4/26 Beyond the Scorecard: 4/16/13 Box Score Ephemera: ***NOT THE WAY TO START***Down 4-2 in the 7th inning of the Mariners-Tigers game, the Mariners brought in Bobby LaFromboise,...
• 4/26 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 25, 2013): David Ortiz: Going 3-4 with a homer and two RBIs, David Ortiz is the MVP of Yesterday. MVP Standings (after jump): Bryce Harper: 3 Clayton...
• 4/26 District On Deck: Espinosa leads Nats to 8-1 victory over Reds: After a pitiful offensive showing in the three game sweep by the St. Louis Cardinals, the Nationals showed all the makings of...
• 4/26 Mets360.com: John Buck and Matt Harvey are potential Mets All-Stars: The 2013 MLB All-Star game will be hosted by the Mets this season at Citi Field on July 16th, which is exciting in itself, but...
• 4/26 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Ask Nash: Josh Hamilton’s StrugglesNash, Are you panicking about Josh Hamilton?  I ask because I am in need of pitching and was offered Matt More......
• 4/26 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated Apr.26/2013: Clay Buchholz of the Red Sox dominated the Astros and improved to 5-0. Alex Gordon of the Royals smashed a grand slam that sunk...
• 4/25 We Talk Fantasy Sports: RotoBaller - Early Fantasy Baseball Breakout Players: This article originally appeared on www.RotoBaller.com: Fantasy Analysis: Early Post-Post-Hype Sleeper Breakouts. Remember when...
• 4/25 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated Apr.25/2013: Last night was another wild and loopy night of baseball with come from behind wins, dramatic homers and dominating pitching. But...
• 4/25 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 24, 2013): Alex Cobb: Going 8.1 innings, giving up just 3 hits and striking out 7, Alex Cobb of the Rays is yesterday’s MVP. Go below the jump...
• 4/25 Atlanta Bullpen: Justin Upton Chasing All-Time Record: Atlanta Braves outfielder Justin Upton is only 3 home runs away from tying the all-time April record for home runs.  Upton now...
• 4/25 Blog Red Machine: Cincinnati Becoming Choo-Ville: When the announcement was made of the three-team trade involving the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks...
• 4/24 RoxPile: As Clutch As It Gets: If April showers, bring May flowers, what does April snow bring? That all depends on who the Rockies are playing. Last week the...
• 4/24 Tyler's Think Tank: Justin Upton: Man on a Mission: Justin Upton is insanely, impossibly, ridiculously hot right now. He's so hot, in fact, that you can almost see the flames...
• 4/24 Baseball News Source: Braves Jason Heyward Says He is Doing Just Fine: The Atlanta Braves, which have the best record in the majors at 15-5, regained first baseman Freddie Freeman from the disabled...
• 4/24 Tomahawk Take: Braves Win DH, Lose Tough Wednesday Game In Colorado:   After losing three games in a row and four out of five games the Atlanta Braves headed to one of the hottest teams in baseball....
• 4/24 mlbreports.com : Who Owns Baseball – Updated April.24/2013:   Lots of terrific performances in baseball last night, and none by the Red Sox, whose only positive quality was seeing their...
• 4/24 RoxPile: Braves At Rockies, April 24th: Game Time, Lineups, And Preview: Atlanta Braves at Colorado Rockies. 1:10 P.M. MST. Sometimes elite players do elite things and just flat out beat you. Justin...
• 4/24 Billy-Ball.com: The Uptons go Back-to-Back: B.J. Upton and his brother Justin Upton hit back-to-back homers for the first time, leading the Atlanta Braves past the Colorado...
• 4/24 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 23, 2013): Mark Ellis: The MVP of Yesterday is Mark Ellis, who went 4-5 with two homers and two four RBIs in the Dodgers’ win against the Mets....
• 4/24 Bravos! Bravespops Blog: Braves: Poor Stats: Braves fans have been excited this year, and that’s understandable.  Afterall, the Braves haven’t had a start to...
• 4/24 Bush League Chronicle: Video: Brothers Justin, B.J. Upton hit back-to-back home runs: Your browser does not support iframes.Justin Upton and B.J. Upton did something on Tuesday that hadn't previously been accomplished...
• 4/24 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Mark Ellis Powers Dodgers to Victory. Wait, What?: Yes, that's right, 35 year old Mark Ellis and his 2 home run performance led the Dodgers to a win on the road against the New...
• 4/24 TheLeadoffWalk: Day 23 Observations: Braves 4, Rockies 3 Game 1 Braves 10, Rockies 2 Game 2 Justin Upton: Upton didn’t take long to take advantage...
• 4/24 Tomahawk Take: Freddie Freeman Returns in Double Header: Freddie Freeman returned from the Disabled List in yesterday’s double header against the Colorado Rockies. He went 1-6 on...
• 4/23 MajorLeagueDigest.com: Blustering Braves: Atlanta Braves Weekly Report: by Dale Yarborough​Atlanta Braves Beat ReporterPaul Maholm/sbnation.comThe 2013 Atlanta Braves have shot off to a quick start...
• 4/23 Baseball Musings: Upton Goes to Eleven: Justin Upton goes deep for the second time on Tuesday, hitting a solo shot in the night-cap of the double header. That gives him...
• 4/23 Atlanta Bullpen: Braves Get Hot in the Cold: The Atlanta Braves got back on the winning track in Colorado with a 4-3 win over the Rockies.  Justin Upton and Evan Gattis hit...
• 4/23 RoxPile: Braves Win Series Opener, Other Rockies Notes: If you were a believer in the Atlanta Braves before the season, you likely believed that their mighty lineup would bash a lot...
• 4/23 Raise the Jolly Roger: Game 18 Preview: Pirates vs. Braves: Braves (13-4) at Pirates (9-8) 1:35 PM–PNC Park, Pittsburgh MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT The Pirates go for a series win an...
• 4/23 Baseball Musings: Home Runs One to Ten: Oswaldo Arcia, who turns 22 in a couple of weeks, hits his first major league home run Wednesday afternoon. The three-run shot...
• 4/23 TheFantasyFix.com: In Search Of Steals: Adam Eaton Is On The Mend: At this point, it’s safe to say we can do a decent job of evaluating our team’s strengths and weaknesses. The general rule-of-thumb...
• 4/23 Baseball Ruminations: April 22, 2013 – Charlotte Knights @ Gwinnett Braves Condensed Game Experience: Last night I attended the marquee minor league match up of the young season between the Gwinnett Braves and the Charlotte Knights....
• 4/23 Call to the Pen: Emergency Appendectomy Forces Jason Heyward to DL: Jason Heyward has been placed on the DL by the Atlanta Braves following an emergency appendectomy late Monday evening. The right...
• 4/23 Tomahawk Take: Braves Send Heyward to DL Pastornicky Called Up: As I predicted this morning Jason Heyward was indeed put on the 15 day DL backdated to the 22nd. I also predicted Fredi Gonzalez...
• 4/23 Mets Merized: NL East Report: Stanton and Freeman Return, Zimmerman Out, Rendon Promoted: Team News and Notes Atlanta Braves (13-5) After starting the season 12-1, the Braves have dropped four of their last five games,...
• 4/23 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 22, 2013): Jay Bruce: The MVP of Yesterday is Jay Bruce, who went 2-5 with a HR and 3 RBIs. However, it’s not just that: in the bottom of the...
• 4/23 Tomahawk Take: Jason Heyward Out Who’s In?:   As Jeff reported this morning Jason Heyward had an emergency appendectomy yesterday in a Denver  hospital. With Heyward...
• 4/23 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Mother Nature Loves Double Headers: Last week the Mets vs Twins game in Minnesota was snowed out. The very next day the Mets vs Rockies game in Colorado was snowed...
• 4/23 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/23:   The Seattle Times Snow forces postponement of Braves-Rockies game The game between the Atlanta Braves and Colorado Rockies,...
• 4/23 Baseballhotcorner.com: Justin Upton And Six Others Have More Home Runs Than The Miami Marlins: Everyone anti**** that the Miami Marlins were going to be offensively challenged after trading the likes of Jose Reyes and others...
• 4/22 Splash Hit Blog: Lineups Posted: Can #SFGiants handle the intangibles the #DBacks bring?: In what might have been the longest off-season for Arizona Diamondback fans, Justin Upton, Chris Young, Trevor Bauer, and Chris...
• 4/22 Vigilante Baseball : Called Shots: Week 4: The biggest stories of the season so far have been the power outbursts by players who always had the potential, but had not displayed...
• 4/22 BronxPinstripes.com: What in the world is happening to Ichiro?: Ichiro Suzuki has been a great player for a long time. He was the gold standard of leadoff hitters with his combination of contact...
• 4/22 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 21, 2013): Joey Votto: Yesterday’s MVP is Joey Votto, who went 3-5 with a HR. Honorable Mentions: Nelson Cruz, Yuni Escobar, Greg Holland, Ervin...
• 4/22 Tomahawk Take: 13K’s + 0HR’s = 3rd Straight L for Atlanta:   The Braves came into the Pittsburgh Pirates series with a head of steam, they held the best record in baseball 12-2 coming...
• 4/22 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/22:   Huffington Post Atlanta Braves hit skid after fast start The Atlanta Braves have hit their first rough stretch of the season....
• 4/22 Baseball Ruminations: Single Tool Players: Introduction/Primer: If you like baseball, which I hope that you do, you have likely heard of the descriptive scouting term “five-tool player”....
• 4/21 TheLeadoffWalk: Braves vs. Pirates: Day 21 Observations: Pirates 4, Braves 2 Jason Grilli: Grilli opened the ninth inning with a walk to pinch-hitter Jordan Schafer, but...
• 4/21 Braves Journal: Braves 2, Bucs 4: ESPN box score So that wasn’t pretty. The Braves started the scoring in the second with four consecutive singles from the...
• 4/21 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (4-20-2013): Bryce Harper… again.: 3-for-3. Two homers. 3 RBIs. A walk. All in a close 7-6 Nationals win. Bryce Harper is pulling ahead in the MVP standings (which...
• 4/21 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/21:   CBS SPORTS Sanchez HR propels Pirates, send Braves on first skid One streak started and another ended Saturday night and...
• 4/21 Braves Journal: Pirates 3, Braves 1 (by Adam M.): ESPN Box Score Paul Maholm was bound to give up some runs, the holes on offense were bound to rear their heads, and the Braves...
• 4/20 Rum Bunter: The King Returns: James McDonald Outpitches Paul Maholm, Pirates Win 3-1: Where have you been James McDonald?  The Pittsburgh Pirates enigma struckout nine Atlanta Braves and outdueled Paul Maholm at...
• 4/20 Raise the Jolly Roger: Game 15 Preview: Pirates vs. Braves: Braves (12-2) at Pirates (7-7) 7:05 PM–PNC Park, Pittsburgh MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT The Bucs wrap up this long homestand...
• 4/20 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 19, 2013): Matt Harvey: The MVP of Yesterday is the Mets’ Matt Harvey, who out-pitched Stephen Strasburg, going 7 innings of 4-hit and one run ball...
• 4/19 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Maholm, Royals, Shields, Martin: Earlier today, Jim Bowden of ESPN.com (Insider sub. req'd) looked at five early season surprised and wondered if they'd be able...
• 4/19 Atlanta Bullpen: New Braves Keying Offense: Atlanta Braves position players who were added to the roster before the 2013 season have keyed the offense.  Returning Braves...
• 4/19 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Yovani Gallardo’s Combo Meal and Thursday’s Box Scores : Yovani Gallardo pitched a gem and hit a three run homer as the Brewers continue to roll. Justin Upton hit his league leading...
• 4/19 Tomahawk Take: Game 2: Braves at Pirates: The Atlanta Braves take on the Pittsburg Pirates on Friday night for game two of a four game series.  Wandy Rodriguez will take...
• 4/19 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 18, 2013): Chris Johnson: Yesterday’s MVP was Chris Johnson of the Braves, who went 3-4 with a HR and 2 RBIs in a tight 6-4 win over Pittsburgh. Honorable...
• 4/19 fantasyteamadvice.com: MLB Power Rankings for April 2013: As a guest writer for Fantasy Team Advice I am allowed to write about whatever I please so I have put together my first power...
• 4/19 Venom Strikes: Day Of Redemption For Towers?: Fresh off an offseason full of controversy and, frankly, second guessing, the D’backs’ biggest three acquisitions...
• 4/19 Tomahawk Take: Upton’s, Gattis Help Braves Win 6-4:   The Braves went into Thursday night game trying to avoid their first losing streak of the 2013 season.  Getting started...
• 4/18 Splash Hit Blog: Pulse Check: Sixteen games in for the #SFGiants: There being 162 games in the season, 16 games in seems like a fine place to check in with 10% of the regular season finding its...
• 4/18 The Flagrant Fan: Early season slow starters: Most of us notice when a Major League Baseball player gets off to a fast start. Just about everyone is aware of the fast starts...
• 4/18 Baseball Analytics: A Tale of Two Uptons: The Atlanta Braves brought both Upton brothers to town over the winter, signing B.J. to a five-year, $75 million free agent contract...
• 4/18 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 17, 2013): Bryce Harper: Bryce Harper may not have had the most RBIs or the clutchest hits. But he did have 4 hits… despite flu-like symptoms that...
• 4/18 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/18:   GIF Of The Bluebird Kelly Shoppach Tried to Throw the Ball, but Failed Not Braves related, but to good had to throw it...
• 4/18 Obstructed View: The Ghosts of Free Agency Future: In the aftermath of the recently announced deal with the city to renovate Wrigley Field, Theo Epstein spoke to the media about...
• 4/18 Baseball Jerks: Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks for April 18: If we learned anything together last week it’s that considering the weather is important when making our daily fantasy baseball...
• 4/18 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Relievers Provide Relief About Royals Relievers: There were plenty of questions leading up to the start of the Royals 2013 season. Would Jeff Francoeur be productive enough to...
• 4/17 MLBTradeRumors: Nationals Notes: Harper, Zimmerman, Skole: Earlier this week, we learned that the Nationals' acquisition of Denard Span indirectly stemmed from maneuverings involving the...
• 4/17 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cubs, Red Sox, Hanley, Trades: A year ago today, the Indians signed Johnny Damon to a one-year contract with the hope that clean-shaven caveman could bolster...
• 4/17 Seedlings to Stars: A Steep Price, but Texas has Enough to Land Giancarlo Stanton: The Miami Marlins have been telling everyone going back to last Fall that they have no interest in trading star outfielder Giancarlo...
• 4/17 Mets Merized: NL East Report: Stanton Hurt, Maholm’s Scoreless Streak, Halladay Rebounds: Team News and Notes Atlanta Braves (12-1) The Braves continue to plow over any team in their way, as they are thoroughly dominating...
• 4/17 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday (April 16, 2013): Miguel Cabrera: By going 3-5 with a HR and 4 RBIs in a win against the Mariners, Miguel edges out David Wright, Joe Mauer, Robinson Cano and others...
• 4/17 Baseballhotcorner.com: Jurickson Profar for Oscar Taveras Trade Rumor: Another day has come and gone and yet fans of both the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals are still talking about the possibility...
• 4/17 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/17:   Sports Illustrated Braves win 10th straight behind 3 homers in 8th Justin Upton loves playing for a team with so many sluggers....
• 4/17 Baseballhotcorner.com: Justin Upton Cleared for Take Off: The Atlanta Braves are the hottest team in MLB as the 2013 season gets fully into gear. Many analysts had consigned the Braves...
• 4/17 Baseball News Source: NL Scores: Braves Keep Rolling, Brewers Beat Giants, Dodgers Lose Again: At this point the Atlanta Braves can do no wrong. Justin Upton, Jason Heyward and Dan Uggla homered in the eighth inning,...
• 4/17 The Flagrant Fan: Justin Upton's latest homer prompts tweet of the week: The Arizona Diamondbacks wanted to get rid of Justin Upton in the worst way. He simply did not fit into Kirk Gibson and the...
• 4/16 TheLeadoffWalk: Royals vs. Braves: Day 16 Observations: Braves 6, Royals 3 Braves Bats: With everyone besides Juan Francisco (two solo home runs) being relatively stifled...
• 4/16 Baseball Musings: Booming Braves: The Braves hit three solo home runs in the eighth inning so far to take a 5-2 lead over the Royals. All five runs came on solo...
• 4/16 fantasyteamadvice.com: Updated In Season Rankings – Outfielders (OF) – Fantasy baseball 2013: With 2 full weeks in the books, it is time to start updating the in season rankings for all positions in fantasy baseball 2013,...
• 4/16 KC Kingdom: Royals vs. Braves Series Preview: The Royals begin a two game series against the Atlanta Braves tonight in Atlanta. Here are some notes to keep in mind before the...
• 4/16 The Pesky Pole: The Red Hot 2013 Braves and the Red Hot 1991 Braves: I was worried about the 2013 Braves. I was on record saying I rather have Michael Bourn and Martin Prado than Justin Upton and...
• 4/16 Kings of Kauffman: Series Q&A with Tomahawk Take: After a 4-2 home stand against Minnesota and Toronto the Royals take to the road for an eight game, three city road trip through...
• 4/16 Yanks Go Yard: YGY Series Preview Show: Diamondbacks-Yankees (4/16-4/18): The New York Yankees started off their homestand well over the weekend by taking two of three against the Baltimore Orioles. Even...
• 4/16 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/16:   Grand-AM GRAND-AM SET FOR SPECIAL APPEARANCE AT ATLANTA BRAVES GAME En route to Saturday’s race at Road Atlanta, GRAND-AM...
• 4/16 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday: The Real Heroes: Today, I’m not going to write about yesterday’s baseball MVP (although I did pick one- you can see who it was by going...
• 4/15 Call to the Pen: Atlanta Braves Are On Fire: I just scorched my fingers by typing the words “Atlanta Braves.” That’s how hot they are two weeks into the...
• 4/15 Vigilante Baseball : Called Shots: Week Three: While the fantasy world continues to wait on Mike Trout to show us what he has in store for an encore, Justin Upton continues...
• 4/15 MLB Injury News: What will the Braves do with Brian McCann (The Evan Gattis Effect)?: Have you heard of Evan Gattis yet?  If not you will.  Also, if not, you haven't been watching baseball.  He is...
• 4/15 mlbreports.com : The Atlanta Braves Are The Best Team In The National League!: Like us on Facebook here Monday, April.15/2013 Jake Dal Porto (Baseball Writer) At 11-1, the Atlanta Braves can seemingly do...
• 4/15 Jays Journal: Hate You Justin Upton: I hate Justin Upton. You should hate Justin Upton. Yes this is JAYS journal so you might ask why should any Jays fan hate Justin...
• 4/15 Marlin Maniac: Washington Nationals @ Miami Marlins Series Preview: Kill the wave, just please kill it!: The Miami Marlins are not playing good baseball as of now. The teams hitting has not played well at all, scoring just 20 runs...
• 4/15 Tomahawk Take: Series Preview: Royals @ Braves, ATL Views:   We saw Kansas City’s preview earlier today….now we look into the Braves side of things.  We teamed up with...
• 4/15 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Atlanta Braves Playing Like it's 1995: In 1995 the Atlanta Braves won the World Series behind Greg Maddux, John Smoltz Tom Glavine and Steve Avery.  In...
• 4/15 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 14, 2013): Hiroki Kuroda: Throwing a complete game 5-hit shutout against the Orioles, Hiroki Kuroda of the Yankees is the MVP of Yesterday. Honorable Mentions:...
• 4/15 District On Deck: Moments That Mattered: Game 12: Source: FanGraphs Most Important Nationals Hit: Jayson Werth‘s walk (+0.024) Miserable, right? This game was out of hand...
• 4/15 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/15:   CBSSPORTS Braves blank Nats to sweep, extend win streak to nine The Washington Nationals aren’t conceding anything...
• 4/14 Baseball News Source: NL Scores: Halladay Handles Marlins, D-Backs Walk-Off on Dodgers: Roy Halladay  secured his 200th career victory pitching  eight strong innings against the Miami Marlins to win 2-1. Halladay...
• 4/14 Braves Journal: Braves 9, Nationals 0 (the sequel): Once again, we have a second Sunday recap — this one by mavery. Again, my apologies for breaking up the threads. Enjoy! ESPN...
• 4/14 TheLeadoffWalk: Braves vs. Nationals: Day 14 Observations: Braves 9, Nationals 0 Gio Gonzalez: Following up on a pair of solid outings to start his season, Gonzalez was not...
• 4/14 Baseball Musings: Atlanta Sends a Message: The Braves completed a sweep of the Natioanls, pounding Gio Gonzalez as Atlanta beats Washington 9-0. They beat the top two pitchers...
• 4/14 MLBTradeRumors: Odds & Ends: Phillies, Span, Nats, Lohse: Earlier today, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com looked at ten big league managers whose jobs could be in jeopardy this season.  Charlie...
• 4/14 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 13, 2013): Adam Wainwright: Perhaps had Matt Harvey gotten a no-hitter, he would have been the MVP. But he didn’t so Adam Wainwright wins it. In his...
• 4/14 Marlin Maniac: Texas Rangers Laying Groundwork for Possible Giancarlo Stanton Trade?: It has been obvious since the November fire sale trade that Giancarlo Stanton is not happy with the direction that the Miami Marlins...
• 4/14 Baseball News Source: NL Scores: Ryu Handles D-Backs, Braves Beat Strasburg. Wainwright Leads Cardinals: Hyun-Jin-Ryu  struck out nine Arizona Diamondbacks and pounded out three heads of his own at the plate to lead the Los Angeles...
• 4/14 Baseballhotcorner.com: Washington Nationals’ Heartbreaking Weekend: In what manager Davey Johnson described as “heartbreaking”, Washington Nationals 25 year old catcher Wilson Ramos will be...
• 4/14 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/14:   CBS SPORTS Braves vet Hudson outduels Nationals’ ace Strasburg Tim Hudson and Stephen Strasburg were so sharp,...
• 4/14 Chicken Friars: Analysis of Free Agents Linked To Padres: Although the Padres didn’t make a significant move last off-season they were linked to several players. So far most of the...
• 4/13 TheLeadoffWalk: Braves vs. Nationals: Day 13 Observations: Braves 3, Nationals 1 Braves Defense: On a day when offense was at a premium, Atlanta bene**** from numerous great...
• 4/13 District On Deck: Wilson Ramos Pulls Hamstring, Headed To DL: In the eighth inning of today’s loss to Atlanta, Wilson Ramos pulled his hamstring attempting to beat out a ground ball....
• 4/13 District On Deck: Game 11: Atlanta Braves 3, Washington Nationals 1: If your friends are concerned about the Nats after today’s game, buy them a calendar. Stephen Strasburg pitched six strong...
• 4/13 The Sports Critic: Cubs Bullpen Troubles Continue – Kyuji Fujikawa Now on DL: It appears that a closer wearing a Chicago Cubs uniform just cannot catch a break. The bullpen troubles that plagued the Cubs...
• 4/13 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 12, 2013): Justin Masterson: The MVP of Yesterday is Justin Masterson of the Indians, who threw a 5-hit shutout with seven strikeouts that allowed the Indians...
• 4/13 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Managers, Nationals, Angels: Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com lists the ten MLB managers who are or may soon be on the hot seat this year. His top three to watch...
• 4/13 Tomahawk Take: Game 2: Hudson vs Strasburg:     The battle between the two heavyweights of the National League East division square off today with both trying to...
• 4/13 Tomahawk Take: Braves Win, The Braves WIN!!:   The Atlanta Braves struggled to find their identity on Friday night against Ross Detwiler as the team scattered only three...
• 4/13 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fear and Loathing of Justin UptonThis is a Guest Post from Josh Kruk. When Josh isn’t at his daytime gig as a digital marketer, he’s More......
• 4/13 District On Deck: Game 10: Atlanta Braves 6, Washington Nationals 4 (10): Yes, it’s only April. But the anti**** surrounding this weekend series between the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals...
• 4/13 Braves Journal: Braves 6, Natspos 4: ESPN Box Score If you tuned out after the bottom of the 6th, I can’t blame you, because you’d have been as surprised...
• 4/12 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Links: Quentin, Weiss, Upton, Giants: Everyone knows Jackie Robinson's story but few remember the name of John Wright, the second African-American player to sign with...
• 4/12 District On Deck: Game 10 Lineups: Atlanta Braves at Washington Nationals: In the first game of this early pivotal series, fifth starters Ross Detwiler and Julio Teheran will show down to see who can strike...
• 4/12 Mets Chronicle: Mets Rumors: Marlins Giancarlo Stanton to the Mets? It will cost Wheeler and possibly d'Arnaud: According to Andy Martino of the NY Daily News, the Mets then spent time at the winter meetings debating whether to make Wheeler...
• 4/12 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers' OF Carl Crawford proves he's healthy by dominating NL thus far: Full disclosure: I didn't think Carl Crawford would begin the 2013 season on the active roster. Not because I didn't want...
• 4/12 Mets Merized: A More Realistic Poll On Stanton To Mets: After discussing my earlier post with me on Twitter, Mike Newman of FanGraphs conducted his own polling to one of the largest...
• 4/12 The Baseball Continuum: MVP of Yesterday (April 11): Bryce Harper: Going 2-3 with 2 RBIs and 2 walks, Bryce Harper helped pace the Washington Nationals to a 7-4 win over the White Sox. Honorable...
• 4/12 Blog Red Machine: Three Up, Three Down – 4/12/13 (Reds @ Pirates): A common trend in my three up, three down articles thusfar in the season have been discussing how the Reds have been successful...
• 4/12 Tomahawk Take: 5 Keys To Success Against The Nats: The Atlanta Braves have played as well as any team in the league during the first week and a half of the season. But coming into...
• 4/12 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Miguel Gonzalez and CC Sabathia square off as the Orioles and Yankees battle in a tight AL East race. In his brief career, Gonzalez...
• 4/12 MLB Injury News: Mets rumors: New York monitoring Giancarlo Stanton, Carlos Gonzalez: The New York Mets are monitoring the markets for marquee outfielders Giancarlo Stanton and Carlos Gonzalez, according to Andy...
• 4/12 Mets Merized: Almost 75% Of MB Readers Would Rather Have d’Arnaud and Wheeler Instead of Stanton: I am well aware of how every Mets’ site has their own readership of Mets fans, especially so when it comes to their commenting...
• 4/12 Atlanta Bullpen: Braves Pitching Still Leads Team: The Braves are off to a fast 8-1 start and their newly found power is what everyone is seemingly talking about.  Atlanta is tied...
• 4/11 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Mets, Harang: The Tidewater Mets may just be the best team you've never heard of, writes Mark Bowman of MLB.com. With B.J. Upton and David...
• 4/11 Baseballhotcorner.com: 10 Surprising Statistics To Start The 2013 MLB Season: We are now approximately nine games into the young MLB season and there are some interesting statistics developing around the...
• 4/11 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday (April 10, 2013): Brandon Moss: The MVP of Yesterday is Brandon Moss of the Athletics, who went 3-5 with 2 walks, a triple, a HR and 5 RBIs. The .318 WPA was...
• 4/11 Mets Merized: Mets Have Giancarlo Stanton and Carlos Gonzalez On Their Radar: The Mets “retain an unfilled craving for a marquee outfielder,” writes Andy Martino of the Daily News. Martino says...
• 4/11 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/11:   The Telegraph Gattis, Minor lead Braves past Marlins 8-0 Evan Gattis hit a three-run homer and the Atlanta Braves completed...
• 4/11 MLBTradeRumors: Mets Monitoring Giancarlo Stanton, Carlos Gonzalez: The Mets "retain an unfilled craving for a marquee outfielder," writes Andy Martino of the New York Daily News, and are monitoring...
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• 4/10 numberFire: Braves' Pitching Strong but Likely Unsustainable: MLB Stat Brief: When you leave that many runners on base, something's eventually bound to give.See More Justin Upton B.J. ...
• 4/10 Billy-Ball.com: Top 10: 2013 Batting Strikeout Leaders: 2013, as predicted, appears indeed to be the “year of the strikeout.” The whiffing by batters is so prolific that...
• 4/10 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday (April 9, 2013): Robinson Cano: The Yankees again routed the Indians yesterday, led by Robinson Cano, who went 4-6 with a HR and 5 RBIs. While the game wasn’t...
• 4/10 Tomahawk Take: Afternoon Chop: Braves News 4/10:   CBSSPORTS Medlen goes seven strong for Braves’ fifth straight win Even when Kris Medlen felt out of sorts in the...
• 4/10 Billy-Ball.com: Adam LaRoche joins this season’s multi-homer club: Adam LaRoche ended his 0-for-15 start by going deep in consecutive at-bats against the White Sox last night in the Nationals...
• 4/10 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks made a number of moves that raised eyebrows and invited skepticism this offseason, and they'll have to improve...
• 4/9 TheLeadoffWalk: Braves vs. Marlins: Day Nine Observations: Braves 3, Marlins 2 Kris Medlen: This was one heck of a showing for Kris Medlen. It was obvious in the game’s...
• 4/9 WasWatching: The 25 Hottest Batters In Baseball So Far This Season: Rk Player OPS+ PA Year Age Tm G AB R H 2B HR RBI BB BA OBP SLG 1 Justin Upton 340 29 2013 25 ATL 7 26 9 11 2 6 8 2 .423 .448 1.192...
• 4/9 Marlin Maniac: Atlanta Braves @ Miami Marlins Game Preview: Tuesday, April 9th 7 PM EST (Game 8): The Miami Marlins are set to take the field again Tuesday and try to forget how badly their home opener went. The team was blanked...
• 4/9 Tomahawk Take: Medlen vs LeBlanc Game 2, Braves Marlins:     After struggled to get going in the start of the season, Jason Heyward will take a day off on Tuesday against a...
• 4/9 MLB Injury News: Pitcher injuries or position player injuries, which would you prefer?: No one wants a player to be injured.  Injuries reduce the quality of the product not the field, they unnecessarily cost teams...
• 4/9 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday (April 8, 2013): Travis Hafner: Travis Hafner is the MVP of Yesterday, as he went 2-3 with a HR, 4 RBIs and two walks in his return to Cleveland with the Yankees....
• 4/9 mlbreports.com : Arizona Diamondbacks First Week in Review: Like us on Facebook here Tuesday, April.09, 2013 By Chris Lacey (Baseball Writer) The Arizona Diamondbacks had a very good start...
• 4/9 Mets Merized: NL East Report: Stanton Homerless, Halladay Rocked, Upton and Harper Blasting Off: Team News and Notes Atlanta Braves (6-1) The Braves currently sit in first place in the NL East, and new addition Justin Upton...
• 4/9 Full Spectrum Baseball: Triple Play: Who’s Hot/Not, Playing the Name Game, Random Thoughts: While Chris Davis and Justin Upton have gotten tons of headlines – deservedly so – for their scorching first weeks of 2013,...
• 4/9 Tomahawk Take: Maholm, Upton Heatin’ Up The Braves In Miami:   The Atlanta Braves took the trip south to face the Miami Marlins on Monday night for the first game of three this week....
• 4/9 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/9:   CBSSPORTS Justin Upton homers, 4 for 4 as Braves blank Marlins Justin Upton is hitting enough for an entire team. The...
• 4/9 We Talk Fantasy Sports: It's No Holiday When Halladay Takes The Mound: It seemed just like yesterday that when Roy Halladay took the mound every 5th day, the opposing team had no chance at hitting...
• 4/9 That Ball's Outta Here: How Long Do The Phillies Stick With Roy Halladay?: Monday night’s 7-2 loss to the Mets, which dropped the Phillies to 2-5 on the 2013 season, was as depressing and sad as...
• 4/9 Marlin Maniac: Miami Marlins Blanked by Atlanta Braves in Home Opener, 2-0: Marlins Park opened its gates (and its roof) for the first time to watch Kevin Slowey and company face off against NL East rivals,...
• 4/8 TheLeadoffWalk: Braves vs. Marlins: Day Eight Observations: Braves 2, Marlins 0 Justin Upton Having taken Sunday off from embarrassing opposing pitchers (four strikeouts in...
• 4/8 Tyler's Think Tank: 9 Lessons From Baseball's First Week: Baseball has been back for little more than a week, so what have we learned so far? It's still early, so not much, but here are...
• 4/8 Marlin Maniac: Atlanta Braves @ Miami Marlins Game Preview: Monday, April 8th 7 PM EST (Game 7): The Miami Marlins are set to play their home opener for the 2013 season. The team will take on the early first place Atlanta Braves....
• 4/8 StoopSports.com: MLB Plays of the Week: Jake Reiser- Welcome back baseball! The opening week of the MLB season had some stellar performances and amazing plays. With that,...
• 4/8 Tomahawk Take: Atlanta Braves @ Miami Marlins:     The (5-1) Atlanta Braves will square off against (1-5) Miami Marlins on Monday night to begin a three game series....
• 4/8 MLBTradeRumors: Would-Be Free Agents: Remember free agents?  Like good, under-30 ones without any major warts?  With the proliferation of long-term extensions prior...
• 4/8 StoopSports.com: Who’s Hot, Who’s Not: Anthony Pucik- This weekly piece will talk about the five players in the MLB who are on hot streaks, and five players who are...
• 4/8 Baseball Jerks: MLB Week 2: A Look Ahead at Key Matchups and Storylines: Week one of the 2013 Major League Baseball season is now in the books and, as fun as it’s been, there is even more to look forward...
• 4/8 Marlin Maniac: Marlins Home Opening Series Preview: Atlanta Braves @ Miami Marlins: As many experts around baseball predicted the case to be, the Miami Marlins are sitting in the cellar of the competitive National...
• 4/8 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday (April 7, 2013): Billy Butler: There were lots of good candidates for the MVP of yesterday, but I’m going with Billy Butler of the Royals. The main reason...
• 4/8 Vigilante Baseball : Called Shots: Week One: It’s strange how one week of meaningful baseball games can change perceptions that were built up over months of preparing for...
• 4/8 MLB Injury News: Carlos Marmol out as closer for Cubs: It was only a matter of time before the Chicago Cubs made a change.  Carlos Marmol has never proven himself capable of handling...
• 4/8 Tomahawk Take: Series Preview: Braves @ Marlins, Braves View:   Marlin Maniac sent us here at Tomahawk Take a few questions about the upcoming series.  See here what we think and predict...
• 4/8 Marlin Maniac: Atlanta Braves @ Miami Marlins Series Preview: Justin, B.J., or Kate Upton?: After a rough road trip yielded a 1-5 start for the Miami Marlins, the team is more than happy to be headed home. The Marlins...
• 4/8 MLB Injury News: Braves' Andrelton Simmons may return tonight: The Atlanta Braves are good.  They are division-contending, Washington Nationals-challenging good.  With B.J Upton,...
• 4/8 Atlanta Bullpen: Upton Brothers Already Heroes in Atlanta: In a game where the Braves were down 5 to 1 heading into the bottom of the 8th, it couldn’t have ended any better! The story...
• 4/8 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/8:   ESPN Braves trip Cubs despite Jeff Samardzija‘s 13 strikeouts For the first four innings, Tim Hudson wondered...
• 4/8 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball Reaction: Roy Halladay’s First StartRoy Halladay is all over the place. Literally, if you saw his first start of the season against the Braves, More......
• 4/8 Diamond Hoggers: Chris Davis goes the eff off in the first week of the season: It’s always nice when your team or favorite player starts the year off hot.  I know fans off Mark Texiera have never experienced...
• 4/8 Baseballhotcorner.com: What Did We Learn In Week 1 Of The MLB Season?: Week 1 is in the books, what have we learned? Up until today we learned that pitchers started out hot!  There were 12 games on...
• 4/7 Braves Journal: Braves 5, Cubs 1 (by mavery): Note from Alex: due to a miscommunication on my part, two different recaps were written for this game, the first by Smitty and...
• 4/7 Cubbies Crib: Cubs fall in finale with Atlanta, 5-1: Watching Jeff Samardzija mow through the Atlanta lineup early in Sunday’s game was reminiscent of Kerry Wood’s dominant performance...
• 4/7 The Sports Critic: Chicago Cubs’ Kyuji Fujikawa Right Decision as Closer: I am the first to admit that I wanted to see Carlos Marmol succeed as closer for the Chicago Cubs, especially after he made such...
• 4/7 The High Phive: Halladay’s Struggles Continue, Braves Bats Stay Hot in Phillies Loss 9-2: For the second consecutive game, the Braves coasted to victory behind a red-hot offense and some very solid starting pitching....
• 4/7 PaulLebowitz.com: The Cubs Abandon The Pump, Now We Wait For The Dump: Financial terminology is now po**** in baseball and the Cubs were trying to use the strategy of inflating a stock as much as they...
• 4/7 The Baseball Continuum: The MVP of Yesterday (April 6, 2013): Justin Upton: The MVP of Yesterday was Justin Upton, who went 3-5 with 2 homers (including the game-winner) in the Atlanta win over Chicago-...
• 4/7 Justin Jabs: Marmol out as “closer,” but Cubs still have one: Yesterday, the Chicago Cubs failed to score on a bases loaded, no out situation against the Atlanta Braves with a 5-1 lead. Tom...
• 4/7 Tomahawk Take: Afternoon Chop: Braves News 4/7:   Twitter Freeman Heading to DL #Braves Freeman not happy club made decision to put him on DL before talking with him. Still...
• 4/7 Atlanta Bullpen: Key Atlanta Brave Goes on Disabled List: Braves hot-hitting first baseman Freddie Freeman has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained right oblique. ...
• 4/7 Baseball News Source: NL Scores: Upton’s Help Braves Rally Past Cubs, Kershaw Dominant: It was only a matter of time before the Atlanta Braves Justin Upton and B.J. Upton homered in the same game.  B.J  led off the...
• 4/7 Atlanta Bullpen: Braves Optimism at All-Time High?: My personal optimism for the Braves is at an all-time high.  I really thought Atlanta had a great opportunity to compete for...
• 4/7 Tomahawk Take: The Battle of the Uptons Finally Begins: Since Opening Day, all I’ve been able to talk about is when B.J. Upton is going to show up to play and not get overshadowed...
• 4/7 Tomahawk Take: Braves Lineup Explodes Late Sink Cubs: Chipper Jones was right about the lineup When this team is on they are going to be fun to watch . . .but when they are scuffling...
• 4/7 TheLeadoffWalk: Royals vs. Phillies, Cubs vs. Braves: Day Six Observations: Phillies 4, Royals 3 John Lannan: Phillies starter John Lannan entered the fifth inning with a no-hitter in progress....
• 4/7 Rontrarian Report: Saturday’s Observation: Trevor Bauer Walks the Park . . . → Read More: Saturday’s Observation: Trevor Bauer Walks the Park...
• 4/7 Born on Third - Cubs Blog: Marmol Coaster Comes Off Tracks in Loss to Braves: Full Box Score Over the course of 162 games there will be losses that are harder to take than others, this is one of those losses,...
• 4/7 AroundTheFoghorn: “It’s April, enjoy the games”: I saw this quote retweeted by someone somewhere over the twitter tubes, and really, it’s hard to argue with. Do these games...
• 4/6 Braves Journal: Braves 6, Cubs 5: ESPN Box Score … huff, huff… Sorry, just catching my breath after my victory lap. This was getting ready to be an...
• 4/6 Baseball Musings: Upton and Downton: Justin Upton hit his fourth home run of the year for the Braves, as the former Diamondbacks outfielder keeps impressing with his...
• 4/6 The Sports Critic: 2013 MLB Opening Week Observations: Like all other Major League Baseball fans, I have made my pre-season predictions, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the season finally...
• 4/6 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/6:   The Leadoff Walk Cubs vs. Braves: Day Five Observations Juan Francisco: For his career, Braves third baseman Juan Francisco...
• 4/6 Braves Journal: Braves 4, Cubs 1: ESPN Box Score I didn’t see most of this one so I’m mostly going by the box score. One thing I did see was Justin...
• 4/5 TheLeadoffWalk: Marlins vs. Mets, Cubs vs. Braves: Day Five Observations: Marlins 7, Mets 5 Lucas Duda: Lucas Duda is the owner of a 10.2% walk-rate and an OBP of .339 during his career....
• 4/5 Obstructed View: 4/5 Game Thread – Cubs at Braves: Lineups (With ZiPS projected wOBA or FIP) Cubs CF Dave Sappelt (.304) SS Starlin Castro (.334) 1B Anthony Rizzo (.365) LF Alfonso...
• 4/5 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: 30 Players, 30 Teams - Colorado Rockies: In this series, we are going to spotlight one player on each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. However, we won't be...
• 4/5 Obstructed View: Series Preview: Cubs (2-1) at Braves (2-1): The Cubs somehow managed to scratch together enough runs to take a series from the Pirates. Now they head to relatively warm Atlanta...
• 4/5 Phillies Nation: How Much Does Doc Miss Chooch?: Everyone’s got a theory for what’s wrong with Roy Halladay. The prevailing argument is Halladay is a victim of the...
• 4/4 The Pesky Pole: Picks to Click: April 4th: We are on a winning streak. Our Fan Duel lineup last night won $14 in a $2 entry contest. We are at it again tonight with our...
• 4/4 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: San Diego Padres: The Padres are banking on their younger players taking a leap forward in 2013 to help propel them into the playoff chase. Major...
• 4/4 Crashburn Alley: Stray Thoughts and Things On Halladay’s Season Debut: You’ll forgive me if you’ve (no doubt) read multiple dissections on other sites by this point in the day, but Roy...
• 4/4 Redbird Dugout: Cards drop series to Diamondbacks: It was a pretty weird series against the Diamondbacks and it was capped off by a marathon game that sent most Cardinal fans to...
• 4/4 Billy-Ball.com: April 3 MLB scores: AL White Sox 5, Royals 2 – All the Sox runs this season have come via homers Rangers 4, Astros 0 – Houston immediately...
• 4/4 Baseball News Source: NL Scores: Gonzalez Leads Nats, Halladay Rocked, Harvey K’s 10: Gio Gonzalez  hit his second career home run and tossed six shutout innings to help the Washington Nationals beat the Miami Marlins...
• 4/4 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/4:   ESPN Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton power Braves past Phillies Philadelphia Phillies Hitters AB R H RBI BB SO #P AVG OBP...
• 4/4 TheLeadoffWalk: Day Three Recap and Observations: Part Three: Rays 8, Orioles 7 Matt Joyce: It only took five pitches for Matt Joyce to make up for Fernando Rodney’s first blown...
• 4/4 Kevin Slowey Was Framed: Wednesday Game Thoughts: Aaron HicksHicks didn't look great today.  He added two more strikeouts to his season total and only put one ball in play. ...
• 4/3 Phillies Nation: Phillies Drop Forgettable Game To Braves: On a rain-soaked night, the Phillies lost an ugly one to the Braves, 9-2, in a game that left them with more questions than answers...
• 4/3 The Baseball Haven: Astronomical Strikeout Rates: The Houston Astros are going to be bad in 2013. People in Houston and around the world should have known that before the season...
• 4/3 Birds Watcher: O’s dealt with hardball all winter: I was very interested to read this column last night by CBS’ John Heyman regarding the Baltimore Orioles. This is in effect...
• 4/3 Tomahawk Take: Phillies at Braves 4/3:   After taking a night off after opening day, the Braves are back on the field tonight against the Philadelphia Phillies....
• 4/3 PhoulBallz.com: Series Preview: Phillies at Braves, April 3-4: After a loss to the Braves at Atlanta's Turner Field on Monday, the Phillies will turn to right-hander Roy Halladay to help...
• 4/2 MLBTradeRumors: NL Notes: Reds, Mets, Diamondbacks: Outfielder Ryan Ludwick injured his right shoulder in the Reds' season opener and will need surgery. The Reds could promote...
• 4/2 The High Phive: Hamels rocked as Phillies Drop Opener in Atlanta: It certainly wasn’t the start we had all envisioned for the Phillies, as the Braves were able to hold off the visitors for...
• 4/2 Vigilante Baseball : Fantasy players I will stay away from: As draft season is winding down and we get ready to run headlong into the regular season, I found there were guys that that I...
• 4/2 Billy-Ball.com: Nine to Know – April 2, 2013: From the Bill Chuck Files…Here’s what you should be talking about today Bryce Harper became the youngest player to...
• 4/2 The Captain's Blog: 2013 Season Preview and Predictions: National League Edition: National League East Washington Nationals: Despite winning the most games in baseball last season, the Nationals didn’t stand...
• 4/2 Tomahawk Take: Braves Bring The Power, Take Down Phillies 7-5:   The Atlanta Braves won their ninth opening day since 2000 on Monday night against the Phillies.  Getting started in the...
• 4/2 Splash Hit Blog: Highlights: What I Liked from the Second Opening Day: While I was workin on the railroad all the live-long day (or like, about a third of it), MLB was celebrating its second of three...
• 4/2 Call to the Pen: MLB Opening Day 2013: Stars Come Out on Opening Day: The anti**** and excitement of Opening Day stems from the long winter absence of baseball (meaningful, non-spring training baseball,...
• 4/2 Braves Journal: Braves 7, Marlins 5 (by sansho1): ESPN – Box Score In the words of the great Knucksie from atop the Braves dugout tonight, “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s...
• 4/1 Phillies Nation: Utley Stars, Hamels Stalls in Phillies Opening Day Loss: A near-cycle from Chase Utley wasn’t enough to overcome a shaky start from Cole Hamels as the Braves held off the Phillies,...
• 4/1 Tomahawk Take: Opening Day: Phillies at Braves:     The first pitch of tonights opening day game is scheduled to be thrown at 7:10pm ET by Tim Hudson.  The game will...
• 4/1 numberFire: Atlanta Braves 2013 Statistical Preview: Hitting: The NL's deepest lineup? With Justin Upton in the fold, you better believe it.See More Brian McCann Juan Francisco Justin...
• 4/1 Splash Hit Blog: Postseason and Award Predictions: Don’t Worry, They’ll Be Wrong: The regular season begins this Sunday tomorrow at 5:05PM PST when the Texas Rangers play the Houston Astros in that famous AL...
• 4/1 PhoulBallz.com: Phillies at Braves: 2013 Opening Day Game Preview: At long last, the new season is upon us.  With the Phillies out of the postseason for the first time in six seasons last...
• 4/1 Full Spectrum Baseball: Ah… Predictions, Predictions: There is no true off-season in baseball. It is simply some down time to make adjustments to rosters, to reflect on past stats,...
• 4/1 Tyler's Think Tank: NL East Preview: 1st Place--Washington Nationals 2012 Record: 98-64 2012 Pythagorean: 96-66 2013 Projected: 102-60 Tom Verducci showed how...
• 4/1 The Pesky Pole: Simulating the Braves: I am just one day away from receiving my copy of OOTP 14 but today is Opening Day and it is time I turn my simulating ways to...
• 4/1 MLB Dirt: 30 Players, 30 Teams, 30 Predictions: With the 2013 Major League Baseball season imminent, I wanted to give thirty predictions involving one player from each team....
• 4/1 Venom Strikes: Comparing Opening Day Lineups in Arizona: Things are looking up in 2013 aren’t they? Opening Day is actually upon us and the anti**** around the friendly confines of...
• 4/1 District On Deck: Ten Bold Predictions For The 2013 Nationals: Recently, notable blog You Can’t Predict Baseball made their bold predictions, one for each team, for the 2013 season. They...
• 4/1 Tomahawk Take: Springing into the Regular Season: Heading into Opening Day, the Atlanta Braves finished up with a 20-15 record in Spring Training. However, that does not tell the...
• 4/1 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 4/1:   The Atlanta Journal-Constitution J-Hey gets Chipper’s locker; Gattis could start Game 2 The space belonged to Chipper...
• 4/1 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers To Extend Elvis Andrus: 11:30am: Sullivan confirms that it's an eight-year, $120MM deal with a vesting option for a ninth season and an opt-out clause...

