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Major League Notebook: May 5

Here's what is happening around baseball on Wednesday May 5, 2010: • Lack of hustle is dogging Brandon Phillips again. Reds manager Dusty Baker had a chat with his second baseman before Wednesday's game after Phillips failed to run hard Tuesday night on a ball he thought was a home run but ended up staying in play....

Fantasy Baseball 2010 Rankings: Catcher

The FanHouse staff has had some time to ponder over our initial fantasy baseball rankings (which you can view by clicking here), so now it's time for the updated version -- no drawn out tables, just down and dirty rankings. We will elaborate on significant moves after the ranks. Expecting anyone of us four rankers to move...

Fantasy Paid and Trade: Heyward's Power Causing Problems for Braves

Jason Heyward is putting on displays of awesome power in the first week of spring training. In fact, he's launching balls over the right field wall at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. with such regularity that the Braves are probably going to install nets to protect further damage to cars parked...

Fantasy Baseball 2010 Preview: Astros

With fantasy baseball season on the horizon, it's time to preview each individual team. For far too long, the Houston Astros have blatantly ignored their minor league system while continuing to ride with veterans in an attempt to play for now -- even when it was obvious to everyone else they didn't have a team that was...

Footprints in the Snow: Astros

Footprints in the Snow is FanHouse's look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. After hanging in contention until early August, the Astros bottomed out with a 23-36 finish in the season's final two months. That culminated in Cecil Cooper's firing and Brad Mills' hiring. The squad...

Background on j.r. towles

Justin Roberts Towles (born February 11, 1984 in Crosby, Texas) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball.

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