Pop-Up King - Mark Ellis Heading into the beginning of the 2008 season it was readily apparent to anyone watching the A’s/Red Sox Japanese opening series that the A’s had high hopes for Mark Ellis, as he opened the season in the three spot of the order. By the end of the year Ellis hit o...

If you haven’t been to Mock Draft Central and gotten in a few mock drafts, you need to do that. The data used today is taken from their ADP trend report, which I pulled this morning. Over the last week here are the hitters that are seeing the biggest upward moves in their average draft positio...

This is going to be the shortest list so far as I rank the players by position. Why is that? Well, I’ll answer that, as well as many other questions that I know you all will ask before you can blow up my inbox with hate mail. B.J. Upton is not on this list, he’ll be in the outfield ranki...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Oakland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0   1 3 1 CLEVELAND 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 X   7 8 0 W: Cliff Lee (2-0), L: Chad Gaudin (0-1) Cliff Lee continued to baffle and overpower opposing batters this season, as he went 8 strong innings, giving up only two hits, while striking out 8 in the...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Oakland 1 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0   9 15 1 CLEVELAND 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0   7 9 1 (W: Joe Blanton (1-2) L: C.C. Sabathia (0-2) S: Huston Street (3) HR: CLE: Jhonny Peralta (3) C.C. Sabathia’s 2008 struggles continued yesterday, as last year’s Cy Young award winner ...

Red Sox Opening Day Live Blog 6:00 - Ohayou - that's Japanese for "Good morning". It's 6:00 and I haven't brewed the coffee yet but I'm watching the game and will be jotting down some miscellaneous thoughts and observations as I go along. 6:17 - Dice-K takes the mound and instead of being excited fo...