• 3/30 StlSportsMinute.com: MLB Preview: Predicting who will win the National League East: Last season, the Washington Nationals emerged and made the playoffs one year earlier than most pundits and experts had originally...
• 3/30 Motor City Bengals: The View from Lakeland, Part One: This past week I was lucky enough to be able to spend two days in Lakeland to watch the Tigers take on the Braves and the Phillies,...
• 3/29 KC Kingdom: American League Predictions: Detroit Tigers The Team To Beat?: This time of year predictions are always a fun part of sports. Everyone has their opinions on what will happen throughout of the...
• 3/29 Tomahawk Take: Morning Chop: Braves News 3/29:   Sports Jerks Network 2013 MLB Spring Training Stats Leaders Hitters: Justin Upton (ATL): 19/67, .284 BA, .930 OPS, 6...
• 3/29 Baseballhotcorner.com: Arizona Diamondbacks Lineup Outlook For 2013 Season: The Arizona Diamondbacks offense was one of the bright spots that occurred during the 2012 season for the team. The Diamondbacks...
• 3/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Gerardo Parra: Upgrade?: Over the weekend, it was announced that Diamondbacks rookie outfielder Adam Eaton would miss the first six-to-eight weeks...
• 3/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Spring Spotlight: Dan Haren: Here is a list of pitchers who put up more fWAR from 2005 through 2011 than Dan Haren: Roy Halladay (45.2), CC Sabathia...
• 3/28 TheLeadoffWalk: Spring Spotlight: Andrelton Simmons: In the years since boasting the likes of Rafael Furcal and Edgar Renteria as its starting shortstop, the Atlanta Braves...
• 3/28 Mets360.com: Collin Cowgill, Kirk Nieuwen**** Lucas Duda, Marlon Byrd, Mike Baxter: Mets Are Pioneering the Specialist Outfield: Opening Day is four days away and a lot of Met fans are excited. It’s safe to say that the seven-week narrative that has been...
• 3/28 Billy-Ball.com: The Left Field Opening Day Revolving Door: Nine to Know: Out of left field Since 2007, the Detroit Tigers have had a different Opening Day left fielder each season. They...
• 3/28 Venom Strikes: NL West Predictions Sure To Go Wrong: Predictions are sure to go wrong. They are some of the most useless things bloggers do but it’s also some of the most enjoyable...
• 3/28 TheFantasyFix.com: How To Do A Snake Draft: A Flow Chart: If you have a draft coming up this weekend and you have no idea what to do, I have the answer for you. The answer is the image...
• 3/28 Tomahawk Take: 2013 NL Awards Predictions: With the season just a few days away, it is a great time to predict the next six months, trying to project who could win the major...
• 3/27 Mets Merized: 2013 MLB Preview: National League West: NL West At A Glance Arizona Diamondbacks: The D’Backs made tough decisions this off-season  They decided to build their...
• 3/27 Venom Strikes: Improved D’backs Will Fall Short of NL West Title: These are the fun times for those of us lucky enough to blog about the Arizona Diamondbacks at venomstrikes.com.  Opening Day...
• 3/27 Baseball Jerks: 2013 MLB Spring Training Stats Leaders: March 27: With the season kicking off in less than five days, spring training is just about in the books and we can finally start talking...
• 3/27 fantasyteamadvice.com: Who to take with the 12th pick in a twelve team ESPN snake draft?: So you drew the short straw for your 12 team ESPN fantasy draft, and you find yourself with the 12th pick.  There is no question...
• 3/26 Tomahawk Take: Chris Johnson: 2013 Projections Atlanta Braves:   The third base positional battle for the Atlanta Braves has been well documented through the 2013 spring training.  Juan...
• 3/25 Rising Apple: 3/25 Game Recap: Dillon Gee Stifles Braves; Mets Win 7-4: The big story here is Dillon Gee with an excellent fine-tuning as we settle into the last week of spring training. He was fantastic,...
• 3/25 TheFantasyFix.com: Rotters and Sleepers: Right Fielders: We finally reach the end of the series on rotters and sleepers. Right field might be the last position on the diamond, but there...
• 3/25 Tomahawk Take: Mets @ Braves 3/25:   The New York Mets will travel north to Kissimmee Florida today to take on the Atlanta Braves.  The 1:05pm (ET) start to...
• 3/25 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees official on Vernon Wells trade: Where was this money in December?: When I woke up this morning I felt like the Vernon Wells trade was just a (bad) dream. Unfortunately when I opened Google Reader...
• 3/25 Tomahawk Take: Braves Are One Week Away:   Some may say that next Monday should be a national holiday, some may give the boss the “sick” excuse but for...
• 3/25 Tomahawk Take: It’s a Draw – Braves to Platoon at Third Base: The battle for the Braves starting third base job looks like ending in a draw as Skipper Fredi Gonzalez said Friday he’ll likely...
• 3/25 Tomahawk Take: Braves Are One Week Away:   Some may say that next Monday should be a national holiday, some may give the boss the “sick” excuse but for...
• 3/24 Baseball Musings: Team Offense, Atlanta Braves: Dan Uggla and B.J. Upton represent 2/3 of the starting U’s in the Braves lineup. Photo: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports The...
• 3/24 Through The Fence Baseball: Philadelphia Phillies preview: Is the window open for another year?: The Philadelphia Phillies hobbled into 2012 with a variety of spare parts playing significant roles on a daily basis. Injuries...
• 3/23 fantasyteamadvice.com: Drafting with the tenth pick in 10 team formats for 2013 fantasy baseball – late round sleepers: No one really wants to have to pick last on draft day, but the fact remains someone will draw the short straw, and if that someone...
• 3/23 Baseball News Source: Diamondbacks Adam Eaton Sprains Elbow, to Miss Two Months: The Arizona Diamondbacks have had one complicated off-season when it comes to the outfield and now it’s about to get a little...
• 3/23 Baseball Press: Clinical Notes: Motte, Eaton to Start Season on DL: Jason Motte will start the season on the DL with elbow strain. (US Presswire)St. Louis Cardinals reliever Jason Motte and Arizona...
• 3/22 fantasyteamadvice.com: Who to draft with the second overall pick in 2013 fantasy baseball? Roster expectations from the second slot in the draft: Have the second overall pick in your 10 team fantasy baseball draft?  This is an ideal position to be drafting from, obviously,...
• 3/22 Tomahawk Take: Tim Hudson Sharp Against Nationals: Tim Hudson threw 6 shutout innings against the Nationals probable starting lineup and looked ready for his opening day assignment...
• 3/22 EDSBaseball: 2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings - Top 50 Outfielders: In the vast majority of fantasy baseball drafts this season, the first player selected is going to be an outfielder.  While...
• 3/22 Through The Fence Baseball: Seattle Mariners preview: Bringing in the old could help out the young: The Seattle Mariners tried to convince Josh Hamilton to bring his talents to the Pacific Northwest. That didn’t work. Then they...
• 3/21 Baseballhotcorner.com: Arizona Diamondbacks 2013 Season Preview: The Arizona Diamondbacks had high expectations coming into the 2012 season. They were not able to meet those expectations that...
• 3/21 Through The Fence Baseball: Texas Rangers preview: Post-Josh era should be a success: After a disappointing end to the 2012 season and an offseason where the club failed to land any marquee players, the Texas Rangers...
• 3/20 Baseball Jerks: MLB Spring Training Stats Leaders: March 20: Spring training is a young man’s game. While experienced vets tend to take it easy as they ramp up for the games that actually...
• 3/20 TheFantasyFix.com: FSWA Expert League Draft Recap: Positional Scarcity Has Gotten Out of Hand: I had the privilege of parti**** in a draft Monday night with fellow members of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. This particular...
• 3/20 Call to the Pen: The Atlanta Braves New World: The Atlanta Braves enter 2013 seeking a return trip to the postseason minus the face of the franchise. After 19 years with the...
• 3/20 Through The Fence Baseball: Arizona Diamondbacks preview: Almost but not quite in 2013: After surprising everyone in 2011 by taking the National League West crown, no one was fooled in 2012 as the Arizona Diamondbacks...
• 3/20 Tomahawk Take: Atlanta Braves NEXT: Martin Prado:   When the Atlanta Braves made the Justin Upton trade that involved sending Martin Prado to the Arizona Diamondbacks, Braves...
• 3/19 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Notes: Goldschmidt, Towers, Delgado: Here's the latest news from Chase Field... Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers said "there may be" other players he will look into...
• 3/19 Justin Jabs: Hank Aaron (@HenryLouisAaron) joins Twitter: Image from Hank Aaron‘s Twitter account Milwaukee Braves and Brewers great Hank Aaron has joined Twitter. Posting under...
• 3/19 fantasyteamadvice.com: 3rd overall pick in fantasy baseball 2013? Here is an idea of who to take and which players may be available: So you drew the third spot in your fantasy baseball draft and want to know who is likely to fall to you on draft day?  Here are...
• 3/18 Tomahawk Take: Atlanta Braves Score 17, Upton 6 RBI’s:   The Braves put up their highest total runs Monday afternoon with 17 guys crossing the plate.  The offense was led by Justin...
• 3/18 Through The Fence Baseball: Atlanta Braves: Grapefruit League impressions are positive: We’re into full spring swing, and the speculation surrounding the Atlanta Braves is in sixth gear. With spring training...
• 3/18 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Take On The Flu Bug, and the Snakes Today At Camelback: Carl Crawford made his Dodger debut yesterday afternoon, in their split squad win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Crawford batted...
• 3/18 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Stressed over your First Round pick? You can relax.: My grammie would always say, “If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard that a 100 times.” And you’re...
• 3/17 Tomahawk Take: Paul Maholm Cruises As Braves Beat Yankees: Last week I said Paul Maholm was struggling with control but as a veteran he had time to work it out. He did work it out and it...
• 3/17 mlbreports.com : Martin Prado Will Prove To Be A Valuable Player For The Arizona Diamondbacks: Like us on Facebook here Sunday, March.17, 2013 By Chris Lacey (Baseball Writer) The Arizona Diamondbacks made several moves...
• 3/15 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Same Face, New Place - Outfield: So many valuable fantasy outfielders have traded in the old cap for a new one.  Some guys will have to live up to the pressure...
• 3/15 KC Kingdom: NL East Predictions: Every spring, it is always fun to make pointless and meaningless predictions on the outcome of the upcoming baseball season. Regardless...
• 3/15 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: 7 Burning Questions For the 2013 MLB Season: The 2013 Major League Baseball season is just weeks from first pitch. Teams are starting to make cuts in camp, pitchers are...
• 3/14 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Will Look To Trade Andrus, Barring Extension : The Rangers will look to deal shortstop Elvis Andrus next offseason if the club can't sign him to a multiyear extension, CBS Sports'...
• 3/14 Venom Strikes: Early Exit by Venezuela is a Boost for the D’backs: Venezuela’s surprisngly early departure from the World Baseball Classic meant that some valuable members of the Arizona...
• 3/14 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Same Face, New Place - Infield: Last year Jose Reyes, Ryan Doumit, Aramis Ramirez and other infielders signed with a new team and had solid seasons. ...
• 3/13 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: 30 Players, 30 Teams - Atlanta Braves: In this series, we are going to spotlight one player on each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. However, we won't...
• 3/13 Tomahawk Take: Braves Future Stars Highlight Tuesday: It was a good Tuesday for the future stars in the Braves galaxy. Here are a few that made me smile. Andrelton Simmons I’m not...
• 3/13 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: The Diamondbacks' Best Offseason Acquisition: No one can accuse Diamondbacks General Manager Kevin Towers of taking it easy this winter.  The D'Backs finished with a .500...
• 3/11 We Talk Fantasy Sports: The Case For Hanley Ramirez: Hanley Ramirez is one of the more aggravating players in fantasy baseball. Players see his tantalizing ceiling, then heave exasperated...
• 3/11 District On Deck: Spring Training Game 16: Atlanta Braves 7, Washington Nationals 2: It was an Opening Day lineup for the Washington Nationals on Monday, but the team is hoping it was not an Opening Day result....
• 3/11 District On Deck: Preview And Lineups: Spring Training Game 16 | Atlanta Braves @ Washington Nationals: A home game today for the Washington Nationals which means that we get a regular lineup for the game today against the Atlanta...
• 3/11 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Finding Outfield ValueAt the tail end of last week I recorded a fantasy baseball podcast segment for The Phil Naessens Show.  We More......
• 3/10 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: 30 Players, 30 Teams - Arizona Diamondbacks: In this series, we are going to spotlight one player on each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. However, we won't be highlighting...
• 3/10 Tomahawk Take: Braves Spring Training–The Story So Far: Two weeks into spring training 2013 and. . . The Braves are 7-8-0  in spring training games, not that wins mean anything but...
• 3/9 The Writer's Journey: 2013 TWJ cards…updated daily (so far): Are you following TWJ Cards on tumblr? A new card is being posted daily (at least so far). We have seen Chris Heisey, Yonder Alonso,...
• 3/8 Full Spectrum Baseball: Calling All Short Stops: During the off season, Arizona Diamondbacks fans certainly had their hearts toyed with from the whirlwind of trade talk that constantly...
• 3/8 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Yahoo Fantasy Baseball ADP Mock Draft: Understanding Average Draft Position is a key element to a great draft.  You may feel that other people have players ranked...
• 3/8 Sultan of Squat: 2013 NL East Predictions: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
• 3/8 MLBTradeRumors: Cardinals Extend Allen Craig: The Cardinals announced that they agreed to a five-year extension with first baseman/outfielder Allen Craig (Twitter link). The...
• 3/7 Mets Merized: MMO Fantasy Rankings: Outfielders: I heard through the grapevine that the lot of you are looking to Xtreem and I for fantasy advice. Yes, like thirsty wanderers...
• 3/7 Baseball Musings: Single Minded: Jonathan Bernhardt wonders if Kirk Gibson‘s intensity is holding back the Diamondbacks: The general manager of the Arizona...
• 3/6 Tomahawk Take: Jonny Venters Trade Rumors:   Late Wednesday afternoon we heard Ken Rosenthal report that the Atlanta Braves will listen on trades talks involving relief...
• 3/6 Sultan of Squat: 2013 AL West Preview:   My fellow baseball fans. We are almost halfway through the 2013 MLB preview/predictions. If you missed the first two installments,...
• 3/6 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Atlanta Braves: The Braves crafted a dynamic outfield by acquiring the Upton brothers, but were weakened at third base in the process. Major...
• 3/5 Porcupines in Pinstripes: Spring Training Roundup – March 5: After an off-day, the New York Yankees spring training squad went under the lights at George M. Steinbrenner Field to take on...
• 3/4 Atlanta Bullpen: Brian McCann Faces Pressure-Filled 2013 Season: Braves catcher Brian McCann will face major challenges this season, and he will be facing them with a surgically repaired right...
• 3/4 Atlanta Bullpen: Braves Pitchers and Catchers Report Today: Even though the winter rain keeps falling in Georgia, and spring still appears a ways away, the Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers...
• 3/4 Atlanta Bullpen: Evan Gattis: Will the Braves Showcase Gattis in Spring Games?: A few weeks ago, Braves farm hand Evan Gattis was all the rage in the media.  His colorful personal journey was told, and re-told,...
• 3/4 Atlanta Bullpen: Braves Line-Up Resembles Steak and Ice Cream: I really want to get excited about the trade that brought Justin Upton to Atlanta.  What is strange, is that I really like Justin...
• 3/4 Atlanta Bullpen: The Evan Gattis Atlanta Braves Irony: Braves right-handed power hitter Evan Gattis continued his good work Saturday against the Astros, as he lined a single to left,...
• 3/4 Rising Apple: 3/4 Game Recap: New York Mets Fall to Atlanta Braves 4-2: The Braves traveled to Port St. Lucie this afternoon with all three of their heralded outfielders (Justin Upton, B.J. Upton, and...
• 3/4 Nolan Writin': Nolan Writin’ Division Winners And Playoff Predictions: The other day I sent an email to the other three writers for Nolan Writin’ — Mike G., Clayton and the other Eric —...
• 3/3 New York Mets Report: Alderson Has No Regrets On Not Getting Bourn Or Upton: The Mets aren’t exactly sprinting out of the spring training gate – and their outfield remains a question – but GM Sandy...
• 3/1 District On Deck: Preview And Lineups: Spring Training Game 7 | Washington Nationals @ Atlanta Braves: For the second consecutive night, there is baseball which is a nice change from afternoon games every day. Sure, it starts at...
• 3/1 Chicken Friars: Robert Moreno’s 2013 National League West Predictions:   Expect a tight divisional race this season with the divisional crown coming down to the wire. Their should be a lot of...
• 3/1 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Baltimore Orioles: The Orioles added outfield depth and bolstered their bench this winter. Yet Dan Duquette’s second offseason as the club’s...
• 3/1 WasWatching: Consider This About Slade Heathcott & Mason Williams: Slade Heathcott is 22-year old.  And, Mason Williams is 21-years old.  To date, neither of them has played a single game at...
• 3/1 MLB Injury News: Braves rumors: Atlanta seeking LHH reserve player: Scouts have told Buster Olney of ESPN that the Atlanta Braves are looking for a left-handed-hitter that can man a reserve role. Scouts...
• 3/1 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cano, Cashman, Perez, Snyder, Mets: The Cardinals are better-positioned for success over the next five years than any other team in the majors, according to the latest...

• 2/28 SoDo Mojo: Nick Franklin at the Top of Shortstop Prospects List: Nick Franklin just hit his first home run of the season in the Seattle Mariners vs. San Francisco Giants spring training game....
• 2/28 Through The Fence Baseball: Atlanta Braves adjusting to life without Chipper Jones: This will be the first season in 18 years the Atlanta Braves take the field without their legendary third baseman. The moves the...
• 2/28 elysianfielders.com: Are There Benefits to Sibling Rivalry?: Brothers B.J. and Justin Upton are now both Braves, thanks to the November signing that brought B.J. to Atlanta and the trade...
• 2/28 Full Spectrum Baseball: Booed Off The Team: Fans should still be able to cheer and mutter disappointment or use friendly banter, but there is a time when it goes too far....
• 2/28 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2013 MLB Preview – Day 5 – NL East: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2013 MLB preview.  Over the next few days you will get a team by team look at its...
• 2/28 Mets360.com: Collin Cowgill making the most of his opportunity: “I gotta have more Cowgill!” Ok, now that that’s out of my system, I promise no more references to the famous SNL skit “I...
• 2/28 Baseball News Source: Diamondbacks News: Brandon McCarthy Impressive in First Start Since Head Injury: Brandon McCarthy would like nothing more than to move on from the horrific line drive to the head injury which shut down his season...
• 2/28 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2013 MLB Preview – Day 5 – NL East: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2013 MLB preview.  Over the next few days you will get a team by team look at its...
• 2/27 Rontrarian Report: Players to Watch for in 2013 . . . → Read More: Players to Watch for in 2013...
• 2/27 Mets Merized: Sandy Alderson On Leadoff Position, Kirk Nieuwen**** Ruben Tejada, Expectations: Joe D. It’s been widely reported that Kirk Nieuwen**** will be strongly considered as a leadoff candidate this season despite...
• 2/27 MLBTradeRumors: Orioles Notes: Upton, Uehara, Urrutia: A few notes on the Orioles.. The Orioles considered trading pitching for a hitter last offseason, but decided not to deal...
• 2/27 Venom Strikes: Adam Eaton is on Fire: I know we are not supposed to be giddy about Spring Training statistics, particularly when the calendar shows that it is still...
• 2/27 Through The Fence Baseball: Can Lance Berkman bounce back in 2013 with Texas Rangers?: As if blowing their division lead on the regular season’s final day wasn’t miserable enough, the Texas Rangers followed...
• 2/27 Obstructed View: 2013 Cubs Projections: Starlin Castro: Before we get to Starlin Castro's 2013 Cubs Projections, I wanted to talk a little bit about something else in regard to Castro....
• 2/27 That Ball's Outta Here: Jayson Werth and Jon Morosi Say Phillies Are Better Than Atlanta; Are They?: The general consensus around baseball is that the Phillies are, at best, the third-best team in the National League East. That...
• 2/27 Through The Fence Baseball: D-backs outfielder Gerardo Parra remains positive and patient: Gerardo Parra, the Arizona Diamondback’s Gold Glove-winning outfielder, will be 26 years old in May with four big-league...
• 2/27 MLBTradeRumors: Royals Notes: Shields, Davis, Tejada: The Royals are looking for their first .500 finish since 2003, and there's optimism that the team could surprise people following...
• 2/26 Tomahawk Take: Atlanta Braves Thru Five: The Atlanta Braves have played five spring training games in 2013 and have accumulated a 2-3 record.  The spring training record...
• 2/26 MLB Injury News: Mets rumors: NY had expected to add Justin Upton or Michael Bourn: Entering the offseason, one of the New York Mets’ top priorities was improving their outfield. This ultimately didn’t happen,...
• 2/26 mlbreports.com : Hotlanta OF: Hey – U and U!: Like us on Facebook here Tuesday February 26th, 2013 Bernie Olshansky (Baseball Writer): After the signings and trade this winter,...
• 2/26 District On Deck: Preview And Lineups: Spring Training Game 4 | Washington Nationals @ Atlanta Braves: Today will be the first start for Ross Detwiler as he gets set for the season, as well as the World Baseball Classic. The Nationals...
• 2/26 Marlin Maniac: Spring Training 2013 Recap: Atlanta Braves 7, Miami Marlins 6: Monday afternoon started with a lot of promise for the Miami Marlins in their Grapefruit league matchup against their division...
• 2/26 Mets360.com: : This past off season was mired in small moves. The Mets didn’t make the large splash everyone had hoped. Even GM Sandy Alderson...
• 2/26 Marlin Maniac: Baseball Is Back!!!!: Let me show you something.  Watch this video. Go ahead, I can wait. You watched it? Okay. BASEBALL’S BACK! BASEBALL! BASEBALL!...
• 2/25 Mets Merized: Mets Willing To Deal Murphy or Tejada, Plus Montero, Fulmer or Syndergaard For Upton?: While the Mets try to make do with an outfield made up of what would likely be utility outfielders on most other teams, John Harper...
• 2/25 MLBTradeRumors: Mets Notes: Upton, Bourn, Murphy, Tejada: Despite the optimistic financial future that prin**** owner Fred Wilpon recently outlined to reporters, the Mets might not have...
• 2/25 Rising Apple: Mets Notes from Spring Training: 2/25: News and notes will be emerging throughout the day.  This post will be updated as new pieces of information come in (newest at...
• 2/25 Mets Merized: MLB Exec On Amazin’ Outfield: They Didn’t Act Decisively, Typical Mets: While the Mets try to make do with an outfield made up of what would likely be utility outfielders on most other teams, John Harper...
• 2/25 Tomahawk Take: Braves Outfield – Better or Worse in 2013? Part 2: In part 1 of this examination I covered the potential reduced effectiveness of the Braves outfield defense following the replacement...
• 2/24 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Marlins, Diamondbacks, Teheran, Blue Jays: This morning, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria took out ad space in multiple South Florida newspapers to pen an open letter to fans...
• 2/24 Full Spectrum Baseball: The Next Knuckler Reports To CampJosh Booty may have won the MLB Network’s “The Next Knuckler,” but his work has just begun....
• 2/23 The Beanball: National League: Projected Platoons for 2013: With the ever rising cost of offense, more and more teams are looking to platoons as low-cost, high-reward options. The platoon...
• 2/23 mlbreports.com : Bryce Harper – The Nats LF: Like us on Facebook here Saturday, February. 23/2013 By David Huzzard (Nationals Correspondent via Citizens of Natstown.com –...
• 2/23 Redlegs Review: Top 25 Reds wins at GABP (25-11): by: Dan Howard Staff Writer I have an unusual hobby. I’ve been keeping journals of Cincinnati Reds games since 1991....
• 2/23 Tomahawk Take: Braves Outfield Defense- Better or Worse in 2013? Part 1: Last week in my post on news you may have missed I quoted a fellow fan who said that the trade of Martin Prado et al for Justin...
• 2/22 Mets Merized: Featured Post: Doomsday Prep for Mets Fans: I’m so very tired of all the complaining and whining about how bad the Mets are. The Mets aren’t really that bad and unless...
• 2/22 Mets Merized: Doomsday Prep for Mets Fans: I’m so very tired of all the complaining and whining about how bad the Mets are. The Mets aren’t really that bad and unless...
• 2/22 Redlegs Review: Ranking the top 10 catchers in baseball: Reds fans remember this swing all too well. Posey's grand slam in Game 5 of the NLDS essentially ended Cincy's season. by:...
• 2/21 Baseballhotcorner.com: How To Interest Your Wife In Baseball: 5 Easy Steps: Growing up, I always wanted to enjoy watching baseball with my wife. Somehow, I forgot to include that in my requirements prior...
• 2/20 Nolan Writin': Even More Spring Training Musings: Earlier I read Jason Parks’ overview of the Rangers’ farm system, and I must say: I’m impressed. First and foremost,...
• 2/20 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks Optimism High As Post-Upton Era Begins: The Diamondbacks are just a few days into spring training so naturally the confidence level is gushing from all corners of Salt...
• 2/20 Through The Fence Baseball: Heyward and the Uptons should be a big hit for Atlanta Braves: Nearly two months after signing B.J. Upton to the largest free agent contract in Atlanta Braves history, the organization...
• 2/19 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Could 2013 Braves Set New Strike-out Standard: In 2012, the upstart Oakland Athletics set an American League record by striking out 1387 times as a team. For a team that...
• 2/19 Through The Fence Baseball: Do Atlanta Braves have enough to ‘chop’ Washington Nationals?: Following a hot stove winter where the Atlanta Braves made extraordinary moves to keep pace with the Washington Nationals, fans...
• 2/19 Tomahawk Take: Playing Pepper 2013: Atlanta Braves: **The words of the guys at cardinal70.com from bloggers Leslie Koerdt (SIOYL), William Tasker (FF) and myself (TT)** For the fifth...
• 2/18 Redlegs Review: Ranking the top 10 left fielders in baseball: Hate him or love him, Braun is one of the best outfielders in the game by: Chase Fitzgerald Staff Writer 1. Ryan...
• 2/18 Baseball News Source: National League: Projected Platoons for 2013: With the ever rising cost of offense, more and more teams are looking to platoons as low-cost, high-reward options. The platoon...
• 2/18 Call to the Pen: New York Mets Unlikely to Upgrade Outfield: After a winter in which they failed (or succeeded, depending on your perspective) to hand out a single Major League contract to...
• 2/18 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Jason Kubel, Giants, Indians: On this day in baseball history in 1987, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly won his arbitration hearing against the team to...
• 2/17 PaulLebowitz.com: National League Breakout/Rebound Candidates (Or Cheap Gets For Your Fantasy Team): Last week, I looked at breakout/rebound candidates for the American League, some of whom will be very, very cheap pickups for...
• 2/17 North and South of Royal Brougham: Latest Kendrys Morales News, and Burying Your Head in the Sand: For a large chunk of the past year the Mariners have seemed intent on over thinking the 1B/C/DH/Cleanup hitter spots on their...
• 2/17 Tomahawk Take: Chipper Jones: He’s BACK!!!:   Chipper Jones will return to the Atlanta Braves spring training facilities on Sunday (February 17th) as a guest instructor...
• 2/17 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Crane, Upton Brothers, Sandoval: The Marlins will be paying Ozzie Guillen $2.5MM this season not to manage the team, according to D.J. Short of NBCSports.com...
• 2/16 mlbreports.com : Arizona DiamondBacks Roster In 2013: State Of The Union: Like us on Facebook here Saturday, February.16, 2013 By Chris Lacey (Diamond Backs Correspondent) Arizona Diamondbacks fans had...
• 2/15 Rising Apple: Aside from the Outfield…: A few days ago, Sandy Alderson had the following to say after he was asked about the current state of the outfield: Let me ask...
• 2/15 Billy-Ball.com: VIDEO: D-backs do the Harlem Shake: So, throughout the Diamondbacks shopping of the Justin Upton there was talk that the Kirk Gibson did not like the intensity of...
• 2/15 Nolan Writin': 30 Rangers In 30 Days: Olt & Profar: Yesterday Jon Daniels threw a wet blanket over the fire to quiet — but not completely extinguish — speculation of...
• 2/14 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Links: D'Backs, Torrealba, Crawford, Colletti: Diamondbacks outfielder Adam Eaton holds the top spot on Keith Law's top 20 list of prospects (ESPN Insider subscription required)...
• 2/14 For Baseball Junkies: Diamondbacks All-Time Team v.2012: Today, we're looking at the Diamondbacks All-Time team.  In addition to our normal review, we added an infielder, an outfielder...
• 2/14 mlbreports.com : Arizona DiamondBacks Payroll In 2013: And Contracts Going Forward: Like us on Facebook here Thursday, February.14, 2013 By Chris Lacey (Diamond Backs Correspondent) The Diamondbacks finished the...
• 2/14 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks knew about Didi Gregorius' elbow: There comes a point in our time as fans or our time as baseball writers where we forget an important part of team management....
• 2/14 Tomahawk Take: Braves News You May Have Missed: Now that pitchers and catchers have reported to Orlando, Braves’ news has started to pop up all day long.  Some of this...
• 2/14 Tomahawk Take: Spring Training is Off:   The Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers reported to Kissimmee Florida earlier this week bringing along most others. ...
• 2/13 Tyler's Think Tank: Bourn Settles for Cleveland: With spring training only days away and another long winter without baseball drawing to a close, Michael Bourn has found...
• 2/13 Rising Apple: Full Transcript: Sandy Alderson on WFAN this Afternoon: This afternoon, Sandy Alderson spoke with Mike Francesa on WFAN for close to 40 minutes.  Alderson was extremely open and honest,...
• 2/12 Rising Apple: Michael Bourn: Post Mortem: Michael Bourn is a Cleveland Indian. As Mets fans, we need to move on. However, the debate has been so lively about Bourn and...
• 2/12 Venom Strikes: FanFest Shows People Are Excited About the D’backs: The Arizona Diamondbacks held their annual FanFest this past weekend with another large crowd turning out for a day of fun...
• 2/12 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Five Underrated Yet Difference Making Offseason Moves: As players start to pour into camp, the 2013 offseason has officially come to an end. There were a flurry of moves this winter,...
• 2/12 Billy-Ball.com: A Hard Look at B.J. Upton: There are a number of folks out there who have simply gone Lady Gaga over the Atlanta Braves outfield, and that’s not Lady-like,...
• 2/12 Baseball Analytics: Three Holes in B.J. Upton's Swing: There are many reasons for Atlanta Braves fans to be very excited about the future outfield of the B.J. Upton, Justin Upton,...
• 2/12 Tomahawk Take: Divisonal Positional Comparisons: The Outfield: After looking at the infields around the division, we now move to the outfield.  Aside from the Marlins finishing last at every...
• 2/11 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy baseball: Felix Hernandez elbow a reason to balk?: Throughout the offseason, many headlines grabbed our attention. Josh Hamilton goes to the Angels, Justin Upton gets traded to...
• 2/11 mlbreports.com : Arizona Diamondbacks Gerardo Parra Will Try To Hold Onto His OF Spot In 2013: Like us on Facebook here Monday, February.11, 2013 By Chris Lacey (Diamond Backs Correspondent) Gerardo Parra was signed by the...
• 2/11 Through The Fence Baseball: Spring training questions the Philadelphia Phillies must answer: With football season officially over, it’s now time to focus on the start of another baseball season. For the Philadelphia...
• 2/11 Baseball Jerks: 2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings – Outfielders: When it comes to ranking fantasy outfielders, the biggest difficulty comes from the sheer volume of choices.  There are simply...
• 2/11 Call to the Pen: The Arizona Diamondbacks Offseason: The Leaning Towers of Phoenix: The Arizona Diamondbacks offseason was tumultuous, two trades were made that will shape the franchise for years to come. The result...
• 2/10 Rising Apple: The Grass Isn’t Always Greener: This isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems that whenever it’s time to predict what will happen during the coming season,...
• 2/10 Through The Fence Baseball: What should the Texas Rangers do with Elvis Andrus?:   The Texas Rangers are in a fortunate, yet precarious, situation where the club has seemingly incredible depth at shortstop...
• 2/9 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Diamondbacks Lock-Up Silver Slugger Aaron Hill: The Arizona Diamondbacks s**** up another position player for the immediate future on Friday when they signed 2012 Silver...
• 2/8 Baseball Press: Three Up, Three Down - 2013 Outfielders: Adam Eaton figures to see plenty of at-bats for Arizona in 2013. (US Presswire)Baseball Press presents a returning miniseries...
• 2/8 Through The Fence Baseball: Breaking up ain’t hard to do: Justin Upton gets dumped: There’s a certain egotistical motif in the world of editorial writing these days where the author takes some current event in...
• 2/8 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: MLB Top Prospects Ready to Make An Impact: Major League Baseball released its 2013 Top Prospects list on Tuesday night showcasing the best and brightest of what baseball’s...
• 2/8 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: PREVIEWING THE 2013 ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS: It is time to examine what the Arizona Diamondbacks have been up to since last season’s disappointing 81-81 .500 record. ...
• 2/8 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Keeping Warm By The Hot Stove: I don’t know about any of you folks, but it is certainly cold where I’m at. About the only thing keeping me warm if the...
• 2/8 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Blockbuster: Braves and Diamondbacks Complete Upton Trade: The Arizona Diamondbacks finally found a trade to Justin Upton's liking, trading the 25-year-old, two-time All-Star to the...
• 2/8 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Reports: Upton Declines Trade to Seattle: According to a report by CBSSports.com's Scott Miller, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners had a deal in place...
• 2/8 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: New Year, New Hot Stove: Could Taijuan Walker be used as bait to land Giancarlo Stanton? The first pitchers and catchers are set to report to spring training...
• 2/7 Blog Red Machine: Is Jay Bruce A Top 10 Right Fielder?: On January 25th, MLB Network unveiled their lists of the top 10 right fielders in baseball right now. Bill James, Eric Byrnes,...
• 2/6 Redlegs Review: Brandon Phillips takes part in ESPN's upcoming music tribute issue: Reds Gold Glove second basemen Brandon Phillips was among a group of MLB players who recreated DEVO's "Freedom of...
• 2/6 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Arizona D’Backs Hitting-Pitching Projections: Arizona Diamondbacks — Predicted Finish: Third Place, NL West Whether you’re evaluating a team’s real baseball...
• 2/6 Bleeding Yankee Blue: THE YANKEES ARE STILL THRIFT SHOPPING: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
• 2/5 MLBRandomFandom: The Mysterious Rangers Offseason: by Nick Bell Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 2/5 Tomahawk Take: Braves Spring Training Third Base Duel: Juan Francisco and Chris Johnson’s play this spring will decide which man holds the third base job or if the Braves use a ...
• 2/4 mlbreports.com : Justin Upton Trade Opens A Window For The Braves And Ends An Era For The D’backs: Like us on Facebook here Monday, February.04,  2013 By Nicholas Rossoletti (MLB Reports Trade Correspondent): What many Arizona...
• 2/4 MLB Injury News: Michael Bourn rumors: Rays, Mets, Mariners fits for free agent?: Michael Bourn remains a free agent, and Jim Bowden of ESPN speculates that the Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets and Seattle Mariners...
• 2/3 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: A look back at the original reporting and analysis found on MLBTR this past week: Ben Nicholson-Smith parti**** in the conference...
• 2/3 Bleeding Yankee Blue: READING THE FINE PRINT IN THE LUXURY TAX INCENTIVE: This off season we have constantly heard about Hal Steinbrenner’s plan to get the Yankees under $189M by 2014 and avoid...
• 2/3 MLB Injury News: Arizona Diamondbacks Avoid Arbitration with Martin Prado: The Arizona Diamondbacks have avoided arbitration with outfielder/third basemen Martin Prado, reports Steve Gilbert of MLB.com. ...
• 2/3 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: Have The Rangers Done Enough?: After reaching the World Series two seasons in a row, the Rangers suffered a setback in 2012 when they failed to advance past...
• 2/2 Venom Strikes: White Sox Claim Anderson Off Waivers: Lars Anderson, the infielder picked up by the D’backs from Cleveland in the Trevor Bauer trade, has been claimed off of...
• 2/2 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Stay Away from the Arizona Oufield: When the Diamondbacks traded Justin Upton to the Braves, they gave Atlanta a pretty star-heavy outfield. They also seemingly lessened...
• 2/1 MLBTradeRumors: Martin Prado Talks Extension: Martin Prado didn’t expect Frank Wren to call last week, so he was surprised to hear the Braves general manager explain that...
• 2/1 Through The Fence Baseball: Reaction to Justin Upton, Chris Johnson and Martin Prado trade: Last week, the Atlanta Braves landed Justin Upton, a former number-one draft pick (2005), to play along side newly signed B.J....
• 2/1 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: MLB Top Prospects Ready to Make An Impact: Major League Baseball released its 2013 Top Prospects list on Tuesday night showcasing the best and brightest of what baseball’s...
• 2/1 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 39: 10 Years in Undignified Retreat: Not much to say by way of introduction this week. Only, I suppose, that we ought to listen to more “Waltzing Matilda.”...

