For the Houston Astros, there's nowhere to go but up. In each of the last three seasons, Houston's loss total has increased, bottoming out at 111 a year ago. Those three years were the worst three in team history, marking the only three times that the Astros have ever lost 100 games in a season. […]

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Ryan Dempster is

The Atlanta Braves made another move towards locking up their young core of players, signing The Best Closer On The Planet Craig Kimbrel to a four-year,

The Atlanta Braves are such a well-crafted, well-balanced team that picking just four players crucial to their 2014 success isn't easy. Two offensive starters were absolutely awful in 2013, and the Braves still coasted. Both top set-up man blew out their elbows, and Atlanta didn't flinch. Only three starters made 30 starts, and it wasn't […]

When you return a nearly identical roster from your division champion team the year before, what questions can there really be? Well, when it comes to the 96-win, NL East champion Atlanta Braves, you would be very surprised. Can Craig Kimbrel have yet another dominant year? The Braves closer is the best stopper in baseball. […]

The Atlanta Braves took another step towards locking up their young core, signing 23-year old starting pitcher Julio Teheran to a six-year contract extension worth

The Atlanta Braves are one of the most well-assembled teams in baseball. They're quite a young squad coming off of a successful season, and while they lost two key players this winter, they had enough depth at those positions for a seamless transition – Brian McCann and Tim Hudson will be missed, but Evan Gattis […]

Down in Florida and Arizona, the sweet smell of baseball is in the air as pitchers and catchers are reporting to Spring Training sites. The casinos in Nevada have taken notice too – they're starting to release projected win totals for over/under bets heading into the season. The first list has arrived courtesy of Atlantis […]

The 2013 Atlanta Braves were almost universally picked as a wild card team. Some pundits (hello, Jon Morosi) went even further, pushing the Braves out of the playoff race and behind the Phillies in the NL East standings. Well, neither of those situations happened – Atlanta spent all but one day of the 2013 season […]

The Tampa Bay Rays didn't really need Jose Lobaton after acquiring Ryan Hanigan and giving both him and Jose Molina multi-year contract extensions this offseason. So the Rays took care of that enviable problem by

On Tuesday, long-time Houston Astros starting pitcher Roy Oswalt retired at the age of just 36. There will be no serious Hall of Fame discussion about Oswalt, and that's probably justified, but Oswalt's career looked like it was on a Hall of Fame track before it was derailed later on. Oswalt finished in the top […]

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has announced his retirement on his Facebook page, effective at the end of the 2014 season. Jeter, who turns 40 in June, has become so highly overrated that he's underrated. The man has 3,316 career hits, the tenth-most of all-time. He only needs 120 hits this season to vault […]