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Hanley, Boston and the Big What If?

The Red Sox and Marlins met Tuesday night for the first time since 2006. This was significant -- and only in a minor way -- not because it was the first time the two teams met since the fateful Josh Beckett-Hanley Ramirez (and other significant parts) trade, but because it was the first time where we could even begin to...

Padres GM Kevin Towers Marches On

SAN DIEGO -- If there were any doubts that Kevin Towers was a baseball lifer, they were answered on his wedding day.Just before exchanging vows with his wife in December 1996, the Padres general manager exchanged players with Tigers GM Randy Smith, a member of his wedding party."Any time you get baseball people together,...

Red Sox Try to Get Back Over Hump

FanHouse continues its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the Boston Red Sox.In a little more than half of a decade, the fortunes of the Boston Red Sox have done a 180-degree turn. Once a franchise of managerial incompetence, front office ineptitude and fatally flawed teams, the Sox have become a well-oiled winning machine --...

Crunching Numbers: FanHouse Chats With Will Carroll of Puck Prospectus

On February 23, 2009, the people that brought us the statistical analysis websites Baseball Prospectus and Basketball Prospectus, launched their hockey counterpart, Puck Prospectus. While hockey is somewhat behind the times when it comes to this sort analysis, it's not completely unheard of at this point. Gabriel...

Beware the Alyssa Milano Effect

Actress Alyssa Milano has never been a stranger to the game of baseball. From her television debut as the daughter of a washed up baseball player on "Who's The Boss?", to her MLB-themed clothing line Touch, her Dodgers blog, and her penchant for dating pitchers, it's obvious that the woman loves her baseball.She also has a...

TheoEpstein News From the Web

05/30/12 Column: With tickets already sold, Cubs can afford... Source: Herald & Review - Decatur IL Of all the noise surrounding the season of Iowa Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo, the loudest came courtesy of the click of a mouse instead of the swing of a bat.
05/30/12 David Haugh: With tickets already sold, Cubs can... Source: The Merced Sun-Star - Merced CA Could Sox general manager Ken Williams show as much patience with a hot prospect like Rizzo as Cubs President Theo Epstein is without worrying about attendance?
05/29/12 Winning's grand, entertaining is enough Source: The Deming Headlight - Deming NM The Cubs skulked back into town with their tails between their legs and plenty to answer for.
05/29/12 HBT: No one is untouchable, Epstein says Source: NBC - NBC 40 WTWC - Tallahassee FL Is it just me, or do people in Chicago not feel as bad about the recently-ended losing streak and what seems to be the inevitable dreadful remaining season as they might normally be?
05/29/12 Epstein says Cubs 'clearly better than this' Source: CBS - WISC-TV Channel3000 - Madison WI Theo Epstein expected some rough stretches for the Chicago Cubs. He didn't envision this.