• 1/31 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks Sign Prado to 4-Year, $40 Million Deal: The Arizona Diamondbacks signed newly acquired Martin Prado to a four-year, $40 million deal today. The organization insured that...
• 1/31 Nolan Writin': I’m Just Sitting Here Watching The Wheels Go Round And Round: The Rangers’ offseason is intellectually frustrating. Granted, one could easily argue that each move made by Jon Daniels...
• 1/31 Rising Apple: All Alderson, All The Time: Last night at Citi Field, Sandy Alderson and his top lieutenants held a Q & A with a group of season ticket holders.  With...
• 1/31 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: So Much For That Exciting January: On the final day of December, I wrote that “the Dodger offseason isn’t close to being over” and that between...
• 1/30 Chicken Friars: Tim Stauffer Re-Signs with the San Diego Padres; Fans Get it Right!: After reading Chicken Friars’ Dominic Di Tolla’s argument for why it would be wise for the Padres to re-sign Tim Stauffer,...
• 1/30 Venom Strikes: Some Issues with “Gibby Ball” in 2013: In the aftermath of the Justin Upton trade, we have heard alot about what type of team the Arizona Diamondbacks will field in...
• 1/30 Bryan Harvey's Moustache: Alberto Callaspo Deserves Your Love: Last week it was reported that the Angels were close to signing Alberto Callaspo to a 2-year deal worth $8.975 million. The narrative...
• 1/30 SoDo Mojo: Why Justin Upton Just Wasn’t Worth It for the Seattle Mariners: Ultimately, Justin Upton had put the Seattle Mariners on his no-trade list, so his prospects of becoming a Mariner were really...
• 1/30 Tyler's Think Tank: Projecting the Braves Outfield: With Justin Upton  on board, Atlanta has assembled a dynamic outfield Nearly two months after signing B.J. Upton...
• 1/30 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Saunders, White Sox, Konerko, Prospects: Rangers shortstop Jurickson Profar tops MLB.com's list of the top 100 prospects in baseball for 2013.  Profar has been the subject...
• 1/29 Baseball Jerks: Fantasy Baseball Rookies – Adam Eaton: A few weeks ago, this would have been a much different discussion, but now that the Diamondbacks have created room in their outfield,...
• 1/29 MLBTradeRumors: NL East Links: Marrero, Prado, Silverio : A few notable NL East players and teams are mentioned in Paul Swydan's ESPN Insider piece (subscription required) about "certain...
• 1/29 MLBTradeRumors: AL West Notes: Moss, Jaso, Angels, Astros: Here's the latest from around the AL West... Athletics GM Billy Beane tells Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe that the A's...
• 1/29 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Justin Upton, Super Bowl, Chris Brown: Contributors: Eliza Bayne, Jeffrey Stauffer, Stephen Arenholtz, Atman Thakrar, Glen Hentz The hottest topics for the week of January...
• 1/29 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers May Be Finding Trade Market For Rick Porcello To Be Soft: Rick Porcello’s name has been batted around in trade rumors by various reporters from various outlets since the team re-upped...
• 1/29 The Beanball: Which Outfielder Should the Diamondbacks Trade?: There have been a lot of rumors surrounding the Arizona Diamondbacks and their outfield depth. Especially now with the recent,...
• 1/29 Venom Strikes: The 2009 D’backs Draft Class Is Paying Off: MLB Network unveils its list of the Top 100 Prospects in Major League Baseball tonight at 9 PM EST.   Lefty pitcher Tyler Skaggs...
• 1/29 Through The Fence Baseball: PED allegations: Should Texas Rangers, Nelson Cruz part ways?: Early Tuesday morning, a report from the Miami New Times named Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz, along with Alex Rodriguez,...
• 1/29 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy baseball: The big three draft picks in 2013: With January nearly over, we’re almost two months away from opening day and a new season of fantasy baseball. Spring training...
• 1/29 PaulLebowitz.com: Analysis of the Braves-Diamondbacks Trade, Part II: For the Diamondbacks: The avalanche of circumstances that necessitated the trade of Justin Upton began when Kevin Towers was hired as Diamondbacks GM....
• 1/29 Tomahawk Take: The New Face of the Atlanta Braves: This offseason has been one of the most exciting that I have witnessed being a Braves fan for as long as I can remember.   In...
• 1/29 Tomahawk Take: 2013 Early Projections: Position #1 PART 1: In this first part of the early 2013 projections we will dive into the starting pitcher position for the Atlanta Braves.  Obviously,...
• 1/29 SoDo Mojo: How Realistic are the Michael Bourn Rumors?: Michael Bourn is still a free agent, and he’s still listed as someone that the Seattle Mariners are interested in. According...
• 1/29 Through The Fence Baseball: Rangers Podcast: Justin Upton trade reaction; spring training preview: With Justin Upton heading to the Atlanta Braves to play alongside his brother, B.J. Upton, we give our reaction to the trade with...
• 1/29 Rising Apple: The Outfield Situation & Potential Targets for 2014: The Outfield Saga The 2013 season hasn’t begun, but it appears that the Mets may head into it with Lucas Duda, Kirk Nieuwen****...
• 1/28 Tomahawk Take: Press Conference: Justin Upton: The Atlanta Braves will have their newly acquired outfielder in front of the microphone on Tuesday as he will be introduced to...
• 1/28 Rays Colored Glasses: A Few Brief Thoughts on Signings Versus Trades: You make a blockbuster trade and suddenly it changes the entire landscape of baseball. The same can be said of a free agent signing,...
• 1/28 Pinstripe Pundits: Imagining a Mid-Season Fire Sale: Picture this worst case scenario for the Yankees: 10 to 15 games behind the division pace in mid-July. Injuries, underwhelming...
• 1/28 RoxPile: Is This Like Clubhouse Culture?: #clubhouseculture It means little to fans outside of Colorado, but that abstract concept serves as the buzz word for the disastrous...
• 1/28 Mets Merized: How Does Michael Bourn Play Into The Mets Endgame?: The Mets community is having a field day with Michael Bourn these days. I figured I might as well chime in too. First, let’s...
• 1/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Analysis of the Braves-Diamondbacks Trade, Part I: For the Braves: In exchange for outfielder Justin Upton and third baseman Chris Johnson, the Braves gave up infielder/outfielder Martin Prado,...
• 1/28 Bleeding Yankee Blue: "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE": Here's another installment from my good friend Dave Goode, a die-hard Yankee fan... and my friend. As your blog says, The...
• 1/28 Fire Brand of the American League: Monday’s Links – An Arms RaceCould the bullpen possibly be...*gasp*...good?...
• 1/28 Mets Merized: Nats and Braves Are In The Dynasty Building Business: In discussing the impact that the Braves acquisition of Justin Upton will have on the Mets, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com writes:...
• 1/28 Rum Bunter: Will Pirates Pedro Alvarez Go The Way Of Justin Upton Someday?: A lot was made of the fallout from the Arizona Diamondbacks trading Justin Upton.  We couldn’t help but speculate on the...
• 1/28 Tomahawk Take: And the Number is….: With the #10 worn by Atlanta Braves great Chipper Jones, Justin Upton will unfortunately not be able to carry over his long time...
• 1/28 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 1/20/13 - 1/26/13: Here's the top news and stories that made headlines this past week at MLBTR... The Braves and Diamondbacks officially agreed...
• 1/27 Venom Strikes: What is the Real Reason Why Justin Upton was Traded?: I received the news about The Trade on Thursday at noon EST.  My buddy Mike came over to me and asked how much I liked the fact...
• 1/27 Mets Merized: The Braves and Nationals Are In The Dynasty Building Business: In discussing the impact that the Braves acquisition of Justin Upton will have on the Mets, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com writes:...
• 1/27 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: A look back at the original reporting and analysis found on MLBTR this past week: Justin Upton and Braves GM Frank Wren shared...
• 1/27 Call to the Pen: The National League East Dream Lineup 2013: The National League East Dream Lineup reflects the nature of the division.  Unlike the American league divisions, marauding bands...
• 1/27 Venom Strikes: Crazy Like A Fox or Just Plain Crazy? Towers Era Will be Defined By Upton Trade: When Arizona General Manager Kevin Towers decided that Justin Upton was no longer part of his future plans, he had to know that...
• 1/27 MLBTradeRumors: NL Notes: Cubs, Bailey, Rolen, Braves, Nats Bullpen: Thirty years ago today, the Cubs and Phillies swapped shortstops with Ivan DeJesus heading to Philadelphia and Larry Bowa going...
• 1/27 Nolan Writin': The Identity of the 2013 Rangers: It’s that time of year again. The formerly glistening tides of the offseason have begun to fade. The vast sea of optimism has...
• 1/27 Tomahawk Take: The Last Spot In The Rotation: With the great buzz going around about the Braves after acquiring Justin Upton, lost in the shuffle with the trade is the loss...
• 1/27 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Notes: Andrus, Upton, D'Backs: After speaking with Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson, Jim Bowden and Jim Duquette of SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio checked in...
• 1/27 MLBTradeRumors: Mets Notes: Bourn, Wilson, Hairston, Upton: Earlier today, Mets GM Sandy Alderson joined Jim Bowden and Jim Duquette on SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio.  Here's a look at some...
• 1/27 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Mets, Bourn, Abreu, Red Sox, Mahay: There were baseball people this winter who pleaded with their teams to go after B.J. Upton as a free agent and to trade for his...
• 1/27 Call to the Pen: Fawlty Towers, Gritty Gibby and the Justin Upton Trade: Anybody who managed to acquire a young Adrian Gonzalez for a package centered around ham and egg pitcher Adam Eaton must have...
• 1/27 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: PREVIEWING THE 2013 ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS: It is time to examine what the Arizona Diamondbacks have been up to since last season’s disappointing 81-81 .500 record. ...
• 1/26 Mastersball.com: Breaking Down the Upton Deal: The motivation for the Braves is the easy part. They now have three outfielders 28 years of age or younger, each with 25-plus...
• 1/26 Marlin Maniac: Good, Bad, and Ugly: The Week in NL East: The middle of the week saw three very different NL East teams complete very telling transactions. Each move told the story of...
• 1/26 Baseball Jerks: Braves Add to Impressive Outfield, Add Justin Upton: In one fell swoop, the Atlanta Braves put an end to years of trade rumors, reunited a pair of brothers, and assembled one of the......
• 1/26 Rising Apple: Rising Apple Report: Ep. 4 – @MetsGM’s Got the Hardy-Har-Hars: With all the sudden Mets news that rushed in Thursday morning, the most recent Rising Apple Report almost didn’t make an...
• 1/26 MLBTradeRumors: Yankees Notes: Upton, Hairston, Bench, Rodriguez: Yesterday, the Yankees avoided arbitration with David Robertson on a one-year, $3.1MM deal, meaning that they have now come to...
• 1/26 Bronx Baseball Daily: Dear Brian Cashman,: It seems as though you have made a firm commitment to getting the budget under $189 million. The motives are clear, and the...
• 1/26 Braves Journal: Chris Johnson: When the Braves traded their projected starting third baseman for Justin Upton, they needed to get an infielder back. So they...
• 1/26 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Fredi Gonzalez has plan for top of order: Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said Friday, Jan. 25, that he envisions SS Andrelton Simmons to serve as the top of his...[+] lineup, with OF Jason Heyward batting second and OF Justin Upton filling the third spot in the batting order.
• 1/25 Venom Strikes: Taking A Look At The New D’backs: I’ve done several posts about my opinion of Justin Upton and how he was treated by the Diamondbacks management and front...
• 1/25 Baseball Analytics: Atlanta's New Outfield: Young, Fast and Powerful: New Brave Justin Upton joins brother B.J. and Jason Heyward in an outfield that could make power/speed history.The Atlanta Braves...
• 1/25 Venom Strikes: Upton-less D’backs Fan Fest Set for February 9th: The D’backs Fan Fest is something that symbolizes another year of baseball in Phoenix. However, I feel like this year is...
• 1/25 Baseball Jerks: Justin Upton Reunited with Brother in Trade to Atlanta Braves: The hot stove season across Major League Baseball has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean that there still aren’t...
• 1/25 Yankees Fans Unite: Five Most Important Yankees For 2013: Spring Training is only a little bit over two weeks away and that usually brings about optimism for every baseball fan. There...
• 1/25 StoopSports.com: Moving Upto(w)n: Harry Tomback- On the morning of January 24th, the Atlanta Braves swung a blockbuster trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks in order...
• 1/25 PaulLebowitz.com: The Diamondbacks Grind Justin Upton Out Of Arizona: The Diamondbacks sought offers from Justin Upton almost immediately upon Kevin Towers taking over as GM and in all that time—two-and-a-half...
• 1/25 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Angels, Andrus, Upton, Jaso: On this date in 2008, the Twins announced that they struck new deals with Justin Morneau and Michael Cuddyer to keep them in...
• 1/25 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Justin Upton likely to hit thirdAtlanta Braves OF Justin Upton will likely play left field and hit third in the team's lineup this season....[+] Atlanta Braves OF Justin Upton will likely play left field and hit third in the team's lineup this season.
• 1/25 Billy-Ball.com: Diamondbacks have remade themselves: When the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday traded Chris Johnson and Justin Upton to the Atlanta Braves for Brandon Drury (minors),...
• 1/25 Baseball Analytics: Extreme Makeover: Arizona Diamondbacks Edition: When the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday traded Chris Johnson and Justin Upton to the Atlanta...
• 1/25 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Keeping Warm By The Hot Stove: I don’t know about any of you folks, but it is certainly cold where I’m at. About the only thing keeping me warm if the...
• 1/25 Tomahawk Take: Uptown Boys:   …We’re all living in an Uptown world   A little rip from the great Billy Joel gets us started on this Friday. ...
• 1/25 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Nationals Hitting-Pitching Projections: Washington Nationals —  Predicted Finish: First Place, NL East For my money, the Nationals are not only the best team...
• 1/25 Rising Apple: Braves Acquire Justin Upton; Mets to try Turner and Lutz in the Outfield?: The blockbuster that’s been waiting to happen all winter has finally come to fruition; the Atlanta Braves win the Justin...
• 1/25 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Tigers, Diamondbacks, Bourn: Two of the biggest MLB stories to emerge recently are the Justin Upton trade and the Mets’ interest in Michael Bourn. Ken...
• 1/25 The High Phive: Phillies Fans Shouldn’t Worry about Age and Outfield: Baseball is fast approaching and with the way the Flyers have started many fans are getting antsy. There are, of course, major...
• 1/25 Bleeding Yankee Blue: MY YANKEES: AIMING TO WIN IN 2014: It’s about the kids and saving money. That's what the Yankees are now. They have made their statement. They have ignored...
• 1/25 North and South of Royal Brougham: About the Justin Upton Trade to the Atlanta Braves: Upton was never “almost a Mariner,” or at least we don’t know it. But he’s an Atlanta Brave now and the...
• 1/25 Venom Strikes: The Diamondbacks and the City Will Miss Justin Upton: Well D’backs fans, it finally happened. The ongoing saga that was Upton vs. the organization has closed the books on its final...
• 1/25 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Arizona Expecting to Extend Martin Prado: The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired third baseman Martin Prado along with several young players in exchange for outfielder Justin...
• 1/25 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas Unlikely to Sign Michael Bourn, Kyle Lohse: The Texas Rangers are not expected to sign free agent right-hander Kyle Lohse or outfielder Michael Bourn, according to T.R....
• 1/25 Chicken Friars: Good Bye Justin Upton: What Justin Upton’s Trade Means To The San Diego Padres: Today’s news of Kevin Towers dealing his star player, Justin Upton, to the Atlanta Braves is bittersweet. It is bitter in...
• 1/25 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Rangers, Furbush, Aviles, Free Agents: A few notes from around the Majors as we wrap up a very busy Thursday... The Rangers are "not looking at anything major"...
• 1/25 MLBTradeRumors: NL East Notes: Upton, Rizzo, Nationals, Marlins: The Braves' acquisition of Justin Upton is the story of the day from the NL East, and the Mets also made news by agreeing to...
• 1/24 Behind the Plate: Behind the Trade: Upton Family ReunionJustin will be [...] ...
• 1/24 Rising Apple: Bourn: The Dilemma: The signing of Shaun Marcum was not the only Mets news today. With the trade of Justin Upton to the Braves, the Mets seem to have...
• 1/24 Rising Apple: Case For Mets Signing Bourn: Following today’s news of the Atlanta Braves acquiring two-time All-Star Justin Upton, it was revealed today that while...
• 1/24 Tomahawk Take: The Newest Braves: After all the posts we’ve had about Justin Upton possibly, then unlikely, and now arriving in Atlanta, there are very few...
• 1/24 Baseball Press: Hot Stove: Justin Upton Traded to the Atlanta Braves: Justin Upton joins his brother, B.J., in the Braves outfield. (US Presswire)The Atlanta Braves acquired outfielder Justin...
• 1/24 Nolan Writin': Mike Napoli Will be Missed for More Than His Bat: I knew that we had been in on Mike Napoli when his original deal with the Red Sox fell apart. (3 year, $39 million deal now an...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Notes: Kubel, Mets, Payroll: The Diamondbacks' blockbuster trade of Justin Upton is dominating headlines around baseball today.  We've already looked at...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: AL East Notes: Cherington, Upton, Kubel, Rays: Pedro Martinez is returning to the Red Sox as a special assistant to GM Ben Cherington, the club announced today.  The future...
• 1/24 StanGraphs: Trade: Justin Upton Meets His Brother in Atlanta: Justin Upton has spent his entire career as the recipient of heavy attention. Most of the time, it’s been because he’s...
• 1/24 Tomahawk Take: Justin Upton to Atlanta–Martin Prado To AZ: Trading the Heartbeat of the Team Late last night it became obvious that the trade for Justin Upton would happen, the only question...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: The Justin Upton Trade: Reaction & Analysis: Justin Upton's future has been the source of great speculation all winter, and now that the Diamondbacks have moved the outfielder...
• 1/24 The Baseball Haven: Diamondbacks “Settle” on a Trade for Upton: The Arizona Diamondbacks just couldn’t help themselves. They just had to get rid of 25-year-old right fielder Justin Upton...
• 1/24 Call to the Pen: B.J. Upton and Justin Upton Have Big Plans For Atlanta: The Arizona Diamondbacks and Atlanta Braves have made a baseball trade. And the Upton brothers are getting together! Justin Upton...
• 1/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Looking for specific players: The Arizona Diamondbacks, by trading OF Justin Upton, OF Chris B. Young and SP Trevor Bauer this offseason, have made the statement...[+] that they are looking for single-minded, outwardly intense and fierce ball players like OF Cody Ross and 3B Martin Prado. 'The problem is that he didn't play with a high level of energy,' said one of Upton's former teammates who spoke on the condition that he would not be identified. 'What I think they want is guys who play with the speed, energy and intensity of the Oregon football team - all out, all the time.'
• 1/24 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Justin Upton Braves: What Trade Will do for Slugger’s Fantasy Value: The Upton family reunion will not only take place in Atlanta, but will have cameo appearances in National League cities More...The...
• 1/24 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers Trade Target: Nick Ahmed: Who is Nick Ahmed, you might well ask. That’s more or less the point of this. In the aftermath of the trade that sent Justin...
• 1/24 Bleeding Yankee Blue: NICE JOHNSON... : Sweeny Murti says HERE that the Yankees have signed Dan Johnson to a minor league deal and an invitation to Spring Training. ...
• 1/24 That Ball's Outta Here: My Forced Attempt At Optimism as the Braves Acquire Justin Upton: Everyone and their mother is working on a blog or a post or a column right now that portends nothing but doom and gloom for the...
• 1/24 Braves Journal: Justin Upton: Okay, I guess I’d better eat some crow. I didn’t think we’d get Upton, at least not during the offseason, because...
• 1/24 The Baseball Continuum: Justin Upton to the Braves: Brothers in Baseball (and the many inexplicable appearances of the Padres): Well, that escalated quickly. I wake up, turn on the the TV, and then, BOOM! Upton family reunion in Atlanta. No, seriously, after...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: Michael Bourn Rumors: Thursday: Suitors are starting to show up for Michael Bourn, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports. The Mets, it appears, are one of them....
• 1/24 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Blockbuster: Braves and Diamondbacks Complete Upton Trade: The Arizona Diamondbacks finally found a trade to Justin Upton's liking, trading the 25-year-old, two-time All-Star to the...
• 1/24 MetsToday.com: Braves Acquire Justin Upton: What the heck? Is it the winter meetings again? The Diamondbacks have finally traded Justin Upton. He and Chris Johnson go to...
• 1/24 Southside Showdown: Can The White Sox Still Add Kubel?: I generally adopt the perspective of, “Assemble as much talent as you can, and then sort it out.” Perhaps the White...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs To Pursue Rick Porcello: The Diamondbacks will now try to package shortstop Nick Ahmed and a pitching prospect in a trade for the Tigers' Rick Porcello,...
• 1/24 Splash Hit Blog: The Long Nightmare is Finally Over: Justin Upton Traded to Atlanta: Wednesday afternoon reports surfaced that GM Frank Wren of the Braves had sent an offer to the Arizona Diamondbacks for 25-year...
• 1/24 RoxPile: NL West News: The Diamondbacks Finally Traded Justin Upton: Interestingly enough, the Rockies were connected to both key names in today’s blockbuster trade in past rumors. They were...
• 1/24 Nolan Writin': Reports: Justin Upton Traded To Braves: Well, seemingly inevitable as it was that the Diamondbacks would trade their best player — Justin Upton — at some...
• 1/24 Through The Fence Baseball: With Justin Upton gone, who do Texas Rangers turn to next?: The deal came swiftly on Thursday morning as the Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks completed a trade that sent Justin Upton...
• 1/24 Tomahawk Take: **TRADE** Braves Acquire Justin Upton: The Atlanta Braves held off through the winter meetings and the winter months to decide on what to do with their left field position. ...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Expect To Extend Prado: The Diamondbacks expect to sign Martin Prado to a long-term contract extension in the near future, Jack Magruder of FOXSportsArizona.com...
• 1/24 We Talk Fantasy Sports: Braves Acquire Justin Upton: In a six seven player trade, the Atlanta Braves have acquired OF Justin Upton from the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Also coming...
• 1/24 Justin Jabs: Don’t let the door hit you, Nyjer: There is some big news floating around baseball today about certain outfielder in baseball. Justin Upton? Nah. While it is true...
• 1/24 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Justin Upton Traded to Braves, The Rays’ Chances for Michael Bourn: Breaking news just now is that the Atlanta Braves have acquired outfielder Justin Upton from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Here’s...
• 1/24 Venom Strikes: Justin Upton Traded to Atlanta: According to reports by ESPN.com, the Atlanta Braves and the Arizona Diamondbacks have completed a trade that would send two-time...
• 1/24 District On Deck: Atlanta Braves Trade For Justin Upton But The Nationals Are Still The Team To Beat: The big news today, coming out of Twitter, is that the trade between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Atlanta Braves for Justin...
• 1/24 Through The Fence Baseball: Braves grab Justin Upton, Chris Johnson for Martin Prado, Delgado: MLBTR is saying the Braves landed OF Justin Upton and third basemen Chris Johnson for Martin Prado, Randall Delgado, shortstop...
• 1/24 It's About the Money (Stupid): Braves finally win Upton sweepstakes: The Braves have reached an agreement to acquire outfielder Justin Upton from the Diamondbacks, according to multiple reports...
• 1/24 Baseball Musings: Cornering the Market on Upton: The Braves go all in on Uptons as they complete a deal with the Diamondbacks for Justin Upton: The full trade, via CBSSports.com’s...
• 1/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | More on Justin Upton deal: Updating earlier reports, the Atlanta Braves will acquire 3B Chris D. Johnson along with OF Justin Upton from the Arizona Diamondbacks...[+] for 3B Martin Prado, SP Randall Delgado, SS Nick Ahmed and P Zeke Spruill.
• 1/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Justin Upton trade agreed uponThe Atlanta Braves have agreed to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton. The deal is pending a physical....[+] The Atlanta Braves have agreed to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton. The deal is pending a physical.
• 1/24 MLB Injury News: Atlanta Braves Acquire Justin Upton From Arizona Diamondbacks: The Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks have agreed on a deal that will send Justin Upton to Atlanta in exchange for a package...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: Braves To Acquire Justin Upton: 9:12am: The Braves get Upton and third baseman Chris Johnson for third baseman Martin Prado, right-hander Randall Delgado,...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: Braves Nearing Deal For Justin Upton: The Braves are close to acquiring Justin Upton from the Diamondbacks, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports (Twitter links). The...
• 1/24 Billy-Ball.com: Will the Upton Abbey Soap Opera End in Atlanta?: The drama of this Hot Stove season has been whether the Arizona Diamondbacks trade their young star Justin Upton. The latest twist...
• 1/24 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Atlanta Braves Hitting & Pitching Projections: Atlanta Braves — Predicted Finish: Second Place, NL East   Here’s a safe bet as to what Atlanta’s opening...
• 1/24 Rising Apple: Rumors Intensify for Justin Upton and Michael Bourn; Cubs Sign Scott Hairston: So, Arizona Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers is heading out on vacation Friday. Why is that important? Well, rumor has it Towers would...
• 1/24 MLB Injury News: Orioles Rumors: Baltimore Pursuing Diamondbacks’ Jason Kubel: The Baltimore Orioles are pursuing Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Jason Kubel, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. Sources:...
• 1/24 That Ball's Outta Here: Are The Mets Going To Sign Michael Bourn? Only If Our Luck Doesn’t Change: The Mets are going to stink this year. We all know this. After losing Scott Hairston on a two-year deal with the Cubs last night,...
• 1/24 Through The Fence Baseball: Justin Upton ship sailing away from the Texas Rangers:   For months, we’ve heard so many rumors regarding Arizona Diamondbacks’ outfielder Justin Upton that it’s...
• 1/24 MLB Injury News: Justin Upton Rumors: Diamondbacks, Braves Resume Trade Talks: The Arizona Diamondbacks and Atlanta Braves have resumed trade talks involving outfielder Justin Upton, according to Buster...
• 1/24 Obstructed View: Cubs Sign Scott Hairston: The Cubs have come to an agreement with outfielder Scott Hairston on a two year deal that could be worth up to six million dollars....
• 1/23 Call to the Pen: Braves in Talks with D’backs for Upton: Multiple outlets have been reporting since early Wednesday afternoon that the Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks have engaged...
• 1/23 Tomahawk Take: The Justin Upton Whirlwind: The Atlanta Braves and the Arizona Diamondbacks have supposedly begun further talks about the possible trade that would feature...
• 1/23 Bleeding Yankee Blue: CURRENT UPTON RUMORS LEAVE THE YANKEES ALL WET: I had a feeling the Yankees had absolutely no interest at all in Justin Upton, but BYB is a Yankee blog, and we are literally...
• 1/23 Venom Strikes: Upton, Kubel Subjects of New Trade Rumors: According to ESPN.com, the Atlanta Braves and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in serious negotiations over Justin Upton. The two-time...
• 1/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Julio Teheran likely part of Justin Upton deal: The Atlanta Braves are likely to include SP Julio Teheran in any deal to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton. At least...[+] one other Atlanta pitching prospect, such as Ps Sean Gilmartin or Zeke Spruill, will need to be sent to Arizona, too. SS Nick Ahmed, could also interest the D-backs.
• 1/23 Braves Journal: Where Do We Go From Here? 2012.6 Free Agency and Trades (by W.C.G.): In The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver looked at several different fields of prediction to illustrate both the power and the...
• 1/23 Rising Apple: Quick Hits: The Latest on Justin Upton: Today in the continuing Justin Upton saga, news broke that the Atlanta Braves had become the frontrunner if a trade were to be...
• 1/23 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Rockies, Yankees, Wells: The latest links from around MLB, as the Justin Upton rumors pick up... Though the Rockies continue looking for starting...
• 1/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Won't give up Andrelton Simmons: The Atlanta Braves are seriously discussing a trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton Wednesday, Jan. 23, and they are...[+] believed to have made an offer packaged around young pitching. However, the Braves won't be parting with SS Andrelton Simmons in any deal for Upton, according to sources. The D-backs asked for Simmons earlier this offseason.
• 1/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Preparing strong package for Justin Upton: The Atlanta Braves are believed to be conjuring up a 'strong package' in order to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton,...[+] and a move may be made relatively quickly. The D-backs are believed to be interested in OF Evan Gattis, although they have more of a need for a leadoff hitter. Atlanta has plenty of young pitching to get a deal done for Upton, and the Bravos are not on Upton's no-trade list. It's believed he'd be willing to join his brother, OF B.J. Upton, anyway.
• 1/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Talking with ARI about Justin Upton: The Atlanta Braves have resumed talks with the Arizona Diamondbacks about OF Justin Upton. The Braves are believed to be the frontrunners...[+] for Upton if he is traded. The Diamondbacks have been reviewing the Braves' offer for Upton.
• 1/23 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Notes: Upton, Kubel, Braves, Orioles: Here's a look at the latest on the Diamondbacks courtesy of ESPN.com's Buster Olney with all links going to Twitter.. The...
• 1/23 Chicken Friars: My Fences Moved-In Predictions 2013 – Opposing Teams Edition: Back in November I posted an article predicting what would happen to the Padres now that Petco’s fences are being moved in....
• 1/23 Venom Strikes: What About Gerardo Parra?: There has been enough written this offseason about the Arizona Diamondbacks‘ outfield to fill up two copies of “War...
• 1/23 MLBTradeRumors: Orioles Pursuing Jason Kubel: The Orioles are pursuing a trade for Diamondbacks outfielder Jason Kubel, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports (on Twitter). However,...
• 1/23 MLB Injury News: Orioles Rumors: O’s a Match for Diamondbacks’ Jason Kubel?: Rival executives view the Baltimore Orioles as a potential match for Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Jason Kubel, according...
• 1/23 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Arizona Hoping to Trade Justin Upton or Jason Kubel: The Arizona Diamondbacks continue to weigh offers for outfielders Justin Upton and Jason Kubel, and the team wants to deal...
• 1/22 Nolan Writin': The Price Of Leverage, And Justin Upton: We’ve now heard for quite some time that Texas already made its final offer to the Diamondbacks for outfielder Justin Upton,...
• 1/22 Nolan Writin': In A Pickle: D-Backs Point Of View: Coming into the 2013 off-season, I wanted the Texas Rangers to sign Zack Greinke more than anyone else that was available, until...
• 1/22 mlbreports.com : MLB Player Profile: DiamondBacks OF/DH Jason Kubel: Like us on Facebook here Tuesday, January 22, 2013 By Chris Lacey (Diamond Backs Correspondent) Jason Kubel was drafted by the...
• 1/22 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Jaso, Kubel, Upton: The latest from ESPN.com's Buster Olney... If the Mariners’ attempt to acquire Justin Upton had been successful, Seattle...
• 1/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Padres | Won't land Justin Upton: The San Diego Padres won't be trading for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton straight up for 3B Chase Headley, according to...[+] an official from one team. The Padres are expected to eventually trade Headley, but they are unlikely to trade him within the division. San Diego could replace Headley with 3B Jedd Gyorko.
• 1/22 That Ball's Outta Here: Phillies Should Make An Offer For Chris Young: Look there, under that rock! It’s another outfielder possibility! Someone kill it, quick!!! As the Phillies continue their...
• 1/22 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Felix, Upton, Rangers, Nationals: The Mariners continue discussing an extension with Felix Hernandez, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports. The sides aren’t close...
• 1/21 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers, Murphy Have Talked Long-Term Deal: The Rangers have had discussions with Mike Moye, the agent for David Murphy, assistant general manager Thad Levine tells MLB.com's...
• 1/21 Nolan Writin': Rangers Circle the Wagons Tie Up Loose Ends: While the off season has been hard to call a success, considering our goals, it was not a failure either. I have read a lot of...
• 1/21 Full Spectrum Baseball: Funnyball: When Jack Zduriencik completed the deal that landed the Mariners Michael Morse he was not applauded for his efforts. In fact,...
• 1/21 MLB Injury News: Braves Rumors: Atlanta Hasn’t Ruled Out Justin Upton, Michael Bourn: The Atlanta Braves still haven’t ruled out adding another high-profile outfielder this winter, including free agent Michael...
• 1/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Cubs | Discussed Justin Upton deal: The Chicago Cubs and the Arizona Diamondbacks recently discussed the feasibility of a trade that would have sent OF Justin Upton...[+] to the Cubs, according to two major league sources. The deal fell apart when the Diamondbacks asked for SS Starlin Castro in return for Upton.
• 1/20 MLBTradeRumors: NL Notes: Braves, Reds, Pirates, Duda, Chipper : It was on this date in 1871 the Boston Red Stockings incorporated giving birth to today's Atlanta Braves. Let's take a look at...
• 1/20 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Gonzalez, Fowler, Harrison, Nationals: Several teams have shown interest in the Rockies' Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler, but the club hasn't had trade discussions...
• 1/20 Nolan Writin': Since Nothing Is Happening: When I became editor of Nolan Writin’ in October — a few months ago — I had no earthly idea how difficult it...
• 1/20 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Wilson, Giants, Upton, Hill, Red Sox: Condolences go out to the family and friends of Hall of Famer Stan Musial, who passed away this afternoon according to the Cardinals....
• 1/19 Call to the Pen: The Justin Upton Saga Continues: Former #1 overall pick and current Arizona Diamondbacks All Star OF, Justin Upton, has been on the trading block for over a year...
• 1/19 Bleeding Yankee Blue: JUSTIN UPTON & THE CUBS? : Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago, HERE says that the Arizona DBacks and the Chicago Cubs were talking about a trade to get Justin...
• 1/19 MLB Injury News: Justin Upton Rumors: Cubs, Diamondbacks Discussed Outfielder: The Cubs and Diamondbacks recently discussed “the feasibility” of a trade that would have sent outfielder Justin Upton from Arizona...
• 1/19 Chicken Friars: Padres Considered Making A Trade That Would Have “Blown The Socks Off”of People: “That said, 10 days ago there was a trade we looked at and if (general manager Josh Byrnes) wanted to do it, it would have...
• 1/19 MLBTradeRumors: Cubs, Diamondbacks Discussed Justin Upton: The Cubs and the Diamondbacks recently discussed the feasibility of a trade involving right fielder Justin Upton, two major...
• 1/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Yankees | On no-trade list of Justin Upton: The New York Yankees might be interested in trading for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton. However, he has the team on his...[+] no-trade list, although a source said that is not really an obstacle.
• 1/18 Rising Apple: Guaranteed Left Fielder?: Yesterday, Sandy Alderson spoke to Mike Francesa on WFAN. They discussed the state of the Mets, expertly summarized by Danny Abriano,...
• 1/18 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Soriano, Morse, Jaso, Upton: On this date in 2002, Scott Rolen became the highest paid player in Phillies history. The third baseman signed a one-year contract...
• 1/18 MetsToday.com: Sandy Alderson Almost Promises Excitement in 2013: Yesterday, Mets GM Sandy Alderson spoke with Mike Francesa on WFAN. Here are the highlights. When asked if he had “one eye...
• 1/18 YankeeAnalysts.com: 2014 Payroll Outlook And The Current Effect: As the Yankees continue to allow free agents to sign elsewhere, the detriments of a $189 million budget in 2014 is growing obvious....
• 1/18 Bleeding Yankee Blue: TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF THEIR MOUTH!: The planets were aligned the way Yankee fans thought they’d be.  I mean, the reality was, we were supposed to be...
• 1/18 That Ball's Outta Here: Brian Dawkins Scares The Crap Out Of Phillies Prospects; But In A Productive Way: This is the Brian Dawkins we remember. The guy who could get kinda scary when he wanted to be. Now, imagine being a young, impressionable...
• 1/18 Tomahawk Take: Filling the Hole: Atlanta’s Leadoff Spot: We’re now sitting less than thirty days away from the voluntary report date for all players invited to big league Spring Training...
• 1/17 Baseball Jerks: Mariners Make Move for Michael Morse: The Seattle Mariners have spent the majority of their offseason trying to improve their offense with just marginal success. They...
• 1/17 MLBTradeRumors: AL West Notes: Morse, Kubel, M's, Angels, Young: Yesterday, Mariners General Manager Jack Zduriencik told reporters, including MLBTR's Mark Polishuk, that while he liked what...
• 1/17 The Sports Provocateur: : The New York Mets worked out Brian Wilson on Monday at U.C.L.A. and came away unimpressed.  Wilson may be about 14 and a...
• 1/17 Bronx Baseball Daily: Mike Morse traded to the Seattle Mariners: The Yankees have missed out on yet another player that could upgrade their team in 2013 when the Seattle Mariners landed outfielder...
• 1/17 Nolan Writin': Sources: Mike Napoli Finally Completes Deal With Red Sox: So, uhm, the Red Sox apparently finalized their deal with C/1B Mike Napoli, though not for anywhere near the original 3-year,...
• 1/17 That Ball's Outta Here: Ruben Amaro Hints Another Outfielder Could Be Coming, But It Won’t Be Michael Morse: Ruben Amaro is trying to drive us all to alcoholism. Just a few days after saying the Phillies were likely done making moves,...
• 1/17 Rising Apple: Mariners Acquire Michael Morse; Mets Not Impressed By Brian Wilson: The market for available, right-handed, power-hitting outfielders once again shrunk yesterday evening, as the Mariners finally...
• 1/17 MLB Injury News: Braves Rumors: Atlanta ‘Best Fit’ for Diamondbacks’ Justin Upton?: It appears more and more likely that the Arizona Diamondbacks will part ways with outfielder Justin Upton prior to the start...
• 1/17 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: D'Backs, Wilson, Braves, Beane, Cubs: The Diamondbacks had insisted on receiving Major League-ready talent in any trade for Justin Upton, but were willing to accept...
• 1/16 MetsToday.com: Berkman, Blanco Find Employment: Longtime MLB veterans Lance Berkman and Henry Blanco have signed contracts for 2013. In perhaps their biggest move of the offseason,...
• 1/16 Bleeding Yankee Blue: ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. MICHAEL MORSE TO SEATTLE: There is no doubt about it.  There comes a time and place where Yankee fans are definitely onto something when we suggest...
• 1/16 MLBTradeRumors: Managers And GMs Entering Their Contract Years: After a surprise playoff berth in 2012, the Orioles definitely wanted to keep manager Buck Showalter and executive VP of baseball...
• 1/16 MLBRandomFandom: Rangers: What's Next This Offseason: Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 1/16 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Ramirez, Stanton, Blue Jays: Manny Ramirez, who is now playing in the Dominican Winter League postseason, wants to continue his MLB career, agent Barry Praver...
• 1/16 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Wednesday: We heard yesterday that the Mets won’t trade Zack Wheeler to acquire Justin Upton from Arizona, and that there's not much...
• 1/16 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WE NEED TO HOLD YANKEE BRASS TO THEIR WORD: The title of this piece is true... very true.  We’re the Yankees. We always find a way to win and we have always manned...
• 1/16 Mets Merized: Could Coco Crisp Solve Mets Center Field Problem?: As the Mets continue to ponder their outfield situation, one thing is apparent: they still need a right-handed bat. The free agency...
• 1/16 Through The Fence Baseball: In need of depth, should Texas Rangers pursue Michael Morse?: At Lance Berkman’s introductory press conference last week, Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels informed the media his...
• 1/16 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mets | Will not pursue Justin Upton: The New York Mets have decided Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton's price tag for trade is too high and they will likely not...[+] pursue the star outfielder.
• 1/16 Kings of Kauffman: Royals Notes on a Cold Winter’s Night: The Royals seem to have packed it in for the winter, so unfortunately, that dream scenario of trading for, say, Ryan Braun or...
• 1/15 Up Along First: Three File For Arbitration, Mets Balk On Hairston Deal, Other News And Notes: Today was a busy day in terms of Mets rumors, at least by this offseason’s standards. Here are the latest news, notes and...
• 1/15 Rum Bunter: Pirates Trade Rumors: Rick Porcello to Pittsburgh?: A name that simply won’t go away in the Major League Baseball trade rumor circuit is Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Rick...
• 1/15 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Wuertz, Webb, Wheeler: Rafael Soriano’s two-year, $28MM agreement with the Nationals dominated headlines this afternoon, but let’s not let the news...
• 1/15 Venom Strikes: D’backs’ Offseason is a Strange One: The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Monday that they have extended the contract of closer J.J. Putz through the 2014 season. ...
• 1/15 Yanks Go Yard: These Aren’t George’s Yankees: With the recent news of Justin Upton being too costly for the Yankees this off-season it’s official that these Yankees are...
• 1/15 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Rekindling Justin Upton talksThe Atlanta Braves have rekindled trade talks for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Atlanta Braves have rekindled trade talks for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 1/15 YankeeAnalysts.com: Upton and the 2014 Budget: Over the last few days, there’s been a lot of talk about the Yankees trading for Justin Upton and how they don’t mind...
• 1/15 Mets360.com: Is Justin Upton worth acquiring for the Mets?: He’s No. 10 on the Arizona Diamondbacks, but No. 1 on wish lists throughout baseball. Justin Upton continues to be available,...
• 1/15 Roto Think Tank: Bargains and Busts: 2012 N.L. Hitters: 0 0 1 1134 6469 Roto Think Tank 53 15 7588 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE...
• 1/15 MLBTradeRumors: West Notes: Upton, Bourn, Hairston, Clemens: The Giants expect to begin discussing a "blockbuster extension" with Buster Posey this spring, but that's not the only news coming...
• 1/14 MLBRandomFandom: Offseason Review: Texas Rangers: Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 1/14 Chicken Friars: Chicken Friars’ Fans Would Rather Have Giancarlo Stanton Over Justin Upton: Whoa! The results weren’t even as close as I had thought they were going to be. Because of the recent trade rumors that were...
• 1/14 Motor City Bengals: Arizona Diamondbacks Reportedly Show Interest In Porcello: The GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Kevin Towers, has reportedly been in contact with David Dombrowski about Tigers pitcher Rick...
• 1/14 Venom Strikes: D’backs Must Cut Ties With Upton: As word came out this week about a potential trade for the D’backs outfielder Justin Upton, most noticed it with the...
• 1/14 Fire Brand of the American League: Monday’s Links – The Cold, Cold StoveSomeone didn't pay the gas bill....
• 1/14 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: AZ in No Hurry to Trade Justin Upton: Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers told reporters, including Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, that he is not going to...
• 1/14 MLB Injury News: Yankees Rumors: NY Unlikely to Pursue Justin Upton: The New York Yankees continue to be in the market for a right-handed-hitting outfielder, but they haven’t picked up their pursuit...
• 1/14 Nolan Writin': Texas’ Expected Lineup In 2013: It’s about the be the early morning of January 14th, still an excruciatingly long way from Spring Training, so I understand...
• 1/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Will not take less for Justin Upton: Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers said Sunday, Jan. 13, that he will not lower his asking price for potential...[+] deals involving OF Justin Upton in the wake of a deal with the Seattle Mariners nixed by the player. 'I'm not taking less,' Towers said. 'I'm in no hurry.'
• 1/13 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 1/6/13 - 1/12/13: Here's the top news and stories that made headlines this past week at MLBTR... The Nationals signed Adam LaRoche to a...
• 1/13 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Napoli, Lohse, Upton, Bourn, Soriano: It has been six weeks since the Red Sox and Mike Napoli agreed to terms on a three-year, $39MM contract. The holdup in finalizing...
• 1/13 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Yankees have not been in pursuit of Justin Upton: The Diamondbacks have been talking with teams about trading for Justin Upton all offseason, but the Yankees have not been involved...
• 1/13 Yanks Go Yard: Considering the Asking Price, is Justin Upton Worth It?: Last week, Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton invoked his no-trade clause in order to stop a trade to the Seattle Mariners....
• 1/13 PaulLebowitz.com: The Rejected Justin Upton Trade: Q&A: The general reaction to the proposed Justin Upton trade from the Diamondbacks to the Mariners has been, “Why?” Why would the...
• 1/13 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Sunday: Earlier today, we learned that the budget-conscious Yankees aren't in on Justin Upton at present.  Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports...
• 1/13 Rays Colored Glasses: What Does the Return the Diamondbacks Would Have Gotten for Justin Upton Tell Us About His Value?: Big news struck the baseball world over the last few days when the Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to a trade with the Seattle Mariners...
• 1/13 Mets360.com: He’s no Justin Upton but how about Michael Morse for the Mets?: The offensive pipe dream for the Mets this offseason has been to swing a trade for Justin Upton. Now that we’ve seen what the...
• 1/13 MLBTradeRumors: Yankees Haven't Intensified Pursuit Of Justin Upton: There are several teams looking into a trade for the Diamondbacks' Justin Upton, but right now it doesn't seem as though the...
• 1/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Interested in Mike Olt: The Arizona Diamondbacks are interested in Texas Rangers 3B Mike Olt and would likely ask for him in any trade proposal between...[+] the two clubs involving OF Justin Upton.
• 1/12 Chicken Friars: Justin Upton Is A Good Fit In San Diego: Justin Upton was this close to being traded to the Seattle Mariners. But, Kevin Towers’ arch enemy got in the way. After struggling...
• 1/12 Tomahawk Take: Another Justin Upton Post: While it seemed like we were beating a dead horse with all of our posts trying to create a package for Justin Upton, it turns...
• 1/12 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Saturday: It has been two days since Justin Upton used his no-trade clause to block a trade to the Mariners, which would have sent Taijuan...
• 1/12 Bleeding Yankee Blue: THE YANKEES & TAKING A DEEP BREATH: When January hits, it's quiet in the Bronx. There are a few things that run through my mind though.  I am relieved...
• 1/12 Rising Apple: Mets Re-Start Justin Upton Trade Talks: Early Friday afternoon, MLB Trade Rumors ran an article stating the Mets view free agent Scott Hairston as a fallback option for...
• 1/12 MLB Injury News: Mets Rumors: New York Interested in Diamondbacks’ Justin Upton: The New York Mets are once again interested in Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton, but it is a “longshot” that...
• 1/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Evan Gattis could get shot in OF: Atlanta Braves C Evan Gattis might get a look in left field during spring training if the team fails to land Arizona Diamondbacks...[+] OF Justin Upton via trade. Gattis swatted 16 homers, tying for the league lead, in the Venezuelan Winter League. He also batted .303 with a league-high .595 slugging percentage in 195 at-bats.
• 1/11 Blogging Mets: Don’t Get Excited About Mets/Justin Upton Reports: There are reports on Friday that the Mets are looking to reengage the Diamondbacks in talks for Justin Upton. I refuse to get...
• 1/11 Tyler's Think Tank: 2012 MLB All Bust Team (NL): C Brian McCann 2011:  51 runs  24 home runs  71 RBI  3 steals  .270/.351/.466 2012:  44 runs...
• 1/11 Rising Apple: The Mets & Justin Upton: Not Impossible: Earlier this week, I wrote a piece regarding the current state of the Mets outfield.  I brought up Justin Upton as a potential...
• 1/11 Seedlings to Stars: Mariners-Diamondbacks: the “no-trade, non-trade” trade analysis: Justin Upton, apparently, will not be traded from Arizona to Seattle … but not because the Diamondbacks and Mariners didn’t...
• 1/11 Venom Strikes: Defensive About Defense: I’m confused. That’s not really all that unusual since a good many things confuse me. But as of late, I am more than...
• 1/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Could have interest in Justin Upton : The Atlanta Braves could have interest in acquiring Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton but likely would not be willing to give...[+] up a package of players similar to the one the Seattle Mariners were offering for Upton. OF B.J. Upton said he has talked with his brother about the possibility of playing together for the Braves.
• 1/11 Bleeding Yankee Blue: MICHAEL MORSE WILL BE TRADED SOON: I believe that the Yankees have the best shot at getting Michael Morse.  I'm basing this on my gut.  This makes...
• 1/11 RoxPile: Around The NL West: Now What With Justin Upton?: We know what we are going to get from the San Francisco Giants. We think we know what we are going to get from the Los Angeles...
• 1/11 Venom Strikes: Since When Is Justin Upton Worth Nothing?: Tell Justin Upton anything you want, except that he is involved in a trade to Seattle because he will nip that in the bud immediately....
• 1/11 MLBTradeRumors: Mets Targeting Prominent Outfielders: The Mets like Scott Hairston, but view the free agent as a fallback option in case they can’t obtain a bigger name outfielder,...
• 1/11 WasWatching: Justin Upton Comps: Here’s one slice at it: Rk Player WAR/pos PA From To Age G R H HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG 1 Miguel Cabrera 17.1 3072 2003...
• 1/11 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Posey, Verlander, Sale: On this date in 2006, the then-Devil Rays franchise acquired its first Japanese-born player by signing reliever Shinji Mori to...
• 1/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Why Are the Diamondbacks So Desperate to Deal Justin Upton?: The proposed trade of Justin Upton to the Mariners was rejected by Upton because the Mariners are one of four clubs on his no-trade...
• 1/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton told team he wouldn't go to M'sArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton repeatedly told the team he wouldn't go to the Seattle Mariners....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton repeatedly told the team he wouldn't go to the Seattle Mariners.
• 1/11 YankeeAnalysts.com: What Would The Yankees Have To Give Up For Justin Upton?: I have to admit, I never wanted Justin Upton to be traded. When we hit the slow baseball months of the offseason, there’s...
• 1/11 Baseball Musings: Upton Stay Put: It appears that Justin Upton used his no-trade clause to reject a deal that would have sent him to the Mariners. I can’t...
• 1/11 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Friday: Justin Upton invoked his no-trade clause to reject a proposed deal to the Mariners, one of four teams on his no-trade list. The...
• 1/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mariners | More on Justin Upton offer: Updating previous reports, the Seattle Mariners offered SP Taijuan Walker, SS Nick Franklin, P Charlie Furbush and possibly RP...[+] Stephen Pryor for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton. Upton invoked his no-trade clause.
• 1/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Moving on from Justin UptonThe Texas Rangers are moving on from trade talks involving Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Texas Rangers are moving on from trade talks involving Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 1/11 Call to the Pen: Justin Upton Rejects Trade to Seattle: The strained relationship between Justin Upton and the Arizona Diamondbacks has been well document at this point, specifically...
• 1/11 Birds Watcher: A Letter to Dan Duquette on “behalf” of Orioles fans…: Dear Mr. Duquette, My name is Margaret Hooper, and I am an Orioles fan. Whew! It feels so good to be able to say that! For a long...
• 1/11 Motor City Bengals: The Market For Justin Upton Appears To Be Set: Earlier, MLB Trade Rumors reported that the Mariners and the Diamondbacks agreed on a deal to send talented RF Justin Upton to...
• 1/11 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas ‘Moving On’ from Diamondbacks’ Justin Upton: The Texas Rangers don’t expect to re-engage in trade talks with the Arizona Diamondbacks for outfielder Justin Upton following...
• 1/11 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks' Justin Upton Vetoes Trade to the Mariners: The trade everyone has been wondering about all winter happened in the last few days.  Only, it didn't. The Arizona Diamondbacks...
• 1/11 Mariners Latest: The Justin Upton Turn Down and Possible Phoenix: That smug little..... As I'm sure you've heard, unless you've been living under a rock or have stayed away from technology...
• 1/10 Baseball Jerks: Justin Upton Rejects Trade to Seattle: Multiple sources are reporting this evening that the Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners had a trade in place that would...
• 1/10 North and South of Royal Brougham: About Justin Upton Refusing to Waive His No-Trade Clause to be Traded to the Mariners: This is Justin Upton, who clearly thinks he’s way too cool to wear blue and teal. Word came out today that Justin Upton...
• 1/10 Nolan Writin': Justin Upton Rejects Trade To Mariners: According to Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal and Jon Morosi, Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers had a deal in place to trade outfielder...
• 1/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Would have received 3 or 4 players for Justin Upton : Updating a previous report, the Arizona Diamondbacks would have received three or four players from the Seattle Mariners for OF...[+] Justin Upton. RP Charlie Furbush, RP Stephen Pryor and SS Nick Franklin were believed to be part of the trade. The Mariners likely would have also given up either SP Taijuan Walker, SP Danny Hultzen or P James Paxton.
• 1/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mariners | Would have given up several players for Justin Upton : Updating a previous report, the Seattle Mariners were willing to give up three or four players for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin...[+] Upton. RP Charlie Furbush, RP Stephen Pryor and SS Nick Franklin were believed to be part of the trade. The Mariners likely would have also given up either SP Taijuan Walker, SP Danny Hultzen or P James Paxton.
• 1/10 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Reports: Upton Declines Trade to Seattle: According to a report by CBSSports.com's Scott Miller, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners had a deal in place...
• 1/10 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers "Moving On" From Justin Upton: The Rangers made their "final offer" for Justin Upton to the Diamondbacks and now don't expect to continue talks with the D'Backs,...
• 1/10 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Links: Upton, Hall, Helton, Lee, Padres: The big news out of the NL West today is Justin Upton's rejection of a trade that would have sent him to the Mariners in exchange...
• 1/10 Baseball News Source: Diamondbacks Justin Upton Rejects Trade To Mariners: Arizona outfielder Justin Upton invoked his limited no trade clause to veto an agreed -upon trade to the Seattle Mariners. Upton’s...
• 1/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton rejects trade : The Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to a deal with the Seattle Mariners that would have sent OF Justin Upton to the Mariners, but...[+] Upton rejected the trade since the Mariners were on his no-trade list. The Diamondbacks would have received a package of young talent from Seattle.
• 1/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mariners | Justin Upton rejects trade : The Seattle Mariners agreed to a deal to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton, but Upton rejected the trade since the...[+] Mariners were on his no-trade list.
• 1/10 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rejects Trade To Mariners: Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton invoked his limited no-trade clause to reject an agreed-upton deal between the D'Backs and...
• 1/10 Baseball News Source: Arizona Diamondbacks Top 10 Prospects for 2013: Pitching is plentiful in Arizona and Tyler Skaggs is top prospect The Diamondbacks boast a deep and talented rotation that includes...
• 1/10 Braves Journal: Cory Gearrin (by Stu): Taken by the Braves out of nearby Mercer University in the fourth round of the 2007 draft, Cory Gearrin made his big-league debut...
• 1/9 Nolan Writin': Searching For A Reason: If you believe everything the media tells you, then apparently Jon Daniels and the Rangers Front Office is adamant keeping Ian...
• 1/9 Bleeding Yankee Blue: MICHAEL MORSE & THE YANKEES DILEMMA: Look, right now there is just a bunch of chatter about the Yankees and Michael Morse.  We don't know if the Yankees truly...
• 1/9 MLB Injury News: Orioles Rumors: Baltimore Focused on Starting Pitching: It was reported yesterday that the Baltimore Orioles made a run at Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton in an effort...
• 1/9 Nolan Writin': Playing GM: Michael Morse: For many Ranger fans Michael Morse appears to be a huge upgrade to whatever the Texas Rangers will have at 1B. But is he really...
• 1/9 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Mike Morse strongly opposes beign a DH: The Yankees are looking for a right handed hitting outfielder and a DH and Mike Morse, who could fill both of those roles at...
• 1/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mariners | Talking Justin Upton: The Seattle Mariners are discussing a trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton, but the Mariners are one of the teams on...[+] Upton's no-trade list.
• 1/8 Baseball News Source: Washington Nationals: Market For Michael Morse Is Now Open: The signing of Adam LaRoche makes Michael Morse a valuable trade chip for Washington Michael Morse hit 31 home runs and had 95...
• 1/8 Call to the Pen: Orioles Have Interest in Justin Upton: After a shocking run to the AL Wild Card in 2012, the Baltimore Orioles have had an extremely quiet off-season; sitting idly by...
• 1/8 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Padres, Orioles, Rockies, Phillies: The Orioles showed serious interest in Justin Upton before talks with the Diamondbacks sputtered, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports...
• 1/8 Baseball Jerks: Homeward Bound: Lance Berkman Heading Back to Texas: It’s been an offseason of disappointment for the Texas Rangers. They lost Josh Hamilton to a division rival, failed to convince...
• 1/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Orioles | Have pursued Justin UptonThe Baltimore Orioles have pursued Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton this offseason....[+] The Baltimore Orioles have pursued Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton this offseason.
• 1/8 MLB Injury News: Orioles Rumors: Baltimore Pursued Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton: The Baltimore Orioles showed “strong interest” in Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton a few weeks back, but talks...
• 1/8 Mariners Latest: The Justin Upton Possibility: With most of the focus on the Hall of Fame voting, football playoffs and other non-baseball related news so far, let's talk...
• 1/7 The Baseball Haven: Faults in the Berkman Signing: When the Texas Rangers signed Lance Berkman to a one-year, $10 million deal (with a $12 million option for 2014, which vests at...
• 1/7 SoDo Mojo: At Bat Today: Seattle Mariners News for January 7, 2013: There hasn’t been a whole lot of movement in the Mariners’ Nation over the past few days. We’re waiting for...
• 1/7 SoDo Mojo: At Bat Today: Seattle Mariners News for January 6, 2013: Not a lot has happened in Mariners-land, but around the Major League, there have been a few power plays. The Cubs signed a new...
• 1/7 SoDo Mojo: Stanton, Upton, and Ethier Trade Rumors: The Mariners are desperate for bats according to several baseball reporters, and they are already in pursuit of three power hitting...
• 1/7 Rising Apple: “What Outfield?”: It doesn’t matter what the Mets’ front office says publicly about the postseason chances of the 2013 club.  For anyone...
• 1/7 That Ball's Outta Here: Why Kyle Lohse (Or Someone Like Him, Only Much Cheaper) Should Be The Phils’ Next Target: The Phillies offense looks like it’s going to be somewhat of a mess in 2013 and, barring a miracle, will probably be one...
• 1/7 Nolan Writin': The Rangers Off-Season Award That Means More Than it Says: An interesting turn of events in the last week. Mike Olt was named the Rangers Minor League player of the Year. Here’s my take...
• 1/7 Blogging Mets: Mets on Upton, Kubel, Francisco, Pavano: There are several reports Monday that the Mets are talking to at least one team about a possible trade and have shown interest...
• 1/7 Through The Fence Baseball: STTR Podcast: Did Texas Rangers make right call with Lance Berkman?:   Our Texas Rangers podcast makes its 2013 debut just over 24 hours after the announcement was made on Texas’ new addition,...
• 1/7 MLBTradeRumors: New York Notes: Hairston, Pavano, Francisco: Mark Hale of the New York Post has a number of updates related to New York’s two teams. Here’s the latest (all links go to...
• 1/7 Call to the Pen: Rangers Still Looking to Add: This weekend, the Texas Rangers came to an agreement with free agent Lance Berkman on a one-year, $10 million contract that includes...
• 1/7 MLBTradeRumors: Mets, Diamondbacks Discussed Upton, Kubel: The Mets talked to the Diamondbacks about potential trades involving outfielders Justin Upton and Jason Kubel, Jon Heyman of...
• 1/7 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Michael Bourn, Justin Upton, Kyle Lohse: Even after the Lance Berkman signing, the Texas Rangers are still “looking for more,” according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports,...
• 1/7 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Rangers, Red Sox, Mets: With Justin Verlander on his way to Lakeland, FL to prepare for the start of spring training, the countdown to the 2013 season...
• 1/6 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: A look back at the original reporting and analysis found on MLBTR this past week, as 2012 became 2013: Tim Dierkes attended...
• 1/6 MLBTradeRumors: NL Notes: D'backs, Rafael Soriano, Posey, Marlins: Seven years ago today, the Diamondbacks came to terms with Justin Upton, the first overall selection in the 2005 amateur draft,...
• 1/6 Venom Strikes: Upton To Seattle According to Latest Trade Rumors- UPDATED: With a surplus of outfielders, many pundits have claimed that the Arizona Diamondbacks could be involved in a trade before the...
• 1/6 Chicken Friars: Headley for Upton and the Move for the Sake of the Move: Are we really so desperate that we’re looking at creating a hole to fill another hole with a player who is full of mechanical...
• 1/6 BoSox Injection: Who Will Platoon With Jonny Gomes?: The move to bring Jonny Gomes aboard for 2 years and $10 million was deemed a curious one by many. Gomes had a good season with...
• 1/6 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WILL THE YANKEES MISS THE BOAT ON JUSTIN UPTON?: The Yankees need a right fielder, or at least a powerful right handed bat.  That was why Cashman claimed to have passed on...
• 1/6 MLBTradeRumors: Braves Won't Rule Out Michael Bourn: The Braves' signing of B.J. Upton in November ostensibly took them out of the running for fellow free agent center fielder Michael...
• 1/6 BoSox Injection: To Get You Gotta Give: Bringing Justin Upton to Boston: Over the past two weeks the Arizona Diamondbacks, who are looking for pitching, have once again floated the name of their star...
• 1/6 Baseball Musings: Challenge Trade: Gaslamp Ball wonders if Padres fans would rather have Justin Upton than Chase Headley: So if Headley is under Padres control for...
• 1/6 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Cubs, Ellsbury, Morneau, Dodgers: When Theo Epstein took over the Cubs a year ago, he took the long range view and opted for an all-out gutting and rebuilding. ...
• 1/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Berkman A Great Signing For The Rangers On All Levels (If He’s Healthy): Lance Berkman is a great signing with limited risk for the Rangers. Let’s take a look at why. He’s can still hit Berkman,...
• 1/6 MLB Injury News: Padres, Diamondbacks Discussed Chase Headley, Justin Upton Trade: The Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres have held on-and-off discussions about a trade involving outfielder Justin Upton...
• 1/6 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Orioles, Arizona Talking Jason Kubel: The Diamondbacks are discussing outfielder Jason Kubel with the Baltimore Orioles, and Arizona is seeking young pitchers from...
• 1/5 Baseball Jerks: Homeward Bound: Lance Berkman Heading Back to Texas: It’s been an offseason of disappointment for the Texas Rangers. They lost Josh Hamilton to a division rival, failed to convince...
• 1/5 Chicken Friars: The Padres Have Discussed a Headley-Upton Swap?: Here is an interesting story from the fine folks at mlbtraderumors.com: The Padres have discussed a trade involving Chase Headley and...
• 1/5 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Want Young Pitching From O's For Kubel: The Diamondbacks are looking to get young pitching from the Orioles in a trade for outfielder Jason Kubel, but Baltimore has...
• 1/5 MLBTradeRumors: Padres, D'Backs Discussed Deal With Upton & Headley: The Padres and Diamondbacks have had on-and-off discussions about a deal involving Justin Upton and Chase Headley since July,...
• 1/5 Yanks Go Yard: Is Diamondbacks’ Kubel worth pursuing for Yankees?: Recently, many of the headlines concerning trades have had to do with Justin Upton and Giancarlo Stanton. Both are big powerful...
• 1/5 Baseball News Source: Upton, Kubel: Which Outfielder Should the Diamondbacks Trade?: Arizona has five starting-caliber outfielders There have been a lot of rumors surrounding the Arizona Diamondbacks and their...
• 1/5 Yanks Go Yard: Yankees News & Notes: Justin Upton rumors heat up … Again: An offseason mired by a $189 million budget and a desolate free agent pool, at least in terms of what the Yankees need, has the...
• 1/4 Rising Apple: Punting 2013?: As the days before spring training dwindle (39 and counting), many of us are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the state...
• 1/4 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Upton, Liriano, Orioles, Headley: Rob Manfred, MLB’s executive VP of labor relations, told Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports that he’s not ready to say baseball’s...
• 1/4 Yanks Go Yard: Why Delmon Young Isn’t The Answer for the Yankees: In the search for more right-handed hitting to help balance all the lefties in the lineup, the Yankees are leaving no stone unturned....
• 1/4 The Captain's Blog: Let’s Make a Deal: Is Second Coming of Montero Near?: The Yankees’ lineup looks a little like Swiss cheese, but the team has some depth in its starting rotation. Meanwhile, the Seattle...
• 1/4 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: New Year, New Hot Stove: Could Taijuan Walker be used as bait to land Giancarlo Stanton? The first pitchers and catchers are set to report to spring training...
• 1/4 That Ball's Outta Here: Phillies Wasted All Their Good Guys On Ben Revere: Yes, yes, yes… we’re doing the Justin Upton thing again. At the time, it seemed like a reasonable ransom to pay for...
• 1/4 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Arizona Open to Trading Justin Upton: Over the summer and entering the offseason, it appeared the Arizona Diamondbacks would be trading outfielder Justin Upton. However,...
• 1/3 Mariners Latest: This IS 2013, Right? (A Mini Rant): Whaaa....? I'll admit, trying to be levelheaded about the moves the Mariners have made or not made has been arduous, but...
• 1/3 Nolan Writin': What a Long Strange Rangers Off Season….So Far: I know it’s not over yet, but this has been one of the strangest since the days of John Hart and Tom Hicks. It’s a weird sort...
• 1/3 Bleeding Yankee Blue: DIAMONDBACKS ARE DANGLING JUSTIN UPTON... I'M IN: I want Giancarlo Stanton in pinstripes. That is crystal clear if you've been reading BYB and especially if you have read GIANCARLO...
• 1/3 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks “Open” To Discussing Upton: Facing a surplus of outfielders following their deal with Cody Ross, the Diamondbacks are once again “very much open” to...
• 1/3 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: The Diamondbacks’ Outfield Depth: The Diamondbacks have already traded an outfielder once this offseason, sending Chris Young to Oakland. Now that they've signed...
• 1/1 Through The Fence Baseball: Texas Rangers still tinkering, but changes might not be necessary: The Texas Rangers offseason has been disappointing to many so far because the club has been unable to sign or trade for the impact...
• 1/1 Through The Fence Baseball: Texas Rangers still tinkering, but more changes might not be necessary: The Texas Rangers offseason has been disappointing to many so far because the club has been unable to sign or trade for the impact...

