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Jonathan Broxton Out as Dodgers' Closer

A day after Jonathan Broxton blew a save opportunity for the Dodgers, Joe Torre announced it will be a while before Broxton gets another chance. The right-hander has been yanked from the closing role, to be replaced depending on availability by some combination of Hong-Chih Kuo, Octavio Dotel and perhaps Kenley Jansen....

Roto Rush: Zeroes on the Board

Thursday's action was almost completely dominated by good pitching. We saw five teams kept off the scoreboard, and that quintuplet of pitching prowess may not even include the best performance of the day! Let's fire around those shutouts and see who was responsible for such a low-scoring day of baseball. Carl Pavano went...

Roto Rush: White Sox Win and Win

The Chicago White Sox suffered through a rough April, finishing the first month of the season with a 9-14 record. By June 8, the team was 24-33. Then they caught fire, winning 15 of their next 16 games to climb to 39-34. They've kept the fire burning in July, winning nine of their 10 games in July, including their last...

Roto Rush: Is Drew Stubbs the Next Grady Sizemore?

You know, we saw this coming. Drew Stubbs, the eighth overall pick in the 2006 draft, had a fine year last year, his first in the big leagues. Playing his first game with Cincinnati on August 19, Stubbs went on to smack eight homers and steal 10 bases over 180 at-bats. Multiply those numbers by three, and Stubbs was on...

Four Surgeries Later, Hong-Chih Kuo Dominating for Dodgers

Hong-Chih Kuo has not allowed a hit to a left-handed batter all season. Zero. Right-handers haven't fared much better, hitting .175. The numbers say that the Dodgers' lefty should be an All-Star, but it's no secret that pitchers who neither start nor finish games have the odds stacked against them when it comes to All-Star...