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Ichiro Makes Like Willie Mays With Over-the-Shoulder Snag

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Willie Mays showed up here Tuesday. Well, almost. This Mays was wearing "51'' not "24'' and was in a Seattle uniform. Mariner right fielder Ichiro Suzuki brought back memories of the grainy video from the 1954 World Series when Mays made one of the great grabs in baseball history, an over-the-shoulder...

Baseball Brunch: Halfway Home

Every Sunday, MLB FanHouse empties out its notebook in Baseball Brunch.The most remarkable thing about this season as we hit the not-halfway halfway point of the All-Star break isn't Albert Pujols' RBI total. Or Zack Greinke's ERA. Or the PED suspension of one of the game's biggest stars.It's the standings. And they not...

Meet the 2009 Andruw Jones All-Stars

From the Windup is Matt Snyder's extended look at some aspect of America's pastime each Thursday.This coming weekend, Major League Baseball will reveal its 2009 All-Star teams. So what better opportunity than this to run through a list of this season's "Anti-All-Stars." Anti-All-Stars is far too bland a name, though, so we...

Scot Shields Placed on DL

With pitch counts becoming so important in recent years it seems as though starting pitchers are working less innings every season. These days if you can give your team six innings of solid work every start you're probably going to end up making a lot of money in baseball because the Roy Halladays of the world are very few...

The Closer Report: How Secure Is Your Closer's Job?

It's always nice to know how secure a closer's job is and who's next in line if somebody loses their 9th inning job. Each week The Closer Report will give you that information. And if that wasn't good enough we'll rank the closers from top to bottom.Here's an interesting statistic. Somewhere between 30 percent and 40...