• 12/31 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Red Sox, Indians, Perez, Eaton: It was on this day 40 years ago that the baseball world lost one of its greatest stars.  Following a massive earthquake that...
• 12/31 Baseball News Source: Boston Red Sox: Trades That Could Be Made Before Spring Training: Red Sox GM Ben Cherington has refused to part with promising prospects, but that could change… Stocked with an abundance...
• 12/31 MLBTradeRumors: The Key "Non-Moves" Of 2012: As the cliche goes, sometimes the best moves are the ones you don't make.  Some teams greatly benefited by standing pat on certain...
• 12/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Red Sox | Not likely pursuing Justin Upton: The Boston Red Sox are likely out on a trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton, as Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers...[+] has suggested the Red Sox would have to surrender prospects it did not wish to trade.
• 12/31 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Stanton, D'Backs, Upton, Pirates: The Marlins aren't in a rush to trade Giancarlo Stanton, but it remains highly unlikely that he will agree to a long-term contract,...
• 12/30 Venom Strikes: What To Expect For D’backs In 2013: As New Year’s approaches and 2012 progresses into 2013, it’s as good a time as any to take a look at how the D’backs have...
• 12/30 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Upton, Red Sox, Stanton, Lohse, Myers: In today's column, Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe looks at the best big league rosters as we head into 2013.  The Nationals...
• 12/30 MLB Injury News: Red Sox Rumors: Boston a Fit for Diamondbacks’ Justin Upton?: The Boston Red Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks should pair up for a trade that would center on slugger Justin Upton, according...
• 12/30 RoxPile: NL West Musings: What Is Going On In Arizona?: You know what nobody in Colorado missed? The sight of Cody Ross flipping his bat. Ross recently returned to the National League,...
• 12/29 MLBTradeRumors: The 80-89 Win Club: Last year, roughly one quarter of the teams in baseball won between 80 and 89 games and all of them missed the playoffs.  This...
• 12/29 MLB Injury News: Dodgers Rumors: Mariners Interested in Andre Ethier?: While there is still “no real evidence” that the Los Angeles Dodgers are shopping or making available outfielder Andre Ethier,...
• 12/28 MLBTradeRumors: Chicago Notes: Garza, Marcum, Bourjos, D'Backs: ESPN Chicago's Bruce Levine opened up his latest online chat to reader proposals for trades that would send Justin Upton to the...
• 12/28 Baseball News Source: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition #8 – Napoli, LaRoche and Leftovers: LaRoche’s destination could be tied to Napoli’s contract situation Boston Editor’s Note: Across the Diamond:...
• 12/28 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Hanrahan, Porcello, Morgan: On this date in 1994, the Padres and Astros completed a 12-player trade. Ken Caminiti, Steve Finley, and four others went to...
• 12/28 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Final Hot Stove of 2012: Wow, how the week catches up to you quickly when you are off for five days for Christmas and then set for another four-day...
• 12/28 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Fixing the Left Side of the Dodger Infield With Defense: I think we can all agree that though the big moves have already been made, the 2013 Dodgers still have some spots to fill. They...
• 12/28 MLB Injury News: Mariners Rumors: Seattle ‘Wide Open’ to Making Moves: The Seattle Mariners have missed out on several targets this offseason, but they remain “wide open” to making other moves,...
• 12/28 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Arizona Will Trade Justin Upton or Jason Kubel: Following the Arizona Diamondbacks surprise signing of free agent Cody Ross, outfielders Justin Upton and Jason Kubel are...
• 12/27 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Notes: Upton, Kubel, Ross: Just before holidays, Rangers assistant GM Thad Levine told Jim Bowden of SiriusXM that the club has had nothing but great conversations...
• 12/27 MLBTradeRumors: Red Sox Notes: Napoli, Upton, LaRoche: Here's a look at the latest on the Red Sox following their introductory conference call for shortstop Stephen Drew.. The...
• 12/27 Nolan Writin': Rangers’ Rumors, On The Rocks: Ken Rosenthal has an interesting, albeit foreboding, article up on Fox Sports regarding Boston’s current pursuit of Adam...
• 12/27 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: ‘Decent Chance’ Texas Will Add Bat: At today’s press conference introducing recently-signed free agent catcher A.J. Pierzynski, Texas Rangers general manager...
• 12/26 Baseball Jerks: Arizona Diamondbacks 2013 Preview: Despite a busy offseason last year, the Diamondbacks fell from first in the NL West with 94 wins in 2011 to 13 games back of first...
• 12/26 Through The Fence Baseball: The new year brings new possibilities for the Texas Rangers:   During the holidays, everyone is enjoying time with family and friends. But, with the new year around the corner, our thoughts...
• 12/25 Phillies Nation: Does Kubel Fit the Phillies?: The Diamondbacks signed Cody Ross to a three-year, $26 million deal over the weekend, giving them five starting outfielders for...
• 12/25 Rays Colored Glasses: Could the Rays Make A Move for One of the Diamondbacks’ Lower-Profile Outfielders?: This offseason, the Rays already acquired one potential superstar outfielder, Wil Myers. They would love to acquire another, Justin...
• 12/25 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers Could Go Even More “All-In” With Justin Upton: We said it when the Detroit Tigers signed Price Fielder to the monster deal last offseason. We said it again when they traded...
• 12/24 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas Not Targeting Adam LaRoche, Kyle Lohse: Texas Rangers assistant general manager Thad Levine told Jim Bowden of ESPN that the team hasn’t yet discussed free agents...
• 12/23 Southside Showdown: Is it Time to Trade Alexei Ramirez?: When the Arizona Diamondbacks signed Cody Ross to a 3 year, $26M deal, their outfield got a bit more crowded. Now they look to...
• 12/23 Venom Strikes: Questionable Timing of the Cody Ross Deal: Like most people, I was baffled at first when I heard the news that the Arizona Diamondbacks signed Cody Ross to a three-year,...
• 12/23 Nolan Writin': Jon Daniels and “The Code”: After the abrupt ending of an equivocal train wreck with a 5-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles in the AL Wild Card game, the Texas...
• 12/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: White Sox | Had shown interest in Justin Upton: The Chicago White Sox had expressed interest in trading for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton earlier this offseason but would...[+] have had to give up SS Alexei Ramirez.
• 12/23 Rays Colored Glasses: Could the Diamondbacks’ Cody Ross Signing Reignite Talks of Justin Upton Going to the Rays?: The Arizona Diamondbacks entered the 2012 offseason looking to deal from an outfield surplus. A multiplicity of rumors made it...
• 12/23 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Notes: LaRoche, Swisher, Upton: Earlier today, Rangers assistant General Manager Thad Levine joined Jim Bowden on SiriusXM radio.  Here's a look at some...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: Indians, Reds, D-backs Complete Three-Team Deal: Choo will play in Cincinnati in 2013 The Cleveland Indians agreed to send right fielder Shin-Soo Choo and infielder Jason Donald...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: Mark Reynolds Reaches Agreement With Indians – One-year $6 Million: Reynolds opts for a one-year deal in Cleveland Free-agent Mark Reynolds, has reached an agreement on a one-year deal worth $6...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: Michael Young Accepts Trade to Philadelphia: Young has spent his entire career with the Rangers The Rangers waited patiently for an answer from Michael Young about waiving...
• 12/23 Baseball News Source: Diamondbacks Reach Agreement with Cody Ross: Three Years $26 Million: The Diamondbacks moved in with stealth like precision to sign Ross The Arizona Diamondbacks and Cody Ross reached an agreement...
• 12/23 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Arizona to Trade Outfielder: Following the Arizona Diamondbacks surprising agreement with free agent Cody Ross, the team is working to trade an outfielder,...
• 12/23 Southside Showdown: Orioles Have Gavin Floyd on Radar: According to Danny Knobler, the White Sox are looking for a lefty bat. No surprise there. Also the team is apparently announcing...
• 12/22 Rising Apple: Cody Ross To Arizona: Your Move, Sandy: According to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News, Cody Ross has signed a three-year deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks. It...
• 12/22 MLBTradeRumors: News & Reactions Following The Cody Ross Signing: The Diamondbacks signed Cody Ross to a three-year, $26MM contract earlier today, and GM Kevin Towers told reporters (including...
• 12/22 Through The Fence Baseball: Texas Rangers still look to improve after signing A.J. Pierzynski: On Thursday, the Texas Rangers came to an agreement with former Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski on a one-year $7.5 million...
• 12/22 Crashburn Alley: Phillies Must Exercise Judicious Use of Corner Outfielders: Outfielder Cody Ross just signed a three-year, $26 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks, leaving the free agent market...
• 12/22 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Working To Trade Outfielder: The Diamondbacks are looking to trade an outfielder in the wake of the Cody Ross signing, according to Buster Olney of ESPN.com...
• 12/22 Blogging Mets: Cody Ross Signs with Diamondbacks: Cody Ross has reportedly signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks, which means he will not be on the Mets in 2013 and beyond. That...
• 12/22 Baseball News Source: Diamondbacks Reach Agreement with Cody Ross: Three Years $26 Million: The Diamondbacks moved in with stealth like precision to sign Ross The Arizona Diamondbacks and Cody Ross reached an agreement...
• 12/22 Up Along First: Diamondbacks Sign Free Agent Outfielder Cody Ross: One more outfielder off the board. According to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News, the Arizona Diamondbacks have agreed...
• 12/22 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks To Sign Cody Ross: The Diamondbacks and Cody Ross have agreed to a three-year contract reports Mark Feinsand of The New York Daily News (on Twitter)....
• 12/22 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas Targeting Michael Bourn, Cody Ross?: Even after signing catcher A.J. Pierzynski the Texas Rangers continue to seek offense this winter, and the team is starting...
• 12/21 Call to the Pen: Rangers Showing Interest in Michael Bourn: The Texas Rangers might just be the team Scott Boras was waiting for. Free agent outfielder Michael Bourn was thought to be the...
• 12/20 Seedlings to Stars: Marlins Targeted Young Third Baseman: Despite their best efforts to avoid being the laughingstock of the baseball world, the Miami Marlins have largely struggled to...
• 12/20 Venom Strikes: Things May Be Up In The Air, But At Least We Are Not Texas: I’m currently sitting in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport as I’m writing this and there seems to be an overwhelming sense...
• 12/20 Nolan Writin': Greed, Lust, Entitlement: Think back to when you started watching the Rangers. Think back to the time where you began considering yourself a “fan”....
• 12/19 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Who’d you rather? Adam Eaton or Norichika Aoki?: “Who’d you rather?” is a po**** segment on the Dear Mr. Fantasy Baseball Podcast and something we’ve brought...
• 12/19 MLB Injury News: Edwin Jackson Rumors: Cubs, Rangers Final Suitors: Free agent right-hander Edwin Jackson has narrowed his list of suitors down to two, the Chicago Cubs and the Texas Rangers,...
• 12/18 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Rangers, Nakajima, Upton: The latest from Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports... Rangers officials aren’t overwhelmed by the remaining free agent position...
• 12/17 Through The Fence Baseball: Josh Hamilton: This was a move no one in Texas saw coming:   Josh Hamilton is still a hot button topic of every radio station in Dallas/Ft Worth, as well as with every Texas Rangers...
• 12/17 Full Spectrum Baseball: Josh Hamilton and The Changing Face of the American LeagueUntil recently, the Angels were planning on sporting no more than a $145 million payroll in 2013. Enter Josh Hamilton....
• 12/17 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Blue Jays, Dickey, Drew, Rangers: Baseball people who have had the Blue Jays decline past trade proposals involving Travis d'Arnaud are “completely shocked”...
• 12/17 Nolan Writin': 2013 Lineup Construction: It’s no big secret: The Rangers offense is sure to look very different next year. There’s no more Josh Hamilton, no...
• 12/16 MTRMedia.com: R.A. Dickey Trade Rumors: Where Pitcher’s numbers would be be best: Before going on, I certainly need to extend my heartfelt condolences to everyone impacted by what happened in Connecticut on Friday....
• 12/16 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Bourn, Yankees, Tigers, Soriano: While the Dodgers and Angels scooped up the two impact free agents of this year's class, the Rangers have had a much more dull...
• 12/15 Venom Strikes: Hamilton Signing Could Reignite Diamondback Trade Rumors: The Bauer trade is in the rearview mirror but the Josh Hamilton signing by the Angels could potentially reignite trade rumors...
• 12/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Josh Hamilton Fallout: Let’s look at how the Angels’ signing of Josh Hamilton will affect everyone involved. — Josh Hamilton Southern California...
• 12/15 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: R.A. Dickey Trade Rumors: Where Pitcher’s numbers would be be best: Before going on, I certainly need to extend my heartfelt condolences to everyone impacted by what happened in Connecticut on More......
• 12/15 Nolan Writin': Patiently waiting: I wrote on Monday that better things would be coming this week for the Rangers, but then Josh Hamilton hopped on over to the...
• 12/15 Nolan Writin': “It’s Time” … To Blow Up the Rangers: and a little music to read along to   Last September during the Rangers’ historic collapse, I was one of the dwindling...
• 12/14 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy impact: Shin-Soo Choo, Trevor Bauer and Josh Hamilton: Within a matter of days, the Texas Rangers went from holding all the cards to being left out in the cold this winter. This free-agency...
• 12/14 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas Best Fit for Nick Swisher?: Now that Josh Hamilton has signed with the Los Angeles Angels, rival evaluators are speculating that the best remaining free...
• 12/14 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Bourn, Swisher, Red Sox, Alvarez, Diaz: It's been another major day of hot stove news, headlined by Josh Hamilton's deal with the Angels and Anibal Sanchez's forthcoming...
• 12/13 Venom Strikes: Bauer Trade Shakes Up D’backs: So what now? The Diamondbacks’ latest trade, in which they acquired shortstop prospect Didi Gregorius and sent uber-pitching...
• 12/13 MLBRandomFandom: Arizona Diamondbacks Team Page: ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKSMLBDepthCharts Team PagePlayers 1-25 by Number Score1. Justin Upton (8)2. Ian Kennedy (7.75)3. Miguel Montero...
• 12/13 MLBTradeRumors: Reactions To The Josh Hamilton Signing: We've already looked at how the Angels' five-year, $125MM agreement with Josh Hamilton has impacted players and teams around...
• 12/13 SoDo Mojo: What Hamilton to the Angels means for the Ms: I am sure all of you heard the news about Josh Hamilton agreeing to a 5 year, $125 million contract with the AL West rival Angels....
• 12/13 Nolan Writin': The Day Josh Hamilton Fled Texas: We were told Josh Hamilton was going to give the Rangers the final say. We were told he was to go out, find his market, then come...
• 12/13 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Hamilton Joining Pujols in Los Angeles: Leave it to Arte Moreno and Jerry DiPoto to come out of the blue and strike for the big position playing fish on the market....
• 12/13 Call to the Pen: Rangers Upset with Josh Hamilton Over Angels Signing: Jon Daniels, general manager of the Texas Rangers, doesn’t seem to a be a big fan of Josh Hamilton today. Less than an hour...
• 12/13 It's About the Money (Stupid): Hamilton signs with Angels: See, I told you so. Though truth be told, I didn't really expect that Josh Hamilton would be signing with the Orange County Angels...
• 12/13 Call to the Pen: Josh Hamilton Lands with Angels: The Los Angeles Angels didn’t manage to sign the best pitcher on the market, but it appears that they did get their hands...
• 12/13 Mets360.com: Reviewing Mets trade targets: Mike Olt, Travis D’Arnaud and Xander Bogaerts: I think most Met fans are tired of the saga of R.A. Dickey.  I know that I am.  I fully agree with the reports that once Hamilton...
• 12/12 Through The Fence Baseball: Josh Hamilton’s decision looms large over Texas:   If Josh Hamilton wanted center stage all to himself, he got exactly what he asked for. With Zack Greinke off the free-agent...
• 12/12 Baseball Jerks: Shin-Soo Choo Headlines 9-Player Trade, Goes to Cincinnati: One of the po**** outfielders on the trade market this offseason not named Justin Upton has been Shin-Soo Choo. The five-tool...
• 12/12 Rising Apple: How About R.A. Dickey for Ian Kinsler?: So, R.A. Dickey is unhappy. Frankly, I don’t blame him. He’s blatantly being taken advantage of by the Mets in these...
• 12/12 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Yankees, Upton, Marcum: On today’s edition of the Rosters & Rumblings podcast, Jason Martinez of MLB Depth Charts and I discussed the Indians-Reds-Diamondbacks...
• 12/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton expected to stay: The Arizona Diamondbacks are expected to hold onto OF Justin Upton after completing a trade Tuesday, Dec. 11, that netted them...[+] SS Didi Gregorius, RP Tony Sipp and 1B Lars Anderson. 'I would say with all the areas we've addressed, I would say it's highly unlikely that we move Justin,' general manager Kevin Towers said.
• 12/12 Through The Fence Baseball: Scooping the Texas Rangers podcast: Our winter of discontent:   On this addition of the Scooping the Texas Rangers podcast, Jeff Johnson and I talk about the fall out from the Winter...
• 12/12 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Indians, D-Backs, And Reds Finalize 3-Way Choo Deal: The Diamondbacks did indeed pull of a three-way trade this week, but it was not the one that everyone was anti**** with Justin...
• 12/12 That Ball's Outta Here: Phillies Outfield Choices Are Down To Three: Remember yesterday when a radio talk show host who used to be a real newspaper journalist went on his radio show and told the...
• 12/12 MLBRandomFandom: The Dodgers' Best Impression of the Yankees: by Rob Willer Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 12/12 MLB Injury News: Three-Team Deal Sends Trevor Bauer to Indians, Shin-Soo Choo to Reds: It wasn't quite a blockbuster, but the Arizona Diamondbacks finally pulled the trigger on a trade last night.  After hearing...
• 12/12 Seedlings to Stars: Bauer, Gregorious Moved in Nine Player Trade: Since last week’s Winter Meetings there has been chatter about a possible three-team trade, if not bigger, that would involve...
• 12/12 MLB Injury News: Justin Upton Rumors: Diamondbacks ‘Highly Unlikely’ to Trade OF: Now that the Arizona Diamondbacks have filled what they consider to be their areas of need through yesterday’s three-team trade, general...
• 12/12 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Soriano, Astros, Dickey, Grilli: On the most recent edition of the Rosters & Rumblings podcast, MLBTR’s Ben Nicholson-Smith and Jason Martinez of MLB Depth...
• 12/12 North and South of Royal Brougham: Edwin Jackson Should be a Target for the Mariners: In two of the past three days the Mariners offseason has taken some major hits in terms of its allure. When the Dodgers signed...
• 12/12 MLBTradeRumors: Trade Reactions: Reds, Choo, D'Backs, Indians: Earlier tonight, the Reds, Indians, and Diamondbacks completed a three-team deal that will change the complexion of all three...
• 12/11 MLB Dirt: The Reds Acquire Shin-Soo Choo in a Blockbuster Move: In an offseason that has saw the Tampa Bay Rays dump off frontline starters, Jeffery Loria selling anyone in a Miami Marlins jersey...
• 12/11 Baseball News Source: Indians, Reds, D-backs Complete Three-Way Deal: Choo will play in Cincinnati in 2013 The Cleveland Indians agreed to send right fielder Shin-Soo Choo and infielder Jason Donald...
• 12/11 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks "Highly Unlikely" To Trade Justin Upton: Diamondbacks General Manager Kevin Towers told reporters that a trade of Justin Upton is now "highly unlikely" now that they...
• 12/11 Baseball Jerks: Brandon McCarthy Signing Could Allow Diamondbacks to Trade Pitching: The Arizona Diamondbacks ended the 2012 season and entered the off-season with perhaps as much pitching depth as any team this...
• 12/11 Venom Strikes: Players Who Could be Moved if the D’Backs Stumble: Major League Baseball has become a 12 month per year sport.  While there is an off-season for players, for the fans and the media...
• 12/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton talks fizzlingArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton appears to be staying with the team, as trade talks have fizzled....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton appears to be staying with the team, as trade talks have fizzled.
• 12/11 Redlegs Review: Reds Leadoff Man Search Continues; What Would You Do?:    by: Parker Perry @ParkerPerry_ Staff Writer   With Jonathan Broxton re-signed, Ryan Ludwick...
• 12/11 Rising Apple: Amazin’ Ten of 2012: #4 – July 26: One of the few bright spots for the Mets in 2012 was the arrival of Matt Harvey. While his offense rarely got behind him (or anyone...
• 12/11 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas Will Acquire Josh Hamilton or Justin Upton: The Texas Rangers are likely to end up with one of free agent slugger Josh Hamilton or Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin...
• 12/11 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy baseball impact: A fake trade, a real trade and signings, part two: With so much offseason clamor going around about big-time trades, there is one trade that needs to happen: Justin Upton for Jurickson...
• 12/11 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On The Rangers: Upton, Pierzynski, Dickey: The Rangers lost out on a trade target when the Royals acquired James Shields last night, just days after losing out on free...
• 12/11 North and South of Royal Brougham: If the Mariners Whiff on Everyone: Trade Targets as Alternatives: Now that the Rangers have lost out on Zack Greinke, it seems like at the very least the Mariners will either have to wait for...
• 12/10 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton likely to stay: Now that the Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Rays have made a trade of their own, the chances of the Arizona Diamondbacks and...[+] Texas Rangers hooking up for a deal involving OF Justin Upton is unlikely. The Rangers have been unwilling to part with SSs Elvis Andrus or Jurickson Profar to acquire Upton.
• 12/10 Venom Strikes: After Winter Meetings, How do the AZ D’Backs Stand?: It was a week of rumors, innuendo and gossip.  No, folks we are not talking about the updated version of “Dallas”. ...
• 12/10 Nolan Writin': Better things are coming: With the Mike Napoli signing with the Red Sox, the trade of Michael Young, Zack Greinke signing with the Dodgers and James Shields...
• 12/10 Rays Colored Glasses: The Dodgers’ Zack Greinke Signing Expedites James Shields’ Trade Market- And Turns It Into Complete Chaos: The Los Angeles Dodgers were the favorites to land Zack Greinke since the start of his free agency. There were some speed bumps...
• 12/10 Seedlings to Stars: Texas Willing to Deal Olt to Mets for Dickey: Finding themselves on the losing end of Zach Greinke’s free agent decision and unsure of which potentially available pitcher...
• 12/9 Baseball News Source: Mark Reynolds Reaches Agreement With Indians – One-year $6 Million: Reynolds opts for a one-year deal in Cleveland Free-agent Mark Reynolds, has reached an agreement on a one-year deal worth $6...
• 12/9 Baseball Jerks: Dodgers Continue to Spend, Sign Zack Greinke: It wasn’t so long ago that the Los Angeles Dodgers were a pawn in Frank McCourt’s divorce proceedings and were financially...
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: No Love For Michael Bourn: by Danny Madden                 This offseason has been full of rumors, trades, and...
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: Up-And-Comers: Shortstops: This is the second-to-last of eight MLBRandomFandom Up-And-Comer articles. Today: Shortstopsby Jon BeckerThe amount of good shortstops...
• 12/9 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Renewed Focus on R.A. Dickey Likely: The Texas Rangers have not quite had the offseason they've envisioned.  They clearly want Justin Upton from the Arizona...
• 12/9 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Price, Rays, Otani, Dodgers, Dickey: It becomes increasingly difficult at this stage to see David Price signing a deal to stay with the Rays but it's not too late,...
• 12/9 North and South of Royal Brougham: Dodgers Sign Greinke: Hamilton, Upton, and Mariners Implications: Last night Zack Greinke and the Dodgers agreed to a contract that makes Greinke the second-highest paid pitcher ever, and gave...
• 12/9 Phillies Nation: Phillies Nation Mailbag Number Four: Get the Tables: Only three questions this week but they are quite in depth – lots of graphics charts and tables – both of the Excel...
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: No Love For Michael Bourn: by Danny Madden                 This offseason has been full of rumors, trades, and...
• 12/9 Mariners Latest: Much Ado About Baseball: Jack Z Zack Greinke signed with the Dodgers for an obscene amount of money. Shane Victorino got, for the type of player...
• 12/9 MLB Injury News: Rangers Rumors: Texas Interested in Upton, Sanchez, Lohse: After losing out on starting pitcher Zack Greinke to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Texas Rangers are still said to have interest...
• 12/9 Nolan Writin': Michael Young is No Longer a Texas Ranger: As Sarah wrote a little bit earlier, today’s move to trade Michael Young is sure to be met like most other polarizing situations:...
• 12/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Still focused on Justin Upton: The Texas Rangers might have lost out on free-agent SP Zack Greinke (Dodgers), but they still want to trade for Arizona Diamondbacks...[+] OF Justin Upton.
• 12/8 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Still Interested In Acquiring Justin Upton: Even though they've lost out on Zack Greinke, the Rangers still have interest in acquiring Justin Upton according to Ken Rosenthal...
• 12/8 It's About the Money (Stupid): Dodgers land Greinke: My how quickly things change during hot stove season. The last time I did a once over of the latest Zack Greinke rumors, the...
• 12/8 Baseball News Source: Michael Young Accepts Trade to Philadelphia: Young has spent his entire career with the Rangers The Rangers waited patiently for an answer from Michael Young about waiving...
• 12/8 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Thoughts on The Winter Meetings And What Could Be Next: The Rays had a quiet, productive Winter Meetings. They filled two big needs by signing James Loney and trading for Yunel Escobar....
• 12/7 MLBTradeRumors: Ohio Notes: Hernandez, Mesoraco, Hannahan: The Indians are still pursuing free agent Kevin Youkilis and still trying to work out a multi-team trade involving Asdrubal ...
• 12/7 mlbreports.com : What the Indians will do with Asdrubal Cabrera: Friday December 7, 2012 Kyle Holland (MLB Reports Intern): In 2012, Asdrubal Cabrera had an average year. He hit .270/.338/.423...
• 12/7 WahoosOnFirst: Winter Meetings Indians Rumors: Recapping Day Four: After a whirlwind beginning to the weke, Thursday was a bit of an anticlimactic finish to the Winter Meetings in terms of news...
• 12/7 Through The Fence Baseball: No matter what happens next, Texas Rangers will look different in 2013:   Michael Young looks to be headed to the Philadelphia Phillies, Derek Holland is getting trade interest from the Kansas...
• 12/7 MLBTradeRumors: Zack Greinke Rumors: Friday: Angels GM Jerry Dipoto told reporters yesterday that he's "prepared to move on from Zack Greinke." Even the Dodgers are considering...
• 12/7 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Yankees checking on Josh Hamilton: Maybe there is life in the Yankees front office after all. Without Brian Cashman, the Yankees are quietly (maybe not so quietly)...
• 12/7 Tomahawk Take: Braves Monday Quiet At Winter Meetings: Baseball’s winter meetings opened quietly for the Braves with reports that GM Frank Wren spent time talking bench players. The...
• 12/7 Behind the Plate: Behind the Trade: Revere Rides to Philly     After speculation that the Phillies were dangling pitcher Cliff Lee for an outfielder like [...] ...
• 12/7 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On Multi-Team James Shields Talks: The Rangers, Diamondbacks, Rays and Indians discussed three and four-team deals in Nashville this past week without agreeing to...
• 12/7 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Tim Lincecum 2013: Fantasy Freak or Freakout?Any way you slice it, 2012 was not pretty for Tim Lincecum. Well, he did win a World Series, so More......
• 12/7 Mariners Latest: Player Updates and "Sources": For the most part, I use twitter to keep updated on the goings on of the baseball world.  Every once in a while I'll...
• 12/7 MLBTradeRumors: Winter Meetings In Review: American League: We covered the National League earlier, now it's time to go over the American League's activity at the winter meetings.. Angels: The...
• 12/7 Southside Showdown: AL Central Winter Meetings Roundup: As the Winter Meetings Draw to a close here it might be a good idea to see what the competition has spent the week accomplishing,...
• 12/6 Baseball News Source: 2012 MLB Winter Meetings – Day Four Recap: Greinke signing will likely have a domino effect on the rest of the market Day Four of the 2012 winter meetings started with lots...
• 12/6 MLBTradeRumors: Winter Meetings In Review: National League: Here's a look back at what went down during the Winter Meetings in the National League.. Braves: If the Braves add an outfielder...
• 12/6 Baseball Jerks: MLB: Winter Meetings End, but Work Remains: Anyone hoping for resolutions to the two biggest free agent mysteries is surely disappointed as neither Josh Hamilton nor Zack...
• 12/6 The High Phive: Love is Blind, Phillies-Style…The Cliff Lee Story: As the baseball winter meetings continue, with the daily smattering of trade rumors and predictions, no rumor has raised the ire...
• 12/6 Call to the Pen: Rangers Hold All the Cards in Greinke, Hamilton Markets: There is a growing sentiment among front office types that if free agent starting pitcher Zack Greinke wanted to sign with the...
• 12/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Indians | No longer going after Justin Upton: The Cleveland Indians are no longer in discussions to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton, and they could be looking...[+] other places to dump SS Asdrubal Cabrera. The Texas Rangers appear to be the most interested in trading for Upton, and a large deal could also involve the Tampa Bay Rays or Seattle Mariners. A large blockbuster trade remains a long shot at this point, according to multiple officials involved in the talks. The Mariners could be holding up a deal, as they are unsure of their direction.
• 12/6 Redlegs Review: Ludwick and Reds still talking as Winter Meetings end: Well, Walt Jocketty showed up to baseball's 2012 Winter Meetings, so there's that. Nothing of note really happened at Opryland...
• 12/6 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Tribe Talks Trade In Many Directions, But Appear to Head Home With Same Roster: By Mike Brandyberry If the Indians acquired every player they’ve inquired about at this week’s Winter Meetings in Nashville,...
• 12/6 mlbreports.com : Russell Martin: How Will He Fare in Pittsburgh?: Thursday December 6th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky (Baseball Writer): Russell Martin recently signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates for...
• 12/6 WahoosOnFirst: Winter Meetings Indians Rumors: Recapping Day Three: Impossible though it may sound, Day Three of the Winter Meetings provided even more interesting rumors than the first two. Here’s...
• 12/6 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks Find Great Value in Eric Chavez Signing: Just two days before Eric Chavez’s 35th birthday, the left handed hitting third baseman inked a one year deal with Diamondbacks....
• 12/6 Nolan Writin': Restraint -Thy Names are Ryan and Daniels: First things first, by the time this posts up something altogether different could have happened because I am posting this at...
• 12/6 MLBTradeRumors: Winter Meetings Review: Day 3: The Winter Meetings will conclude today with the Rule 5 Draft. In case you missed the action, we've already recapped Day 1 and...
• 12/6 MLB Injury News: Justin Upton Blockbuster Trade Update: The Texas Rangers' GM Jon Daniels seems to be the "driving force" behind the potential four-team blockbuster that was first rumored...
• 12/6 Through The Fence Baseball: Texas options: Will it be Zack Greinke or Josh Hamilton?:   It started Wednesday morning with one simple tweet from ESPN’s Jayson Stark, “The big buzz this morning at...
• 12/6 Nolan Writin': Rumor updates and possible starting rotation: The rumors are swirling as we head into the fourth and final day of the MLB Winter Meetings and there are several things up in...
• 12/6 Nolan Writin': The Hot Stove and Josh Hamilton: There are two passages of time during each calendar year where the rumor mill pumps and churns at a higher frequency. There’s...
• 12/6 Southside Showdown: Rumor Mill: Brandon McCarthy To The White Sox?: The Winter Meetings bring with them a blizzard of rumors, although the percentage of those rumors that actually bear fruit is...
• 12/6 WahoosOnFirst: Who Could Diamondbacks Trade Indians for Asdrubal Cabrera?: The Winter Meetings are heating up, but the Indians have yet to pull off any trades or free agent signings. Although they have...
• 12/5 SoDo Mojo: Rumor Update: December 5th: There has been a lot of talk surrounding the Mariners at the Winter Meetings. In fact, I’d say we are one of, if not the...
• 12/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton blockbuster not close: A potential four-team trade that would involve Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton has not progressed Wednesday, Dec. 5, and...[+] any kind of deal is unlikely to be completed at the winter meetings this week. Cleveland Indians SS Asdrubal Cabrera would be involved in a swap, too.
• 12/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: MLB | Four-team trade at standstill: The four-team trade involving Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton is on hold because the Diamondbacks want more than Cleveland...[+] Indians SS Asdrubal Cabrera.
• 12/5 The Captain's Blog: Can Yankees Make Ends Meet in 2014? A Closer Look at Team’s Future Payroll Obligations: It’s been a very active winter meetings for major league baseball, but one team has been con**** silent. In the past, the Yankees...
• 12/5 Kings of Kauffman: Winter Meetings Mid-Day 3: Wild Four Team Rumors and Royals Pitching Search Continues: It’s the middle of day three of the Winter Meetings and so far the Royals haven’t made a move, but they’ve been...
• 12/5 Call to the Pen: Indians, Diamondbacks Discussing Asdrubal Cabrera for Trevor Bauer: While all the talk today has been about the Arizona Diamondbacks acquiring Cleveland Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, those...
• 12/5 Call to the Pen: Texas Rangers striving to acquire Justin Upton: According to a tweet from Jon Heyman, the Texas Rangers are “working hard” to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks 25-year-old...
• 12/5 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On Indians, Rangers, D-Backs Trade Talks: Within the last 24 hours, we've heard that the Diamondbacks and Indians are exploring a trade that could send Asdrubal Cabrera...
• 12/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Working hard for Justin UptonThe Texas Rangers are working hard on a trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Texas Rangers are working hard on a trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 12/5 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Indians Swing and Miss on Victorino But Are a Hit Amidst Rumors: By Mike Brandyberry Yesterday morning Shane Victorino tweeted from a beach in Hawaii with new teammate Clay Buchholz while celebrating...
• 12/5 That Ball's Outta Here: Smaller Deals Could Be Better Than Giving Josh Hamilton One Jillion Dollars: Followers of the Phillies have become accustomed to Ruben Amaro making trades for big-name stars or signing top tier free agents...
• 12/5 Through The Fence Baseball: Busy Winter Meetings for the Texas Rangers: Rumors, fact, fiction, sources, deals close, deals not so close and on and on it goes. According to reports last night from the...
• 12/5 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Winter Meetings, Day Three: The Calm Before the… Calm?: The Winter Meetings technically last through tomorrow, but to be honest, the final day barely counts. After the Rule 5 draft,...
• 12/5 WahoosOnFirst: Winter Meetings Indians Rumors: Recapping Day Two: Tuesday was another whirlwind day at the Winter Meetings for the Cleveland Indians. Here’s a look at the Tribe news and...
• 12/5 MLBTradeRumors: NL East Notes: Santana, Braves, Reed Johnson: Here are a few Wednesday morning NL East updates out of Nashville: The Mets would be open to eating a portion of the money...
• 12/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: MLB | Four-team deal being discussed: There is a four-team deal being talked about involving Cleveland Indians SS Asdrubal Cabrera, Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton,...[+] Tampa Bay Rays SP James Shields and Texas Rangers 3B Mike Olt.
• 12/5 MLBTradeRumors: Rays, Rangers, Indians, D-Backs Talking Trades: 7:46am: The D-backs and Indians have discussed the framework of a deal centering around Cabrera and Trevor Bauer, Anthony Castrovince...
• 12/5 Phillies Nation: 2012 Winter Meetings – Day 2 Recap: Rox Have Interest in Vanimal, Salisbury Confirms is “Trade Chip” In a piece that may have gotten overlooked during...
• 12/5 MLBTradeRumors: Winter Meetings Review: Day 2: The second day of the Winter Meetings brought more high profile action than the first (which I recapped here yesterday morning...
• 12/5 Seedlings to Stars: Philadelphia Willing to Move Worley and May: Addressing their need in center field has been a challenge for the Philadelphia Phillies so far, as they’ve been forced to watch...
• 12/5 Fire Brand of the American League: Wednesday’s Links – Now With 100% More Victorino!The links are back! Clicking is cool again!...
• 12/5 North and South of Royal Brougham: Mariners Walk From Hotel Room to Hotel Room looking for Action: I’ve never been to a winter meeting. In fact, I’ve never even really been to a trade show. I’ve been to shows...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Rumors: Hamilton, Greinke: The Rangers have been connected to all the biggest names so far at the Winter Meetings: Josh Hamilton, Zack Greinke, R.A. Dickey,...
• 12/4 Venom Strikes: Roberto Hernandez to the AZ D’Backs? Sure, Why Not?: My friend Michelle keeps sending me nuggets of information about the Arizona Diamondbacks during the General Managers Meeting. ...
• 12/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Three teams in on Justin Upton: The Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians are the three teams that are most active in talks for Arizona Diamondbacks...[+] OF Justin Upton. However, Seattle is on Upton's no-trade clause, and the Rangers are improving their chances of re-signing OF Josh Hamilton, which would rule them out on Upton.
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Rumors: Barajas, Nakajima, Young Pitchers: The Diamondbacks are all over the news on Day 2 of the Winter Meetings in Nashville, with inquiries fielded on outfielders Justin...
• 12/4 The High Phive: Justin Upton for Cliff? Victorino Signs with Boston: ESPN’s Pedro Gomez is reporting negotiations are ongoing between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Philadelphia Phillies...
• 12/4 Crashburn Alley: Indulging: Cliff Lee For Justin Upton?: It was something a lot of us could sense, but not necessarily put our fingers on. The Phillies had been very quiet this offseason,...
• 12/4 Call to the Pen: Phillies, D-backs Discussing Blockbuster?: According to Pedro Gomezof ESPN, the Philadelphia Phillies have entered the Justin Upton sweepstakes and while they aren’t...
• 12/4 Puckett's Pond: Longo’s Logic: The Winter Meetings: Because of the Winter Meetings, the series “Bright Futures” will continue in the coming days. For now, the Winter...
• 12/4 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Free Agents Looking to Return, Could the Rays Acquire Yunel Escobar or Jason Kubel?: The Winter Meetings are in full swing and the rumors are non-stop. The Rays are no exception. Ken Rosenthal tweeted that the Rays...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks, Phillies Not Discussing Upton, Lee: 4:08pm: Putting the nail in the coffin on this one...Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. labeled the Upton-Lee rumor false, tweets Jim...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Mariners Interested In Michael Bourn: A new suitor has emerged for one of the top hitters remaining on the market, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com, who says...
• 12/4 Call to the Pen: Michael Bourn Still Waiting for Someone to Meet His Price: When the off-season began there were a half dozen center fielders available as free agents. It would turn out that at least a...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Tuesday: In yesterday's round of Justin Upton rumors, we heard that the Rangers were still in touch with the Diamondbacks, who also met...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Mike Olt Drawing Trade Interest: Mike Olt is a name to watch this week at the Winter Meetings, according to Jon Morosi of FOX Sports, who tweets that at least...
• 12/4 Phillies Nation: Winter Meetings – Day 1 Recap: Market For Hamilton Becoming Clearer We learned yesterday that the Red Sox, Brewers, and Phillies are all on the sidelines, biding...
• 12/4 YankeeAnalysts.com: Winter Meetings Day One Wrap Up: Usually the first day of the meetings is slow, but a surprising amount of news and signings happened yesterday. Signings The...
• 12/4 Mariners Latest: Nick Franklin and the Winter Meetings: I thought about doing a bit of an update on the first day of the winter meetings, but since I'm not there and I'm getting...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Winter Meetings Review: Day 1: We're through one full day of the Winter Meetings, and several significant free agents have already come off the board. Here's...
• 12/4 MLB Injury News: Mariners Have Met With Diamondback About A Trade, Could Include Justin Upton: Justin Upton has a limited no-trade clause that includes the Seattle Mariners as one of the teams he could block.  That...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Mariners Rumors: Felix, Trades, Boesch, Bay: It was reported late on Monday that the Mariners met with Josh Hamilton on Sunday. The team has also met with the Diamondbacks...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Discussing Kubel Trades: Justin Upton's name has dominated Diamondbacks trade rumors recently, but Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports writes that the D-backs...
• 12/4 Call to the Pen: Mariners, Diamondbacks Discussing Justin Upton Trade: All-star outfielder Justin Upton has been one of the hottest names on the trade market this Winter, just as he was last Winter...
• 12/4 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Notes: Starting Pitching, Backup Catcher: Whatever is going on with Diamondbacks right fielder Justin Upton today at the Winter Meetings, it's being kept fairly under-wraps....
• 12/3 Baseball Jerks: 5 Rumors That Won’t Come True During the Winter Meetings: The Winter Meetings, once a collection of business men meeting to discuss business transactions, have spawned into a free-for-all...
• 12/3 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers Top Prospects In Review: I often hear from fans that so-and-so (nowadays typically Nick Castellanos and Avisail Garcia) is the Tigers’ future and...
• 12/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Still seeking SS: The Arizona Diamondbacks are still shopping OF Justin Upton for a shortstop. Talks are at a standstill, though, because the Texas...[+] Rangers refuse to deal SS Elvis Andrus or SS Jurickson Profar.
• 12/3 Splash Hit Blog: Winter Meetings: Day One: The Winter Meetings are holding up to the excitement as ESPN has started a consecutive days-long chat, MLB Network is upping coverage,...
• 12/3 Rising Apple: Mets News & Rumors From the Winter Meetings:   10:28 AM: Jon Heyman tweets that the Rangers’ one year deal with catcher Geovany Soto is for roughly $3 million. ...
• 12/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Being aggressive: The Arizona Diamondbacks are said to be one of the most aggressive teams early at the Winter Meetings. Rival executives believe...[+] they'll trade OF Justin Upton.
• 12/3 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Monday: We'll round up today's rumors on Justin Upton, one of the winter's most intriguing trade candidates, right here, with the latest...
• 12/3 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Interested in twoThe Texas Rangers are interested in Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton and Tampa Bay Rays SP James Shields....[+] The Texas Rangers are interested in Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton and Tampa Bay Rays SP James Shields.
• 12/3 MLB Injury News: Mariners Rumors: Seattle Eyeing Josh Hamilton, Justin Upton: The Seattle Mariners are “in on everybody” when it comes to offense, and their list of potential targets includes free agents...
• 12/3 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Mariners, Cabrera, Greinke, Dempster: The Mariners are looking for offense and are "in on everybody", a rival GM tells Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.  That includes...
• 12/2 Yanks Go Yard: Cashman and Yankees Gear Up For The Winter Meetings: The Yankees head into the Winter Meetings feeling pretty good about what they’ve accomplished already and they have good...
• 12/2 Nolan Writin': The Winter Meetings: Curb Your Enthusiasm: I wouldn’t look for the Rangers to make a splash during this week’s Winter Meetings in Nashville.  They haven’t made...
• 12/2 MLBTradeRumors: Olney: Winter Meetings Preview: The Winter Meetings begin shortly at the **** Opryland in Nashville. ESPN's Buster Olney, in an Insider-only post, writes past...
• 12/2 Nolan Writin': Winter Meetings Wish List: The Rangers have officially arrived into their third full month of the offseason, and with only minor acquisitions to account...
• 12/2 Venom Strikes: Holiday Season Wish List: I detailed earlier today here, that the D-backs shopping list is relatively small at this point – barring a big trade – but...
• 12/1 Tomahawk Take: Braves Trade for Jordan Walden – Busy In Run Up to Winter Meetings: As Frank Wren heads to Nashville for next week’s winter meetings there’s been a flurry of activity fueled by trades and the...
• 12/1 MLB Injury News: Braves Rumors: Atlanta Interested in Ross, Victorino, Upton: Even after signing center fielder B.J. Upton this week, the Atlanta Braves are interested in several free agent outfielders,...
• 12/1 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Tim Lincecum 2013: Fantasy Freak or Freakout?: Any way you slice it, 2012 was not pretty for Tim Lincecum. Well, he did win a World Series, so More...The post Tim Lincecum 2013:...
• 12/1 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Simmons, Upton, Braves, Reds, Astros: The third episode of Rosters and Rumblings, the new podcast featuring MLBTR's Ben Nicholson-Smith and Jason Martinez of MLB Depth...

