Angels 7, Yankees 6: Behold the power of the Rally Monkey. Or behold the the suckiness that is A.J. Burnett when he doesn’t have his best stuff. Or behold the presence of mad chance that allowed the Angels to win despite the best efforts of Mike Scioscia. Whatever the case, each team did its best […]

We won’t be digging quite as deep as some others here at THT Fantasy have done recently, but here are some of the top roto players from 2009 (along with reader suggestions E.Santana and LaPorta), and how we see them doing in 2010.

This week’s NL offseason Waiver Wire wins the Colorado Trifecta: a look at the Rockies’ crowded outfield and one of its breakout SPs.

Like a lot of you, I’ve been watching the Steve Phillips business from afar. Between the almost complete lack of any real baseball angle whatsoever, and the fact that, unlike a lot of scandalous stories, this one has an innocent wife and children being dragged through it all, I really don’t see the percentage in […]

Courtesy of our friend Scott Simkus, the Negro League All-Star set is now available for Strat-o-Matic: I’ve spent the past several years working as a consultant to the Strat-O-Matic game company, focusing on their Negro League All-Star set. The opportunity is really the product of happenstance, lucky timing on my part. The Negro League set […]

Stuff I wrote while thinking of the best way to taunt the lead singer of a 1980s British synth-pop band (explained below) . . . Matt Holliday’s “friend” says Holliday wants to be a New York Yankee. The “friend” lives in Canada. You wouldn’t know him. Should the Sox trade Papelbon and install Bard as […]

A little self-abuse never hurt anyone.

Who has the best blue-chip prospects, the International League or the Pacific Coast League?

On Oct. 18, 1988, a walk-off home run was hit in the World Series off of an All-Star reliever. But this isn’t Kirk Gibson off Dennis Eckersley, it is Mark McGwire and Jay Howell. Richard looks back at this and other memorable postseason series featuring multiple walk-offs.

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