Baltimore:

Promoted P Chris Waters and OF Sebastian Boucher from Bowie to Norfolk. Waters was picked up from the Braves’ organization prior to the 2007 season and spent almost all of last year at Bowie. He won five MORE...

Dontrelle Willis was recalled from his minor league rehab assignment by the Tigers. He didn’t pitch badly in his AAA outing - 72 pitches, 4 hits, 2 runs in 4 2/3 innings - but he tweaked his hyperextended right knee MORE...

With the annual Rule 4 draft coming up quickly (June 5), I’d like to gauge how much interest there would be among the BTF community in staging our own mock draft. I’d shoot for doing one about a week or MORE...

By a great stroke of good fortune, I happen to have both of these nights free, at a time when some decent teams with some pretty good prospects will be in town. I’ve set up links through Meetup:

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The Washington Nationals got a new ballpark in DC.  That’s about as good as the news is going to get for 2008.  They have a good youth movement going in some areas and are still struggling in other areas.  There MORE...

The Dodgers were in first place in the NL West for the whole month of May last year.  They surged over the All-Star Break to gain a two-game lead, and when they beat the Rockies on July 26, they held MORE...

By Kevin Padraic Donnelly:

Our original Phillies article was admittedly a little heavy on snark and light on analysis.  This is what happens when a couple of Braves fans pick up one of the competitors in the absence MORE...

Scott Kazmir pitched on a rehab assignment in Durham last night. He was sharp, hitting 94 on the scoreboard gun several times and making just one mistake, which Diory Hernandez took over the Blue Monster in left. Kazmir’s strikeout pitch MORE...

Without Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Giants are finally free to make their own destiny.  No more trumped up media destiny.  No ESPN game breaks to view the team’s former leftfielder.  No more chemistry destroying recliner and special treatment.  MORE...

As thrilling as the 2007 season was for the Rockies and their fans, it was still in a sense unsatisfying, even though it was by far the most successful year in the team’s history. Most surprise winners give their fans MORE...