• 11/30 SoDo Mojo: Trade Targets and Their Prices: Yep, another trade idea thread. I have said I wouldn’t do anymore, but who am I kidding. That would be impossible. Until...
• 11/30 Venom Strikes: It’s Never Too Early: The Arizona Diamondbacks appear to have a pretty short shopping list left for this holiday season. With the all the bullpen help...
• 11/30 Through The Fence Baseball: B.J. Upton a better option for Braves over Michael Bourn?: The Atlanta Braves made a splash by inking B.J. Upton to a five-year deal worth $75.25 million, the largest free-agent contract...
• 11/29 Yanks Go Yard: What roles will the Yankees focus on during the Winter Meetings?: Now that the New York Yankees have come to terms with Andy Pettitte and it looks as though they are close to signing Mariano Rivera...
• 11/29 Through The Fence Baseball: B.J. Upton to Braves leaves Phillies looking at other options: The offseason has not gone the Phillies way thus far. The player the Fightins were most often linked to this offseason, B.J. Upton,...
• 11/29 Venom Strikes: Upton Deserves Better: I’ve long been a Justin Upton defender – even apologist, at times. There’s no doubt that Upton had a bad year, for his...
• 11/29 Tyler's Think Tank: Braves Land Upton: Yesterday the Atlanta Braves made a splash by inking B.J. Upton to a five year deal worth $75.25 million. Justin Upton's...
• 11/27 Venom Strikes: AZ D’Backs News and Notes: The calm before the storm is almost upon us, that being the annual MLB Winter Meetings that will be held this year in Nashville,...
• 11/27 Puckett's Pond: Bright Futures: #8 – Max(imilian) Kepler: The Minnesota Twins have been known for years as having one the top minor league systems in all of baseball. Developing talent...
• 11/26 Venom Strikes: Waning Patience for Upton’s Potential Fueled by Trout and Harper: The topic of Justin Upton and his prospects as a franchise cornerstone for a major league team, to this point in his career, have...
• 11/26 Nolan Writin': Ranger Brain Trust Playing it Close to the Vest: Nolan Ryan, Jon Daniels and the rest of the Rangers brain trust have done an incredibly good job at keeping secrets. I know that...
• 11/26 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Carlos Gonzalez Fantasy: OF Must Stay in Colorado to Remain Elite: I drafted Carlos Gonzalez in 2010 in an auction draft for $22. People scoffed at what I paid. This was More...The post Carlos...
• 11/25 Rays Colored Glasses: Paying Josh Hamilton: By this point in time, Rays fans are familiar with the saga of Josh Hamilton. How Hamilton was the first overall pick of the 1999...
• 11/25 Crashburn Alley: Potential Moves and the Domino Effect: It’s been nearly a month since the final game of the 2012 MLB season was played, and outside of a bunker-buster trade pulled...
• 11/25 mlbreports.com : The Jurickson Profar Situation Brewing in Texas: Saturday, November 24, 2012 Sam Evans : The Texas Rangers reluctance to part with Jurickson Profar is well-reasoned. They believe...
• 11/25 Redbird Rants: If I were GM, my list of possible Utility Infielders: Now that Furcal has a clean bill of health and the St. Louis Cardinals are trying to get Matt Carpenter to be their everyday second...
• 11/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Interest in Justin Upton but price too high: The Texas Rangers' pursuit of Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton may not be over just yet, but it sounds like the team is willing...[+] to wait it out in hopes of getting a discount. According to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, the Rangers are 'waiting for the D-backs to back off on their demands for either SS Elvis Andrus or INF Jurickson Profar as the centerpiece of an Upton deal.' The Diamondbacks are reportedly so insistent on receiving a top young shortstop in exchange for Upton that they have refused any offers that don't include one.
• 11/23 Motor City Bengals: Building The Detroit Tigers For The Long Haul: I already put a simple piece up this month covering what the Tigers should do if the goal is to build for the short term and short...
• 11/22 Motor City Bengals: Drews Are Never the Answer, Mr. Dombrowski: In terms of the Tigers’ pursuit of Stephen Drew, Han Solo said it best in “Return of the Jedi”: “I have a really bad feeling...
• 11/21 PaulLebowitz.com: Jeff Wilpon’s Lesson: Never Answer Questions: Would the reaction to Jeff Wilpon be any different had he chosen not to respond to questions about David Wright and R.A. Dickey?...
• 11/21 MLB Injury News: Diamondbacks Rumors: Trade Jason Kubel Instead of Justin Upton?: The Arizona Diamondbacks continues to send mixed signals on the availability of outfielder Justin Upton, and some wonder if...
• 11/21 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Royals, Uehara, D'Backs, Span, Catching: Here are the latest hot stove items from FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal.... Teams in search of bullpen help have been looking...
• 11/21 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Figgins, Lohse, Hamilton, Kuroda: It was on this day in 1995 that Joe Girardi first became a Yankee, as the Bronx Bombers acquired the catcher from the Rockies...
• 11/20 North and South of Royal Brougham: Trayvon Robinson Was Expendable, and This is Why: With today’s Mariners trade for Robert Andino there has come a lot of cynicism about this being a lackluster move, or a...
• 11/20 Call to the Pen: Diamondbacks Interested in Tigers’ Jhonny Peralta: The Arizona Diamondbacks traded away shortstop Stephen Drew last season and turned the everyday job over to Willie Bloomquist....
• 11/20 Rally Caps: Rally Caps Offseason Outlook - Arizona Diamondbacks: Pos Player Salary Total C Miguel Montero $10,000,000 2008 $66,202,712 1B Paul Goldschmidt...
• 11/20 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Funding for a News Rays Stadium, Justin Upton Apparently Staying Put in Arizona: The talks surrounding a potential new Rays stadium came to a screeching halt when St. Pete mayor refused to amend the Tropicana...
• 11/20 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Boston Red Sox: The Red Sox must pursue answers at multiple positions and address needs on their pitching staff this offseason, and they should...
• 11/20 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Negotiating With Hiroyuki Nakajima: Hiroyuki Nakajima is already in the Unites States and is currently engaged in talks with the Diamondbacks, according to a Nikkan...
• 11/19 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Blue Jays, Cubs, Nishioka, Mariners: Four years ago today, the Cubs officially announced that they had signed Ryan Dempster to a four-year, $52MM contract. Dempster...
• 11/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Mariners | Appear on Justin Upton's no-trade listThe Seattle Mariners are listed on the no-trade list of Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Seattle Mariners are listed on the no-trade list of Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 11/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Blue Jays | On Justin Upton's no-trade listThe Toronto Blue Jays are on the no-trade list of Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Toronto Blue Jays are on the no-trade list of Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 11/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton willing to be traded: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton reportedly would waive his no-trade clause if the right opportunity came up to be traded,...[+] even if it were to a team that is on his no-trade list. His list has been reconfigured to include the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays, according to source.
• 11/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton unlikely to be dealt: An Arizona Diamondbacks source said there's a 90 percent chance that OF Justin Upton will remain with the team this offseason....[+]
• 11/19 Baseball News Source: Yankees Sacrificing the Future of the Franchise?: Kuroda could return to New York , Los Angeles or Japan It’s worth debating just what a self-imposed salary cap in a partially...
• 11/19 Bleeding Yankee Blue: ICHIRO IS WHO BYB READERS WANT IN RIGHT FIELD: The Bleeding Yankee Blue fans have spoken and you've overwhelmingly chose Ichiro Suzuki as the Yankees right fielder for...
• 11/19 MLB Injury News: DBacks Say Justin Upton Probably Won't Be Traded, So He Probably Will Be: Justin Upton should get a good realtor.  He has been renting space on the hot stove for years now.  He might as well...
• 11/18 Rum Bunter: Pittsburgh Pirates Rumors: Jason Grilli, Blue Jays Catchers, and Carl Pavano: The news from the Major League Baseball Hot Stove has been quite cold for for Pittsburgh Pirates.   With the upcoming week...
• 11/18 WahoosOnFirst: This Week on Wahoo’s on First: Trading for Upton and Ending Rebuilding: Here are the highlights from another big week at Wahoo’s on First! In our most po**** article of the week, Jeff proposed...
• 11/18 Call to the Pen: Justin Upton Likely Going Nowhere: Despite frequent and ongoing speculation to the contrary, the Arizona Diamondbacks seem to be pretty confident that Justin Upton...
• 11/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Josh Hamilton—Free Agency Profile: Name: Josh Hamilton Position: Outfielder Vital Statistics: Age—31 (32 on May 21st); Height—6’4”; Weight—240 lbs.; Bats—Left;...
• 11/18 MLBTradeRumors: "A Very High Likelihood" Justin Upton Won't Be Traded: There is a 90% chance Justin Upton, one of the most prized trade targets this offseason, will still be with Arizona when Spring...
• 11/18 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo's Latest: Blockbuster, Cabrera, Pavano, Grilli: In his Sunday Notes column, Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe says Miguel Cabrera was a worthy MVP winner even if the data supported...
• 11/17 Bleeding Yankee Blue: THE BIRDS: The Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles are out to change the order of the American League Eastern Division. Good...
• 11/16 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Texas Rangers: The Rangers will seek a catcher, pursue outfielders and add pitching in the coming months. Guaranteed Contracts Ian Kinsler,...
• 11/16 Baseball Jerks: Likely Suitors for B.J. Upton: B.J. Upton is one of the most complicated players to value in the majors. Though he has been around for eight seasons, it is still...
• 11/16 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Blockbuster, Upton, Dodgers: It was a busy week at MLBTR as the Blue Jays and Marlins agreed to a landscape-altering, 12-player blockbuster trade that still...
• 11/16 YankeeAnalysts.com: Finding The Next Great Swish/C-Grand-Type Trade Candidate: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) Barring a a big-time unexpected swerve, the Yankees seem pretty well...
• 11/15 Mets Merized: Do The Mets Have What It Takes To Get Justin Upton?: In the wake of Tuesday’s blockbuster deal between the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays, I think it is only fair that...
• 11/15 Kings of Kauffman: Rumor Mill – Will KC Go Big?:   Look at all these rumors, surrounding me everyday. This is a fun time of year, but right now trying to separate fact from...
• 11/14 MLBRandomFandom: Up-And-Comers: Shortstops: This is the second-to-last of eight MLBRandomFandom Up-And-Comer articles. Today: Shortstopsby Jon BeckerThe amount of good shortstops...
• 11/14 Nolan Writin': Stanton to Texas: optimistic speculation: When I first heard about the Blue Jays/Marlins blockbuster deal via MLB Network, the first thing I thought was that the Rangers...
• 11/14 Rays Colored Glasses: The AL East Is Anybody’s Game: For the first time since they won the World Series in 1993, the Blue Jays are going for it. On Tuesday, they pulled off the biggest...
• 11/14 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy ramifications from the Toronto-Miami megatrade: This time of the year, I’m in full-on hoops mode. I have four NBA games on my computer, and I have college hoops on my flat...
• 11/14 Motor City Bengals: Why Not Kick the Tires on Giancarlo Stanton?: First and foremost, with Jeffrey Loria completely fleecing the city of Miami, the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County, and an entire...
• 11/13 Venom Strikes: Arizona Diamondbacks’ Offseason So Far: The Numbers: Without question, the Arizona Diamondbacks have been the most talked-about team thus far in the off-season.  Most of it has centered...
• 11/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Tried a three-team deal: The Texas Rangers tried to acquire Atlanta Braves SS Andrelton Simmons for 3B Mike Olt in order to flip Simmons to the Arizona...[+] Diamondbacks for OF Justin Upton. The Braves rejected the deal.
• 11/13 Seedlings to Stars: Olt for Simmons Trade Rejected by Braves: With Justin Upton’s name once again appearing on the trading block this offseason, countless discussions have already taken...
• 11/13 Rays Colored Glasses: The Chaos That Is the MLB Hot Stove: Kevin, I want Justin Upton, but you’re not getting Elvis Andrus or Jurickson Profar. These are my top guys and are a big...
• 11/13 MLB Injury News: Rangers Get Creative in Attempt to Acquire Justin Upton: The Texas Rangers were willing to trade former top prospect Mike Olt to the Atlanta Braves for shortstop Andrelton Simmons,...
• 11/13 WahoosOnFirst: Could Indians Trade for Justin Upton and Trevor Bauer?: Something happened when the Indians traded for Mike Aviles last week: Asdrubal Cabrera became expendable. I like Asdrubal, but...
• 11/13 MLBTradeRumors: Braves Turned Down Simmons-For-Olt Trade: It was reported over the weekend that the Rangers attempted to acquire Andrelton Simmons from the Braves in order to flip him...
• 11/12 Baseball News Source: Pitching and Defense – Can Friedman Keep The Rays Way Intact: Friedman hints that the team may be willing to tweak the Rays way The Tampa Bay Rays won 90 games in 2012 and missed the playoffs....
• 11/12 Call to the Pen: Rangers Trying to Fix What Isn’t Yet Broken: The Texas Rangers won consecutive American League pennants in 2010 & 2011. In 2012, they were probably the best team in the...
• 11/12 mlbreports.com : ATR: Ask the Reports Answers Your Baseball Questions: Realignment, Ross to the Red Sox, Izturis to the Jays, Breaking Up the Rays and Remembering Matt Garza: Monday November 12th, 2012 Posted every Weekend: Your top baseball questions from the past week are answered. E-mail all questions...
• 11/12 MetsToday.com: What It Will Take To Acquire Justin Upton – And Why the Mets Should Do It: If there’s one player in baseball capable of solving the myriad problems facing the Mets in 2012, it’s Justin Upton. He plays...
• 11/11 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers Best OF Plan Might Be “Wait”: It has become something of a tradition for Dave Dombrowski and the Tigers organization to pounce once the free agency period begins....
• 11/11 Nolan Writin': Deal or No Deal: Shortstop Edition: Near the end of this past week, there was a report that stated the Rangers were trying to strike up a deal with the Atlanta Braves...
• 11/11 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On D'Backs, Rays, Rangers, Drew, Red Sox: The Mariners have been linked to Josh Hamilton in the past week and Buster Olney of ESPN.com won't rule them out of the hunt....
• 11/11 Rays Colored Glasses: Would a Justin Upton Deal Be Worth the Cost for the Rays and Diamondbacks?: It started off sounding ridiculous. And now suddenly it could really happen. Ken Rosenthal has reported the Rays may now be the...
• 11/11 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Ryan Reid Signs with Pirates, Torii Hunter Talks with Rays, Hideki Matsui to Astros?: Hard to find too many players making decisions about where they’ll be in 2013 this early in the offseason, but right-hander...
• 11/11 Venom Strikes: Changes coming to the NL west: The election is over, so let’s talk about what is really important: baseball. Is it still cool to use the term “hoop-la”in...
• 11/11 Through The Fence Baseball: Ranking 2013 Braves prospects, depth chart and trade bait: There’s been a lot of rumors flying around about the Atlanta Braves recently and with good reason. They have tremendous...
• 11/11 Fire Brand of the American League: Quick Post: GM Meetings Rumor RecapHunter Golden collects all the GM Meeting rumors and puts them in a nice, bright bucket. Then eats them. Alive. ...
• 11/10 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal's Latest: Upton, Rays, Youkilis, Dodgers: Here's the latest from Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports... The Rangers continue to insist that they will not trade either Elvis...
• 11/10 Baseball Analytics: Grounders Grind Justin Upton's Progress to a Halt: Who is Justin Upton -- the guy who hit 31 home runs in 2011 and seemed set to join baseball's inner circle of sluggers, or...
• 11/10 MLBTradeRumors: Nightengale On Hunter, Dodgers, Greinke, Simmons: Here's the latest from Bob Nightengale of USA Today... The Dodgers are "aggressively pursuing" Torii Hunter according to...
• 11/10 Mets360.com: Reviewing outfield options from Josh Hamilton to Grady Sizemore: Josh Hamilton – (32) LF/CF, 6’4”, 240 Lbs, L/L: You look at Josh Hamilton these days and the story isn’t so much about...
• 11/10 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees not on the verge of signing anyone: The Yankees had to wait until yesterday to find out that Nick Swisher, Hiroki Kuroda, and Rafael Soriano turned down their...
• 11/10 MLB Injury News: Blue Jays Rumors: Anibal Sanchez, J.P. Arencibia, Justin Upton: Now that the Toronto Blue Jays have filled their middle infield need by signing free agent Maicer Izturis, the team is left...
• 11/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Value of Justin Upton in Boston: Justin Upton is being shopped right now, and for us fantasy players this can be a nice boost to a More...The post Fantasy Baseball...
• 11/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Value of Justin Upton in Boston: Justin Upton is being shopped right now, and for us fantasy players this can be a nice boost to a More...The post Fantasy Baseball...
• 11/10 Fire Brand of the American League: Why Should I Care…Why Should I CareSomeone, anyone, give Scott a reason to care about the Red Sox Hot Stove season...
• 11/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Interview with a Fantasy Baseball Rookie: I think you can learn a lot by listening and observing how others approach things. I reached out to Steve More...The post Interview...
• 11/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Rangers Won’t Offer Hamilton More Than 3 Years—In Other Words, Take A Hike: The Rangers are saying all the politically correct things when it comes to the Josh Hamilton free agent negotiations. They halfheartedly...
• 11/9 BoSox Banter: Why signing Adam LaRoche makes sense for the Red Sox: By Jeff Louderback Free of the cumbersome long-term contracts that accompanied Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez, the Red Sox...
• 11/9 Tomahawk Take: Trading Young Stars: This week’s buzz has certainly revolved around the rumors of Justin Upton possibly moving on from Arizona.  While most...
• 11/9 MLBTradeRumors: B.J. Upton Declines Rays' Qualifying Offer: B.J. Upton has officially declined the Rays' qualifying offer, according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times (via Twitter). ...
• 11/9 Nolan Writin': Projecting the Rangers 2013 opening day roster: Here is an early prediction of what could be the Texas Rangers 2013 opening day roster: Starting lineup: Ian Kinsler, 2B Michael...
• 11/9 Baseball News Source: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition #2 – Upton, Hamilton: Editor’s Note: Across the Diamond: Hot Stove League Edition is a new weekly column that will appear on Baseball News Source...
• 11/9 Talkin Sox with Dan: Some Advice for the Offseason: There is no doubt that this offseason is an important one for GM Ben Cherington and the Red Sox. Barring some sort of unforeseen...
• 11/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Floating Rumors Like R.A. Dickey’s Knuckler: There was a colossal freakout of rumor and innuendo when the story broke that the Mets would consider trading National League...
• 11/9 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Fire Up The Hot Stove: My second favorite season in sports is now fully upon us: Hot Stove Season.  This is the time of year...
• 11/9 Through The Fence Baseball: Will surplus of free-agent outfielders hurt Twins’ offseason options?: It seems all but certain the Minnesota Twins will be looking to trade for pitching this offseason. It’s no secret their starting...
• 11/9 Baseball Ruminations: Joshua Holt Hamilton’s Heavy Offseason: I’d like to continue the offseason ritual of baseball writers pretending to be able to see into the future by looking into Josh...
• 11/9 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: the Yankees have not yet expressed interest in Melky Cabrera: The Yankees are hesitant to offer Torii Hunter a multi-year deal and are not in on Justin Upton. In both cases money is...
• 11/9 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Swisher will reject qualifying offer, M’s and Rangers among interested teams: The deadline for players to accept or reject a $13.3 million qualifying offer is today at 5:00 p.m. and the Yankees are waiting...
• 11/9 MLB Injury News: Justin Upton Rumors: Rangers, Red Sox, Tigers Leading Suitors?: The Arizona Diamondbacks have made it known that they are shopping outfielder Justin Upton this winter, and the Texas Rangers,...
• 11/9 Climbing Tal's Hill: Justin Upton and the Stros a fit?: As the news broke Monday afternoon that the Diamondbacks were willing to deal their star outfielder Justin Upton, all I could...
• 11/9 MLBTradeRumors: Red Sox Notes: Dempster, Martin, Upton, Free Agents: Though it can be argued that misses in free agency were the cause of Boston's disastrous 2012 season, Michael Silverman of the...
• 11/8 MLBTradeRumors: B.J. Upton To Decline Rays' Qualifying Offer: B.J. Upton will decline the Rays' qualifying offer, reports Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.  With Upton turning down the...
• 11/8 Talkin Sox with Dan: Housekeeping: Nieves, Napoli, Upton: — Juan Nieves was named pitching coach of the Red Sox Wednesday. Nieves served as bullpen coach of the White Sox from ’08-’12....
• 11/8 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Thursday: With the Diamondbacks in "active discussions" about Justin Upton, there has been no shortage of trade buzz about the former No....
• 11/8 Venom Strikes: Upton Rumors Fly Again: I’ve long been a proponent of keeping Justin Upton long term. He obviously struggled last season in comparison to the promise...
• 11/8 Nolan Writin': Justin Upton Rumors, and More: Today we reached the 10-day mark since the 2012 season officially ended, meaning teams have already sent out their qualifying...
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Tigers | Looking at Justin Upton: The Detroit Tigers are interested in trading for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton, but it's unknown if they've had specific...[+] talks with the D-backs.
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Braves | Not interested in Justin UptonThe Atlanta Braves do not seem interested in trading for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Atlanta Braves do not seem interested in trading for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Yankees | Won't pursue Justin Upton: The New York Yankees won't make an effort to trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton because they lack the necessary trade...[+] chips to get a deal done. The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays appear to be the most interested in landing Upton at the moment, and the Detroit Tigers could be a darkhorse candidate. 3B Nick Castellanos, OF Avisail Garcia and SPs Drew Smyly and Rick Porcello could get a deal done with Arizona.
• 11/8 The Captain's Blog: Luxury Tax Getting Right of Way as Yanks Search for Swisher’s Replacement: In Spring Training, the big question for the Yankees will be whether Brett Gardner and Curtis Granderson switch places in left...
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton unlikely to be traded: Updating previous reports, the Arizona Diamondbacks are unlikely to trade OF Justin Upton this offseason. 'We want to win in 2013....[+] He will not be an easy guy for us to move. I think we've said that. It's probably unlikely we end up doing something with him, but if somebody is willing to step up and we think it's a deal that's going to make the Diamondbacks better going forward, we'll talk about trading him,' general manager Kevin Towers said.
• 11/8 Call to the Pen: Rays, Rangers Early Favorites to Land Justin Upton: The Arizona Diamondbacks want to move as quickly as possible in trading all-star right fielder Justin Upton and GM Kevin Towers...
• 11/8 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal's Latest: Uptons, Ellsbury, Myers, Garland: Earlier today, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reported that the Mets were discussing R.A. Dickey in trades with other teams. He...
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Won't give Justin Upton away: Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers indicated that he doesn't feel forced to part ways with OF Justin Upton this...[+] offseason. 'I've certainly got pause,' Towers said. 'I'm not looking just to move him. We've got some areas of need that if we can address multiple areas with our outfield depth, then we'd consider it. I thought there were parts of his game that really got better last year: pitch recognition, walks, still scored over 100 runs, better contact. At his age, his power is going to come back.' Arizona would be looking for proven major leaguers in return, not prospects.
• 11/8 Bleeding Yankee Blue: YANKEES ARE "NOT IN" ON UPTON & HUNTER: We'll have our own thoughts on Torii Hunter and Justin Upton and whether or not they are good fits for the Yankees over the...
• 11/8 MLBTradeRumors: Sherman's Latest: Dickey, Wright, Hunter, Upton: Here's the latest from Joel Sherman of The New York Post... The Mets are making progress, albeit slowly, in contract talks...
• 11/8 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: David Price Named CY Finalist, Rumors on James Shields, Justin Upton to Rays?: David Price is coming off a remarkable 2012 in which he led the American League with 20 wins and a 2.56 ERA. And as expected,...
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Talking to Texas: The Arizona Diamondbacks don't love Texas Rangers 3B Mike Olt in trade talks for OF Justin Upton. They want SS Jurrickson Profar...[+] or SS Elvis Andrus.
• 11/8 Phillies Nation: Upton Available; Odds Against Phillies: The Arizona Diamonbacks are once again shopping young, power-hitting outfielder Justin Upton in another effort to rebuild. There...
• 11/8 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: A $20M deal for Hunter too much for budget conscious Yankees: The Yankees are thought to be interested in free agent outfielder Torii Hunter because he would be a cheaper alternative to...
• 11/8 MLB Injury News: Red Sox Rumors: Jason Bay, Justin Upton: The Boston Red Sox are expected to “be in the mix” for reportedly available Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton,...
• 11/8 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Red Sox | No longer pursuing Justin UptonThe Boston Red Sox are no longer pursuing Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Boston Red Sox are no longer pursuing Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 11/8 MLB Injury News: Justin Upton Rumors: Diamondbacks Trying to Trade OF: The Arizona Diamondbacks are once again attempting to trade outfielder Justin Upton, and the chances of the talented slugger...
• 11/8 MetsToday.com: What Would You Trade for Justin Upton?: Considering that this offseason is likely to be almost exciting as last year for Mets fans, I’d like to **** things up by...
• 11/8 Mets Merized: Jacoby Ellsbury Likely Staying Put In Boston: Now that Jason Bay is gone, we can delve into some outfield options for the Mets. Will they make a big push to sign Melky Cabrera...
• 11/8 Call to the Pen: Diamondbacks Justin Upton, Trevor Bauer on Trade Market: The Arizona Diamondbacks have already traded away their starting center fielder from last season and now, according to multiple outlets,...
• 11/7 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY THE YANKEES MAY NEED JUSTIN UPTON: Yeah, that's right, I said it. I'm the same guy that is fine with the Yankees staying the course with their $189 million...
• 11/7 Venom Strikes: Justin Upton – The Next Matt Kemp?: I know, I know…I’m lucky you’ve even allowed your eyes to get this far into this commentary, but bare with me here. Amidst...
• 11/7 Venom Strikes: AZ D’Backs to Deal Justin Upton and Trevor Bauer?: That didn’t take too long, did it? The General Managers’ meeting is less than a day old and already rumors are starting...
• 11/7 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On Justin Upton, Diamondbacks: Justin Upton's no-trade list last year included the Yankees, Red Sox, Indians, and Cubs, but Diamondbacks General Manager Kevin...
• 11/7 mlbreports.com : Baltimore Orioles Payroll 2013 And Contracts Going Forward: Wednesday, Nov.07/2012 Note from Chuck Booth:  I am attempting to bring the history for each of the 30 MLB Franchises into a...
• 11/7 It's About the Money (Stupid): Diamondbacks looking to trade Upton, Bauer: Justin Upton was rumored to be available in a trade back before the trading deadline, but ultimately nothing came of that, and...
• 11/7 Tomahawk Take: For Braves Fans Hot Stove Season Begins Justin Upton to Atlanta?: We had a cold snap here last weekend, there was frost at least one night and the next day I saw someone – a lady – in a winter...
• 11/7 MLBTradeRumors: Red Sox Notes: Bay, Ellsbury, Upton, Farrell: A source tells Rob Bradford of WEEI.com (via Twitter) that Jason Bay would be very interested in returning to the Red Sox. ...
• 11/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Red Sox | Expected to be in Justin Upton mix: The Boston Red Sox are expected to make a push to trade for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton this offseason. The presence...[+] of the Red Sox on Upton's no-trade list will not stop Boston from acquiring him, according to a major league source. Upton is likely to require several prospects in return.
• 11/7 Motor City Bengals: Detroit Tigers Trade Candidate: Justin Upton: According to Ken Rosenthal via Fox Sports via MLBtraderumors, the Arizona Diamondbacks are discussing a trade involving left fielder...
• 11/7 Jays Journal: Could Jays Be In on Justin Upton: The erstwhile and bow-tied Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports is reporting that the Arizona Diamondbacks are in “active discussions”...
• 11/7 Rising Apple: With Bay Gone, What Happens From Here?: As has often been the case during Sandy Alderson’s tenure, today’s news about Jason Bay came out of nowhere.  There...
• 11/7 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Will Listen To Offers For Trevor Bauer: The Diamondbacks are already involved in "active discussions" about Justin Upton, and now ESPN's Jerry Crasnick reports that...
• 11/7 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs In "Active Discussions" About Justin Upton: It's that time of the year again. The Diamondbacks are engaged in "active discussions" about a trade involving Justin Upton,...
• 11/7 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton back on the block: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton is back on the trading block this winter, and the team is engaged in active discussions about...[+] Upton, according to major league sources. One source indicates the chances of Upton being traded in the offseason are '80-20.' Arizona could trade him to the Texas Rangers in exchange for SS Elvis Andrus. Upton's no-trade clause includes the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs, but the list has changed, according to a source.
• 11/7 StanGraphs: 2012 NL Awards Picks and Review: Most Valuable Player Before the season started, we liked Justin Upton to level up and take home his first MVP award as he continued...
• 11/7 Bleeding Yankee Blue: SOLVING THE RIGHT FIELD PROBLEM: SHIN-SOO CHOO: Nothing is certain but death, taxes, and Nick Swisher playing elsewhere in 2013. All jokes aside, it does appear...
• 11/7 Chicken Friars: ESPN Survey Says Chase Headley To Remain A Padre At Least Till New Years Day: Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com surveyed 22 general managers, assistant GMs, advisers, scouting directors and talent evaluators for...
• 11/6 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Atlanta Braves: The Braves will seek outfield depth and determine how to replace Chipper Jones in the coming months. Guaranteed Contracts Dan...
• 11/6 Kings of Kauffman: Dismal Kansas City Parallels: It’s a rough year for Kansas City sports. The Royals launched “Our Time” then promptly lost 12 games in a row...
• 11/6 Rising Apple: Rising Apple Hypotheticals: Rebuilding the Outfield via Free Agency: We’ve said it here on Rising Apple many times, as have most other Mets Blogs and news outlets; New York needs to overhaul...
• 11/6 Rising Apple: Dickey Could Draw Interest From Multiple Teams; D-Backs Intrigued About Dealing Upton: The NL Cy Young Award won’t be announced until November 14th, but R.A. Dickey is already picking up some hardware; the knuckler...
• 11/6 YankeeAnalysts.com: The Best Laid Plans: As the blackout last week rolled on, the conversations between my father and me inevitably rolled to baseball. One thing he kept...
• 11/6 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Interview with a Fantasy Baseball Rookie: I think you can learn a lot by listening and observing how others approach things. I reached out to Steve Gansen, a friend who...
• 11/6 Nolan Writin': The Time To Trade Elvis Andrus is Now: The year was 2007. I was 17, on vacation with my family in what was the last full summer I got to enjoy before I left for college...
• 11/5 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks that Should Play in World Baseball Classic: The Diamondbacks may be without some of their players come spring training this season. If we’re lucky, some of the D’Backs...
• 11/5 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks Offseason – What’s Next?: After an underwhelming 2012, Kevin Towers and the Diamondbacks brass look to make the key moves to propel this team back in the...
• 11/4 Rays Colored Glasses: Could the Rays Be Replacing One Upton With Another?: There does not appear to be any doubt that B.J. Upton will be playing his home games outside Tampa Bay next season. But could...
• 11/3 mlbreports.com : Philadelphia Phillies: Brotherly Love and the Upton Brothers: Saturday November 3rd, 2012   Alex Mednick (Baseball Analyst and Writer):  Both B.J. Upton and his younger brother Justin...
• 11/2 SoDo Mojo: Final List of possible targets: I have done multiple posts dedicated to talking about ways to improve the offense this season. Even though it may seem redundant...
• 11/2 YankeeAnalysts.com: Yanks Have Interest In Torii Hunter And So Do I: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) It was nothing more than a basic report from the infamous unnamed...
• 11/2 The Writer's Journey: I bought some packs today…: It has been a long time since I bought packs of baseball cards. But today I picked up four packs and enjoyed ripping them open....
• 11/1 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Philadelphia Phillies: The Phillies must acquire at least one outfielder and pursue upgrades at third base. Guaranteed Contracts Cole Hamels,...
• 11/1 Release Points: In Response to Dave Cameron’s Proposed Shin-Soo Choo Trade: Dave Cameron — of FanGraphs fame — posted a rather intriguing article on ESPN Wednesday morning entitled: 5 AL Moves...

• 10/30 Venom Strikes: Where the Market Could be for AZ D’Backs’ Justin Upton: Let me be clear:  I do not want to see star right fielder Justin Upton traded.  I feel it would be a big mistake for the Arizona...
• 10/30 Tomahawk Take: Braves Free Agent and Arbitration List Review: Braves Lineup Will Get a Minor Shake up in 2013 Here’s a quick list of the Braves who became free agents today courtesy MLBTR....
• 10/30 Nolan Writin': Rangers offseason moves, part two: Trade Targets: Baseball season is officially over. Now us fans will drift into the lull that takes place between the end of October and middle...
• 10/29 StanGraphs: 2012 NL West Review: 2012 NL West Predicted Standings 1. Arizona Diamondbacks 2. San Francisco Giants 3. Colorado Rockies 4. Los Angeles Dodgers 5....
• 10/29 StanGraphs: 2012 NL West Season Review: Welcome to the first in a series of season reviews here at StanGraphs! We’ll be taking you whimsically back to our March...
• 10/26 Talkin Sox with Dan: The Red Sox Take You Into the Weekend: It’s Friday. That’s a good thing. Celebrate by reading a few must-know points on the Red Sox. I’ll keep it short...
• 10/26 Halo Hangout: A Look Back At 2012: Ervin Santana: If Howard Kendrick is Mr. Consistent, then Ervin Santana‘s nickname is the enigma. He has so much ability and yet has been...
• 10/25 It's About the Money (Stupid): Ichiro wants to stay a Yankee: My guess is that, if the Yankees had their druthers, Ichiro Suzuki would be their starting right fielder when Openin Day rolls...
• 10/25 Venom Strikes: D-backs’ Offseason Shopping List: It’s an extensive process – creating a shopping list that is. I live in a town of a little over 3,000 people and there are...
• 10/23 Yanks Go Yard: Yankees Trade Target: Justin Upton: It is just days into the offseason, we all are trying to transition swiftly into it while pondering all the possible moves that...
• 10/22 Call to the Pen: As Hot Stove Season Looms, Boston Will Flex Their Muscle Again: If you’re one of those people that gets tired of every single free agent being linked to the big market clubs during the...
• 10/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton's tenure over?: Speculation in Arizona is the three-team trade that sent Arizona Diamondbacks OF Chris B. Young to the Oakland Athletics could...[+] also spell the end of OF Justin Upton's days with the club. Although Upton is only 25, he is owed $38.5 million on the remainder of his contract and the club is seeking starting pitching.
• 10/21 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Pagan, Upton, Rodriguez, Yankees: Many teams now find themselves flush with cash thanks to lucrative national and local TV contracts, making this a promising offseason...
• 10/21 Rising Apple: Heath Bell Heads to Arizona; D-Backs Trade Young to Oakland: There one big trade that made noise this weekend, having an effect on the Mets and their off-season plan. It was a three-team...
• 10/20 MLBTradeRumors: Trade Reactions: Bell, D'Backs, A's, Young, Marlins: The Diamondbacks bolstered their bullpen today with the acquisition of Heath Bell and they may not be done, tweets Jack Magruder...
• 10/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Reality is a Bigger, Hairier Monster For the Yankees and It Bites: In keeping with yesterday’s autopsy theme I began yesterday, the dissection and search for the proximate cause of the demise...
• 10/20 Mets360.com: Alex Rodriguez and a possible Mets future: Imagine the following scenario: ‘Disgusted with his dismal performance in the playoffs and diminishing talents; the Yankees...
• 10/19 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: 8 Great Fantasy Baseball Players under 25 Revisited: In February we ran a series of predictive posts as a Countdown to the 2012 fantasy baseball season. Those predictions have come...
• 10/19 Yanks Go Yard: Grading the Curtis Granderson trade: Back in December of 2009, the Yankees fresh off their 27th World Series Championship dealt for the then Tigers’ Curtis Granderson....
• 10/19 Venom Strikes: D’backs Fire Eric Young, Create New Coaching Position: The Arizona Diamondbacks will be looking to fill two coaching positions before the start of next season. Even after a disappointing...
• 10/19 YankeeAnalysts.com: Why The Yankees Will Be Extremely Active On The Trade Market: Let’s get this offseason started with some good old fashioned speculation. No, I don’t think Alex Rodriguez is leaving...
• 10/18 Venom Strikes: Arizona D’Back Outfield in Flux?: Which Arizona Diamondbacks‘ outfielder will not be with the team in 2013?  Let’s face it, the organization has...
• 10/16 Rising Apple: Potential Mets Trade Targets: Josh Willingham and Shin-Soo Choo: The Hot Stove hasn’t officially been turned on yet and there are already rumors flying around about who is on the market...
• 10/15 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks will look to reinforce the left side of their infield and acquire starting pitching depth while weighing trades...
• 10/14 Mets360.com: Why Jonathon Niese should be traded: There are two reasons why the Mets are not winning; their bullpen is in shamble and there is not enough power in the lineup. Since...
• 10/14 Call to the Pen: 2012 Season Review Series: Arizona Diamondbacks: The 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks were a testament to just what the right manager could do with a team filled with young talent. Under...
• 10/14 Rising Apple: Diamondbacks Willing To Trade Outfielders; Wright and Dickey Talks to Start Next Week: It’s no secret that the Mets need some new outfielders for 2013. With limited budget flexibility, New York will not be active...
• 10/13 Nolan Writin': A Day in the Life of a Video Game GM: It’s been a whole week since the abrupt ending to the 2012 Rangers season. And yesterday, the last two Division Series’...
• 10/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Appear to see Justin Upton, Adam Eaton as starters: The Arizona Diamondbacks appear to see OF Justin Upton as their everyday right fielder next season and OF Adam Eaton as their...[+] starting center fielder.
• 10/11 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Considering Trading Kubel Or Parra: The Diamondbacks are weighing whether Jason Kubel or Gerardo Parra is a better fit as their everyday left fielder in 2012, GM...
• 10/11 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Notes: Hamilton, Greinke, Napoli, Adams: As the Rangers are still recovering from their disappointing finish to 2012, MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan discussed a number of offseason...
• 10/11 mlbreports.com : Texas Rangers: How They Can Regain Their A.L. Supremacy: Thursday October 11th, 2012 Jake Dal Porto:  The Texas Rangers were this year’s 2011 Boston Red Sox for the lack of a better...
• 10/11 Mets360.com: 8 things that should happen before the Mets begin the 2013 season: It’s only been a week since the Mets’ 2012 season ended and Mets’ fans are already thinking of ways to upgrade the team...
• 10/9 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: New York Mets: The Mets will discuss extensions with their top players this coming offseason, when significant changes are expected up and down...
• 10/9 The Captain's Blog: Beltway Freshmen Bring Teen Spirit to Postseason: Who says the Beltway operates under an Old Boys Network? Not only do the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles boast two...
• 10/8 Baseball Press: What's the Deal With Justin Upton?: What's up with Justin Upton in 2012?. (US Presswire)It's no surprise to baseball fans that Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin...
• 10/8 Mets Merized: Who Are The Available Outfielders As Sandy Institutes His Wholesale Changes?: With so many items on the Mets to-do list this offseason, their longest such list in nearly a decade, you’ll get few arguments...
• 10/7 MLBTradeRumors: Derrick Hall On Diamondbacks' Offseason Priorities, Miley As ROY: Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall recently held an online town hall meeting with fans (transcript courtesy of MLB.com)....
• 10/7 Mets Merized: Mets Could Use A Few Angels In The Outfield: With so many items on the Mets to-do list this offseason, their longest such list in nearly a decade, you’ll get few arguments...
• 10/5 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Seattle Mariners: Jack Zduriencik’s search for offense continues this offseason, as the Mariners prepare to move the fences in at Safeco Field. Guaranteed...
• 10/3 RoxPile: Rockies At Diamondbacks, October 3rd 2012: Game Time, Lineups, And Preview: Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks, 7:10 P.M. MT One more and it’s over, the Rockies (63-98) will play the final game...
• 10/3 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Notes: Upton, Bauer, Putz, Drew: The latest on the Diamondbacks as General Manager Kevin Towers and Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick opened up a bit on the...
• 10/3 Rising Apple: Sandy Alderson Talks About Off-Season Expectations: It seems as if there are new reports surfacing everyday concerning the Mets’ off-season plans, and today is no different....
• 10/2 RoxPile: Rockies At Diamondbacks, October 2nd 2012: Game Time, Lineups, And Preview: Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks, 7:40 P.M. MT Game 161 of the Rockies 2012 season takes place tonight, with the win last...
• 10/2 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Young, Upton, Diamondbacks: The chances of Justin Upton, Chris Young, Jason Kubel, Gerardo Parra and Adam Eaton returning to the Diamondbacks’ outfield...
• 10/1 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: The Dear Mr. Fantasy Baseball Podcast: September 30, 2012: The latest edition of the Dear Mr. Fantasy Baseball Podcast is available for listen. In this episode of the podcast, Chris and...

