Berkman will be examined on Friday by the Astros Medical Director. He sprained his knee about 10 days ago and according to reports has had his knee drained twice since then. This could be nothing but it also could be something. Twice in such a short period of time raises a red flag  and until [...]

The ongoing saga with Jose Reyes and the Mets ( thyroid problem, minor thyroid problem) brings up a good question, who can you believe?. The answer this time of the year is not the player, not the team.  If the Met’s are correct and he has an overactive thyroid the correct doasge of medicine will work [...]

Johnson has some decent “sleeper” value batting in that lineup (especially if he keeps his job at the top of the order). Remember, he has a career .402 OBP and a fairly impressive HR/AB rate of 28.5 that should improve with a short porch in right field.

Last weekend the League of Alternative Baseball Reality – LABR as you probably know it. It is managed by USA Today’s Steve Gardner who took over the reigns some years ago from John Hunt, and the AL and NL auction drafts by well respected fantasy baseball analysts and writers is the heart of the Sports [...]

Joe Nathan returns to Minnesota to get right elbow examined which was operated on October 20,2009.  At the time he had bone spurs removed from the elbow. This trip he will be having bot an MRI and a CAT scan.This is obvioulsy bad news for both Nathan and the Twins. If there is a positive [...]

Sometimes when it comes to injuries you just have to wait and see. On Thursday Jose Reyes was held out of the Mets game because of lab tests that needed to be done as part of his physical or so said the Mets. Friday morning it was announced that he would miss today’s game. Shortly [...]

We continue to look at some of the playing time/pitching staff questions that each team hopes to solve in spring training especially those most relevant for fantasy baseball players.
Here are some of the questions I see for teams in the NL Central Division – one that is virtually wide open for most of it’s teams [...]

Brian Roberts ( Baltimore) has not been having a good Spring Training and it seems it is getting worse. He has had a raction to the anti-inflammatory medicine and today G.M. Andy MacPhail said that the team may have to begin to explore options at 2B. Beware of drafting him. My gut says this may [...]

 Brandon Webb ( Arizona) has thrown 43 and 45 pitches over the last five days in his two bullpen sessions. Arizona is looking at another two weeks before he can get into a game situation. Both Webb and the Dbacks are being careful and that makes sense. If for some reason Webb is not ready [...]

There has been a lot of hype around the Mariners this spring and for good reason.  Their unusual approach to building through defense is the type of outside-the-box thinking that we don’t see often enough in baseball these days.  The A’s have also made a splash in the off-season through some of their acquisitions.  But [...]