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2011 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: OF

Three great outfielders battled mercilessly for the top spot in our 2011 fantasy baseball rankings. Each has his merits, and all should be selected in the first round of your drafts. Ryan Braun is the most highly regarded, topping most sets of rankings at the outfield position. He had a down year for power last season,...

Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Marlins

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and in November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the 12th episode of Fix My Team,...

Overheard and Understood: How King Felix and CC Sabathia Can Both Win

This week, members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America will fill out ballots for the BBWAA's postseason awards. Meanwhile, it's important for us to point out that voting patterns and criteria evolve. The Most Valuable Player award, for example, has come to be based on something other than a strict definition...

The Dugout: Hazing Is Normal

Sometime around middle school, I abandoned my love of playing sports for a love of art. The art community has depression, suicide, and people using the bathroom on the Holy Cross and hanging it up in a museum. And yet, somehow, I thought that was less weird than the towel-snapping, balls-jockey nonsense that happens when...

Categorically Speaking: Adding Pop is Easy for Rotisserie GM's

If you've found yourself just a few home runs away from being able to gain a point or two, maybe more, in your fantasy baseball league, you'll need to hit the waiver wire for help. Here are five options to consider: Mike Stanton, OF, Marlins - Stanton has belted five home runs over his last eight games and is currently...

Mike Stanton News From the Web

05/29/12 Sports Agenda For Tuesday (5/29/12) Source: CBS - Miami I don't want to say the Miami Heat are playing in a gear that not many teams can hang with, but yikes.
05/21/12 McNamee says Pettitte, Knoblauch, Stanton also took HGH Source: Open Mike The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone.
05/18/12 Abuse video leads to new cattle bans Source: The Kimberley Echo - Kununurra - WA - Australia Federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig insists his new regime to prevent cruel treatment of Australian cattle overseas works, even though an animal rights group picked up the latest abuses - not his new monitoring systems.
05/16/12 Ethanol In Gasoline Potentially Harmful To Millions Of... Source: International Business Times (Australia) According to the CRC's report, which tested engines built between 2001 to 2009, cars that were released earlier in the past decade are not as fit to burn E15 as later models.
05/03/12 Sea Isle City school district in danger of closing Source: NBC - NBC 40 WMGM - Atlantic City NJ For years, students, grades 4 through 12, in Sea Isle City have been bussed to schools outside the shore town.

Background on Mike Stanton

William Michael Stanton (born June 2, 1967 in Houston, Texas) is a former left-handed specialist relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who enjoyed success over his career, most notably with the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees who has the record for the most holds in MLB history.

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