• 9/30 Venom Strikes: A Quick Look Ahead for Arizona Diamondback Position Battles in 2013: You would think that a team that will finish around .500 would have more positions unsettled on their squad for the following...
• 9/30 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Playoff Format, Hunter, White Sox, Rays: How long will the Wild Card playoff format be a one-game elimination? The running gag among baseball executives, according to...
• 9/29 Baseball Musings: Bad Night for a Reunion: Last night I drove to Cambridge for my 30th college reunion. I was out of touch with baseball visiting with Duncan O’Brien,...
• 9/28 Call to the Pen: White Hot Baseball Predictions I Got Wrong, Right: The baseball season is coming to an end and I, for one, am unhappy about it. The end of the baseball season means the start of...
• 9/27 Raising Matt Cain: Ninety: The Giants win their 90th game behind Matt Cain who set the tone right away with a four-pitch 1st inning. He chipped in a leadoff...
• 9/27 Fire Brand of the American League: Should the Sox Choo Choo Choose Choo?: Everyone likes to get the guy they think no one else notices. Until of course, they realize everyone notices them. Thus is the...
• 9/26 The Captain's Blog: Yankees Facing Choice Between Swisher and Granderson: Is this September the swan song of Nick Swisher’s Yankee career? An impending free agent, Swisher is reportedly seeking a lucrative...
• 9/26 MLBTradeRumors: Mets Unlikely To Spend Big On Outfielders: The Mets don’t view this offseason as the time to spend significant money on outfielders, so they don’t expect to pursue high...
• 9/24 Baseball News Source: Chris Johnson Proves Worth in Arizona: Over his last 60 plate appearances, Johnson has a .407 average With no clear-cut successor to Stephen Drew, who was traded to...
• 9/24 RoxPile: Diamondbacks at Rockies, September 24 2012: Game Time, Lineups, And Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks at Colorado Rockies, 6:40 PM. MT The Rockies (58-94) and Diamondbacks (77-75) conclude a four game series...
• 9/24 Baseball Press: Prospect Press: Adam Eaton, Arizona Diamondbacks: Eaton has become a regular fixture in the lineup for the D-Backs. (US Presswire)From young minor league prospects to rookie...
• 9/24 Mets360.com: Mets Minors: Wilmer Flores … the next Miguel Cabrera?: At Age 20: Player A: 69 Games, 266 ABs, 29 2Bs, 3 3Bs, 10 HRs, 46 Runs, 59 RBIs, 31 BBs, 49 Ks, 1.038 OPS Player B: 66 Games,...
• 9/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton streakingArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton extended his hitting streak to 10 games Sunday, Sept. 23....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton extended his hitting streak to 10 games Sunday, Sept. 23.
• 9/23 Tomahawk Take: Swings-and-Misses Aplenty: The Braves’ 13 K game today sparked a search into multiple high-K hitters in a single lineup.  Right now, Dan Uggla is...
• 9/23 RoxPile: Diamondbacks at Rockies, September 23 2012: Game Time, Lineups, And Preview.: Arizona Diamondbacks at Colorado Rockies, 1.10 M.T.   The Rockies (58-93) look to end a 8 game losing streak today when they...
• 9/22 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks vs. Padres Quick Sheet: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly: Disclaimer: I apologize for posting after the first game of Rockies series but I had already finished the majority of the work...
• 9/21 PaulLebowitz.com: Meet The Mess Or A Mess To An End?: There’s no spinning an eight run first inning, a 16-1 loss, and rampant humiliation the type the Phillies have inflicted on...
• 9/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton displays extra-base power: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton has seven extra-base hits in his past five games after hitting just five in his previous...[+] 25.
• 9/21 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Upton, Greinke, Escobar, Managers: Stephen Strasburg may not be there, but the Nationals are going to the playoffs.  The Nats clinched a postseason berth with...
• 9/20 Roto Think Tank: Where Should You Spend Your Money?: 0 0 1 598 3410 Roto Think Tank 28 7 4001 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US ...
• 9/19 Mets360.com: Addressing the Ike Davis trade rumors: It was obvious at the end of the 2011 season that the Mets needed to make trades because the talent on the roster did not fit....
• 9/19 PaulLebowitz.com: The Ike Davis Trade Rumor Mania: I would trade Ike Davis if I could get what I want for him. What I’d want for him would be a legitimate outfield bat like Justin...
• 9/17 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Hamilton, Tigers, Posey: MLB executives don’t question Josh Hamilton’s ability on the field, but they’re hesitant to commit long-term to the outfielder,...
• 9/16 Raising Matt Cain: Battery Batters 'Backs: Barry Zito pitched another fine game, this time in the hitter-friendly confines of Chase Field. He has his ups and he has his...
• 9/14 Venom Strikes: Arizona Diamondbacks Have Outfield Depth to Spare: Remember way back in December when Jason Kubel signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks?  At the time, many people wondered if the...
• 9/13 High Heat Stats: Wednesday game notes: Tigers 8, @White Sox 6: The good news for Detroit is that the one team they must beat is the one team they can beat. Max Scherzer continued...
• 9/13 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Drop Deuce in Desert: Dodgers 2 4 0 Dbacks    3 5 0 WP – Cahill – 11 – 11 LP – Aaron Harang – 9 – 9 SV –...
• 9/12 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Waste Another Kershaw Start: Dodgers 0 5 1 Dbacks    1 4 0 WP-Kennedy-13-11 LP-Clayton Kershaw-12-9 SV-Hernandez-3 On a night when we remember the heroes...
• 9/10 Yanks Go Yard: Brett Gardner’s Absence Has Hurt the Yankees: Brett Gardner is one of the best players on the New York Yankees. In fact, I would argue that he is the second best position player...
• 9/10 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: Thoughts on James Shields’ 2-Hit Shutout and B.J. Upton’s 3 HR Game: Sunday was a momentous day for the Rays are they achieved a series win versus the Rangers in resounding fashion, with James Shields...
• 9/10 Venom Strikes: Dbacks vs. Padres Quick Sheet: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly: Everyone in unison as we leave San Diego: Good Riddance. Perhaps whatever stomach bug the club had going around the last few days...
• 9/10 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Upton, Young, Wilson: Buster Posey has a legitimate chance at the NL MVP this year, ESPN.com’s Buster Olney writes. Posey has 20 home runs and a...
• 9/8 Baseball News Source: Diminutive Adam Eaton Has Memorable Diamondbacks Debut: Adam Eaton Makes MLB Debut in Style Multiple media outlets, including Baseball News Source, have speculated about an off-season...
• 9/8 Up Along First: The Mets Should Not Trade Jonathon Niese: Yesterday, Andy McCullough of the Star-Ledger wrote a piece about Jon Niese, talking about how valuable a trade chip he will be...
• 9/7 Venom Strikes: Arizona Diamondbacks’ Paul Goldschmidt Quietly Developing into a Star: As the 2012 season continues to wind down, believe it or not, there are some bright spots for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The baseball...
• 9/7 MLBTradeRumors: Trade Candidates: Justin Upton, Jon Niese: With less than one month remaining in the regular season it’s time for some teams to look ahead to the offseason. Here’s the...
• 9/6 Venom Strikes: Lesser Teams Dragging Down the Arizona Diamondbacks: There are numerous things that have perplexed us about the 2012 Arizona Diamondbacks. The dramatic drop off in production of Justin...
• 9/6 D'Backs Venom: The Diamondbacks' Record in One-Run Games Ranks Last in the NL: With just 24 games left in the Regular Season, the Diamondbacks sit 6.5 Games Behind in the Wild Card race and 9.5 Games Back...
• 9/6 Full Spectrum Baseball: Fantasy Baseball Stock Watch – Holds Reviewed: Taking a peek back as to what I have declared as players who you should hold on to in hopes of their values increasing or returning...
• 9/6 MLBTradeRumors: Five Significant Non-Trades From The 2012 Deadline: Blockbuster trades generate lots of excitement, but not all rumors turn into reality. Some of the possible trade scenarios that...
• 9/4 Venom Strikes: Arizona Diamondbacks’ Prospect Adam Eaton Wins PCL MVP; What’s Next?: When I first heard Adam Eaton was a Triple A prospect of the Arizona Diamondbacks, I immediately flashed back to the former Phillies’...
• 9/4 Giants Nirvana: Thoughts on Yesterday’s 9-8 Giants Victory: Yesterday’s game was quite a rollercoaster ride, as illustrated by the win probability graph. The Giants couldn’t have...
• 9/4 MLBTradeRumors: Five Significant Non-Trades From The 2012 Deadline: Blockbuster trades generate lots of excitement, but not all rumors turn into reality. Some of the possible trade scenarios that...
• 9/2 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Go Gonzo In Walk-Off Win Over Snakes: Dbacks    4 8 0 Dodgers  5 11 0 WP-Belisario-4-1 LP-Putz-1-5 HR-Kemp-18-Mcdonald-5-Montero-15 On a beautiful sunny Southern...
• 9/2 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Adrian! First LA Walkoff Ends Series On a High Note: See Adrian Gonzalez in the picture above? That’s him about to swing at a pitch from J.J. Putz in the bottom of the ninth....
• 9/2 Baseball News Source: Rangers’ Profar Hits Home Run in First Career At-Bat: Profar  became the second youngest player to homer in his first career at-bat This is the season of the young phenom in Major...
• 9/2 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers and D-backs Wrap Up Slithery Series: Chris Capuano (11-10, 3.58) vs. Wade Miley (14-9, 2.85) Lineup: TBA   The Dodgers finally hung on to win one against the...
• 9/2 Lasorda's Lair: Beckett Has a Great Dre In Home Debut Dodger Win: Dbacks   1 7 1 Dodgers 2 6 0 WP-Beckett-6-12 LP-Albers-1-2 SV-League-10 HR-Ramirez-23-Upton-12-Ethier-15   The last time Josh...
• 9/1 Feelin' Kinda Blue: The Dodgers sure aren't performing like they want to play ball next month: Sorry for the lack of posts, but I've been feeling as uninspired as the Dodgers' performance this week. To be frank,...

• 8/31 BoSox Injection: Would Torii Hunter Make Sense For The Red Sox This Offseason?: An interesting article today from Rob Bradford of WEEI.com  has the notion that Torii Hunter, right fielder for the Los Angeles...
• 8/30 Baseball News Source: Red Sox Should Re-Sign David Ortiz – Should They?: Will Red Sox Plans Include David Ortiz When he is healthy, David Ortiz is hands down the best designated hitter in the game. Even...
• 8/29 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Swisher, Utley, Hamilton, Hairston: Chris Corrigan of the High-A ball Palm Beach Cardinals made history tonight by throwing a perfect game in his start against the...
• 8/29 Venom Strikes: Arizona D-Back Owner Ken Kendrick Liked His Team’s Moves; So Did We: According to an article written by Nick Piecoro and Scott Bordow at azcentral.com, Arizona Diamondbacks Managing General Partner...
• 8/27 Venom Strikes: Dbacks vs. Padres Stat Recap: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly: I’ll be the first to apologize to the fans that were able to make it out to the Diamondbacks weekend series against the fourth...
• 8/26 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 8/19/12 - 8/25/12: As the dust settles from Saturday's trade of historic proportions, let's catch up on the week that was here at MLBTR... The...
• 8/25 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Giants, Ross, Rangers, Morneau, Royals: One of the largest trades in baseball history was made official on Saturday, but here's a look at what else is going on...
• 8/25 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Upton, Rangers, Beckett, Drew: Here's a look at the latest edition of Full Count from Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (video link).. It's likely that the Rangers...
• 8/25 mlbreports.com : Top 5 Center Field Prospects in Baseball: Saturday August 25th, 2012 Codey Harrison: (Lead MiLB Prospect Analyst) - Today represents the final installment of the three-part series...
• 8/25 Redbird Rants: Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary.:   It’s August 25, 2012.  On this day in 1944, the Allies liberated Paris, in 1950, President Harry Truman ordered...
• 8/24 Chicken Friars: Miguel Montero – Padre Killer: At the start of each series, we at Chicken Friars will zero in on an opposing player known to be a “Padre Killer.” No matter...
• 8/24 Baseball News Source: D-Backs Upton Claimed – Saunders Clears Waivers: The Arizona Diamondbacks have decisions to make about their future. Outfielder Justin Upton has been claimed by an unidentified...
• 8/24 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Claimed On Waivers: Justin Upton has been claimed on waivers by an unidentified team, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports (Twitter links). However,...
• 8/23 Rays Colored Glasses: Understanding Each MLB Team’s Performance in the Context of Its Ballpark Part 1: One interesting thing in baseball is that every stadium is different. Unlike any of the other four major sports, there are no...
• 8/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton injured hamstring: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (hamstring) was out of the lineup for Game 1 of a doubleheader Wednesday, Aug. 22, but his...[+] left hamstring was feeling better after he left the game early with tightness in his hamstring Tuesday, Aug. 21. He underwent an MRI exam Wednesday, and everything was good. Upton could play in the second game.
• 8/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton leaves with injury: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (undisclosed) left the game early in the first inning Tuesday, Aug. 21, after being injured...[+] while running the bases.
• 8/21 Rising Apple: Should Scott Hairston Get a Chance To Start For The Mets?: While watching pre-game coverage on SNY before R.A. Dickey and the Mets took on Alex White and the Rockies, Kevin Burkhardt started...
• 8/21 MLBTradeRumors: Marlins Considering Extension For Stanton: Marlins president David Samson acknowledged that the Marlins have had some internal discussions about a possible long-term extension...
• 8/17 Obstructed View: A reasonable contract extension for Starlin Castro: Contest reminder: Don't forget to enter our contest to win The Essential Games of the Chicago Cubs DVD set. It runs through...
• 8/17 Bronx Baseball Daily: The Yankees should re-sign Nick Swisher this offseason: Nick Swisher is my favorite Yankee.  Well, my favorite Yankee not named Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, or Mariano Rivera. ...
• 8/17 Yankees Fans Unite: Swisher over Granderson?: If you would have asked this question last year you would have looked silly, but now I think you can have a serious debate on...
• 8/16 YankeeAnalysts.com: David Phelps’ Big Chance: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) I’ve written about David Phelps a pretty fair amount this season. ...
• 8/13 High Heat Stats: How do some players maintain such high BAbips?: Some players seem to be able to maintain really high BAbips (batting average on balls in play.) It’s one thing for a guy...
• 8/13 Venom Strikes: Trevor Cahill Needs to be Big Down the Stretch:   If the Arizona Diamondbacks are to make it back to the playoffs in 2012, they are going to need some big performances over...
• 8/13 WahoosOnFirst: On Scott Radinsky’s Firing, Pitching Coaches, and Scapegoats: The Cleveland Indians fired pitching coach Scott Radinsky last week following the team’s 11-game losing streak. The Tribe...
• 8/12 District On Deck: Game 115: Diamondbacks 7, Nationals 4: Coming into today’s afternoon finale against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Nats were all smiles as they rode in an eight game...
• 8/12 District On Deck: Game 114: Nationals 6, Diamondbacks 5: Usually, the Nats’ pitching bails out the offense. Tonight, it was the opposite. The Nationals (71-43) batted around in a five-run...
• 8/11 The Baseball Page: Lucas Duda's Met Future is at First Base, not Right Field: When the season started, the Mets were dependent on Ike Davis and Lucas...
• 8/10 Roto Think Tank: Manny Machado: There were two rapid-fire, knee-jerk reactions to Manny Machado's promotion yesterday on - where else - Twitter, that went something...
• 8/8 Throw the Challenge Flag: Game 109: Bullpen blows eighth inning lead for first time this year: The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds are in a chase for the NL Central as well as the best record in the National League....
• 8/7 Operation Shutdown: D'Backs stun Pirates. BUCS LOSE: (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Grilli gives up four in the 8th, Pirates lose 10-4WP: Brad Ziegler (5-1)LP: Jason Grilli (1-4)Source:...
• 8/7 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Figgins, Upton, Chavez: Indians starter Corey Kluber will look to shut down the Twins tonight and end Cleveland's ten-game losing streak. Kluber will...
• 8/7 Phillies Nation: Bourn Looking to Cash in on Success: What is Michael Bourn worth? What is a steady defensive centerfielder with great speed worth on the free agent market? We’re...
• 8/6 Tyler's Think Tank: Quietly Brutal Hitters: The following players are having terrible seasons, but seem to be avoiding the scrutiny and heckling they deserve.  That...
• 8/6 Raise the Jolly Roger: GAMEDAY: Pirates vs. DBacks:  Diamondbacks (55-53) at Pirates (61-45) 7:05 PM EST–PNC Park, Pittsburgh Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT Sports After...
• 8/6 mlbreports.com : Will the Arizona Diamondbacks Win the NL West?: Monday August 6th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky: Diamondbacks fans spoke out about our last piece on the Dodgers and Giants, so here’s...
• 8/5 MLBeef.com: Baseball: The week that was…August 5th, 2012 – The Reds have the best record in baseball: Posted on August 5, 2012 by Taylor Ryan Ludwick has been smoking hot since the All-Star break As of today the Reds have the...
• 8/4 mlbreports.com : Pittsburgh Pirates: Do they Have Enough to Stay in the Playoff Race?: Saturday August 4th, 2012 Jake Dal Porto:  The Pittsburgh Pirates have been one of the many surprising teams in baseball this...
• 8/4 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: More On B.J. Upton’s 100th, Longoria Set To Return: B.J. Upton and his brother Justin Upton each hit their 100th home run last night. Justin became the 755th player in MLB history...
• 8/3 Baseball News Source: NL Recaps – Latos and Reds Take Game One of Showdown with Pirates: CINCINNATI –  Mat Latos did a little bit of everything tonight as the Cincinnati Reds downed the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0...
• 8/3 Baseball News Source: Justin Upton and BJ Upton Both Hit Their 100th Career Home Run: Justin Upton and B.J. Upton both hit their 100th career home run within minutes of each other tonight. Justin connected off of...
• 8/3 Baseball Musings: Brothers in Arms: Brother B.J. Upton and Justin Upton each hit career home run number 100 Friday night. I suspect their parents are very proud....
• 8/3 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: D'Backs, Proposed Trades, 2013 Draft: The Upton brothers made history tonight as both Justin and B.J. hit their 100th career home runs.  They become the sixth pair...
• 8/1 Lasorda's Lair: Dodger’s Offense vanishes Again as Snakes Sweep Series: Dbacks   4 10 1 Dodgers 0 2 0 WP-Corbin-3-4 LP-Fife-0-1 HR-Johnson-10-Montero-13 The Dodger’s offense shuffled off to...
• 8/1 Baseball News Source: MLB Trade Deadline Analysis: Grading the NL Central Moves: The NL Central has become a three-horse race with gap ever-widening between the Reds, Pirates and Cardinals and the trio of sub-.500...
• 8/1 Operation Shutdown: Trade Deadline: Breaking Down The Pirates' Moves: There was no Hunter Pence or Justin Upton type move by the Pirates on July 31. Rather, GM Neal Huntington opted to go with...
• 8/1 Baseball News Source: Trade Deadline Passed – But More MLB Trades Will Be Made in August: Prominent names like Zack Greinke, Hunter Pence, Shane Victorino and Ryan Dempster have new homes, but many key players who were...
• 8/1 Raise the Jolly Roger: An unconventional trade deadline approach: The biggest complaint you’ll see regarding the Pirates’ approach to the trade deadline is that they didn’t do...

• 7/31 Baseball News Source: Pirates – Winners on the Field – Winners at The Trade Deadline: The Pirates made a total of four trades in the past week before Tuesday’s 4pm non-waiver trade deadline.  Within those...
• 7/31 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Pirates Trade Deadline Reaction: Going into the last couple of weeks there were a lot of way the deadline could have gone for the Pirates. It started off with...
• 7/31 Obstructed View: Trade Deadline Rumors (Rangers acquired Dempster???, Russell, Garza, Camp, Baker, Webster, BJ Upton, Hope Monster, Buster Olney’s twitter account, Soriano staying put): This was posted earlier. Updates will be added for the next few hours (scroll down). According to Jon Heyman, Ryan Dempster has...
• 7/31 MLBTradeRumors: Trade Candidates Who Stayed Put: Shane Victorino, Hunter Pence, Ryan Dempster and Jonathan Broxton were all traded on a busy July 31st. But many others weren’t...
• 7/31 Baseball News Source: Pirates Trade Analysis – Snider for Lincoln Low-Risk, High-Reward: The Pirates traded RHP Brad Lincoln to the Toronto Blue Jays late Wednesday night, acquiring OF Travis Snider to address the lack...
• 7/31 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Deadline Day - Overnight Wrap-up July 30th: The Major League Baseball non-waiver trade deadline is officially upon us as of 4:00pm today. The activity promises to...
• 7/31 Jays Journal: Jays Make Couple of Controversial Moves: If Alex Anthopoulos was trying to get the attention of Toronto’s fan base, he definitely succeeded yesterday when he dealt...
• 7/31 Lasorda's Lair: Aaron Harang Rattled in Seven Run Loss to Arizona: Dodgers 2 8 0 Diamondbacks 7 11 1 WP- Cahill (9-9) LP- Harang (7-6) HR- Goldschmidt (14), Johnson (9)   *Trade news* The...
• 7/31 Phillies Nation: Rosenthal: D’backs Attempting Blockbuster for SP: According to Ken Rosenthal’s latest report, which went up around 3:05 a.m., the Arizona Diamondbacks are “trying to...
• 7/31 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Trying To Acquire Ace Pitcher: 10:56am: Diamondbacks managing partner Ken Kendrick dismissed talk of acquiring Lee, Jack Magruder of FOXSportsArizona.com reports...
• 7/30 MLB Message Boards: Breaking Down the Trade Deadline: As many of you know, the non-waiver trade deadline is one of the busiest times for baseball teams.  Clubs, even just a week...
• 7/30 MLB Message Boards: Season Previews, Part 31: 2012 Full Season Preview: Well, the results are in.  Every team has been previewed, so now it's time to show you how it all works together.  For...
• 7/30 STLCardinalBaseball: Comparing some trade candidates: A lot of talk, rumors, and speculation has occurred with the trade deadline looming just now a day away.  Though I am all for...
• 7/29 It's About the Money (Stupid): Rosenthal: Yankees still in mix for Headley: On Twitter, Ken Rosenthal passes along that the Yankeees are not out of the mix for San Diego third baseman Chase Headley just...
• 7/29 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton not playing Sunday: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (ankle) is being held out of the lineup as a precautionary measure Sunday, July 29, against...[+] the New York Mets. He had fouled a ball off his left ankle during the eighth inning of the game Saturday, July 28.
• 7/29 MLB Dirt: 2012 All-Underrated Team: As Major League Baseball heads into the second half of its season chatter increases about the frontrunners for various end-of-year...
• 7/29 Rising Apple: Game Recap: Ike Davis’ Three Homers Not Enough as Mets Fall 6-3:   Ike Davis become the ninth Mets player to hit three home runs in a baseball game last night. Unfortunately, they were all...
• 7/28 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Orioles, Liriano, Soriano, Diamondbacks: Let's take a look at the latest edition of Full Count from Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (video link).. The Orioles figure...
• 7/28 Rising Apple: Game Recap: Big Inning Dooms Jon Niese and Mets in 11-5 Loss: Jonathon Niese was hoping give the Mets their first back-to-back wins in what seems like years last night, but it was a six-run...
• 7/27 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Notes: Outfielders, Greinke, Broxton: The Rangers look primed to make at least a couple of trade deadline upgrades to their roster as they pursue that elusive World...
• 7/27 MLBTradeRumors: Indians Notes: Cabrera, Choo, Lindor: While the Indians would like to upgrade their rotation, they aren't interested in rental players, ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick reports...
• 7/27 Rising Apple: Game Recap: Matt Harvey Has Historic Debut as Mets Beat Dbacks 3-1: The losing streak is finally over! We’ll see if it carries over into tonight’s ballgame, but it was all about Matt...
• 7/27 Rising Apple: Matt Harvey: Mets’ Rookie Rises Up In Phoenix; Brilliant in Big League Debut: The responsibility of getting this road trip started off on the right foot, and turning the Mets’ recent fortunes around...
• 7/27 D'Backs Venom: Who Were the Best MLB Free Agent Signings for 2012?: In 2012, 100 position players were signed as free agents in Major League Baseball, ranging in cost from $250M over 10 years for...
• 7/26 Baseball News Source: Wandy Rodriguez Trade – Huntington Continues to Make Smart Baseball Moves: Since the rumor mills started churning a couple weeks ago, there have been many big names rumored to be switching teams.  Those...
• 7/26 Operation Shutdown: Starling Marte Gets the Call: Starling Marte in the 2011 MLB Futures GameMuch to the pleasure of Pirates' fans, Indianapolis Indians OF, and Pirates number...
• 7/26 Up Along First: Series Preview: Mets Begin West Coast Trip With Four In Arizona: Tonight at 9:40, the Mets begin the first game of an eleven-game west coast road trip against the Diamondbacks in Arizona. The...
• 7/26 Rising Apple: Series Preview: New York Mets @ Arizona Diamondbacks: Before the Mets started their homestand against the Dodgers last weekend, I said that New York was limping home after their 1-5...
• 7/26 Bronx Baseball Daily: Replacing Nick Swisher at the trade deadline: The outfield situation has been alleviated by the surprise acquisition of Ichiro Suzuki from the Seattle Mariners. There’s...
• 7/25 RoxPile: No Pitchers Good as Rockies Lose Again: Rockies 2, Diamondbacks 6 I hate games like this. This was a total failure of a game on every level, most especially hitting,...
• 7/24 Call to the Pen: Diamondbacks Designate Ryan Roberts, Working on Trade: The Tat Man is gone.  Ryan Roberts, and all his tattoos, has been designated for assignment by the Arizona Diamondbacks.  The...
• 7/24 Yanks Go Yard: New York Yankees Trade Analysis: Ichiro Suzuki: The New York Yankees stayed under the radar of the rumor mill and surprised everyone yesterday as they pulled off a trade for...
• 7/24 Venom Strikes: Slithering up the Standings, D-Backs Put the Rest of Baseball on Notice:   Here they come. Maybe most fans around the country haven’t picked up on it yet. But you can bet the other teams in the...
• 7/24 Motor City Bengals: Are The Tigers Done Now?: Maybe the better question is should the Tigers be done in the trade market? I think the quick answer is probably yes. The Tigers...
• 7/24 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Don’t Expect To Trade Upton Mid-Season: It sounds like Justin Upton isn’t going to be traded -- at least not any time soon. Diamondbacks managing partner Ken Kendrick...
• 7/24 Baseballhotcorner.com: Could Justin Upton Be Headed North of the Border?: The Toronto Blue Jays General Manager Alex Anthopoulos is known in the Jays sub-culture as the “Silent Assassin”. Anthopoulos...
• 7/24 The Baseball Page: MLB Power Rankings: Week 18: Power Rankings Current Team Previous 1 Texas Rangers 1  Texas...
• 7/24 Yanks Go Yard: Yankees News: Ichiro press conference, Chamberlain getting closer and Swisher progressing: The big news surrounding the New York Yankees is of course the acquisition of Ichiro Suzuki from the Seattle Mariners which went...
• 7/24 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers should pursue Hanley Ramirez instead of Chase Headley: While the hottest Dodger rumor of the day is a Matt Garza trade involving Zach Lee and others, there is a potential trade not...
• 7/23 Yanks Go Yard: Yankees acquire Ichiro from Mariners hours prior to first pitch; will be in Yanks’ road grays tonight: The New York Yankees have traded D.J. Mitchell and Danny Farquhar to the Seattle Mariners for Ichiro Suzuki and cash first reported...
• 7/23 The "Mc" Effect: Trade Thoughts: July 23rd: Eight days from the deadline, and everyone loves a good trade rumor. Carlos Quentin was one of the best fits that I saw for the...
• 7/23 My Pinstripes: Yankees Scratch Their Ich For An Outfielder: Shane Victorino, Denard Span, Justin Upton; those are the names we kept hearing that the Yankees were looking at to bolster...
• 7/23 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees trade target: Shane Victorino: I must be a curse or something.  In 2006, I was at Yankee Stadium for the games in which Gary Sheffield, Robinson Cano, and...
• 7/23 The Captain's Blog: Sweep in Oakland Highlights Yankees’ Flaws, but Shouldn’t Distract From Team’s Ceiling; OF Is Area of Greatest Need: The Athletics were already the hottest team in baseball before the weekend series against the Yankees, but if the rest of the...
• 7/23 MLBTradeRumors: Brown & Passan On Olt, Braves, Morneau: A handful of teams still don't know whether to buy, hold or sell with eight days remaining before the non-waiver trade deadline,...
• 7/23 MLBTradeRumors: Heyman On Upton, Hanley, Twins, Lannan: Arizona GM Kevin Towers could wait until the offseason to trade Justin Upton instead of moving him within the next eight days....
• 7/23 Full Spectrum Baseball: Who’s Hot: Andrew McCutchen: Welcome to Who’s Hot, Who’s Not, my new weekly feature where I’ll shine the spotlight on a handful of players who have killed...
• 7/23 The Baseball Page: New York Yankees Searching Trade Market for Outfielders: With left fielder Brett Gardner likely out the rest of the season and...
• 7/23 Bleeding Yankee Blue: TRADE RUMORS AROUND THE YANKEES & MLB: Denard Span: The Yankees, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.com HERE, and us, who suggested this was a nice fit days ago...
• 7/23 It's About the Money (Stupid): Monday morning links: Some Yankee related links from around the internet to nurse your hangover from the debacle in Oakland. Kevin Kernan says that...
• 7/23 Bronx Baseball Daily: Trade Rumor: Yankees like Denard Span: The Yankees have down played their interest in trading for an outfielder, but it seems hard to believe as in Jon Heyman‘s...
• 7/23 YankeeAnalysts.com: More musings on Upton: Yesterday morning, Steve posted about trading for Justin Upton. I’m all for this idea; Upton’s a great talent who’s...
• 7/22 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Upton, Red Sox, Yankees, Dempster: The Yankees have inquired on Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton and Joel Sherman of the New York Post opines that GM Brian...
• 7/22 It's About the Money (Stupid): Heyman: Yankees “in on everyone”: Jon Heyman has a rundown of the Yankees' on going search for a replacement for Brett Gardner in the outfield, a search in which...
• 7/22 PaulLebowitz.com: Mid-Season Player Trade Predictions—National League: Yesterday I predicted where various available American League players would wind up (or if they won’t be traded at all). Now...
• 7/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Pirates | Not interested in asking price for Justin Upton: The Pittsburgh Pirates remain interested in Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton but are not interested in paying the asking price...[+] at this point.
• 7/22 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Hernandez, Upton, Bard, Gordon: As teams scan the trade market for pieces that can make a difference down the stretch, many GMs are experiencing sticker shock,...
• 7/21 The Rays Today: Tough Loss For The Rays: Posted in Alex CobbB.J. UptonJeff NiemannEven though the Rays lost the game that wasnt their biggest loss of tonight. Alex Cobb...
• 7/21 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Yankees, Span, Giants, Cardinals, Mets: Some links from around the league as Saturday turns into Sunday... With Brett Gardner out for the year, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com says...
• 7/21 YankeeAnalysts.com: Is there a deal out there for the Yanks?: With the July 31st trade deadline looming, the Yankees have been su**** quiet. Is this Brian Cashman in his patented Ninja mode?...
• 7/20 North Side Notch: Friday Trade Rumors: Upton, Headley, Scutaro, Butler: Lots of stuff today. - Jon Morosi of Fox Sports reports that the Pirates and Diamondbacks are still discussing a trade that would...
• 7/20 MLBTradeRumors: West Notes: A's, Haren, Santana, Upton: A look at the latest out of the AL and NL West.. With the trade deadline rapidly approaching, A's manager Bob Melvin says...
• 7/20 Through The Fence Baseball: Breaking Balls: 10 bold predictions for the second half:   Well, that was one heck of an All-Star Game we had, huh? Okay, it was pretty boring – almost comatose – and I really...
• 7/20 The "Mc" Effect: The Frustrations of Trade Rumors: It's fun to root for a team that is looking to buy at the trade deadline. That means that your team is in the hunt and is going...
• 7/20 It's About the Money (Stupid): Why do teams default to veterans?: I wanted to briefly add a passing observation to Will's post on Freddy Garcia and David Phelps this morning. Well, more accurately,...
• 7/20 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Dodgers, Giants, Rangers, Nats: There's no question that the Dodgers will look to be major players at the deadline this year, says Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports...
• 7/20 MLBeef.com: Business Man’s Special: Friday lunch links – The trade deadline looms: Posted on July 19, 2012 by Taylor More trade deadline stuff, a great way to waste time, and other readings to fill up the...
• 7/20 North Side Notch: Ken Rosenthal: Pirates Interested in Stephen Drew: We’ve been hearing a lot of rumors about the Pirates’ interest in Arizona RF Justin Upton, but today we found out...
• 7/19 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Lee, Upton, Pena, Street, Denorfia: We've already checked out some Giants and Rockies rumors today, so let's look around the rest of the NL West... The Dodgers...
• 7/19 The Baseball Page: Could the Crawford for Ramirez trade actually work?: I'm always one to throw out trade offers that will never happen. Last...
• 7/19 MLBeef.com: Follow up to Jay Bruce profle: Who else would you choose?: Posted on July 19, 2012 by Taylor I know that I painted Jay Bruce’s performance so far in his career as acceptable.  Many...
• 7/19 mlbreports.com : Should the Diamondbacks be Buyers or Sellers at the MLB Trade Deadline?: Thursday July 19th, 2012 Bryan Sheehan (MLB Writer): The Diamondbacks could be in a worse situation. Just four games under .500...
• 7/19 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees trade deadline targets: Justin Upton: Teams, people, or organizations will negotiate based on the idea that they will come out better. It is a simple fact; if you...
• 7/19 PaulLebowitz.com: National League West—Buy, Sell or Stand Pat?: San Francisco Giants The Giants have taken pitching and defense to the extreme with an outfield that can catch the ball with anyone,...
• 7/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton trade imminent?: Some think Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton will be dealt within the next 13 days or after the season, and the Seattle Mariners...[+] have shown interest. However, they aren't willing to give up 2B Dustin Ackley or 3B Kyle Seager or their trio of pitching prospects, SPs Danny Hultzen, Taijuan Walker or James Paxton.
• 7/18 Bronx Baseball Daily: The Yankee beat: bad trades, no trades, and the lottery: Hiroki Kuroda got a rare 7-inning shutout thanks to the rain as the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 6-0 behind a 4-run 1st inning....
• 7/18 Operation Shutdown: Proposed Trade: PIT, ARZ, SD: Thanks to Jared for his e-mail suggesting this trade.The Deal:To Pirates: Justin UptonTo D'Backs: Chase Headley & PTBNL...
• 7/18 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Gardner’s injury won’t force the Yankees hand: With Brett Gardner potentially out for the season, the Yankees aren’t panicking. According to Buster Olney of ESPN,...
• 7/18 PaulLebowitz.com: National League Central—Buy, Sell or Stand Pat?: Cincinnati Reds Reds’ GM Walt Jocketty is a buyer and wants to win now. The Reds have what it takes to go far in the playoffs...
• 7/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Red Sox | Haven't inquired about Justin UptonThe Boston Red Sox haven't inquired about Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton....[+] The Boston Red Sox haven't inquired about Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton.
• 7/18 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Wednesday: Justin Upton will be traded -- it’s a question of whether the Diamondbacks make a deal now or over the winter, Bob Nightengale...
• 7/18 MLBTradeRumors: Nightengale On Cubs, Upton, Mariners: Arizona GM Kevin Towers told Bob Nightengale of USA Today that he expects a “lightning round” of trades during the 48-hour...
• 7/17 North Side Notch: Tuesday Trade Rumors: Justin Upton, Chase Headley, and Carlos Quentin: A few more things came out today involving trade rumors and the Pirates. Let’s start with Justin Upton. Jon Morosi of Fox...
• 7/17 Bronx Baseball Daily: The Yankee beat: Pirela, Upton, and domination: The Yankees got CC Sabathia back on Tuesday and he was very sharp as he threw six-shutout innings before being lifted because...
• 7/17 PaulLebowitz.com: Welcome to Miami; Don’t Bother to Unpack: From another plane of existence, watching Jeffrey Loria and the Marlins, George Steinbrenner just elbowed Mussolini and said,...
• 7/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton back in fifth spot: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton was back in the fifth spot of manager Kirk Gibson's batting order Tuesday, July 17. Upton...[+] has been struggling at the plate, and manager Kirk Gibson is looking for a successful combination to snap Upton and his team out of a funk. 'It was inevitable the way I was hitting,' Upton said. 'I think it's a good move for the lineup for the time being and hopefully I'm back in the three hole at some point.'
• 7/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Pirates | Unlikely to land Justin Upton: The Pittsburgh Pirates do not match up well as trade partners with the Arizona Diamondbacks because the Pirates have pitching...[+] and the D-backs' priority is help at shortstop. The Pirates are known to be interested in OF Justin Upton.
• 7/17 Yanks Go Yard: Yankees should stand pat in the outfield even if Gardner is done for season: Upon word yesterday that Brett Gardner suffered another setback, his third such instance since he was shelved on April 17 with...
• 7/17 Nolan Writin': Trade Target: Justin Upton:   The Diamondbacks have recently made it known that Justin Upton, last season’s 13th most valuable player, is available...
• 7/17 Through The Fence Baseball: Why the Giants are the favorite to win the National League: Just two years from a magical season that ended with the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series over the Texas Rangers...
• 7/17 Through The Fence Baseball: What should the Pirates do with prospect Starling Marte?: tarling Marte is tearing it up at AAA Indianapolis The Pittsburgh Pirates suffered a bad loss at the hands of the Colorado Rockies...
• 7/17 It's About the Money (Stupid): Potential trade target: Shane Victorino: Even before the latest round of bad news about Brett Gardner yesterday, the new rumor from the mill was that the Yankees were...
• 7/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Not close to trading Justin Upton: The Arizona Diamondbacks are not close to trading OF Justin Upton as of Tuesday, July 17. Some of the teams expressing interest...[+] in him are non-contenders.
• 7/17 YankeeAnalysts.com: Trading For Justin Upton: Considering the news on Gardner’s soar elbow yesterday, prepare yourself for bad news today. The Yankees will have a better...
• 7/17 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Headley, Quentin, Cuddyer: The Giants lead the NL West with a 49-40 record, but it doesn't sound as though they'll be particularly aggressive in trade talks...
• 7/17 Baseballhotcorner.com: 27 Million Reasons To Remain A Blue Jay- Edwin Encarnacion: The Toronto Blue Jays today signed the man formerly known as “E5” to a three year extension for a healthy $27 million with...
• 7/17 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Upton open to trade to teams on no-trade list: Justin Upton is easily the biggest name outfielder available on the trade market which of course will draw the Yankees attention....
• 7/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Pirates | Refusing to deal two: The Pittsburgh Pirates have refused to deal OF Starling Marte and SP Jameson Taillon in trade talks for Arizona Diamondbacks OF...[+] Justin Upton.
• 7/17 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Marlins, Rays, Upton: General managers say the trade market has been surprisingly stagnant, ESPN.com’s Buster Olney writes. The value of a Wild Card...
• 7/17 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Tuesday: Justin Upton's no-trade protection enables him to block trades to the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs and Indians. The Yankees have checked...
• 7/17 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Rays, Colon, Angels, Dempster: James Shields isn’t the only member of the Tampa Bay pitching staff who could be traded this summer. The Rays are open to moving...
• 7/16 Bronx Baseball Daily: Brett Gardner suffers yet another setback: Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner looks to have suffered yet another setback in his rehab as he experienced soreness in his...
• 7/16 PaulLebowitz.com: Why Are the Diamondbacks So Desperate to Deal Upton?: You can counter the title question with, “They’re not desperate; they’re just listening and trying to maximize an asset,”...
• 7/16 Raise the Jolly Roger: GAMEDAY: Pirates at Rockies: Pirates (49-39) at Rockies (34-54) 8:40 PM EST–Coors Field, Denver Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: ROOT Sports The Pirates...
• 7/16 It's About the Money (Stupid): Trade focus shifts to outfield: Though Brian Cashman still insists that he's not looking to an additional outfielders to make up for the absence of Brett Gardner,...
• 7/16 Bronx Baseball Daily: Trade Rumor: Yankees considering Shane Victorino: If the Yankees do indeed make a trade for an outfielder this season one strong possibility is the Phillies center fielder...
• 7/16 Bronx Baseball Daily: Rumor: Yankees have scouts watching Upton and D-Backs: Recent July 31st trade deadlines have been quiet around these parts. Aside from the Yankees attempt at acquiring Cliff Lee...
• 7/16 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Monday: Justin Upton is available for the right offer, but his no-trade protection enables him to block trades to four teams. The Yankees,...
• 7/16 MLBTradeRumors: Yankees Monitoring Outfield Market: The Yankees always seem to be pursuing pitching, but their front office officials aren’t overly concerned about the rotation,...
• 7/16 Call to the Pen: MLB Trade Rumors: Pittsburgh Pursuing Justin Upton: According to Jayson Stark of ESPN, the Pittsburgh Pirates are serious bidders for the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Justin Upton....
• 7/16 Raise the Jolly Roger: Thoughts on Justin Upton and Starling Marte: Over the last week or so and especially this weekend, rumors regarding the Pirates and Arizona’s Justin Upton have been...
• 7/15 MLBTradeRumors: Trade Targets Who Could Bring Draft Pick Compensation: Recently, Joel Sherman of the New York Post talked to an NL GM who said he does not expect a robust market for rental players...
• 7/15 North Side Notch: Jayson Stark: Pirates Emerging as Serious Bidder for Justin Upton: #Pirates so serious about Justin Upton they’re sending signals they could include Starling Marte in an Upton deal —...
• 7/15 Bleeding Yankee Blue: TRADE RUMORS AROUND YANKEELAND: There are a few things happening, a few names surfacing and alittle excitement is happening around the Yankees organization as...
• 7/15 Tomahawk Take: What’s The Braves’ Next Move:   The annual second half chess game is underway. This is the game where GMs try to do in the last two weeks what they weren’t...
• 7/15 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Pirates | Could be willing to part with Starling Marte: The Pittsburgh Pirates may be willing to part with OF Starling Marte in a potential deal for Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton...[+] but they will not trade SPs Gerrit Cole or Jameson Taillon.
• 7/15 MLBTradeRumors: MLBTR Originals: A look back at the original reporting and analysis found on MLBTR this past week: Ben Nicholson-Smith finished his preview...
• 7/15 MLBTradeRumors: West Notes: Upton, Colon, Bloomquist, Billingsley: Colorado is the epicenter of scouting activity this afternoon as Cole Hamels starts against the Rockies. The Angels, Dodgers,...
• 7/15 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Sunday: Yesterday, Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers told reporters that he spoke with Justin Upton about the trade rumors surrounding him...
• 7/14 Yanks Go Yard: Nick Swisher’s Yankee Future: The one thing I’ve noticed that every team needs is a guy like Nick Swisher. He’s goofy, quirky, funny, but still...
• 7/14 Rays Colored Glasses: The Enigmatic Upton Brothers: Justin Upton is currently at the forefront of trade rumors in baseball right now. Another player with a chance to be traded is...
• 7/14 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Saturday: Yesterday we learned that the Rangers have some interest in Justin Upton, but they're unlikely to trade either of their two elite...
• 7/14 Blog Red Machine: Making a Case for Five Potential Reds Trade Targets: The trade deadline is just over two weeks away and the Reds have some holes to fill. One key addition could be enough to push...
• 7/14 The Captain's Blog: Should Yankees Trade the Farm for Justin Upton?: (The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstripe Alley) Before Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, there was Justin...
• 7/14 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | GM talks with Justin Upton about trade rumors: Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers said he has talked with OF Justin Upton about the trade rumors and that Upton...[+] understands the situation. Towers said he will let Upton know if they are close to a possible deal.
• 7/13 Operation Shutdown: Trade Deadline: Proposed Pirate trades: The 2012 Non-waiver trade deadline is 18 days away, ending at 4pm EST on July 31st. The Pirates have been said to be looking to...
• 7/13 mlbreports.com : Toronto Blue Jays: 2012 Trade Deadline Predictions: Friday July 13th, 2012 Alexander McWilliams (MLB reports Intern Candidate):  As of yesterday, the Toronto Blue Jays and their...
• 7/13 BoSox Injection: Would you trade Ellsbury for Justin Upton?: It seems that Upton’s days in Arizona are coming to an end. I’m not sure why the Diamondbacks aren’t more patient with their...
• 7/13 Nolan Writin': Potential Midseason Transactions – Cole Hamels and Zack Greinke: In recent weeks, the deteriorating health of Rangers’ starters (Feliz, Colby, Holland, and Ogando) has engendered speculation...
• 7/13 Baseball Musings: Name Change: If the Tigers trade for Justin Upton, then Justin Verlander should marry Kate Upton and take her name. That way, the Tigers would...
• 7/13 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Greinke, Hamels, Upton: Six years ago today, the Nationals and Reds swung an eight-player trade that sent Austin Kearns, Felipe Lopez, and Ryan Wagner...
• 7/13 MLBTradeRumors: Rangers Interested In Justin Upton: The Diamondbacks don’t seem particularly high on Justin Upton, based the most recent rumors surrounding Arizona's 24-year-old...
• 7/13 Rising Apple: Mets Have Second Half Help On The Way: In less than three weeks, the trade deadline will be upon us.  And between now and then, the Mets must stay in contention to...
• 7/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Rangers | Interest in Justin Upton: The Texas Rangers are interested in Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton, but they aren't interested in dealing top prospects...[+] 3B Mike Olt and SS Jurickson Profar. Trading one of them is doubtful as well.
• 7/13 Baseball Musings: NL West at the All-Star Break: The series on division races concludes with the NL West. Powered by Tableau Injuries eroded the Dodgers early season lead to the...
• 7/13 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Cherington, Profar, Royals, A's, Ryan: Check out MLBTR's "Justin Upton Rumors" for the daily collection of trade buzz about the Diamondbacks outfielder.  For any "Justin/Upton...
• 7/12 mlbreports.com : Justin Morneau: Twins Trade Bait or Damaged Goods?:   Thursday July 12th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky: Over the past few years, Twins fans have been disappointed with Justin Morneau’s...
• 7/12 Tomahawk Take: Justin Upton Isn’t Coming to the Atlanta Braves: Well I wasn’t really planning this post but I can’t really keep myself from writing it. The topic has been covered by David...
• 7/12 MLBTradeRumors: Heyman On Yankees, Garza, Upton, BoSox, Jays: CBS Sports' Jon Heyman discussed how baseball reporting is evolving in the age of social media and a 24/7 news cycle (while...
• 7/12 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Pirates | Not seen as match in trade for Justin Upton: The Arizona Diamondbacks do not see the Pittsburgh Pirates as a trade partner in a possible OF Justin Upton trade so a third team...[+] would need to be brought in for an Upton to the Pirates trade to occur.
• 7/12 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Thursday: Arizona GM Kevin Towers told Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic that if the Diamondbacks make a trade this summer, it will probably...
• 7/12 Up Along First: What Will The Rest Of The NL East Be Doing At The Deadline?: Well, it’s not just transaction season for the Mets. The rest of the National League East may also be wheeling and dealing...
• 7/12 DC is for Baseball: The cupboard isn't bare for the Nats at the trade deadline: The trade deadline is upon us in a little less than three weeks and while the Nats are currently in first place, they are not...
• 7/12 Yanks Go Yard: Dare to Dream – The Justin Upton Edition: Allow yourself to dream for a moment. Just sit back in your favorite chair, close your eyes and conjure up images of Justin Upton...
• 7/12 Pitchers Hit Eighth: The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me: With MLB nearing the end of the midsummer night’s bad dream, some members of Cardinal Nation have turned their respective...
• 7/11 The Baseball Page: MLB Power Rankings: Week 15: It was a big week in baseball, as we head into the All Star break. Texas...
• 7/11 Throw the Challenge Flag: What will the Pittsburgh Pirates look like in one month?: For years, it has been the Pittsburgh Pirates trading their one and only productive player to someone else for a bucket full of...
• 7/11 Roto Think Tank: More on First Half Disappointments: My post on potential second-half pitching "surgers" generated a great deal of interest. So I threw out a general query...
• 7/11 The "Mc" Effect: Wednesday 7/11 | News, Notes, and Links: Andrew McCutchen and Joel Hanrahan were a part of the winning team again last night as the National League all-stars beat down...
• 7/11 PaulLebowitz.com: American League East—Buy, Sell or Stand Pat?: You’ll see all the “rumors” floating around, published in newspapers and discussed on blogs, websites and shows. Most of...
• 7/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Not looking for prospects for Justin Upton: The Arizona Diamondbacks aren't looking for prospects in return for OF Justin Upton. 'We're not looking for prospects,' general...[+] manager Kevin Towers said. 'We're still in win mode. We're certainly not in sell mode at all.'
• 7/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Yankees | On Justin Upton’s no-trade listThe New York Yankees are among the big-market teams on Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton’s no-trade list....[+] The New York Yankees are among the big-market teams on Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton’s no-trade list.
• 7/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Would look for specific pieces in Justin Upton trade: The Arizona Diamondbacks likely would look for a shortstop, third baseman or frontline starting pitcher to be the centerpiece...[+] for any deal involving OF Justin Upton.
• 7/11 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Not shopping Justin Upton but listening to offers: Updating a previous report, Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers said he is not actively shopping OF Justin Upton...[+] but has been willing to listen to teams when they inquire about him.
• 7/11 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Street, Garcia, Ozuna: Much of the recent NL West chatter relates to Justin Upton and potential trades for Arizona's 24-year-old right fielder. The...
• 7/11 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Wednesday: The Diamondbacks are willing to listen to offers for Justin Upton, but they’re not looking for prospects. "We're still in win...
• 7/10 Jays Journal: Next Jays Pitching Moves: Trade Targets:   There’s no doubt that Alex Anthopoulos is actively looking for help for the pitching staff. But, when his moves include...
• 7/10 Tyler's Think Tank: Derby Recap/ASG Predictions: Derby Recap -Just as I predicted, Prince Fielder outlasted Jose Bautista to win the State Farm Home Run Derby.  While...
• 7/10 Jays Journal: If Justin Upton is available, the Blue Jays need to call: Justin Upton is on the trade block… again. During the 2010 offseason, news leaked that Arizona might be willing to part with...
• 7/10 Venom Strikes: Trade Justin Upton? No Way!:     Over the weekend, reports began to surface that the Diamondbacks were shopping star-crossed Right Fielder Justin...
• 7/10 Through The Fence Baseball: Robinson Cano forgot to have fun at the Home Run Derby:   Robinson Cano forgot. Not that he made some “promise” to a city. Not how to hit home runs – though it might seem...
• 7/10 MLBTradeRumors: Potentially Available Outfielders: Teams willing to trade everyday outfielders this summer won’t have a shortage of interest. The Reds, Pirates, Indians, Dodgers,...
• 7/10 YankeeAnalysts.com: Anti**** Another Quiet Trade Deadline: (The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) A few weeks ago, I mentioned the upcoming trade deadline as one of...
• 7/10 MLBTradeRumors: Justin Upton Rumors: Tuesday: The Diamondbacks are willing to listen to trade offers for Justin Upton, the 24-year-old outfielder who finished fourth in National...
• 7/9 mlbreports.com : Top Ten Stat of The Week: Odds To Win The AL/NL/WS: Monday July.9, 2012 Douglas ‘Chuck’ Booth (Lead Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024)- I thought we would try a different...
• 7/9 D'Backs Venom: Ranking the 2012 Diamondbacks at the All Star Break: 35 Players have played for the Diamondbacks so far in 2012. Here is how I rank them, from #1 to #35, based on their performance...
• 7/9 MLBTradeRumors: Knobler On Tigers, Hamels, Upton, Royals: Rival executives are divided on what the Tigers need to acquire for the second half of the season, Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com...
• 7/9 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 Draft tracker: Buxton gets first HR; Seager debuts strong:   Byron Buxton may have been feeling the pressure that comes with being labeled the best player in the draft. The five-tool...
• 7/9 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | High asking price for Justin UptonThe Arizona Diamondbacks have to be 'dazzled' by an offer in order to trade OF Justin Upton, sources say....[+] The Arizona Diamondbacks have to be 'dazzled' by an offer in order to trade OF Justin Upton, sources say.
• 7/9 MLBTradeRumors: Pirates Notes: Upton, Quentin, Lincoln: The Pirates, who lead the NL Central with a 48-37 record, aim to improve their roster for the second half of the season. “We’re...
• 7/9 MLBTradeRumors: Rosenthal On Upton, Rangers, Twins, Tigers: The Diamondbacks are willing to trade Justin Upton even if they’re in contention, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports. Arizona...
• 7/8 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Limp Into All-Star Break Barely in First Place: Dodgers 1 5 0 Dbacks   7 12 0 WP-Bauer-1-1 LP-Capuano-9-4 SV-Corbin-1 HR-Goldschmidt-12   The Dodgers limped into the all-star...
• 7/8 MLBTradeRumors: Poll: Which Addition Makes Most Sense For Pirates?: The Pirates enter the All-Star break atop the Central Division with a 48-37 record and a legitimate opportunity to remain competitive...
• 7/8 Call to the Pen: Justin Upton, Carlos Quentin, And The Upstart Pittsburgh Pirates: It’s been a very long time since the Pittsburgh Pirates were in serious playoff contention, but now that the long-suffering...
• 7/8 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Look to Remain in First-Place Going into All-Star Break: Chris Capuano (9-3, 2.62) vs. Trevor Bauer (0-1, 9.82) Dodgers Lineup: vs. Arizona Gwynn8 M.Ellis4 Abreu7 Rivera3 Hairston5 Herrera9...
• 7/8 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: All-Star Repost: 8 Players Under 25 that are Going to Be Great: During the Baseball All-Star break we’ll be reposting some of our “All-Star” articles. This is a repost of a...
• 7/8 Lasorda's Lair: Pop Gun Offense Can’t Back Billingsley Meltdown in Dodger Loss: Dodgers 3 7 0 Dbacks   5 7 0 WP-Cahill-7-7 LP-Billingsley-4-9 SV-Putz-16 HR-Hairston-4-Ellis-7-Kubel-15   I’m no Sherlock...
• 7/8 MLBTradeRumors: Pirates Have Had Talks For Quentin, Upton: 11:27am: Interest in Upton is said to be "huge'', sources tell Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.  Sources say that the outfielder's...
• 7/8 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Upton, Greinke, Rays, Phillies: The Diamondbacks have let other clubs know that they are willing to consider offers for Justin Upton and Buster Olney of ESPN.com...
• 7/7 Lasorda's Lair: Chad Billingsley Looks to Halt Four-Game Skid and Is James Loney “Back?”: Chad Billingsley (4-8, 4.20) vs. Trevor Cahill (6-7, 3.63) Lineup: Herrera CF Cruz SS Hairston LF Loney 1B Kennedy 2B AJ Ellis...
• 7/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Jose Campos As The Invisible Key: Oh, did you wind up here looking for a Jose Campos injury update? Sorry. I don’t have one. From what I can gather, no one else...
• 7/7 Call to the Pen: MLB Trade Rumors: Justin Upton Could Become Available: It’s difficult to imagine the Diamondbacks parting with Justin Upton after the season he had in 2011.  Yet, according...
• 7/7 Lasorda's Lair: Clayton Kershaw is Bitten by the Snakes in the Sixth as Dodgers Lose in Arizona: Dodgers 3 13 0   Diamondbacks 5 6 1 WP- Collmenter (1-2) LP- Kershaw (6-5) S- Putz (15) HR- Kennedy (1) The Diamondbacks snapped...
• 7/7 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Towers, Headley, Dempster, Quentin: Some links from around the league as Friday turns into Saturday... "I'm open-minded on anybody, everybody. Even guys who...
• 7/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Indians | Could be interested in Justin Upton: The Cleveland Indians are among the teams pursuing offensive help leading up to the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, and they...[+] might be interested in adding a right-handed bat. If the Arizona Diamondbacks fall out of contention, major league sources said Friday, July 9, that they might be willing to part with OF Justin Upton.
• 7/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Might consider offers for Justin Upton: The Arizona Diamondbacks might consider offers for OF Justin Upton if the club falls out of contention heading into the July 31...[+] non-waiver trade deadline, according to major league sources.
• 7/6 MLBTradeRumors: D'Backs Could Consider Offers For Justin Upton: 7:23pm: Rosenthal tweets that the teams on Upton's limited no-trade clause are unknown. He was able to block deals to the Royals,...
• 7/6 Venom Strikes: D-Backs Desperately Need the All Star Break:       If this is not the lowest point of the season, I don’t know what is.   The Diamondbacks are riding...
• 7/6 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Look to Charm Snakes Behind Clayton Kershaw in Game Two: Dodgers Lineup vs. Arizona-coming soon   Clayton Kershaw-6-4 vs. Josh Collmenter-0-2   The Las Vegas odds makers don’t...
• 7/6 Lasorda's Lair: Eovaldi Finally Gets First Win, Dodgers Top Snakes: Dodgers 4 9 0 Dbacks   1 5 0 WP-Eovaldi-1-5 LP-Miley-9-5 SV-Jansen-15 HR-Van Slyke-2-Herrera-1 There have been so many injuries...
• 7/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton booed: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton was booed by the home crowd after he went 0-for-5 and stranded four runners in scoring position...[+] Wednesday, July 4. He is hitting .263 with seven home runs and 34 RBIs on the year, but he's 4-for-27 (.148) in his last seven games. 'To be honest with you, I don't care anything what the fans think of me,' Upton said. 'My teammates, my coaches, they know I come here and I bust it every single day.'
• 7/4 Call to the Pen: MLB Trade Rumors: Matt Garza Would Be a Perfect Fit for the Diamondbacks: The Arizona Diamondbacks are content with their starting pitching.  They are simply looking for some insurance in the bullpen....
• 7/2 Chicken Friars: Ian Kennedy – Padre Killer: At the start of each series, we at Chicken Friars will zero in on an opposing player known to be a “Padre Killer.” No matter...

