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New Rule: You don't post Ks for your pitcher when he gives up more homers than strike outs. Please,...

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New Rule: You don't post Ks for your pitcher when he gives up more homers than strike outs. Please, for God's sake take it down BEFORE it gets to the 9th inning. We don't need an homage to his brilliant cookie tossing performance.

Crisp might be headed toward season-ending surgery

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Please note the hilarious picture of Treydaddy and TLR

Draft Review Part II

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Part 2 of my player-by-player review of the draft is up on Left of the Foul Pole. (Draft picks 26-50 were reviewed).

Why can't Brian Bannister Pitch Decent in the 6th Inning

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I take requests for pitcher analysis at Driveline Mechanics and looked at Brian Bannister this week. I didn't find much and figured batters had figured out his "finesseness" by then.

Our Double-A All-Stars

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Here's a link to our all-stars from Double-A Northwest Arkansas. Go Naturals.

Oh, it's possible the Royals could do something bigger than this. Mark Teahen? David DeJesus? Jose...

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Oh, it's possible the Royals could do something bigger than this. Mark Teahen? David DeJesus? Jose Guillen, if anybody would take him? You'll no doubt hear their names in the next month. But "they're in a hard position," said an official of one club, "because they're kind of going for it. They're over the rebuilding thing, at least in rhetoric. So I don't know how much they want to take a step back." But Mahay is one guy who might be exportable. He'll turn 38 this week. He can be a free agent this winter. And he "is on this damn list every year, it seems like," said one exec. The Royals balked at moving him last July, when they had him signed for another year. But unless they charge back into the thick of the race, this year should be a different story. And that 1.137 OPS by right-handed hitters against him is more excellent incentive to deal him. Jayson Stark: 'Most likely to get traded' nominees

Watching Greinke get roughed up a little bit by the D'backs, and thinking he could be even better...

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Watching Greinke get roughed up a little bit by the D'backs, and thinking he could be even better if being better was No. 1 on his list.

Rob Neyer on Twitter

Hillman going to the ASG!

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In the American League, Maddon selected Kansas City Royals manager Trey Hillman and Seattle Mariners skipper Don Wakamatsu to join him on the bench for the game.

More draft signings

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Mathiew White (#6 pick, righthanded pitcher, University of New Mexico); George Baumann (#7, lefthanded pitcher, Missouri State University); Benjamin Theriot (#9, catcher, Texas State University); Brendan Lafferty (#18, lefthanded pitcher, UCLA); Ryan Stovall (#19, third baseman, Thomas University, GA); Marvin Cooper (#21, centerfielder, Belhaven College, MS); Ryan Dennick (#22, lefthanded pitcher, Tennessee Tech University); Scott Kelley (#23, righthanded pitcher, Penn State University); Gabriel MacDougall (#27, left fielder, Lynn University, FL) and Claudio Bavera (#33, Cochise College, AZ) I predict Theriot...I predict Theriot....