1. Mike Trout's Cycle and MLB's Top 5 Individual Performances of the 2013 Season

    The 2013 MLB season is less than months old, but there have already been some fantastic individual performances in the early going thus far...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 2 hours ago 249 reads 3 comments

  2. Updating the Top 100 Pitchers in Baseball in 2013

    Imagine, if you will, that every pitcher in baseball was thrown into a pool to be selected from, fantasy draft style. The goal of this draft would be to build a pitching staff for the remainder of the 2013 season, but no further...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 10 hours ago 13,032 reads 31 comments

  3. Stock Up, Stock Down for Chicago Cubs' Top 10 Prospects for Week 7

    The Chicago Cubs have gone 13-12 since opening the season 5-13, and while contention is unlikely this season, it is at least nice to see a competitive club on the field...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 2 days ago 5,791 reads 14 comments

  4. Updated MLB Power Rankings: Where Every Team Stands After the One-Quarter Mark

    The first-quarter mark of the 2013 MLB season has come and gone, and as the weather heats up, so too will the divisional races across the league. For the first time since regular-season play began, the teams at No...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 3 days ago 49,167 reads 154 comments

  5. MLB's Quarter-Mark All-Rookie Team

    We've reached the first quarter mark of the 2013 MLB season, and already there have been a number of first-year players making a significant impact...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 6 days ago 3,017 reads 17 comments

  6. Stock Up, Stock Down for MLB's Top 50 Stars at the First-Quarter Mark

    At the beginning of the season, ESPN ranked its Top 500 players in the MLB for the 2013 season. Whether you agree or disagree with who was included on that list and where they ...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 6 days ago 18,635 reads 63 comments

  7. Ranking MLB's Unluckiest Injury-Riddled Teams in 2013

    Injuries are an unfortunate part of professional sports, and with a 162-game season, there is no shortage of injuries an MLB team is forced to deal with throughout the course of the year...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 7 days ago 2,649 reads 11 comments

  8. 2013 MLB Cy Young Award: Top 10 Candidates at the Quarter Mark

    The Cy Young field won't truly take shape until at least the second half of the season, but it's never too early to take a look at how things are shaking out so far...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 8 days ago 27,799 reads 55 comments

  9. A Closer Look at the 4 One-Hitters Thrown in the Past Week of MLB Play

    Though we've yet to see our first no-hitter of the season, there have already been a number of truly dominant pitching performances...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 8 days ago 862 reads 2 comments

  10. MLB Power Rankings: Where All 30 MLB Lineups Rank at the One-Quarter Mark

    We have reached the one-quarter mark on the 2013 MLB season, and it has been a season largely dominated by starting pitching to this point...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 8 days ago 28,731 reads 87 comments

  11. Updated MLB Power Rankings: Where Each Team Stands at the One-Quarter Mark

    Hard as it may be to believe, we have already reached the first-quarter mark of the 2013 MLB season, as teams will play their 40th game of the season at some point this coming week...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 10 days ago 44,961 reads 90 comments

  12. Stock Up, Stock Down for Chicago Cubs' Top 10 Prospects for Week 6

    It was a rare successful week for the big league club, as the Chicago Cubs went 4-2 and recorded a series win against the Washington Nationals , while also recording victories against the Texas Rangers and St...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 10 days ago 6,529 reads 13 comments

  13. MLB's Longest Home Run Blasts of the Week (May 5-May 11)

    As the week wraps up, it's time to take a look back at the longest home runs of the past seven days, an exercise made much easier thanks to the ESPN Home Run Tracker ...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 10 days ago 6,151 reads 13 comments

  14. Is 2013 Going as Hoped for Theo Epstein and the Cubs' Rebuild?

    Coming off a 101-loss season in 2012, the second year of the Chicago Cubs ' rebuilding effort was expected to be an equally trying one for the North Siders, and they are off to a 13-21 start...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 13 days ago 6,787 reads 28 comments

  15. 2014 MLB Free Agency: Way-Too-Early Predictions for Each Team's Top Acquisition

    The 2013 MLB season is just over a month old, but it is never too soon to look ahead to the 2014 MLB free-agent class and how things could potentially shake out this coming winter...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 13 days ago 2,086 reads 2 comments

  16. The Most Brutal Umpiring Gaffes of the Early 2013 MLB Season

    As long as there have been umpires in baseball (or officials in any sport for that matter), there have been controversial calls made by them. That's just the nature of the beast when human error becomes part of the equation...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 13 days ago 3,583 reads 14 comments

  17. 10 Young Players on the Verge of Becoming MLB Busts

    As prospect evaluation and player development has improved over the years, prospect projecting has become much less of a crapshoot than it once was. However, the fact remains that not every top prospect pans out...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 14 days ago 963 reads 4 comments

  18. Is Using Sunscreen for Sticky Grip a Pitcher's Version of Pine Tar or Cheating?

    Following the controversy that surrounded Clay Buchholz 's recent start against the Toronto Blue Jays in which it looked as though he may have been doctoring the ball, another explanation for what he could have been doing has come to light...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 14 days ago 126,484 reads 38 comments

  19. Predicting All 30 MLB Teams' Guaranteed All-Star Representative

    Predicting the rosters for the MLB All-Star Game prior to the season starting, or even in the early going, is never an easy task...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 14 days ago 1,950 reads 5 comments

  20. Can the Boston Red Sox Bullpen Survive Without a Proven Closer?

    The Boston Red Sox got off to a terrific start, with the best record in baseball through the first month of the season at 18-8...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 15 days ago 1,373 reads 6 comments

  21. Stock Up, Stock Down for Chicago Cubs' Top 10 Prospects for Week 5

    A 2-5 week dropped the Chicago Cubs to No. 29 in this week's MLB power rankings, as they are now 11-20 on the season...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 16 days ago 5,621 reads 16 comments

  22. Updated MLB Power Rankings

    We are now over a month into the 2013 MLB season, as teams continue to try to separate themselves from the pack and push forward as serious contenders...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 16 days ago 69,724 reads 168 comments

  23. 15 MLB Players Whose Surprising Starts We Never Saw Coming

    Each season, a handful of players come out of nowhere to get off to unexpected hot starts, making far greater contributions than anticipated to kick off the season...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 19 days ago 13,166 reads 46 comments

  24. Would-Be Consequences of Tom Ricketts Yanking the Cubs out of Wrigley Field

    Wrigley Field renovation plans have been ongoing since the Ricketts family took control of the team, and a proposed $300 million renovation is awaiting approval...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 20 days ago 4,667 reads 34 comments

  25. Updated World Series Odds for All 30 Teams After a Month of Baseball

    The 2013 MLB season is just a month old, and while a lot will no doubt change between now and the end of the season, this is a good time to step back and analyze the landscape of the league...

    Joel Reuter Written by Joel Reuter about 21 days ago 32,980 reads 143 comments