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The Dugout: No Regrets For Our Youth

The Dugout takes shots at a lot of players. We make fun of great players like Albert Pujols, suggesting that he is on steroids (he is), but at the end of the strip everybody knows we think he's awesome. We make fun of terrible niche players like Kyle Farnsworth, but we love them too, because to truly love baseball is to...

MLB Targets Agents in Steroid Probe

Major League Baseball is in the early stages of investigating player agents who may be connected to the sport's steroid scandal. "It's a whole new territory we're looking into," a person with direct knowledge of the investigation told FanHouse. "Our information has led us to believe there are some [agents] worth going...

Gagne Release Highlights His Demise

From 2002 to 2004, Eric Gagne was the best closer in baseball. In 2003, he had arguably the best single season in the history of baseball by a closer and he won the Cy Young award.Sunday night, the 33 year-old right-hander was released. The news created no ripple. It barely created a whimper. Northern Iowa's basketball...

Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit: How to Correctly Value Closers

I got my start in this industry at a now-defunct site called The Talented Mr. Roto. The namesake for the site, Matthew Berry, now does his thing over at ESPN. One hard and fast rule he always lived by -- and I'm sure he still does -- was this mantra: Never pay for saves. It's just as simple as it sounds. If you play in an...

The Dugout: The One With The Important Press Conference

I still like to pretend that Getty Images employs a cow named Elsa who started chewing on a camera that was dropped in the meadow and somehow became an art sensation.But yeah, occasionally something happens in baseball that overshadows the game itself. That's when you have to nod knowingly and accept that everyone wants...

EricGagne News From the Web

04/30/12 McCarverisms Source: The American Spectator I had not heard about Tim McCarver's riff on global warming causing an increased number of homeruns.
04/17/12 David Murphy's return to Boston serves as painful... Source: MassLive.com The 2007 season was one that should elicit very fond memories for Red Sox fans.
04/15/12 Right walk-up song can be music to ears of Rockies Source: The Denver Post - Denver CO Baseball is hot dogs, peanuts crunching underfoot ... and Twisted Sister screaming, "I Wanna Rock"?