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Mike Trout, OF, Los Angeles Angels: The Angels – off to a crappy start – decided to shake things up, releasing Bobby Abreu and bringing up top prospect Trout. You can bet they didn’t recall him to collect splinters and with Peter Bourjos off to a lousy start and Vernon Wells not exactly tearing it up, Trout is going to get some burn. The kid was making a mockery of Triple-A, batting over .400 with 21 runs (in 20 games!), one dinger, five triples and six swipes. No. 3 on the RotoRob Top 55 Prospects list this season, Trout has also shown an improved batting eye (11 walks, 16 strikeouts). This 20-year-old uber talent is clearly much more prepared for the bigs than he was last year when he struggled...
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To do something historic, you need a few little miracles. This certainly qualified. Ryan Howard taking Josh Edgin deep is at least a small miracle, if not even some class of sorcery. Edgin, who had dominated left-handed hitters ... more »
Baseball and the Red Sox have occupied a meaningful place in my life for about as long as I can remember, and it's out of tradition and habit that a season's pending end comes with a tinge of melancholy. No matter whether the... more »
During a simulated tour of the American League East, Andy Pettitte pitched in empty stadiums in St. Petersburg, Fla., Baltimore and Boston, all the while aching to be part of a real game in a stadium packed with boisterous... more »
Once this season ends, the Red Sox need to make a quick decision on whether to keep or fire Bobby Valentine, and if the answer is that he’s gone, they need to make an equally quick decision on who replaces him. The team can... more »
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