• 6/29 Reviewing the Brew: Series Six Pack: Brewers vs Diamondbacks Series #2: Home sweet home. After our six game road trip, the Milwaukee Brewers (34-41) find themselves back at home, only to go up against...
• 6/26 Venom Strikes: D-Backs About to Get Hotter Than a Desert Afternoon in June:   Go ahead, D-Back  fans, think about this for a moment.   If I had told you April 1st that on June 26th, (A) Justin Upton...
• 6/26 Venom Strikes: Diamondbacks set to square off against Braves: The Arizona Diamondbacks (37-35) are set to square off against the Atlanta Braves (38-34) in one of the highest anti**** series...
• 6/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton on the upswing: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton has returned to driving the ball over the past few games, and his explosive bat speed and...[+] easy power have been evident during the run. He homered into the left-field bleachers Saturday, June 23, and he mashed a homer to left-center field earlier in the week. In other words, Upton is using the whole field again. 'He's much more aggressive,' manager Kirk Gibson said. 'You watch him in batting practice, watch his swings, he's getting a good load now. He's kind of found his ready position. He's getting back way better, staying back and then moving the ball.'
• 6/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton has cramp in calf: Updating a previous report, Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (calf) has a cramp in his calf, and he is not expected to miss...[+] any time.
• 6/20 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton leaves gameArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (leg) left the game early Wednesday, June 20, after suffering an apparent leg injury....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (leg) left the game early Wednesday, June 20, after suffering an apparent leg injury.
• 6/20 Baseball Analytics: Two-Strike Takes Hurting Justin Upton: Justin Upton entered the 2012 season as a trendy pick for NL MVP, and for good reason. The D-Backs' franchise player cut his strikeout...
• 6/17 High Heat Stats: Sunday supplement — now with 60% game coverage!: Orioles 2, @Braves 0: A day after Jason Hammel‘s 1-hitter left him at 7-2, Wei-Yin Chen attained the same record with...
• 6/13 mlbreports.com : Bryce Harper: 2012 National League All-Star, ROY and MVP?:   Wednesday June 13th, 2012 Bernie Olshansky: It’s finally Bryce Harper’s time. He’s been up for just about a month and...
• 6/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Who Won’t Be Traded At The Deadline?: Everyone’s coming up with their lists of players who are going to be available or traded at the upcoming MLB trading deadline....
• 6/10 Baseball Musings: Eight Runs a Game: The Diamondbacks keep mashing the ball as they defeat the Athletics 8-3 late Saturday night. That gives them 33 runs in four games...
• 6/10 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo On Upton, Phillies, Red Sox, Mariners: In today's column, Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe ranks the top ten managers in baseball.  Don Mattingly of the Dodgers tops...
• 6/9 Baseball Musings: Arizona Comeback: The Oakland Athletics led 6-0 in the middle of the second, but the newly fired up Diamondbacks with 9-8 when Ryan Roberts launches...
• 6/8 Tyler's Think Tank: 6 Disappointmenting Teams: Arizona Diamondbacks-After winning 94 games and running away with the division last year, the D-Backs are three games under .500...
• 6/8 Baseball Musings: Upton Returns: Justin Upton seems to be out of the dog house and back in the Arizona lineup. He singles his first time, but, the the Athletics...
• 6/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Ken Kendrick Channels His Inner Steinbrenner: Part of being the best and highest paid player on a team is taking the brunt when the team isn’t playing well. It’s with that...
• 6/7 Call to the Pen: Diamondbacks Owner’s Comments Demonstrate How Not to Use the Media: On Tuesday, Diamondbacks Managing Partner Ken Kendrick parti**** in a radio interview. Kendrick ripped into two of his team’s...
• 6/7 MLBTradeRumors: Diamondbacks Notes: Drew, Upton, Bauer, Trahan: It’s been a busy week for the Diamondbacks, not only because of the draft, but because of the public admission from managing...
• 6/6 FanSided: 2012 MLB Draft: Rockies Select David Dahl 10th Overall: Just a week after David Dahl was hitting home runs during a special batting practice session in front of Rockies' brass at Coors...
• 6/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton misses second straight game: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton was out of the starting lineup for the second straight game Wednesday, June 6. He is not...[+] dealing with any sort of injury. 'Me and Gibby have never had any bad blood and I don't think there's any now,' Upton said.
• 6/6 Baseball Musings: When You’re Miley: Wade Miley is perfect through four innings against Colorado, the Diamondbacks leading 5-0. Miley struck out three so far, throwing...
• 6/6 Mets360.com: Gavin Cecchini and the recent history of first-round shortstops: The Mets picked SS Gavin Cecchini in the first round, as correctly forecasted by MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo. Cecchini becomes the...
• 6/6 Baseball Musings: The DBacks Clubhouse: Beat writer Nick Piecoro gives his impressions of the Arizona clubhouse after the comments of the owner and the benching of Justin...
• 6/6 Call to the Pen: Arizona Diamondbacks Owner Hammers Stephen Drew and Justin Upton: In the mega-media markets of New York City, Boston, Chicago, or Los Angeles, an owner calling out his star players in a very public...
• 6/6 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB draft: Top 10 best team drafts: With the first 15 rounds of the 2012 MLB amateur draft in the books, most of the top talent is already off the board. With the...
• 6/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton rested Tuesday, possibly Wednesday: Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson gave OF Justin Upton the night off Tuesday, June 5, and might not play him on Wednesday,...[+] June 6 to give Upton a mental break.
• 6/6 MLBTradeRumors: Kendrick Expects More Consistency From Upton: Diamondbacks managing partner Ken Kendrick said in a radio interview on XTRA 910 AM that he expects more consistency from Justin...
• 6/5 Baseball Musings: Player Complaints: Via Hardball Talk, Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick comes down hard on Stephen Drew and is a bit rough on Justin Upton as well....
• 6/5 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB Draft: First-round selections and analysis: As usual, the baseball draft remains totally unpredictable. The Houston Astros shocked many from the very start, some high-profile...
• 6/5 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton coldArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton went 0-for-4 Monday, June 4, and has just four hits in his last 24 at-bats....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton went 0-for-4 Monday, June 4, and has just four hits in his last 24 at-bats.
• 6/5 MLBTradeRumors: First Overall Picks Without MLB Experience: Carlos Correa joined an exclusive club when the Astros selected him first overall in last night's draft. Some of the game’s...
• 6/4 MLBTradeRumors: Astros Select Carlos Correa: The Astros have officially drafted high school shortstop Carlos Correa with the first overall selection in the 2012 draft. Stanford...
• 6/4 Fire Brand of the American League: Potential Trade Partners for Kevin Youkilis: Third BaseWith credible rumors swirling over Fenway, it's finally time to examine potential trade partners for Youk....
• 6/2 Baseball Musings: Western Roundup: The Dodgers played terrible defense Friday night as the Rockies took advantage of the miscues to win 13-3. Carlos Gonzalez stayed...

• 5/31 MLBTradeRumors: The Best Extensions From Two Offseasons Ago: Back in January, MLBTR's Tim Dierkes looked at the extensions from the 2009-10 offseason that are already looking like (or...
• 5/31 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB mock draft: Final mock for top 60 picks: The 2012 MLB amateur draft is now less than a week away (June 4-6). With the new CBA draft rules in place, setting a limit on...
• 5/30 D'Backs Venom: Diamondbacks Offensive Woes Continue - Where has the team's power gone?: The Diamondbacks have had a disappointing month of May, with a 10-17 record heading into Wednesday night's game against Tim Linecum...
• 5/30 Raising Matt Cain: Slick Vogie: Ryan Vogelsong wriggled his way out of jams all night long and the Giants prevailed over the Diamondbacks. He walked three guys...
• 5/25 MLBTradeRumors: NL Central Notes: Berkman, Cubs, Lucroy, Astros: The light-hitting Pirates again didn't generate much offense on Friday, scoring just one run against the Cubs.  Fortunately...
• 5/23 B-R Blog: Cool Play Index Event Finder Tricks: The Event Finders are an underrated set of Play Index tools: Batting by Team / Pitching by Team All-Star Batting / All-Star Pitching...
• 5/22 Release Points: Jim Bowden’s Failed Draft Logic: “Win too many games and where does it get you?” –Stan Kasten via Jim Bowden Over at ESPN, former Cincinnati Reds and...
• 5/21 D'Backs Venom: Justin Upton Leads NL in Strikeouts Looking: Justin Upton got off to a slow start in 2012, as discussed here last week. One area that has been particularly frustrating for...
• 5/19 Tyler's Think Tank: Slow Starts I'm Not Worried About (NL): To see the American League edition, go here Justin Upton (.234/.342/.359) This slump dates back to September 11th of last...
• 5/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton hits game-winning HR: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton hit a game-winning two-run home run against the Colorado Rockies Thursday, May 17. He finished...[+] the game 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
• 5/16 D'Backs Venom: What is Justin Upton Doing Differently in 2012?: In 2011, Justin Upton posted career highs in Home Runs, Runs Scored, Runs Batted In, On-Base Percentage, and Stolen Bases. But...
• 5/15 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton fighting through struggles: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton is struggling, but he wants to continue to play and fight through rather than getting a mental...[+] day off. 'I asked him today,' manager Kirk Gibson said. 'He wants to play. He's very determined. He just hasn't been able to find his swing path. On and off, but not consistently.'
• 5/14 High Heat Stats: The Mount Rushmore of the Arizona Diamondbacks: Time for us to figure out who is on the Mount Rushmore of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Here are the top 15 batters and pitchers,...
• 5/7 Bus League Baseball: Aces: Not just Arizona’s AAA affiliate anymore: Back in 2007, it seemed like Arizona was set up to have at least a few consecutive years of success. Although based on their run...
• 5/4 Up Along First: Series Preview: Mets Battle D-Backs At Citi Field: Tonight, the Diamondbacks come to town to begin a three-game set with the Mets. The Mets come into this series not playing well...
• 5/4 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB mock draft 5.0: First 60 picks: The 2012 MLB amateur draft is now just a month away, and with much of the high school and college seasons either finished or nearing...
• 5/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton wants to steal more bagsArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton said he wants to steal more bases this season....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton said he wants to steal more bases this season.
• 5/2 MLB Dirt: Paul Konerko – More Than a Chicago Treasure: Scoring and hitting have declined the last three seasons. Despite that fact, Paul Konerko keeps hitting and putting up terrific...

• 4/30 Baseball Musings: Band of Brothers: Rays Baseball thought ESPN was biased during the Rays/Rangers game Sunday night. Justin Upton agreed, tweeting to defend his brother,...
• 4/29 FanSided: Anibal Sanchez continues dominance, Hanley Ramirez delivers walk-off hit, Marlins 3 D-Backs 2: I would like to apologize for my lack of activity the past few days. With finals and work, I have been extremely crunched for...
• 4/25 Through The Fence Baseball: Who will Houston Astros select with first-overall pick?: With the draft just over a month away (June  4-6), there still doesn’t seem to be any indication on whom the Houston Astros...
• 4/25 Crashburn Alley: Phillies-DBacks Game Thread 4/25/12: Apologies for the lack of game threads lately. All of us have been quite busy and/or under the weather lately. In our absence,...
• 4/25 MLB Dirt: Checking in With Diamondback’s Prospect Anthony Meo: The Arizona Diamondbacks are one of the most exciting young teams in baseball. In addition to established stars on the major league...
• 4/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton belts first homer: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) went 2-for-3 with his first home run of the season Monday, April 23, against the...[+] Philadelphia Phillies. He also scored two runs and had a pair of RBIs. Upton also did not have any homers in spring training.
• 4/24 Crashburn Alley: Kyle Kendrick and Plan B: Back in December, when the Phillies were still deciding on their future with right-hander Kyle Kendrick, I suggested that they...
• 4/24 Baseball Musings: Your Miley May Vary: Wade Miley pitched a gem in his first start of 2012 as the Diamondbacks defeated the Phillies 9-5. Miley walked one and struck...
• 4/23 Brotherly Glove: Diamondbacks Preview With Nick Piecoro: The Phillies are now 3-4 on their current road trip, losing two of three in San Francisco while splitting a four-game set with...
• 4/23 D'Backs Venom: Diamondbacks Week 2 Recap - Injuries, Offensive Struggles, and Minor League Promotions: The week of April 16-22 was a rough one for the Diamondbacks, as the team dropped five out of seven games to the Pirates and the...
• 4/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton back in starting lineup: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) was back in the starting lineup Saturday, April 21, against the Atlanta Braves. He...[+] had been held out of the starting lineup over the past four games due to a thumb issue.
• 4/21 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton able to serve as pinch runner: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) did not play Friday, April 20, against the Atlanta Braves, but was available as a...[+] pinch runner.
• 4/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton not in lineup: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) was not in the starting lineup Thursday, April 19, but said his thumb is feeling...[+] better each day and believes he is close to returning.
• 4/19 Venom Strikes: Time for Paul Goldschmidt and Jason Kubel to Step Up in the D-Backs Lineup: With Chris Young–he has a deep bruise and slight ligament tear–and potentially Justin Upton gone from the D-backs...
• 4/19 Baseball Daily Digest: Visions of 2012: The truth is, I was destined to be special from birth. I was delivered by a midwife on our old couch in the living room. It was...
• 4/18 Baseball Press: Clinical Notes: Chris Young Hits the Wall, DL: The Diamondbacks will be without Young's hot hitting for a while. (US Presswire)After leaving Tuesday's game against the Pittsburgh...
• 4/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton pinch runs: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) came in to pinch run in the ninth inning Wednesday, April 18, but he is still unable...[+] to hit due to his left thumb ailment.
• 4/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton has thumb drained: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) had his injured left thumb drained Tuesday, April 17, and the team is still unsure...[+] if they will need to place him on the 15-day disabled list.
• 4/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton will not go on DL Wednesday: Updating a previous report, Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said OF Justin Upton (thumb) will not be going on the 15-day...[+] disabled list Wednesday, April 18. The team will give the injury a day or two to see if it shows any improvement and then would decide on his future after that time.
• 4/18 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Hope Justin Upton can stay off DL: The Arizona Diamondbacks are hoping OF Justin Upton (thumb) will be able to stay off the 15-day disabled list with his thumb injury....[+]
• 4/18 The Baseball Page: Early season busts – Trade or hold? Fantasy baseball 2012Early season busts – Trade or hold? Fantasy baseball 2012...
• 4/18 Call to the Pen: Justin Upton Day-to-Day with Bone Bruise: Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton underwent an MRI yesterday on his injured right thumb.  The procedure revealed a...
• 4/18 Baseball Musings: State of Venn: AZ Snakepit offers a nice Venn diagram to explain last night’s Diamondbacks loss. The post mentions that Chris Young may...
• 4/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton visiting with hand specialist: Updating a previous report, Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) is visiting with a hand specialist Tuesday, April 17....[+] Upton is awaiting MRI results, and a stint on the 15-day disabled list is not out of the question, according to manager Kirk Gibson.
• 4/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton could land on DL: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) will undergo an MRI exam and possibly a bone scan on his jammed thumb, and there...[+] is a chance he could land on the disabled list.
• 4/17 Baseball Musings: Thumbs Upton?: Justin Upton will see a hand specialist about his thumb injury. Fortunately, the Diamondbacks have the depth to cover an Upton...
• 4/17 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton not playing: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (thumb) is out of the lineup Tuesday, April 17, as he's still being bothered by a thumb issue....[+] He has no RBIs on the year.
• 4/16 Operation Shutdown: Gameday 10 - Diamondbacks: Pirates (3-6) at Diamondbacks (6-3)9:40 PM ETTV: ROOT SportsChase Field - Phoenix, ArizonaStarting PitchersPittsburgh - Erik Bedard...
• 4/13 Venom Strikes: Justin Upton’s terrible start being offset by Chris Young’s tremendous one: The Arizona Diamondbacks are 5-1.  That alone isn’t that surprising.  This is a team that we all rightfully expected to...
• 4/12 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Jacoby Ellsbury is Not a Fantasy Baseball MVP: Jacoby Ellsbury is not worth fantasy baseball first round pick. Let me first say that I  like Jacoby Ellsbury, I always have...
• 4/11 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy Focus: Building a pitching staff: I like to consider myself something of a fantasy sports junkie. Even when it comes to sports I have little to no interest in,...
• 4/10 Baseball Musings: Thumbs Down on Upton: The year of the thumb injury continues with Justin Upton jamming the digit: Upton suffered the injury Sunday while sliding into...
• 4/9 The Golden Sombrero: Staff Picks: Justin’s 2012 MLB Predictions: National League West: Arizona Central: St. Louis East: Philadelphia Wild Card: Washington Wild Card: Miami NLDS: Phillies def....
• 4/9 The Golden Sombrero: Staff Picks: Ryan’s 2012 MLB Predictions: National League: West: Diamondbacks Central: Cardinals East: Phillies Wild Card: Marlins Wild Card: Giants NLDS: Phillies def....
• 4/8 The Golden Sombrero: Staff Picks: Jim’s 2012 MLB Predictions: National League: West: Arizona Central: St.Louis East: Philadelphia Wild Card:  Atlanta Wild Card: Cincinnati NLDS: Arizona def....
• 4/5 MLBTradeRumors: Largest Contracts In Draft History: Baseball new collective bargaining agreement went to rather extreme lengths to restrict amateur spending, so the days of big money...
• 4/5 Full Spectrum Baseball: Keeping The Experts Honest: Baseball's spring training never lacks for unsolicited and solicited prognostications from nearly every baseball "expert" on the...
• 4/5 Mastersball.com: A Different Kind of NFBC League: I again have a team in the NFBC but this is a little different.  It’s a satellite league with a different set of rules than...
• 4/4 Through The Fence Baseball: TTFB staff picks Tigers, Phillies to dominate; Gonzalez, Votto as MVPs: Through The Fence Baseaball is pleased to announce its 2012 preseason picks and awards. Twenty-six writers parti**** to help us...
• 4/4 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 2012 David Wright: 1963 TOPPS HERITAGE STICK-ONS DAVID WRIGHT Topps released its annual Heritage set a few weeks back. The 2012 edition covers the...
• 4/4 D'Backs Venom: Projections for the 2012 Diamondbacks' Batters: As we approach the start of the regular season, the position players on the Diamondbacks' Opening Day roster appear set. SS Stephen...
• 4/4 Baseball Musings: NL West Preview: The 2012 division previews finishes with the NL West. I’ll use 2011 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) from FanGraphs for the...
• 4/3 Tyler's Think Tank: 2011 All Breakout Team (NL): C Miguel Montero (4.5 bWAR) Arizona's backstop has had trouble staying on the field, but as he showed last year (his age 27...
• 4/3 MLB Dirt: My 2012 Predictions: NL West: I am finalizing my 2012 prediction series by revealing my NL West standings and adding a few positive and negative predictions...

• 3/31 Baseball Press: Our Best Predictions For the 2012 Season: Will Joey Votto win another National League MVP Award in 2012? (US Presswire)The 2012 baseball season has arrived, and the Baseball...
• 3/30 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: How to Pay 3 Measly Bucks for Clayton Kershaw: These were Clayton Kershaw’s Cy Young winning numbers last year: IP H BB K W SV HD ERA Whip K/9 Clayton Kershaw 233.1 174 54...
• 3/30 High Heat Stats: Youngest Batter vs Pitcher Matchups: The last player to appear in a major league game before his 19th birthday was Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod debuted for the Mariners...
• 3/30 C70 At The Bat: UCB Prediction Week, Part IV: National League West: We continue the March project of the United Cardinal Bloggers by taking a look at the last of our divisions, the NL West.  This...
• 3/30 Baseball Press: Dr. Lineup: The National League West: Dee Gordon is fast...very fast. (US Presswire)Although the results and statistics don't count, spring training games can still...
• 3/30 YankeeAnalysts.com: TYA Predictions: MVP: Brad Vietrogoski: AL) Albert Pujols- He’s motivated to show St. Louis and everybody else that his 10-year contract won’t...
• 3/30 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Pittsburgh Pirates: The Pirates locked up star center fielder Andrew McCutchen and added some decent veterans to the infield and rotation. Major...
• 3/23 The Baseball Page: New Look Free AgencyNew Look Free Agency...
• 3/23 High Heat Stats: Stat Challenge scoring and projections: Every fantasy league has different rules, and here’s how FanDuel.com scores it for hitters: 1B = 1pt 2B = 2pts 3B = 3pts...
• 3/23 High Heat Stats: Stat Challenge scoring and projections: Every fantasy league has different rules, and here’s how FanDuel.com scores it for hitters: 1B = 1pt 2B = 2pts 3B = 3pts...
• 3/22 FantasySportsKings.com: 2012 Outfield PreviewThe outfield position has a lot to offer fantasy owners.  10 outfield-eligible players hit 30 or more home runs in......
• 3/21 FanSided: Is Alex Gordon the Royals Best Option to Leadoff?: [caption id="attachment_12513" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Royals will likely ask Gordon to leadoff and aggressively...
• 3/21 The Baseball Page: 2012 Fantasy Baseball NL-Only Outfielder Rankings2012 Fantasy Baseball NL-Only Outfielder Rankings...
• 3/21 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: How To Defeat the Autopick in an Auction Draft: You are 3 picks away from you turn, and the player that you want is the 2nd best player listed. You look at the teams in front...
• 3/20 Full Spectrum Baseball: Finding Keepers: Arizona Diamondbacks: After winning the NL West in 2011, one would think the Arizona Diamondback would have a lot of quality players on their team....
• 3/19 Ramblings of Baseball: RomoBall Fantasy Preview – Eleventh Edition (101-110): The Testing Era can only be viewed as a success. In an industry as corrupt and top heavy as any other, baseball’s belated...
• 3/15 Venom Strikes: D-backs Pitchers Protecting Upton:   Last season outfielder Justin Upton was hit 19 times by opposing pitchers, tying him for first in the National League,...
• 3/15 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Stl Cardinals – Pure Fantasy:   No, it isn’t THAT kind of fantasy.  It’s “fantasy baseball”, and it might be the only time that...
• 3/14 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY MONTERO IS EMBRACING HIS NEW ROLE: The best part about living in Arizona is Cactus League baseball, and this is the time of year when I come out of hibernation....
• 3/14 Through The Fence Baseball: Why baseball managers are overrated: Almost nothing can get a fan base more pumped up than firing and/or hiring a “big name” manager or coach. The media will jump...
• 3/13 MLBTradeRumors: Latest On Gerardo Parra: Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers told reporters, including Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, that he's had "no discussions" about...
• 3/13 The Baseball Page: MLB Preview: NL West all-position team: Our 2012 MLB preview places the eyeball on the best players by position in each division. Find out how the NL West shakes out...
• 3/13 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB mock draft 4.0: Top 58 picks (including supplemental): A day after I wrote this article, Lucas Giolito was put on the shelf for 6-10 weeks with a strained shoulder. Now, while this...
• 3/9 Full Spectrum Baseball: Players with power and speed you should be targeting on draft day: Standard fantasy baseball leagues use five basic statistics as offensive scoring categories (AVG, R, HR, RBI, SB) and finding...
• 3/8 Through The Fence Baseball: Fantasy Baseball Focus: National League outfielders: Editor’s Note: Fantasy Baseball Focus is a breakdown of each league, position by position. Each team receives a fantasy...
• 3/8 MLBTradeRumors: Marlins Have Discussed Extension For Stanton: 11:42pm: The team hasn't yet reached out to Stanton about a potential contract extension, reports MLB.com's Peter Gammons (on...
• 3/7 STLCardinalBaseball: My predictions: 2012 Postseason teams: Everyone has a habit of trying to predict the future and with baseball it is near impossible to do. However I love to make predictions...
• 3/7 Call to the Pen: Andrew McCutchen Extension Analysis: Jay Bruce and Justin Upton are both represented by Steve Hammond and received deals that were approximately six years long and...
• 3/7 D'Backs Venom: 2012 Diamondbacks Spring Training Preview - Outfielders: This article wraps up our 2012 Diamondbacks Spring Training preview, with a look at the outfielders. The most controversial move...
• 3/7 For Baseball Junkies: 2012 Predictions: Part One: This is the time of year when everyone starts making predictions about the upcoming baseball season.  Full disclosure: like...
• 3/6 Buccos Buzz: Analyzing the Andrew McCutchen Extension: Good Deal for Both Sides?: Yesterday, news broke of the Pittsburgh Pirates and All-Star center fielder Andrew McCutchen agreeing on a new six-year contract....
• 3/6 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Justin Upton will be your 2012 Fantasy baseball MVP: Dixon may his Fantasy Baseball MVP a couple weeks ago when we wrapped up our Countdown series of fantasy baseball lists. Since...
• 3/6 Through The Fence Baseball: Team-wins over/under analysis: NL West: The Arizona Diamondbacks are the defending division champs, but I think it’s coming back to the Giants comfortably. The...
• 3/6 Buccos Buzz: Pittsburgh Pirates Sign Andrew McCutchen to New Six-Year Contract: According to Bill Brink and Michael Sanserino at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Pirates and star center fielder Andrew...
• 3/6 Raise the Jolly Roger: Andrew McCutchen’s Extension: Details, analysis, thoughts: Here is the year-by-year breakdown of Andrew McCutchen‘s new deal, compared to what would have been the case without an...
• 3/6 Raise the Jolly Roger: Pirates, Andrew McCutchen agree to six year deal: WOW!!! tweeted: tweeted: That’ll buy out two years of free agency, with an option year for the third. Cutch is under Pirates...
• 3/6 MLBTradeRumors: Pirates To Extend Andrew McCutchen: The Pirates and Andrew McCutchen have agreed to a six-year extension worth $51.5MM with a club option for a seventh year, according...

• 2/29 The Captain's Blog: Future Free Agent Classes and the Impact of Long-Term Extensions: Because free agency is often expensive and unpredictable, baseball teams have become more amendable to negotiating long-term extensions...
• 2/29 Through The Fence Baseball: Five questions for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012: Every year, it seems like the Pittsburgh Pirates are counted out before the season even begins. Unlike the other teams in the...
• 2/29 Baseball Musings: Objective PMR, Rightfielders: The series on objective probabilistic model of range (PMR) continues by looking at rightfielders. I’ll show teams as a whole...
• 2/28 Tyler's Think Tank: Why I think Ryan Braun is Innocent: We all know the grimy details of the Ryan Braun scandal by now, so I won't bother to rehash them here.  All I want to say...
• 2/27 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB Preview: Day 1 – NL West: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB preview.  Over the next week you will get a team by team look at its key players,...
• 2/27 MLBTradeRumors: NL Central Links: Marshall, McCutchen, Francis: The Reds finalized a three-year, $16.5MM contract extension with Sean Marshall earlier today, so now let's check in on the latest...
• 2/26 SOX & Dawgs: Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB Preview: Day 1 – NL West: Welcome to the Gigantic Sox and Dawgs 2012 MLB preview.  Over the next week you will get a team by team look at its key players,...
• 2/23 Crashburn Alley: 2012 Predictions with the Crashburn Staff: It’s the most fun time of the year. Oh, did I say fun? I meant excruciatingly painful. Televised baseball is still weeks...
• 2/18 Fire Brand of the American League: Where Are They Now?; The Justin Masterson Edition: I never shut games off. It doesn’t matter if the Sox are down by seven in the fifth inning or up by five in the seventh inning....
• 2/13 Crashburn Alley: The Outfield of the Future: Quick, name the five most valuable outfielders in the National League in 2011. Let’s see… Matt Kemp, Ryan Braun, Justin...
• 2/12 Venom Strikes: D-Backs’ Justin Upton is an MVP Waiting to Happen:   Sep. 28, 2011; Phoenix AZ, USA; Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton (10) during the game against the Los Angeles...
• 2/12 Tyler's Think Tank: Players Entering Age 27 Seasons: The general consensus among baseball pundits is that a player's prime covers his age 25-29 seasons, even if the steroid era has...
• 2/6 Venom Strikes: D-backs Outfield Should Make A Lot of Noise in 2012: Oct 5, 2011; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Arizona Diamondbacks outfielders Gerardo Parra (left), Chris Young (center) and Justin Upton celebrate...
• 2/2 High Heat Stats: Young position stars of 2010-11: In case you’ve forgotten, here are the top bWAR seasons over the past 2 years by players who will be 26 or under in 2012....

• 1/30 MLBTradeRumors: The Worst Extensions From Two Offseasons Ago: Nearly a billion dollars across 112 contract years was committed to 33 players with less than six years of Major League service...
• 1/26 Through The Fence Baseball: Expect explosive 2012 fantasy stats from these NLers: Here are a few NL players to ponder for 2012 fantasy team owners … Justin Upton — Some would say the explosion has...
• 1/26 Venom Strikes: Dbacks See Another NL Rival Big Bat Leave for the AL: Oct 13, 2011; St. Louis, MO, USA; Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder hits a double in the fourth inning of game four...
• 1/25 Roto Think Tank: The Impact of Fielder and Pujols Leaving: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 779 4442 Roto Think Tank 37 8 5455 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18...
• 1/24 Ramblings of Baseball: RomoBall Fantasy Preview – Second Edition (11-20): In the first round you draft your flagbearer. The guy you would go to war with. The guy you would follow into **** on foot. Okay,...
• 1/21 MLBTradeRumors: (Not A) Trade Candidate: Gerardo Parra: The Diamondbacks' signing of Jason Kubel to a two-year contract was met with surprise and even some confusion from pundits. ...
• 1/19 Tyler's Think Tank: Baseball's All-Underrated Team: C Miguel Montero-The 28 year-old Arizona backstop has had trouble staying on the field, but as he showed last year he can be...
• 1/19 Through The Fence Baseball: Never too early for a 2012 fantasy baseball preview: I do realize it’s only January. I know you’re probably sitting back and relaxing with a nice warm cup of hot chocolate...
• 1/18 Through The Fence Baseball: 2012 MLB mock draft 3.0: Now with supplemental picks: The MLB amateur draft will be held June 4-6, which is now less than five months away. With team needs becoming more and more clear,...
• 1/18 Through The Fence Baseball: Chicago Cubs prospect watch: Shawon Dunston Jr.: The name is familiar, especially if you were a Cubs fan in the mid-80s to early-90s. The game, however, is different. Sure, there...
• 1/15 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Mike Stanton: With offense on the decline around the league, power is at a premium these days. Few players have more of it than Mike Stanton,...
• 1/13 The Golden Sombrero: The Baseball Show: Hall of Fame Edition: Last night’s episode of The Baseball Show was only supposed to last an hour, but ultimately reached the hour and a half...
• 1/7 The Daily Catch: Arizona Diamondbacks “Best Outfield” Debateable:  This article is courtesy of our friends at Venom Strikes Written by: Scott Allen Recently, ESPN’s Buster Olney called the...
• 1/6 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Zambrano, Quentin, Garza: On this date in 2006, the Diamondbacks came to terms with Justin Upton after making him the first overall pick in the 2005 draft....
• 1/4 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Cameron Maybin: Arbitration rewards sluggers, closers and above-average starters. Fleet-footed center fielders with modest power? Not so much....

• 12/30 Raising Matt Cain: Twelve for 2012: Sergio Romo: Sergio Romo was the only bright spot of the 2005 June draft. The Giants had forfeited the first three rounds in free agent compensation...
• 12/24 Bus League Baseball: Prospect A-Z Day 19: Tyler Skaggs: Prospect A-Z returned to the Rangers organization with lefty starter Robbie Ross. He’s one of a few upper minors starters...
• 12/19 D'Backs Venom: Jason Kubel Adds a Much Needed LH Bat, But Where Will He Play?: In a very surprising move, the Diamondbacks signed OF Jason Kubel to a 2 year, $15M deal with an option for 2014. There is no...
• 12/19 Call to the Pen: Arizona Diamondbacks sign Jason Kubel: What the heck just happened here? The Arizona Diamondbacks have, although it isn’t official yet, signed former Twins outfielder...
• 12/18 MLBTradeRumors: Huntington "Optimistic" About McCutchen Extension: Talks about a long-term contract extension between the Pirates and Andrew McCutchen didn't progress much this summer, but GM...
• 12/13 B-R Blog: B-R: HoF Candidate – Juan Gonzalez: Juan González Juan Alberto (Vazquez) Gonzalez (Juan Gone or Igor) Position: Outfielder Bats: Right, Throws: Right Height: 6'...
• 12/13 High Heat Stats: Metsclusive: The Best Single Franchise Players for Each Team: Jose Reyes's  departure for South Florida makes him the latest Mets star to get away. In fact, very few players of any value...
• 12/12 House of the Bluebird: Why Votto, but not Fielder: Photo's by OlympianX and Keith Allison both licensed under Creative CommonsSince the what seems like...
• 12/12 House of the Bluebird: Reminising on Offseason Trade Rumors: Photo by ElCapitanBSC       Photo by SD Dirk         Photo by Keith...
• 12/12 Through The Fence Baseball: What the 2005 MLB draft would look like with a do-over: The 2005 amateur baseball draft is widely considered to be one the best of all time. With a two-time Cy Young winner, four Rookie...
• 12/10 High Heat Stats: Amnesty: which contract would each MLB team void?: The NBA recently adopted a rule that allows each team to claim amnesty on a particular player's contract. While they still have...
• 12/7 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Winter Meetings Day Three: The Search for Offense: For about five minutes last night, the Dodger corner of the internet exploded into panic when Jon Heyman reported that they were...
• 12/2 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Links: Sandoval, Cuban, Kuroda, Hernandez: With Heath Bell now on his way to Miami, the Padres are more likely to look to the trade market than free agency for late-game...

• 11/28 MLBTradeRumors: Pirates Would Consider Offers For Andrew McCutchen : Andrew McCutchen is not untouchable, but he's about as close as it gets. The Pirates will at least listen to offers for the center...
• 11/27 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 11/20/11 - 11/26/11: It's time to take a look back at the week that was with MLBTR's Week In Review.. This week Major League Baseball announced...
• 11/23 Tyler's Think Tank: Braun Beats Kemp: Batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS. NL MVP Ryan Braun rated better than Matt Kemp in those three categories this...
• 11/23 Crashburn Alley: Brief Thoughts on the NL MVP Award: Ryan Braun took home the National League Most Valuable Player award yesterday, nudging out Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers,...
• 11/22 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Upton Finishes Fourth in MVP Voting: Apparently the Arizona Diamondbacks have three of the top 21 players in the National League.  Justin Upton was the best of them. ...
• 11/22 SOX & Dawgs: 2011 NL MVP Award: The final award from the Baseball Writer's Association of America (BBWAA) is out and unlike the AL MVP, the 2011 NL MVP is not...
• 11/22 MLBTradeRumors: How The Top NL MVP Finishers Were Acquired: Just one of the top ten finishers in this year’s NL MVP balloting joined his team via the free agent market. Eight were drafted...
• 11/22 SOX & Dawgs: 2011 NL MVP Award: The final award from the Baseball Writer's Association of America (BBWAA) is out and unlike the AL MVP, the 2011 NL MVP is not...
• 11/22 Baseball Musings: Braun over Brains: Ryan Braun wins the NL MVP vote, as my post from this morning noted that Matt Kemp might not get his due, and voters placed more...
• 11/22 MLBTradeRumors: Ryan Braun Wins NL MVP: Ryan Braun won the 2011 NL MVP, according to the Baseball Writers Association of America. The 28-year-old becomes the third...
• 11/22 Baseball Musings: NL MVP Day: The Awards season ends with the announcement at 2 PM EST of the NL Most Valuable Player Award by the BBWAA. Here’s how I...
• 11/21 D'Backs Venom: 2011 NL MVP Rankings: The National League MVP Award will be announced on Tuesday, November 22. The Diamondbacks' Justin Upton is expected to be among...
• 11/19 SoDo Mojo: Could The Mariners Be A Playoff Team With Mike Carp At First?: First of all, this is really in response to what Jon Shields said on twitter. I’m a responsive writter in generally and...
• 11/16 MLBTradeRumors: Red Sox Checked In On Matt Capps: The latest on the Red Sox... The Red Sox checked in with agent Paul Kinzer of reliever Matt Capps, reports WEEI's Alex Speier....
• 11/15 Fragile Freddy's: Freddy's Two-a-Days: Arizona Diamondbacks: 94-68, 1st place, 8 GA (Lost NLDS 3-2 to Milwaukee)Fragile Freddy’s “Two A Days” series continues today with the Arizona...
• 11/8 Fire Brand of the American League: Cafardo’s Mail Bag: This is Going to Hurt: This is going to hurt–a lot.  After last Friday’s underwhelming mail bag, I was a bit apprehensive about reading...
• 11/7 The Golden Sombrero: MLB Look-alikes: Justin Upton and Cedric Sanders: The Golden Sombrero presents MLB Look-alikes: Justin Upton and Cedric Sanders window.dctile = Number(window.dctile) + 1 ||...
• 11/7 D'Backs Venom: Ranking the Diamondbacks for the 2011 Season: 51 players played for the Diamondbacks in 2011 - here are my rankings for all 51, from Justin Upton at #1 down to Armando Galarraga...
• 11/7 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason Outlook: Arizona Diamondbacks: Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers seems to be planning a quiet offseason, though the team must address second base and determine...
• 11/3 SpreadStumpers: 2012 World Series Champion Odds: After taking a look at the 2012 MLB World Series Champion odds, a few things jumped out at me. Here is the complete list, courtesy...
• 11/3 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Upton, Hudson Win Silver Slugger Awards: Silver Slugger came calling today and two Arizona Diamondbacks players found themselves with some hardware.  Dbacks right fielder...

