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Starting Five: Curses! Or Is It: Bullpen! Foiled Again!

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That the Cubs are jinxed.OK, maybe not. But last night in Atlanta was reason to believe in goats.Rookie Randy Wells, right, held the Braves hitless for 6 2/3 innings and took a 5-0 lead into the eighth...

MLB Power Rankings: Week 8

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. Well, that took freaking forever ... but the Blue Jays finally started to stink the joint up. I swear to you, you can't stay long atop the MLB Power Rankings -- our failure...

Baseball Brunch: No Ordinary Joe

Every Sunday, MLB FanHouse empties out its notebook in Baseball Brunch. Joe Mauer has done everything he can to singlehandedly kill spring training as we know it. Everyone else needs seven or eight weeks to get ready. But this guy gets 15 at-bats in minor-league camp, another 15 in Class A, and then shows up in the...

Is Shairon Martis a Stud or a Shelton?

Remember Chris Shelton's nine home runs in the first 13 games for the Detroit Tigers in 2006? Stud or Shelton examines whether currently hot players are displaying a similar mirage or will continue to play at a high level.In taking a glance at the Washington Nationals' record right now -- 11-21 -- and you could easily...

Gwynn Calls for Patience With Strasburg

Have you heard of San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg yet? He can leap buildings in a single-bound and he throws a ball faster than a speeding bullet. And he'll immediately be the Washington Nationals staff ace when they draft him first overall in this June's draft. Actually, that last sentence isn't too far-fetched...