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Starting Five: Favorites Finding Form

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 Angels and Cubs -- two overwhelming favorites to win their division entering 2009 -- finally seem to have their mojo back. A day after Chicago rallied from four down in the eighth inning to beat...

Huston Street, Your Turn Again

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rockies manager Clint Hurdle called his late-inning relievers into his office on Friday night to make another change."I want to change closers once a month, and it's May 1, so I figured it was appropriate," Hurdle joked later to reporters.In all seriousness, Hurdle said that he's back to using Huston...

Roto Rush: Hanrahan Out as Closer While Corpas Is in Danger Too

Poppin' out the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday.The Washington Nationals will be looking for a new closer as Joel Hanrahan has been fired. He was given the opportunity to close out five games and blew saves in three of those. His...

The Closer Report: How Secure Is Your Closer's Job?

It's always nice to know how secure a closer's job is and who's next in line if somebody loses their 9th inning job. Each week The Closer Report will give you that information. And if that wasn't good enough we'll rank the closers from top to bottom.Here's an interesting statistic. Somewhere between 30 percent and 40...

Corpas Tabbed as New Rockies Closer

It wasn't even 24 hours ago that I, in my infinite wisdom, proclaimed that Huston Street wouldn't be losing the job as Colorado Rockies closer any time soon. This came after Street came close to blowing another lead and had to be replaced by Jason Grilli to preserve a Rockies win.You have to be asking yourself how long...