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MLB Power Rankings: Preseason, Part 3

MLB Power Rankings: Where we care what you've done for us lately when we break down the who's who and the what's what in the baseball world each week.We're almost there. You can smell it in the air, can't you? That's right ... the NHL playoffs! Ha. I kid, of course. No one actually watches hockey (if it even exists). But...

History Brewing for Pirates

FanHouse continues its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the Pittsburgh Pirates. For the better part of the last decade, the Pittsburgh Pirates aimlessly wandered through the wilderness of baseball with Kevin McClatchy and Dave Littlefield at the helm. Finally, they lost their jobs and Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington took...

Pirates Finally Sign Pedro Alvarez

There comes a point when being hard-headed stops being useful and starts being stupid. After locking heads with Scott Boras on second overall draft pick Pedro Alvarez's contract for over a month, someone either in the Pirates' offices or in the Alvarez camp realized that refusing to budge was going to keep Alvarez from...

From The Windup: Sorting Through the Latest Scott Boras Draft Power Play

From The Windup is FanHouse's daily, extended look at a particular portion of America's pastime.There is one name that strikes fear into the heart of baseball fans and it's not Rodriguez or Santana or Sabathia or Ramirez. It's Boras. Signing or drafting a Scott Boras client means that your team is going to be put through...

Scott Boras Is Wreaking Havoc Again

Remember two weeks ago when the deadline for signing draft picks came and went without a lot of drama from Scott Boras? How it seemed like he caved to the Pirates' and Royals' offers for the second and third picks, Pedro Alvarez and Eric Hosmer? When it comes to Alvarez, at least, things are never that simple with Boras....

PedroAlvarez News From the Web

05/29/12 Pirates score 4-1 victory over Reds Source: Boston Herald - Boston MA James McDonald's best start of the season helped move the Pirates to .500 for the first time since the first week of the season.
05/27/12 Cubs lose 12th straight, 10-4 to Pirates Source: Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville IL Pedro Alvarez, Andrew McCutchen and Garrett Jones homered, Erik Bedard pitched six shutout innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Chicago 10-4 Sunday and sent the Cubs to their 12th consecutive defeat.
05/26/12 Pirates blank Cubs for 10th straight loss Source: MSNBC Pedro Alvarez is in the Pittsburgh Pirates lineup every day because of his bat.
05/15/12 Baseball ProGUESTus: Pedro Alvarez and the Ghosts of... Source: Baseball Prospectus Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else.
05/14/12 5 Up, 5 Down: Fantasy Baseball Advice For May 14th Source: WNEW Each week we'll be providing you with insight into the best (and worst) baseball players to play in your fantasy baseball league.