Baseball Analysis

Personal feelings must be put aside and true fans should marvel at the man that is the son of a former Major Leaguer, godson of the greatest living player in Willie Mays, and now, second on the most hallowed list in sports. Read more »

Some guys like Carlos Zambrano, Dontrelle Willis and Jake Peavy have been around for a few years already, while Francisco Liriano, Felix Hernandez and Jonathan Papelbon have burst onto the scene more recently, but they all have one thing in common, they are young and they have nasty stuff. Read more »

While the court of public opinion is coming down with great anger against Barry Bonds, would you believe that the other legendary athletes ? widely celebrated athletes like Wayne Gretzky, Jerry Rice, Michael Jordan, Randy Johnson, Karl Malone, and Roger Clemens, ? frequently injected and/or ingested potent painkillers into their bodies during their playing days to quiet pain created by battlefield injuries? Read more »

If Manny Ramirez stays relatively healthy and continues to uphold his 1.4 grand slams per year average, he should break the Lou Gehrig's record of 23 slams sometime during the 2008 MLB campaign. Read more »

The Detroit Tigers (35-14) and its faithful followers are currently witnessing something that has not been seen in the city since 1984 ? solid pitching. Not since the glory days when hurlers like Jack Morris, Dan Petry, and Willie Hernandez roamed the historic baseball grounds at Michigan and Trumbull have the Tigers boasted a better team pitching record. Read more »

With a quarter of the 2006 MLB season already played, it's time to look at which player's are for real. Does your favorite player appear in this week's RealGM.com Player Rankings Top 25? Take a look! Read more »

In five short years, the Diamondbacks went from being a team powered by the two-headed monster of Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling and winning the world series, to being a team still trying to find its identity, all while staying competitive. One place to start this identity change is the battery combination of Brandon Webb and Johnny Estrada, who should be classified as one of the best young players at their respective positions. Read more »

Looking to conserve energy in his quest to break Babe Ruth?s home run mark of 714, Barry Bonds has announced he will no longer run the bases. Instead, a designated runner will stand at home plate and sprint to first base the moment Bonds makes contact, and will remain on base should Bonds get a hit. Read more »

With players of the steroid era closing out their career, MLB is lucky to have great young crop of players 25 years old or younger. Here are the top position players, which include a Prince with a pedigree, the left side of the other New York infield and a guy who was a household name before he ever got to the bigs. Read more »

In an interview with RealGM, Stephen Drew talks about life in Triple-A, where he is playing shortstop and batting .307, as well as the lessons learned from his big brother J.D. and when he'll be ready to join the Diamondbacks. Read more »

The fantasy season is well underway, and while some managers have struck gold in Albert Pujols and Bronson Arroyo and others are looking to compensate for the slow starts of Bobby Abreu and Jason Bay. Whether or not your team has started slowly, this fantasy review from the first 6 weeks of the season will surely help your team move up. Read more »

With Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla and Reggie Abercrombie, the Marlins have exceptional young talent up the middle. This is where championship baseball is played and so in the throes of a bleak season, there is at least hope for the Marlins. Read more »

As the MLB moves into the first weekend of interleague play, two surprise players lead their respective league's in hitting. Cleveland's' Casey Blake (#8) is leading the MLB with an average of .366, while Atlanta's' catcher Brian McCann (HM) is leading the National League with a .354 batting average. Get out and support your favorite player and team! Read more »

Beginning with those little clickers that umpires use to keep track of balls, strikes and outs, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has taken an adamant stance against using instant replay. Now the surlish Commish is taking his crusade a step further, vowing to ban all technology from the MLB. Read more »

While the Cubs continue to plummet in the standings, Dusty Baker?s hot seat has now reached the ?scorching? level. Obviously, Cubs fans are at the end of their rope and are demanding answers and actions from the front office. With this in mind, we have outlined 13 answers of my own for the Cubs demise this season. Read more »

The Detroit Tigers have had limited success during the past few seasons. The success they did have came on the back of an occasionally explosive offense. The team has spent most of its free agent money putting together enough bats to help their young developing pitching staff. The hope has been that when they did develop the combination would be lethal from both the plate and the mound. It appears that time is now, these Tigers have their bite back. Read more »

If there were an award for the most hated man in professional sports, Barry Bonds would likely win in a landslide. The undisputed champ in my mind is Curt Schilling. Read more »

In three quick years living in the heart of Red Sox Nation, I have gone from a Yankee fan to an obsessive Yankee follower, who also loves to watch the Red Sox lose. Sporting Yankee apparel around campus caused me to garner dirty looks and death stares. Read more »

The will-he-or-will-he-not-stay-retired saga of Roger Clemens took another bizarre turn today, when the future Hall of Famer declared that he would not pitch in 2006 until the World Series, preferably for the team that has the best chance of winning. Read more »

Fans from around the world can now vote for their favorite player. Our RealGM.com Player Rankings may assist you in voting for this season's most deserving MLB All-Stars. Read more »