Anyone who watched David Price in the ALCS or World Series last season knows that he’s ready to help your fantasy team. Spikes Up, our exclusive baseball column, is pleased to unveil the fifth annual Spikes Up Top 40 Prospects List, once again beefed up from last year’s version. This season, a dozen players are […]
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Delmon Young, our top prospect for 2007, should get used to incessant autograph requests, as he’s a superstar in the making. Spikes Up, our exclusive baseball column, is pleased to unveil the third annual Spikes Up Top 30 Prospects List. There are five holdovers from last season’s list of 25 prospects; 16 others have graduated
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Apparently, for O’s manager Sam Perlozzo, left, part of the decision process for picking his 25th man will be the age-old butt grab test. Here, he samples candidate Terry Tiffee’s tush. Baltimore will have some interesting battles this spring with its first base/left field/designated hitter slots and its starting rotation, but let’s focus today on
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The concept that you can’t win in baseball without pitching is as old as the game itself. Leaving yourself short of starting pitching is one of the sport’s cardinal sins. So it seemed all the more ironic that last year that the newest victim of this old age adage would be none other than baseball’s
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This week marks the final Spikes Up at creativesports as all my duties there have been wound up. Spikes Up will continue to crop up here on RotoRob, so fear not. In the meantime, I continue to ramp up my Rotoworld duties, starting NBA news posting tomorrow and two weekly columns (Tuesdays and Wednesdays), each
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Remember Brad Thomas? Once a shining star in the Twins’ organization, he headed over to Japan two years ago, and his performance this season may earn him a trip back to the bigs. In this week’s Spikes Up, we examine Thomas’ story. We also look at how Michael Cuddyer, finally given an everyday fielding job,
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Well, it appears Spikes Up’s tenure at Creativesports will come to a close at the end of this month after a run of over two and a half years. But that doesn’t mean we won’t go out in a blaze of glory. This week, for instance, we pissed the RotoWidow off by spending all weekend
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