Get breakdowns of Stephen Strasburg, Donavan Tate, Zack Wheeler, Christian Friedrich, Tyler Matzek, and Jacob Turner.

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Sorry so quiet today, but I’ve been buried in legal work, and will continue to be for the next hour or two. I’m hoping to get a few things up yet this afternoon, but I can’t make any promises. In the meantime, I wrote six things over at CTB this morning, and they’re at lease […]

“That was a lot of fun. You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer.” — Jeff Francoeur, following the Mets big win over the Braves, continuing to fail to understand even the basic rudiments of baseball.

Marlins 6, Astros 2: Two teams that, one day, we’ll all sit around and say “yeah, I totally forgot that Pudge played for those guys.” Stellar game for Ricky Nolasco (CG, 3 H, 2 ER, 10K). Three more hits for Hanley. Mets 9, Braves 4: Derek Lowe’s worst outing of the season (3.2 IP, 11 […]

With an advanced approach at the plate and excellent speed, Elvis Andrus is a great option at shortstop for an affordable price.

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NBC buddy Matthew Pouliot thinks the Royals are playing service time games.

Jayson Stark rolls out the usual column. It’s basically a brief in support of the owners. I’ll grant that there are many problems with the draft, but an argument which boils down to “we need to fix the draft because these guys are making too much money” is a decidedly one-sided one. He also throws […]

Sure, to the extent there was any bad blood it was 100% manufactured by the media and the Mets’ blogosphere, but Cain and Wright bury the hatchet all the same: Two days after a scary beaning that put him on the disabled list with a concussion, David Wright returned to Citi Field on Monday and […]