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Jeff Bagwell Shrugs Off Hall of Fame Snub

Jeff Bagwell said he was neither shocked nor disappointed upon learning Wednesday that he got 41.7 percent of the vote for election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "I'm just thank thankful I'm even on the ballot, and we'll go on from here," the former Houston Astros slugger told reporters by telephone. Bagwell,...

Head9s: The Non-Stephen Strasburg Prospect Edition

With June just around the corner, Head9s speculates on the arrival of baseball's top prospects (non-prospect hunters, fear not; we've got some links for you too.). • You can't begin to understand the why/when of prospect call-ups without first wrapping your cabesa around the "Super-2" concept. If you're unaware of...

Zack Greinke First Royal on SI Cover in 20 Years

It's not often that we approach the end of April and the Kansas City Royals are hovering around first place, but that's the situation the team currently finds itself in as they trail the Detroit Tigers by a game in the AL Central. Still, it's not that rare, considering that on this date in 2003 the Royals were 17-5 and 4...

From the Windup: If Jim Rice Is a Hall of Famer, So Is Andre Dawson

From the Windup is FanHouse's extended look at a particular portion of America's pastime.The results of the baseball Hall of Fame voting will be revealed Monday (2:00 PM ET), and there's a good chance Jim Rice will finally make it. Andre Dawson almost certainly will not. While I believe Rice has a good case to be in the...

Joe Posnanski: Trey Hillman Is Not Who We Thought He Was

The Royals, on a national level, are drastically undercovered. That's due not only to their talent-bereft lineup but to their small-market, flyoverland location -- without consistently interesting baseball, a team like the Royals is pretty boring. No mystery here. Thank goodness, then, for Kansas City Star (and recently...

Joe Posnanski News From the Web

05/06/12 The Last Chapter Source: The Bulletin - Bend OR This won't be another book about Xs and Os, will it?"
05/01/12 Joe Posnanski is Still Writing His Joe Paterno Tome Source: The Big Lead The New York Times reminded everyone that Joe Posnanski is still writing his Paterno book , and it will be one far different and more difficult than he intended.
04/29/12 Joe Paterno, His Biographer, and the Last Chapter Source: The New York Times - New York NY Joe Posnanski, then a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who had done a flattering profile of Paterno for the magazine, was trying to persuade the famous Penn State football coach and his family to agree to cooperate in a full-blown biography.
03/30/12 Joe Posnanski is Leaving Sports Illustrated Source: The Big Lead Less than three years after joining the staff at Sports Illustrated, Joe Posnanski is leaving.