• 10/30 PaulLebowitz.com: Nick Swisher Will Be Back In Pinstripes In 2012!! (Unless They Trade Him): To “eliminate” speculation of his possible departure from the Yankees, Nick Swisher‘s 2012 contract option for...
• 10/28 22gigantes.com: Kemp, Bautista win BBA’s 2011 Stan Musial Awards: There were some outstanding performances this year in Major League Baseball. However, one clearly stood out from the pack. Los...
• 10/28 Bronx Baseball Daily: Comparing Carlos Beltran to Yankees’ Nick Swisher: Yesterday, Rob reported on the rumor that the Yankees are currently considering former Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran.  At...
• 10/27 Venom Strikes: Arizona Diamondbacks Roster Review: Justin Upton: So the mourning period for the Arizona Diamondbacks 2011 season is over.  Ok, so we haven’t finished this postseason yet,...
• 10/26 Through The Fence Baseball: These prospects could make it to the majors before their 20th birthday: Mike Trout did it this year, Madison Bumgarner did it in 2009 and Justin Upton in 2007. Those are the last three players to have...
• 10/24 Raise the Jolly Roger: BBA Ballot: Stan Musial Award: The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is once again conducting its own end-of-season MLB awards as part of an ongoing effort to provide...
• 10/24 Fungoes.net: Kemp most valuable in 2011: Matt Kemp led all National League players in 2011 with a sabermetric MVP score of 15.13 and is our pick for the Baseball Bloggers...
• 10/24 D'Backs Venom: 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks Recap - The Offense: Coming into the 2011 season, the big question was how would the Diamondbacks' offense perform without slugging infielders Adam...
• 10/22 Roto Think Tank: 2011 BBA N.L. Stan Musial (MVP) Award: The race for the National League Stan Musial (Most Valuable Player) award is an intriguing one.  There are no pitchers to...
• 10/21 MLB Dirt: Stan Musial Award – National League MVP: Picking the National League MVP was almost as difficult as picking the American League MVP. It came down to a fight between two...
• 10/21 The Golden Sombrero: BBA Stan Musial Award (National League MVP): How we voted for National League MVP: Mike: 1) Kemp  2) Braun  3) Upton  4) Votto  5) Halladay Griff:  1) Kemp  2) Braun ...
• 10/20 The Golden Sombrero: BBA Stan Musial Award (National League MVP): How we voted for National League MVP: Mike: 1) Kemp  2) Braun  3) Upton  4) Votto  5) Halladay Griff:  1) Kemp  2) Braun ...
• 10/19 Giants Nirvana: NL Awards Voting: As a member of the BBA, and a contributor to Beyond the Box Score, I’ve taken part in a couple end-of-year award votes thus...
• 10/16 The Golden Sombrero: Why the Playoffs Can Make Even the Worst Months Bearable: After each Ranger game this October, the sports fans of my dental school class usually have something to say to me about the previous...
• 10/13 B-R Blog: Lance Berkman & Jacoby Ellsbury are comeback players of the year: Lance Berkman and Jacoby Ellsbury have each been awarded their league's comeback player of the year award. Those 2 guys were among...
• 10/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Trading Joey Votto Is Risky For The Reds: The Reds are said to be prepared to listen to offers for Joey Votto. It will only be known in retrospect whether this is similar...
• 10/10 WasWatching: The Great Nick Swisher: Next time someone tells you that the Yankees cannot live without Nick Swisher next season, tell them to check these numbers: Rk...
• 10/7 Baseball Musings: Oh Those Base on Balls: Francisco Rodriguez comes on to pitch the eighth, and walks Aaron Hill leading off the inning. He starts Justin Upton off with...
• 10/7 Baseball Musings: Upton and Away: Justin Upton hits a two-out home run in the top of the third to put the Diamondbacks up 1-0 over the Brewers. All four Arizona...
• 10/7 Baseball Musings: Arizona and Milwaukee Underway: Willie Bloomquist grounds out to start game five of the Arizona-Milwaukee NLDS. Update: Justin Upton draws a walk, but the Diamondbacks...
• 10/7 Dropped Strike Three: Award Season Is Upon Us: As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, I am duty bound to provide my own take on the post season awards. Rather than go...
• 10/7 Baseball Musings: Playoffs Today: The Arizona Diamondbacks return to Milwaukee as the team send Ian Kennedy against Yovani Gallardo with the NLCS on the line. In...
• 10/4 Baseball Musings: Montero Comes Through Again: Miguel Montero comes up once again with a runner in scoring position, and once again he delivers. The Diamondbacks catcher singles...
• 10/4 22gigantes.com: Pablo Sandoval nominated for Hank Aaron Award: Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval is the team’s nominee for the 2011 Hank Aaron Award, an honor awarded annually to the...
• 10/2 Baseball Musings: DBacks Comeback: A solo home run by Chris Young in the fourth and a two-run shot by Justin Upton in the fifth bring the Diamondbacks back into...
• 10/1 Fragile Freddy's: Playoff Preview - Arizona vs. Milwaukee: Today I will take a look at the two National League Division Series.  For each club I’ll look at a player and pitcher to...

• 9/30 Baseball Musings: IBWAA NL MVP: Matt Kemp wins the IBWAA NL Most Valuable Player award: Los Angeles – The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA)...
• 9/30 PaulLebowitz.com: Tampa Bay Rays vs Texas Rangers: Tampa Bay Rays (91-71; 2nd place, AL East; won Wild Card) vs Texas Rangers (96-66; 1st place, AL West) — Keys for the Rays:...
• 9/30 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: A Dodger Fan Guide to Rooting in the Playoffs: It is now… *checks watch*… 186 days until Opening Day 2012. And while we might all be anxious to see what the Dodger...
• 9/29 Philly Phanatics: 2011 Division Series previews: Ron Opher, with some help from Eric Fisher and Josh Landsburg, gets out his crystal ball and not only shares his picks for the...
• 9/29 Baseball Musings: Stone Cole Gillespie: The Diamondbacks lost their final game of the season, although by the time they were down 4-0 to the Dodgers it no longer mattered...
• 9/28 All of Baseball: Arizona’s victory sums up the season for D-backs, Dodgers: It was the penultimate game of the season, and the ultimate game for summing up the season. When Ryan Roberts, …Continue...
• 9/28 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: That Loss Was More of an Oddity than a Disaster: Before we all start beating each other up over Tuesday night’s historic loss, let’s turn it over to commenter Paul...
• 9/27 Brotherly Glove: NLDS Picture As Muddied As Ever: We are 160 games into the marathon regular season of Major League Baseball, but the Phillies still have no idea who they will...
• 9/26 Call to the Pen: Justin Upton Day-to-Day Following Beaning: The Arizona Diamondbacks received quite the scare yesterday, as outfielder Justin Upton took a Tim Lincecum fastball off the brim...
• 9/25 22gigantes.com: D-backs sweep Giants: Remember the good old days when Tim Lincecum used to own the Arizona Diamondbacks? Timmy entered the 2011 season with a career...
• 9/24 Fungoes.net: Sabermetric MVP update: NL top 20: A lot of people are writing about NL MVP candidates these days, and the trendy favorite seems to be Matt Kemp, though of course...
• 9/24 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: DBacks Clinch NL West: Diamondbacks 3, Giants 1. Well, there goes the NL West. Orlando Cabrera accounted for the Giants’ lone run with a solo shot...
• 9/24 SOX & Dawgs: MLB on TBS Heads into the Postseason with a Special Doubleheader Featuring Red Sox @ Yankees ...: “Sunday MLB on TBS” will conclude its regular season schedule on September 25 with a special doubleheader featuring two...
• 9/24 Baseball Musings: Clinch Friday: The Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Giants 3-1 on Friday night to clinch the NL West championship. Joe Saunders kept the ball...
• 9/22 Baseball Musings: Late Night Roundup: The Rangers overcame a 2-1 Athletics lead late as Ian Kinsler and Josh Hamilton hit solo home runs in the eighth inning to give...
• 9/20 MLB Dirt: Overlooked 5-Tool Players: I think we sometimes mistake the meaning of what a 5-tool player is. At first glance, we want to call guys like Matt Kemp and...
• 9/20 Baseball Reality Tour: Player of the Fortnight: We haven't handed out any hardware since August 1st, when Justin Upton, Clayton Kershaw, Hideki Matsui, and Justin Verlander won...
• 9/20 Raise the Jolly Roger: Seriously?: The Pirates continue to reach new levels of ineptitude every day, it seems. Monday night, Ian Kennedy was dominant en route to...
• 9/20 B-R Blog: Recapping relevant games of Monday, 9/19/2011: -- Marlins 6, Braves 5: With 2 out in the last of the 9th, Omar Infante drilled a tailing-in fastball from Craig Kimbrel for...
• 9/19 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Rely on Their MVP’s to Reduce Magic Number to 4: So, the offense struggled, again.  Not good when your opponent is the Pittsburgh Pirates, a team coming off getting raked in...
• 9/19 The "Mc" Effect: The Arizona Diamondbacks Model: Last year, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Arizona Diamondbacks had too much in common. Both teams finished last in their division...
• 9/18 Baseball Musings: Panda Power: Pablo Sandoval hits two home runs and a triple in the Giants 12-5 over the Rockies as San Francisco completes a four-game sweep...
• 9/13 mlbreports.com : Bob Kendrick Interview: President Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: Tuesday September 13, 2011     MLB reports:  We are proud today to feature on MLB reports:  the President of the Negro Leagues...
• 9/13 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: McCutchen, Upton, Cameron: 15 years ago today, the Mariners' acquisition of third baseman Dave Hollins was completed when they sent a 20-year-old first baseman...
• 9/12 D'Backs Venom: Projecting the 2011 Diamondbacks' Playoff Roster: How's that for an article title that no one saw coming six months ago? But with only 15 games to go, and an 8.5 game lead over...
• 9/12 SOX & Dawgs: TBS Announces Doubleheader Action Sept. 25 with Red Sox vs. Yankees and Giants vs. Diamondbacks: “Sunday MLB on TBS” will conclude its regular season schedule on September 25 with a special doubleheader featuring two...
• 9/10 Bay City Ball: Cy Youngs, MVPs and moving on: I think  we’ve been trying to prepare you for the inevitable for a while now here at Bay City Ball: The Giants are not...
• 9/10 All of Baseball: D-backs’ power is a team effort: Mark Reynolds‘ deficiencies were well-documented. He set the major league record for strikeouts in 2008 (204) and broke...
• 9/10 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Clayton Kershaw dominates: Dodgers 2, Giants 1 The Giants got on the board early, as Pablo Sandoval singled in a run in the first inning off of Clayton Kershaw....
• 9/10 D'Backs Venom: The Diamondbacks' Outfield Defense is Very Good, but Can Their Outstanding UZR Numbers be Trusted?: There is no question that the Diamondbacks' outfield defense has very good range, and has been a big part of the team's success...
• 9/9 Baseball Musings: Arizona Awards: Ian Kennedy and Justin Upton improved their award credentials Thursday night as the Diamondbacks downed the Padres 4-1. Kennedy...
• 9/8 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Beat Rockies 5-3, Magic Number Down to 13: The Arizona Diamondbacks didn’t hold their heads down after a dismal eighth inning last night that saw a Dbacks 3-1 lead...
• 9/6 Through The Fence Baseball: Let’s party!: Braves and Yankees expected to collapse … maybe:   This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to an actual “Hollywood party” in the actual “Hollywood Hills.”...
• 9/5 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Move Another Step Closer to NL West Title With 10-7 Victory: Just another day at the office for the Arizona Diamondbacks?  Well, it may have seemed that way, but it was still fun to watch...
• 9/5 Tyler's Think Tank: The Meaning of MVP: Is it just me, or does it seem like every August and September brings out the same tired debate over what really constitutes an...
• 9/5 Through The Fence Baseball: Let’s party: Yankees and Braves will collapse … hopefully: This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to an actual “Hollywood party” in the actual “Hollywood Hills.” The music...
• 9/4 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Could the Dodgers have 3 postseason MVPs?: The Dodgers' terrible season (although better of late) could still net the organization some postseason hardware. Matt Kemp,...
• 9/1 Through The Fence Baseball: Goodbye August, **** homestretch: There is no doubt that a full season of major league baseball is one that is very long, and to many, too long. A season that runs...

• 8/31 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Show Restraint in Not Retaliating: Justin Upton got hit on Wednesday night, again.  For the 16th time this season, the Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder got hit by...
• 8/31 Feelin' Kinda Blue: What's gotten into the Dodgers? Plus other news: The Dodgers are playing their best ball of the season. Too bad it's nearly September and the Dodgers have zero shot at the playoffs. In...
• 8/31 The Beanball: They Get to (Almost) Everything: “How on earth did HE get to THAT?” It’s a question most, if not all, baseball fans have wondered (or screamed)....
• 8/31 Venom Strikes: Don’t Question Kirk Gibson: Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson is something else.  Every time, well almost every time, he makes a move that I question,...
• 8/31 Baseball Musings: DBacks Keep Winning: The Diamondbacks receive another quality start as they extend their winning streak to eight games. Wade Miley allowed nine hits...
• 8/30 All of Baseball: A trio of pitchers and a trio of hit batsmen: Lumbering Diamondbacks rookie Paul Goldschmidt got an infield hit Monday night — and that wasn’t the oddest occurrence...
• 8/30 PaulLebowitz.com: The 2011 Diamondbacks And The Towers Of Credit: The Diamondbacks turnaround and success under first-year GM Kevin Towers has cemented his supposed brilliance. A brilliance that...
• 8/29 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Roster Review: Justin Upton: With now just 30 games left in the regular season, we are in the home stretch, the final quarter of the 2011 season. It is time...
• 8/29 MLBTradeRumors: Extension Candidate: Adam Jones: Back in May, Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail talked to Amber Theoharis of MASNsports.com about the possibility...
• 8/28 The Friarhood: Messin' with Upton: Fans Steals a Ball and Lives to Tell About It: For those of you watching the Padres game last night you may have seen a Padres fan steal a ball away from Justin Upton. ...
• 8/26 Phillies Nation: Dr. Strangeglove: 25 Bullet Points: This week, we’re dispensing information. I mean, that’s what we try to do with every post, but with analysis involved....
• 8/24 Baseball Reality Tour: Checking in on the National League MVP Race: So far this season, I haven't read an article discussing NL MVP candidates, but I've heard chatter for Matt Kemp, Justin Upton,...
• 8/24 The Golden Sombrero: Changeups and **** A Southpaw’s Perspective for 8/24/11: Apologies for those of you looking for this article yesterday.  At the middle school where I teach we had to teach the new...
• 8/24 B-R Blog: Recapping games of Tuesday 8/23: -- Ian Kennedy and Clayton Kershaw each won his 16th and remained tied for the NL lead, one ahead of Roy Halladay. Kennedy (16-4,...
• 8/23 All of Baseball: Trying to do something and probably doing nothing: The Diamondbacks could use some help. They entered Tuesday’s play with a one game lead in the National League West. …Continue...
• 8/23 Tyler's Think Tank: The Brothers Upton: Ask any knowledgeable baseball fan which Upton brother is better and he will tell you, without any hesitation, that the answer...
• 8/23 D'Backs Venom: Is Justin Upton the NL MVP?: Over the past few weeks, sportswriters everywhere have been speculating on who will win the Division, the Wild Card, the World...
• 8/22 Through The Fence Baseball: White Sox’ Adam Dunn: Worst. Year. Ever.: Life is a topsy-turvy roller coaster ride filled with highs and lows and twists and turns – so, every once in a while it’s...
• 8/20 MLB Dirt: Joey Votto Is Invisible: What a difference a year makes, eh? Last year, the Reds and the Padres were the toasts of the town as their improbable resurgences...
• 8/20 Tomahawk Talk: Fredi Gonzalez May Have Figured Out How to Use Derek Lowe: The Atlanta Braves are in a tough situation with Derek Lowe. They have publicly proclaimed that Lowe is their big-game pitcher....
• 8/18 B-R Blog: Random recap for Wednesday: Stanton a HR champ at 21?: -- Mike Stanton homered for the 4th straight game and is 2nd in the NL with 29 HRs, one behind Albert Pujols. The youngest modern...
• 8/17 MLB Dirt: Tulowitzki for NL MVP?: If you are anything like me you enjoy close races. The divisional races have been a fun thing to watch this year but some of the...
• 8/17 Crashburn Alley: More 9th Inning Shenanigans: Superficially, it’s difficult to get upset about the Phillies’ 3-2 loss to the Diamondbacks last night. Actually,...
• 8/16 COSFBA: The SABR Spotlight: Cameron Maybin: After spending nearly a week and a half fine-tuning the Spotlight in an attempt to harness it's power, a ray of hope has made...
• 8/15 Baseball Musings: Freeman At Last: Freddie Freeman stroked a single in the bottom of the ninth, driving in two runs as the Braves completed a three-run comeback...
• 8/15 Baseball Analytics: Powerful Upton in MVP Discussion: As the Arizona Diamondbacks chase the Giants for the NL West title, Justin Upton is making a strong case that he's the most valuable...
• 8/15 Brotherly Glove: Could Victorino Win MVP?: Adrian Gonzalez will likely win the AL MVP award. It has been a two-horse race between he and Jose Bautista for much of the year...
• 8/15 B-R Blog: How rare is a team cycle with just 4 hits?: On Saturday, the big news in the Angels' 11-2 loss was Jered Weaver allowing a career-high 8 runs (upping his ERA from 1.78 to...
• 8/14 Baseball Musings: Upton and Away: Justin Upton doubled and homered to help the Diamondbacks to their sixth straight win, a 5-3 victory over the Mets. Upton leads...
• 8/13 mlbreports.com : Will the Diamondbacks Win the NL West in 2011?:   Saturday August 13, 2011     MLB reports:  With the playoffs just around the corner, it is time to slowly predict which...
• 8/12 Up Along First: Series preview: at Diamondbacks: Tonight at 9 p.m., the Mets start a three-game series in Arizona against the Diamondbacks. Here are the pitching matchups: Tonight...
• 8/11 Baseball Musings: First Place Diamondbacks: Josh Collmenter pitched seven strong innings and Justin Upton collected three hits as the Diamondbacks defeated the Astros 6-3....
• 8/10 Venom Strikes: Upton Acts Like the MVP Dbacks Need Him to be: Yesterday afternoon I spoke about the need to the Arizona Diamondbacks to get some veterans to provide leadership, starting last...
• 8/10 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Catching up on Dodger doings: Eovaldi, Gordon, Webster, Songco: Despite losing Rubby De La Rosa for the season and likely all of 2012, there is another young fireballer Dodger fans can be...
• 8/10 B-R Blog: Random recap for Tuesday 8/9: -- James Shields threw his 4th shutout, tying Derek Holland for the AL lead, and his 8th CG, tops in MLB by 2. He's the first...
• 8/9 The Daily Catch: Chicks Dig The Long Ball…: As the saying goes, “chicks dig the long ball”. However, I think most baseball fans love watching guys blast the ball around...
• 8/9 Venom Strikes: Dbacks Need Veteran Leaders to Step Up: With as many young guys the Arizona Diamondbacks have on their roster right now, they could use some veteran leadership to get...
• 8/7 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Nationals, Reyes, Red Sox, Upton: Sunday night linkage.. With the August 15th deadline a week away, the Nationals have yet to make any real progress in reaching...
• 8/4 Venom Strikes: Arizona Diamondbacks in Tie for First Place: The Arizona Diamondbacks are back int a tie for first place as they defeated the San Francisco Giants 6-1 Tuesday night at AT&T...
• 8/3 Bay City Ball: Giants don’t get into bullpens early or often enough: Last week, the Giants acquired Carlos Beltran for their very best pitching prospect, Zack Wheeler, and promptly went on to beat...
• 8/2 Raising Matt Cain: Ugliest: The Diamondbacks have decided to make it a race. The Giants are now officially in a funk with a four-game losing streak. The sixth...
• 8/2 22gigantes.com: Five-run inning sinks Cain, Giants as D-backs inch closer to 1st place: Beltran had two hits in his home debut. (AP photo) Ian Kennedy and J.J. Putz combined on an eight-hitter and the Arizona...
• 8/1 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants are 61-47: D-Fanging the D-backs: The Giants had a tough road trip and came out of it 2-4, which is not bad but not great, and still just one win (one run, really,...
• 8/1 Baseball Reality Tour: Player of the Fortnight: The last time we checked player rankings for the past two weeks, on July 10th, our Players of the Fortnight were Jose Bautista,...

• 7/31 Baseball Moves: Player of the Week: Billy Butler: If you go back even just a week with Billy Butler you’ll realize why fantasy owners were cursing themselves for acquiring...
• 7/29 Brotherly Glove: If You Trade Brown, Aim Higher Than Pence: At no point this season has Domonic Brown been legitimately “touchable” in the trade market. When his name was brought...
• 7/29 Baseball Press: Around the Diamond - Weekly Linkage: Quick pitch Justin Upton and he'll make you pay. (Icon SMI)Around the Diamond looks at our favorite baseball articles and observations...
• 7/29 D'Backs Venom: Diamondbacks Need to Upgrade Their Bench: The Diamondbacks seriously need to upgrade their bench.  Right now, the team's usual starting lineup is as follows:C Miguel...
• 7/26 Dropped Strike Three: All Star Thoughts: For better or for worse, I always love the All-Star break in Major League Baseball. From the fact that I can bust out the classic...
• 7/26 It's About the Money (Stupid): Are the Yankees any good at developing pitchers?: In February of 2007, Baseball America deemed 20-year-old Phil Hughes the league's #4 prospect.  A few rungs lower on the...
• 7/26 B-R Blog: 5 Hit Games by Three 37-Year Olds in the Same Season: Although this season has only featured 14 five-hit games, 3 of those games have come from the game's elder-statesmen.  37 year...
• 7/25 Venom Strikes: Upton Named Co-NL Player of the Week: As I suspected would happen last evening, Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton was named co-NL Player of the Week for...
• 7/25 Venom Strikes: Upton Has His Mojo Back: Not that I was worried about Justin Upton last weekend after the All-Star break against the Los Angeles Dodgers, but let’s...
• 7/24 PaulLebowitz.com: B.J. Upton Runs On The Rumor Treadmill, Jeff Niemann Might Be The One Traded: It’s very strange how the Washington Nationals are in the middle of every trade rumor, but never seem to make any trades....
• 7/24 B-R Blog: Notes for Saturday 7/23: Dog days’ journey into night: -- Season debut for Tampa's Desmond Jennings: 3-2-2-1, 2 walks, 3B, 2B, SB, field littered with comic-book "swoosh!" lines. In...
• 7/22 Through The Fence Baseball: D-backs vs. Brewers series recap; Mock weekend scouting report: The “battle of the slugging pitchers” — which saw no such reality, save a Yovani Gallardo single and run ––...
• 7/21 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Giambi, D'Backs, Ubaldo, Kuroda: The Padres sent Anthony Rizzo back to Triple-A today after he hit just .143/.282/.265 in a 117 plate appearance cameo. MLBTR's...
• 7/20 Through The Fence Baseball: The Heat Index: These trade rumors are starting to perk up: Welcome to this weeks issue of The Heat Index! Last week’s piece on prospects seemed to be a hit, so thanks for reading!...
• 7/20 COSFBA: Investment Market: Buy, Sell and Hold: July 20th, 2011: table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;} .tableizer-table...
• 7/19 MLBTradeRumors: West Notes: Heath Bell, Jimenez, Conor Jackson: The latest on a few NL and AL West teams... Padres closer Heath Bell explained to Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton on XX 1090 that...
• 7/17 Venom Strikes: Upton Goes Zero for LA: Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star outfielder Justin Upton had a tough weekend.  He went 0-11 in the series against the Los Angeles...
• 7/16 B-R Blog: Stanton’s power: With a pair of home runs off Carlos Zambrano Saturday at Wrigley Field, Mike Stanton now has 42 HRs in his first 188 career games...
• 7/13 D'Backs Venom: Ranking the 2011 Diamondbacks at the All Star Break: At the All-Star Break, 36 players have played for the Diamondbacks in 2011. For the year to date, RF Justin Upton has been the...
• 7/12 For Baseball Junkies: All-Time Diamondbacks Team: Down to the final two All-Time teams. I'm rifling through these last few - taking a look at the Diamondbacks.The D-backs have...
• 7/12 Brotherly Glove: Adding the Right Bullpen Arm: Major League 3: Back to the Minors is a forgettable film that has actually grown on Corey and I due to its sheer ridiculousness....
• 7/12 mlbreports.com : Final Results and Recap: 2011 MLB Home Run Derby and All-Star Futures Game: Tuesday July 12, 2011   Rob Bland (Intern Candidate for MLB Reports):  The MLB Home Run Derby is one of the greatest events...
• 7/12 Yankees Daily: Robinson Cano the 2011 Home Run Derby Champion: PHOENIX (AP) — Robinson Cano thought about hitting the Miller Lite sign, a 472-foot drive off an advertisement a good 50 feet...
• 7/12 The "Mc" Effect: Home Run Derby Complaints: Major League Baseball went a different way with the Home Run Derby this year. Instead of letting a 3rd party pick the players...
• 7/12 El Maquino: RAZZ RUNNING OUT OF “REASONS”: RAZZ RUNNING OUT OF “REASONS” 5:08p Cincinnati’s Jay Bruce vaults one deep to send what would be the game-tying...
• 7/12 My Pinstripes: Jeter Has 2 For 2: With last night's rainout between the Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays, Derek Jeter's chances of getting hit #3,000 at home diminished...
• 7/6 MLB Dirt: Loads of Talent in the Outfield: National League Shane Victorino (PHI) – Snubbed from the “real” roster, The Flyin’ Hawaiian has the 3rd...
• 7/5 Venom Strikes: Fielder Makes Prince of a Decision: The Home Run Derby will not include any Arizona Diamondbacks.  Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder has selected his...
• 7/4 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Homer Happy A’s Win Series:   The A’s did something yesterday afternoon that they have not done before this year. Hit two home runs in one inning....
• 7/4 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: McCutchen, Karstens and the MLB All-Star Game: When TBS unveiled the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star teams before the games on Sunday there was a pretty good sense among...
• 7/4 SoDo Mojo: All-Star Selections: I know that a lot of people don’t pay attention to the All-Star selections anymore. Just because of how subjective it is...
• 7/3 The "Mc" Effect: Just How Bad Did McCutchen Get Snubbed?: The rosters have been announced for the 2011 MLB All-Star Game. Not surprisingly, Pirates star Andrew McCutchen wasn't on the...
• 7/3 Venom Strikes: Justin Upton Selected as Dbacks Lone All-Star Representative: So, it really won’t be an Arizona Diamondbacks love fest in Phoenix at the 2011 MLB All-Star Game after all.  Despite the...
• 7/2 Venom Strikes: Home Run Derby Should Include Justin Upton: The MLB Home Run Derby, which will be held here in Phoenix in a little over a week on July 11th, will take on a slightly new flavor...

• 6/30 Brotherly Glove: Corey’s NL All-Star Batters: With the All-Star selections four days away from announcement, Eric and I thought this would be as good a time as any to offer...
• 6/29 Baseball Musings: Upton’s KsAt Baseball Analytics, I look at how Justin Upton cut down on strike outs this season. ...
• 6/27 Cut Four: National League All Stars: As the Major League Baseball All Star game draws nearer, the rosters for each team are being hotly debated. I posted the official...
• 6/25 The "Mc" Effect: Joel Hanrahan (Sort Of) Throws No-Hitter: The last hit that Joel Hanrahan gave up was on June 4th against the Philadelphia Phillies. He came into a game that was well...
• 6/22 AroundTheFoghorn: Justin Upton Making Play for Dbacks All-Star Representative: The guy gets NL Player of the Week by hitting .552 last week.  He was about the only Arizona Diamondbacks player not mirrored...
• 6/21 B-R Blog: Quick hits: Welcome back, Wily Mo!: Wily Mo Pena made a semi-triumphant return to the majors tonight as Arizona's DH in Kansas City, with a game-tying HR in the 5th...
• 6/20 The Crazy Crabbers: Brain Wilson's Control Nearly Does in the Giants: Last nights game was a little more exciting then most of us would have liked. Bruce Bochy made some questionable decisions...
• 6/20 22gigantes.com: Upton's walk-off HR lifts Snakes past G-men 3-2: Justin Upton blasted an opposite-field home run in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks avoided a sweep...
• 6/17 22gigantes.com: Upton's walk-off HR lifts Snakes past G-men 3-2: Justin Upton blasted an opposite-field home run in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks avoided a sweep...
• 6/17 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: How Much Money Is Matt Kemp Earning Himself?: Before 2010, Matt Kemp avoided arbitration by signing a two-year deal worth about $11 million. That deal expires at the end of...
• 6/17 Baseball Musings: Upton, Upton and Away: Justin Upton missed the cycle by a triple Thursday night, but the biggest part of his game was his walk-off home run in the tenth...
• 6/17 Raising Matt Cain: This time it goes the other way: The Giants held the Diamondbacks to ten runs in three games. This is a club that hits as well as any in the league in a hitting-friendly...
• 6/15 The Crazy Crabbers: Brain Wilson's Control Nearly Does in the Giants: Last nights game was a little more exciting then most of us would have liked. Bruce Bochy made some questionable decisions...
• 6/8 Bus League Baseball: Collin Cowgill Is Still A Beast: I had a few minutes free earlier today, so I took advantage of the opportunity to look at some recent posts in our Bus Leagues...
• 6/7 Blog Red Machine: Dragon Tales: Draft Day Flashback Part 2: Yesterday I talked about the stories surrounding the fielders in the MidWest League All Star Game on June 20, 2006.  Tonight...
• 6/7 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Pettitte, Harper, Gordon: The MLB draft continues today and many of the top remaining players have been selected. High school outfielder Josh Bell went...
• 6/6 D'Backs Venom: Where the Current Diamondbacks were Drafted: With Draft Day upon us, I’d thought I’d look back at when all the members of the current Arizona Diamondbacks were drafted. ...
• 6/6 D'Backs Venom: Nationals - Diamondbacks, Round 1: A four game series with the Washington Nationals and the Arizona Diamondbacks that would make U.S. Congressmen proud: after four...
• 6/6 B-R Blog: Random Recap for Sunday, June 5: Washington 9, Arizona 4 (11 innings): In a game that featured 5 hit batsmen and a pair of manager/pitcher ejections, 4 things...
• 6/4 D'Backs Venom: Ranking the Diamondbacks - June 2011: May was a great month for the Diamondbacks, as the team went 19-10 and moved into first place in the NL West. The bullpen, led...
• 6/3 MLBTradeRumors: Stark On Upton, Pirates, Indians, Red Sox, Fox: One GM told ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark that he’d like to see the season shortened because it’s a mental and physical grind...
• 6/2 Cut Four: Franchise Players: The Major League Baseball first year player draft begins on Monday. In homage, ESPN held a Franchise Player Draft yesterday. Thirty...
• 6/1 Baseball Musings: Broken Bat Win: The Diamondbacks fought back from a 4-0 deficit to take a 5-4 lead over the Marlins, only to see that lead disappear on a John...

• 5/31 Through The Fence Baseball: Diamondbacks dominant during NL West takeover: Forgive my absence. If there was ever a time to be writing about the Diamonbacks, it has been the last two weeks, as they marched...
• 5/31 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Five is the magic number for two players: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton went a career-best 5-for-5 Monday, May 30. C Miguel Montero also tied a career high with...[+] five RBIs in the game.
• 5/28 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton gets day off: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton got a day off Saturday, May 28, against the Houston Astros. 'Just giving me a blow,' Upton...[+] said. 'We're playing well. We've got a lot of good guys on the bench. I haven't swung the bat that great. Sometimes it's good to get a blow and get a little mental day.'
• 5/27 MLBTradeRumors: Draft Notes: Cole, Hultzen, Meyer: Eleven former first overall picks are currently on MLB rosters (DL included): Chipper Jones, Alex Rodriguez, Pat Burrell, Josh...
• 5/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton steals two bags: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two stolen bases in Game 1 of a doubleheader Tuesday,...[+] May 24. He now has seven thefts on the season.
• 5/23 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton in a tailspin: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton was hitless in four at-bats Sunday, May 22, against the Minnesota Twins, and he hasn't had...[+] a hit in his past 15 at-bats.
• 5/21 D'Backs Venom: Diamondbacks Update - Branyan and Galarraga Out, Owings and Burroughs In, Duke and Pena Next?: The shuffling of the Diamondbacks' roster continued this week with the release of 1B Russell Branyan and the waiving of SP Armando...
• 5/20 Braves Journal: Dbacks 2, Braves 1: Atlanta Braves vs. Arizona Diamondbacks – Box Score – May 19, 2011 – ESPN. This was not a fun game to watch....
• 5/19 Braves Journal: DBacks 5, Braves 4 (11 innings): Atlanta Braves vs. Arizona Diamondbacks – Box Score – May 18, 2011 – ESPN. 1. No matter how well the back of...
• 5/19 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton wins it: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton drove in the winning run on a grounder that scored 2B Ryan Roberts, even with a drawn-in...[+] infield Wednesday, May 18.
• 5/19 Baseball Musings: Western Roundup: For the second day in a row, the Twins win a one-run game, this time defeating the Oakland Athletics 4-3. Trevor Plouffe singled...
• 5/18 My Pinstripes: FullCountPitch - A Decade Of Number Ones: Part I: Making draft selections is a gamble in any sport, but no more so than with the Major League Baseball draft that takes place every...
• 5/17 Through The Fence Baseball: The NL West: Where offense goes to die: What in the name of Jose Uribe is going on here? No one expected the National League West to be a pitcher’s minefield in...
• 5/16 MLBTradeRumors: If The Diamondbacks Become Sellers: The Diamondbacks currently sit at 17-22, in fourth place in the NL West and five games back of the Giants.  The deficit doesn't...
• 5/13 22gigantes.com: Home Sweep Home: Aubrey Huff's two-out single in the seventh plated the decisive run, as the San Francisco Giants closed out a perfect six-game...
• 5/13 PaulLebowitz.com: Prospects: Hyperbolic? Check. Ignorant of a full historical perspective? Check. Accumulating the necessary ingredients in this recipe for...
• 5/12 MLBTradeRumors: Pirates Notes: McCutchen, Heredia, Ascanio: The Pirates have won just one of Paul Maholm's eight starts this year, but the left-hander and his 3.60 ERA aren't to blame....
• 5/8 MLBTradeRumors: Week In Review: 5/1/11 - 5/7/11: Happy Mother's Day! Let's take a look back at the week that was: The Rangers officially signed Cuban defector Leonys Martin...
• 5/8 Baseball Musings: Two More Shutouts: The west coast saw two shutouts Saturday night as the White Sox defeated the Mariners and the Diamondbacks downed the Padres,...
• 5/6 Cut Four: Visual Difference Between Power and Weakness: Subtracting a player’s batting average from his slugging percentage gives the statistic ISO. It is an effective measure...
• 5/6 Baseball Musings: Taking it to the Street: The Arizona Diamondbacks waited until Huston Street entered the game for the Rockies to generate any offense. Gerardo Parra hit...
• 5/6 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Three big hits win it: Arizona Diamondbacks OFs Gerardo Parra and Chris B. Young hit solo homers in the ninth inning to force extra innings, where OF...[+] Justin Upton's RBI single won the game in the 11th inning Thursday, May 5.
• 5/4 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton delivers: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to lead the team to victory...[+] Tuesday, May 3.
• 5/2 Through The Fence Baseball: Monday’s Fair Balls: What’s wrong with Hanley Ramirez?: Editors Note: Every Monday, you will see “Monday’s Fair Balls”, as we will cover the baseball universe on the web.  All...
• 5/2 Call to the Pen: Pirates Mulling McCutchen Extension: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Pirates are discussing a long term extension with centerfielder Andrew McCutchen. ...
• 5/2 D'Backs Venom: 2011 MLB All Star Ballot is out - Which Diamondbacks Have a Chance?: The 2011 Major League Baseball All Star ballot was released on Tuesday, and eight Diamondbacks are on the ballot. Which Diamondbacks...
• 5/2 D'Backs Venom: Assembling a Diamondbacks Roster Only from Signed Draft Picks: What kind of team would the Diamondbacks have right now if they only rostered players that they signed from the June Amateur Draft?...
• 5/2 D'Backs Venom: Ranking the Diamondbacks - May 2011: After the first month of the season, the Diamondbacks stand at 12-15, five and a half games behind the division leading Rockies....
• 5/2 MLBTradeRumors: Pirates, McCutchen Discussing Extension: The Pirates are discussing a long-term contract extension with center fielder Andrew McCutchen, reports Dejan Kovacevic of the...

• 4/30 Through The Fence Baseball: Beaning Justin Upton only fuels Diamondbacks’ desire: Facing the Cubs on Thursday night at Chase Field, the Diamondbacks’ Justin Upton popped out to end a seven-run bottom half...
• 4/30 MLBTradeRumors: Largest Contracts In Draft History: One year ago yesterday, we took a look at the largest contracts ever given to drafted players in MLB history. It's time for an...
• 4/30 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton hits dingerArizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run against the Chicago Cubs Friday, April 29....[+] Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run against the Chicago Cubs Friday, April 29.
• 4/29 Obstructed View: Chicago Cubs @ Arizona Diamondbacks: GamedayB-Ref Preview Cubs wOBA wRC RS Diamondbacks wOBA wRC RS Kosuke **** Young .339 .56 .00 Darwin...
• 4/28 Obstructed View: Chicago Cubs @ Arizona Diamondbacks: Gameday Cubs wOBA wRC RS Diamondbacks wOBA wRC RS Kosuke **** Young .339 .55 .00 Starlin...
• 4/28 Obstructed View: Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (10-13) at Arizona Diamondbacks (10-13): The Cubs basically canceled yesterday's game because they didn't like the matchup. No other explanation makes sense to me - the...
• 4/27 D'Backs Venom: 2011 MLB All Star Ballot is out - Which Diamondbacks Have a Chance?: The 2011 Major League Baseball All Star ballot was released on Tuesday, and eight Diamondbacks are on the ballot. Which Diamondbacks...
• 4/26 D'Backs Venom: Assembling a Diamondbacks Roster Only from Signed Draft Picks: What kind of team would the Diamondbacks have right now if they only rostered players that they signed from the June Amateur Draft?...
• 4/22 MLBTradeRumors: Who Could Get The Next Mega-Extension?: In extending Ryan Braun and Troy Tulowitzki through the year 2020, the Brewers and Rockies made bold commitments to their young...
• 4/21 Raising Matt Cain: The agony in extras: I'm usually content to match the Giants bullpen against anyone in the league, but today the D-backs had the arms for the long...
• 4/21 Raising Matt Cain: Four in a row: Guillermo Mota pitched a career-high 4-1/3 innings tonight, facing 14 batters. He gave up three hits, a run, no walks, and struck...
• 4/21 Through The Fence Baseball: St. Paddy’s Fantasy Report: Episode 1: Welcome to St. Paddy’s Fantasy Report, where I’ll be recapping the half-month that was the world of fantasy baseball!...
• 4/21 Through The Fence Baseball: Diamondback diagnostics: After last night’s 5-4 win over the Reds, the Diamondbacks are one game below .500 (7-8). Now that they’re 15 games...
• 4/20 MLBTradeRumors: A History Of Upton Brothers Trade Rumors: B.J. Upton has spent nearly a decade in the Rays organization. His brother, Justin, has spent all six years of his pro career...
• 4/19 Bay City Ball: Belt, defense and other stuff: Most of my blog posts are more like features or columns… or something. Humans are creatures of habit. This post will not be...
• 4/19 YankeeAnalysts.com: Have the Yankees been Getting Lucky with their Home Runs?: EJ’s breakdown of the Yankee offense so far shows us pretty much what we would have expected: the Yankees are crushing home...
• 4/18 MLBTradeRumors: Last Players Under Contract: When signing players to long-term deals, teams are forced to look many years into the future.  Let's take a look at which player...
• 4/17 22gigantes.com: Diamondbacks slip past Giants 6-5: Stephen Drew singled in Justin Upton with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning as the Arizona Diamondbacks averted a three-game...
• 4/17 MLBTradeRumors: Cafardo's Latest: Red Sox, Upton, Minaya, Saito: After extending Adrian Gonzalez this week, the Red Sox have guaranteed nearly $300MM to their two big offseason acquisitions,...
• 4/16 Through The Fence Baseball: Gibson, Diamondbacks fired up: On Tuesday, umpire Bob Davidson called a strike on a Miguel Montero check-swing in the third inning of the Diamondbacks-Cardinals...
• 4/15 Through The Fence Baseball: Gibson, Diamondbacks fired up: On Tuesday, umpire Bob Davidson called a strike on a Miguel Montero check-swing in the third inning of the Diamondbacks-Cardinals...
• 4/14 D'Backs Venom: Assembling a Diamondbacks Roster Only from Signed Draft Picks: What kind of team would the Diamondbacks have right now if they only rostered players that they signed from the June Amateur Draft?...
• 4/14 Bus League Baseball: Welcome To The Show: Major League Debuts From April 7-13: First, a correction: in the rush of debuts last week, I somehow missed Ivan DeJesus, who started at second base for the Dodgers...
• 4/13 Diamond Hoggers: Your day after wrap & recap: The notables from yesterday’s action in baseball…. Arizona DiamondBacks 13, St. Louis Cardinals 8 A lot went on in this one....
• 4/13 Baseball Musings: Maturing Core?: Is this the season the Arizona Diamondbacks sees their core of home grown players mature into a force? Justin Upton, Stephen Drew,...
• 4/13 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton hits a bomb: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton hit a three-run homer Tuesday, April 12, that was estimated at 478 feet, The Associated Press...[+] reports. It's believed to be the longest homer hit this season.
• 4/7 Roto Think Tank: Reviewing My Performance: N.L. Home League: Unlike in my American League home league, I entered my National League home league as a mild favorite. Mild was the operative...
• 4/7 Roto Think Tank: National League 5x5 Round By Round: As promised, here are the round-by-round results of my home league National League auction. This is the second year of our league,...
• 4/6 The Sporting Hippeaux: Opening Statements: The season is but a week old.  It's best not to overreact to half a dozen games.  As things stand, the Royals, Orioles,...
• 4/6 Obstructed View: Diamondbacks @ Cubs: Just the numbers from now on. RS equals Runs Saved on defense. Diamondbacks wOBA wRC RS Cubs wOBA wRC RS Willie...
• 4/5 Obstructed View: Diamondbacks @ Cubs: The projections below are from the 2011 ZiPS spreadsheet. I'm using last year's bullpen numbers. Diamondbacks wOBA wRC Cubs wOBA wRC Willie...
• 4/3 The Golden Sombrero: Griff’s Fantasy Draft Recap: After reading Dee’s write-up of his draft picks, I would like to add my own review of the Denslow Cup 2011...
• 4/2 The Captain's Blog: Cheap Thrill: MLB Can’t Afford to Keep Ignoring Rules Governing Plays at the Plate: Just before opening day, major league baseball and the players association announced several policies designed to better diagnosis...
• 4/2 Diamond Hoggers: Your day after wrap & recap: The notables from yesterday’s action in baseball…. Seattle Mariners 6, Oakland Athletics 2 The A’s got a 2-run...
• 4/1 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Waiting on Justin Upton: Arizona Diamondbacks scouts are waiting for OF Justin Upton to take his production to the next level and live up to his potential,...[+] according to Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic.
• 4/1 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Opening Day lineup: Arizona Diamondbacks SS Willie Bloomquist is batting leadoff Friday, April 1, with the rest of the lineup consisting of 2B Kelly...[+] Johnson, OF Justin Upton, OF Chris B. Young, 1B Juan Miranda, 3B Melvin Mora, C Miguel Montero, LF Gerardo Parra and P Ian Kennedy, reports Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic. Bloomquist is starting in place of injured SS Stephen Drew (abdomen).

• 3/29 MLBTradeRumors: Offseason In Review: Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks are next in our Offseason In Review series. Major League Signings J.J. Putz, RP: two years, $10MM.  $6.5MM...
• 3/28 Call to the Pen: Nyjer Morgan, Cutter Dykstra, and Sabermetric Orthodoxies: Yesterday, the Nationals sent outfielder Nyjer Morgan to Milwaukee for minor league infielder Cutter Dykstra. It certainly wasn't...
• 3/25 MLB Fantasy Recon: 2011 Fantasy Baseball Busts - Players to Avoid: Message Board Edition.  Doing today's Reconing and I stumbled upon this message board post at http://milliondollarsleeper.com/2011/march/the-untouchables.html...
• 3/24 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton back in action Wednesday: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (knee) returned to the lineup Wednesday, March 23, and he went 0-for-1 with a run scored...[+] and two walks.
• 3/23 Mastersball.com: Cactus League Notes (3/23/11): Last MInute Needles: Here are some assorted observations from the beginning of this week. Grady Sizemore played in his first spring training game...
• 3/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton ready to play: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (knee) said he is fit and ready to play after jamming his right knee Sunday, March 20, according...[+] to The Arizona Republic's Bob McManaman. Upton went through most of his daily routine Monday, March 21, and plans to come back Tuesday, March 22.
• 3/22 KFFL.com Hot off the Wire: Diamondbacks | Justin Upton back in lineup: Arizona Diamondbacks OF Justin Upton (knee) is back in the lineup Tuesday, March 22, after injuring his knee the other day, according