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Fantasy Baseball Preview: The Mariners

Fantasy baseball draft season is coming, so you best be prepared by delving through every major player on each team. Fantasy FanHouse is here to help with a quick once-over. Meet the... Team who someone predicted would win the World Series last year. Seriously. When you stop laughing, you can check out the link (he's the...

Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit: Late-Round Bang for Your Buck Picks

Once we stumble into the first few weeks of fantasy draft season, we have the luxury of trolling through some average draft position charts (ADP, henceforth). One of the problems is that most of the early-to-mid February drafting is being done by hypothetical fantasy fanatics, so there aren't a ton of skewed averages. Of...

Cubs Add Aaron Heilman to Bullpen

You know, getting traded once can probably be quite the ordeal for a baseball player. If you've been in a city for a while, you've more than likely bought yourself a home, and maybe you're married with kids so packing up all your stuff and moving across the country can't be easy. Both Aaron Heilman and Garrett Olson have...

Pudge Will Get A Day Off

The hammer of justice that is Bob Watson has made a decision, and Ivan Rodriguez is going to have to live with it. Ivan will have to sit out a game, and his wallet is a bit lighter this afternoon, thanks to bumping home plate umpire Mike Winters on Friday night in Seattle."If I did [bump him], I just did it barely,"...

Ivan Rodriguez Could Be Suspended

Ivan Rodriguez could face a suspension after making inadvertant contact with home plate umpire Mike Winters on Thursday night in Seattle.Pudge became upset because after Yuniesky Betancourt failed to keep up his end in a hit and run. After a wing and miss, Betancourt leaned out in front of the plate and interfered with...

YunieskyBetancourt News From the Web

05/30/12 Sanchez, Betancourt solid in rehab outings Source: MLB - Kansas City Royals Left-hander Jonathan Sanchez, coming back from biceps tendinitis, did well in his first rehabilitation start for Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday night.
05/09/12 'Fantasy Baseball Outsider' Mailbag: Should Giavotella... Source: MLB Depth Charts In today's 'Fantasy Baseball Outsider' Mailbag, I try and make sense of the Royals' decision to bring him up Johnny Giavotella to fill a part-time role.
05/07/12 Transaction Analysis: A Roach, a Padre and a Punto... Source: Baseball Prospectus By all measures, Frieri is a successful big-league reliever; by all accounts, Bud Black is a good manager.
05/04/12 Mariano Rivera tears ligament in right knee Source: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has a torn right knee ligament, manager Joe Girardi said Thursday night, an injury that could end Rivera's career.
05/03/12 Royals place Yuniesky Betancourt on DL, but don't call... Source: Comcast SportsNet It was odd enough that the Royals chose washed-up veteran Yuniesky Betancourt over promising prospect Johnny Giavotella for the starting second base job this spring, but now Betancourt has been placed on the disabled list with an ankle injury and Giavotella didn't even get the call to take his spot.