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Team USA Baffles Cuba

PONCE, Puerto Rico -- The baseball rivalry between Cuba and Team USA is well-documented. Chris Archer has read and heard about it; Brian Barden has lived it. On Monday night at Paquito Montaner Stadium, both shared the feeling of beating Cuba, even if it was potentially a dress rehearsal for Wednesday's gold medal game in...

DeRosa to DL; Baseball Gods Suspected

Mark DeRosa helped the Chicago Cubs to two consecutive division championships in his only two seasons on the North Side of Chicago. During that time, he became popular with the fans for his good nature in winning and accountability in losing -- in addition to good offensive production and ability to play solid defense...

Troy Glaus May Miss All of 2009

CBS Sports' Danny Knobler is reporting on his blog that St. Louis Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak is placing Troy Glaus' odds of returning to the Cardinals' lineup in 2009 as "50-50." Given that Glaus is currently recovering from surgery on a shoulder that's bothered him on and off for six years and the constant...

Report: Mark DeRosa on Trading Block

Earlier Wednesday in the power rankings I speculated -- off the cuff -- that Cleveland would start trading veterans. Well, it appears they will, because Jon Heyman of SI.com is reporting the Indians have officially placed Mark DeRosa on the proverbial trading block.The versatile DeRosa can play adequate defense anywhere on...

MLB Power Rankings: Week 4

MLB Power Rankings: Where MLB FanHouse's editors, writers and bloggers team up to break down the who's who and the what's what in the baseball world.I'm typically terrified of curses. Or jinxes. Or any real excuse for why something went the way I didn't want it to. Which explains why I firmly believe a certain AL East team...

Background on Brian Barden

Brian David Barden (born April 2, 1981 in Templeton, California) is an American professional baseball infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball.

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