2010 Offseason Review: AL East

AL East
Baltimore Orioles
Key losses- Chris Ray, Danys Baez
Key additions- Kevin Millwood, Garrett Atkins, Mike Gonzalez
Off-season grade- C+
Justification- Kevin Millwood provides some leadership for the Orioles young staff. He’s also very durable and that should keep the young staff from pitching too many innings. Garrett Atkins is a nice low risk/high reward signing. Mike Gonzalez stabilizes [...]

2010 MLB Off-Season Review: NL Central

Chicago Cubs
Key losses- Rich Harden, Milton Bradley, Kevin Gregg, Aaron Miles, Aaron Heilman. Jake Fox
Key additions- Carlos Silva, Marlon Byrd, John Grabow (re-signed)
Off-season grade- C
Justification- Considering the circumstances I think the Cubs have come out okay this off-season. Getting Silva for Bradley hurts, but getting $9 million from Seattle and getting Marlon Byrd to a [...]

Milwaukee Brewers Top Ten Prospects 2010

1) Mat Gamel-3B
Didn’t make the same noise fellow number 1 prospect Ryan Braun made during his call up, but none the less is still outrageously talented. He’s still got the power to hit 30 plus every year. I think this is the year where he could bust loose.
2) Brett Lawrie-2B
Could be the reason why Milwaukee [...]

Great Day for Milwaukee

The Brew Crew from the cheesehead state made a big splash today by signing Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins to bolster the pitching staff. Hawkins should provide some stability in terms of a late-inning, go-to guy to set up for Trevor Hoffman.
Hawkins has always been underrated in terms of a set up guy, and I [...]

The Risky Trio

These three guys perfectly exemplify the idea of high risk and high reward in Major League Baseball. The following players all have the ability and track record to be completely dominant starting pitchers. Weighed against them, however, are their individual injury histories. It seems that they are consistently battling the disabled list almost as often [...]