Wade Miller has a golden opportunity to be a useful fantasy starter thanks to Mark Prior’s inability to stick with the Cubs. For the fourth straight season, Mark Prior won’t be breaking camp with Cubbies. This time, it’s opened the door for Wade Miller to make hay as Chicago’s fifth starter. In the final Offseason […]

In just two years, Chien-Ming Wang has progressed from dressing like a cheerleader to being the likely Opening Day starter for the Yanks. The problems with Andy’s Not-so-Dandy back earlier this week made me wonder if the Yankees could survive a major hit to their starting rotation. So in this week’s Offseason Lowdown, we put

Tony La Russa may have to reach for the Pepto-Bismol a little early this year. It sure didn’t take long for the St. Louis Cardinals to hit their first bump in the road on their quest to defend their World Series title. Manager Tony La Russa is expecting to begin the season without two-thirds of

Let’s hope the new Bosox closer (whoever the hell he is) can flog opponents as well as former closer Jonathan Papelbon flogs chicken products. After a very forgettable season which saw the team get off to a 59-36 start yet somehow only win 86 games, the Bosox faced another winter of change. Several new faces

Gerald Laird not only provides the Rangers with a better bat at catcher, but he’s also one of the best in the game at gunning down would-be basestealers. Will firing Buck Showalter have the same effect on the Rangers that it did for the Yanks and D-Backs (namely, winning the World Series)? At this point,

Let’s hope that Dmitri Young winds up being more valuable to the Nats than what Sanford and Son peddled. I wish I had more encouraging news for Nationals fans, but I’m afraid it looks like 2007 will be a very long year. And sorry, there’s not a hell of a lot of help on the

Whether or not the Big Z gets his contract extension, he’ll need to step up and deliver another Cy Young type season if the Cubs plan to rebound from 2006’s disaster. The Cubs spent plenty of money this offseason in the hopes that they’ll finally get over the Curse of the Billy Goat or Bartman