Baseball Analysis

After looking like World Series favorites during an extended June homestand, the bottom has fallen out for the Yankees and they appear dead and buried. Read more »

Derek Jeter turned 33 on Tuesday and he has never missed the playoffs, but could this finally be the end of their 12-season run? Read more »

Detroit Tigers left-hander Andrew Miller is just a year away from North Carolina, but he dazzled against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night, while Roger Clemens didn't make it out of the fifth in Colorado and Homer Bailey's Nolan Ryan-type delivery has been very impressive. Read more »

The Interleague portion of the schedule is now complete and once again, it was an American League dominated affair. With the All-Star game just a few weeks away now, see which teams are hot going into the break and which ones are not. Read more »

Philadelphia Phillies general manager Pat Gillick is a known winner around baseball. He was the architect of the two World Series championships in Toronto and last helped build a winner with the Seattle Mariners. Read more »

It?s almost officially Summer now and that means baseball is the only game in town. The NHL and the NBA have finished their seasons and with the NFL pre-season still over a month away, let?s focus on baseball and see if the Angels could hold onto the number one spot for another week. Read more »

In his latest edition, Douglas Benton scouts Felix Pie, C.C. Sabathia, Luis Castillo and Dan Haren. Read more »

The Baltimore Orioles fired their manager, Sam Perlozzo, on Monday after the team started the season 29-40. It is also being reported that the Orioles have agreed on a deal with Andy MacPhail to become their chief operating officer. So, what do the Orioles need to do next to get back to their past successes? Read more »

Seattle is the only team in the American League to have all three of their outfielders in the top 20 of American League outfielders in batting average, RBI and slugging percentage. While the production has been balanced this season, it still starts and ends with Ichiro. Read more »

Curt Schilling was one out away from a no-hitter, but it wasn't enough for them to reclaim the number one spot enjoyed by the Angels. Read more »

With 50 rounds in the book, we can now take a look back at which National League teams improved their organization and which ones were hurt by their poor drafts. Read more »

With the New York Yankees selection of Andrew Brackman, the first round ended and the television lights went off. However, teams still went about finding their own diamonds in the rough in the supplemental and 49 other rounds of the draft. Here are the top 10 selections after the first round. Read more »

The National League West has been one of the most difficult divisions in baseball this season and that is largely due to the talent on their rosters that was found in the Draft. Players like Jake Peavy, Tim Lincecum, Russell Martin, Matt Cain, Carlos Quentin and Matt Holliday all play key roles on the teams that drafted them. Read more »

The division has the most teams (six) and is home to some of the top general managers in the game. So, with the draft just hours away, we look at how each of these teams have drafted and who might be on their first round radar come June 7. Read on to find out. Read more »

Who will be the best player in 5 years? Who has the biggest potential? Who has the biggest potential to bust? In his final mock, Douglas Benton answers these questions. Read more »

What to do with the Yankees? Well as the expression goes, fish stinks at the head. In this case, albeit two classy fish, Brian Cashman and Joe Torre have to go. Read more »

Douglas Benton leaves for one week to bring you his MLB draft coverage and Christopher Reina slides a new team into the number one slot. Read more »

The division boasts two of the better teams in baseball in the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves and a host of young players sprinkled around the division. With first round stars like Washington?s Ryan Zimmerman, Atlanta?s Jeff Francoeur and Philadelphia?s Chase Utley, the National League East has shown the ability to take advantage of the first round. Read more »

This week in his Scouting Blog, Douglas Benton looks at Alfonso Soriano, Prince Fielder and Tim Lincecum. Read more »

The AL West has always given baseball fans a wild division race every summer. They also have provided some excellent drafting, as seen with the enormous amount of good young talent now on display at the big league level. Read more »