7:41pm: The Miami Herald has a list of eight players who agreed to terms with the A's for 2009. Daric Barton, Kurt Suzuki, Dallas Braden, Dana Eveland, Gio Gonzalez, Sean Gallagher, Henry Rodriguez and Landon Powell all agreed to one-year contracts. 12:27pm: According to a press release, via the Mia...

Pitchers and catchers are reporting this week. That makes this the perfect time to start working on the rankings for starting pitchers. Today, let’s look at the top ten: Tim Lincecum | San Francisco Giants - The real question at the top of the starting pitcher rankings is who to rank #1 betwee...

It’s time for another installment of movers and shakers on the Mock Draft Central Average Draft Position Report. Headed Up Andy Pettitte | New York Yankees | +7.7% - You knew the Pettitte re-signing would begin his slow rise in ADP. This is his second consecutive week with a 7+ percentage poin...

Here are the results of our third round in the slow mock draft. To see the past rounds and commentary follow the links to round 1 and round 2. Round 3 : Pick 1(25) - @crookedpitch - Prince Fielder - He’s not a 50 home run guy, but I wouldn’t count out 35-40 homers with 100+ RBI. Fielder ...

A president has been elected, Robin has returned, the colossal tree in Carol’s back yard has been cleared away and order has been temporarily restored in the elaborate recording studios of the Fantoo Girls. After baseball practically every day for nearly 8 months, we feel that we can finally p...

Apparently, Giants' young gun Tim Lincecum was seen being tended to by paramedics at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. "Could be just the flu", the tipster said. Anyway, Jon Heyman of SI breaks the news properly: San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum was taken to a New York City hospital T...

This is getting nerve-wracking. The hottest team in baseball over the past ten games isn’t the Tampa Bay Rays. They’re a mere 6-4, and the four losses are consecutive (to the Royals once, the Yankees twice, the Indians once) through this writing. It isn’t the Chicago White Sox, tho...

Excellent. Sports Illustrated's jinx is alive and well. It figures that the Mets would celebrate the return of the New York Jets by putting up a touchdown against the team formerly known as the New York Giants ... and more importantly, against starter Tim Lincecum. There's probably something pervers...

Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations. Ken Rosenthal raises the interesting question about the Red Sox NOT exercising their option on Manny Ramirez for 2009. I think the Red Sox will exercise the option but if Manny finishes the year with 30 HR, 100 RBI and an ...

Each week, I am participating in the 2008 MLB Blog Poll at BaseballHappenings.com. Below are my current votes for the Most Valuable Player, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards. These votes will be tabulated among other votes from other blogs to create a running master list of voting as the year p...