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The Closer Report: How Secure Is Your Closer's Job?

It's always nice to know how secure a closer's job is and who's next in line if somebody loses their 9th inning job. Each week The Closer Report will give you that information. And if that wasn't good enough we'll rank the closers from top to bottom.Here's an interesting statistic. Somewhere between 30 percent and 40...

Baseball Brunch: Hello My Name Is ... Padres Pitcher

Apparently, the reason the Padres have won all these games the first two weeks of the season is that they needed the postgame handshakes.To introduce themselves to one another. "We really don't know each other," right fielder Brian Giles told FanHouse, "and I think it's important for us to get off to a good start, have fun...

Roto Rush: Is That You, Chris Carpenter?

Poppin' out the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday.There were a bunch of eye-opening performances scattered throughout Thursday's games, but none bigger than the seven one-hit innings hurled by Chris Carpenter. The 33-year-old...

Spring Training Stats: When They Matter, When They Don't

Dan Haren has been awful this spring. Adam Jones is raking, as is Chris Shelton. Michael Bourn has been a completely worthless hitter. Of the above players, two have stat-lines that matter, and two have ones that don't.You see, judging spring training stat-lines in fantasy baseball can be helpful, but you don't want to get...

Fantasy Flings: American League East

From now until the regular season begins, Fantasy Flings is where you'll find interesting story lines about your favorite teams from Spring Training. If there is a position battle, a nagging injury, a comeback story or a youngster making a surge for the "big club" we'll let you know the fantasy implications.Boston Red...

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05/16/12 Homefront IPA â A Beer to Benefit America's Heroes Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Seattle WA A Beer to Benefit America's Heroes as originally posted on The Washington Beer Blog. If you enjoy this post, consider following us on Facebook , Twitter , and Google +.
05/11/12 Wests Oetting, doubles teams advance to state Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen - Iowa City IA The Class 2A District doubles championship may have looked like a scrimmage, but the West High No. 1 doubles team of Kyle Appel and Adam Dellos was sweating it out until the last point.
04/17/12 Corey Kluber sharp in Clippers' victory over... Source: Cleveland.com RHP Corey Kluber (3-0, 2.81 ERA) allowed one run and struck out seven in six innings, and C Matt Pagnozzi (.346) homered as Columbus won an International League game Tuesday in Indianapolis.
04/10/12 Spring Lake to lease space for town programs Source: Fayetteville Observer - Fayetteville NC The Board of Aldermen agreed to lease office space in Southwinds Plaza to house various town initiatives.