Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins ink blockbuster deal

Let all the rumors cease. Let all the skeptics be silenced. And let all front offices sigh with disappointment. Joe Mauer is staying in Minnesota—for a long time. In a massive eight-year, $184 million deal, the 27-year old catcher is slotted to spend presumably the rest of his playing career in the Twin Cities—the deal [...]

Is the Mainstream Media Doing a Good Job?

Since I have a better understanding of baseball, there is one trend I have noticed and that is the more I learn about the game, the more I realize that those in the mainstream media are wrong. I see this as a problem because I feel that the mainstream is doing a disservice to the [...]

Top 30 Fantasy Shortstops

1. Hanley Ramirez FLA Hanley has established himself as one of the top players both in real life and in fantasy. He should go in the Top-5 in drafts this year after winning a batting title and reaching the century mark in RBIs for the first time in his career. He is one of the [...]

Players on the Market in 2010

The 2009-10 off-season has been a rather dry market. There have been very few heads popping headlines, other than the expected Roy Halladay trade, the re-signing of Matt Holliday and John Lackey joining Red Sox Nation. So will the 2010-11 off-season give us more stories? There are a few more bigger names becoming free agents, [...]

Best of the Best Winner Take All Tournament: Championship Match

We’ve finally reached the finals of the team of the decade tournament. It’s been an exciting week coming up with the dream match ups, and we hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed writing them. As you all know, this decade has seen it’s good and bad with it’s ups and downs, [...]

Brett and Tony’s All-Decade Team

Bringingheat’s All-Decade team of the ‘00s Tony Andracki Brett Rosin This past decade of baseball has been one for the ages. From record-setting personal seasons (Barry Bonds’ 73 home runs in 2001) to walk-off playoff game victories (See: David Ortiz circa 2004 or Luis Gonzalez in the ’01 World Series) and from the Mitchell Report [...]

2009 Fantasy Awards

As summer has turned to fall and leaves have turned to shades of orange and brown, the coming of fall means two things in the baseball world: the beginning of playoffs and the end of the fantasy baseball season. It’s been a trying year for some in both worlds, namely for Cubs fans (I weep [...]

World Series Preview: Phillies vs Yankees

With the World Series set, it’s time to break down all of the positions to see who has the upper hand in the 2009 fall classic. Catcher Phillies: Carlos Ruiz. Carlos Ruiz is your prototypical defensive catcher whom you don’t really care about offensively, as long as he calls a good game for your pitching [...]