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Twins Win Right to Negotiate With Tsuyoshi Nishioka

The Christmas shopping season officially started on Friday and the Twins didn't waste much time picking up their first item. Their doorbuster wasn't a discounted television or digital camera, but the rights to sign Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka as a free agent. They won those rights by having the highest bid in...

Fantasy Baseball 2010 Preview: Astros

With fantasy baseball season on the horizon, it's time to preview each individual team. For far too long, the Houston Astros have blatantly ignored their minor league system while continuing to ride with veterans in an attempt to play for now -- even when it was obvious to everyone else they didn't have a team that was...

Starting Five: There Is No More O in Ortiz

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That David Ortiz pulled within one homer of Yovanni Gallardo on the MLB leaderboard. Yes, Big Papi finally hit a home run. It took him 149 at-bats to get his first homer of the season, while 318 other...

MLB Power Rankings: Week 7

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.While it's entirely possible the Blue Jays do hit a snag, isn't it about time columnists across the internet stopped doing Can the Blue Jays Really Keep This Up? pieces by...

FanHouse Fantasy Draft: Year 101

Just as Knox posted his results from our recent FanHouse draft, I'll throw mine on here, too, for your critiques. Mr. Bardeen laid out the league format here. Year 101 is my team name, as you can see from the title to this piece, and it has a little something to do with my favorite baby bears. Somehow, I ended up with the...

Background on Kaz Matsui

(born October 23, 1975 in Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese second baseman for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball.

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