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The term, “sleepers,” is a little bit of a cuss word in the Fantasy Expert circles. Everyone has a different definition of a sleeper, and many people throw the term around loosely. It’s dangerous. You could put an eye out.

Like most of Maine, baseball fans in the Augusta area follow the trials and tribulations of the Boston Red Sox each baseball season. Now, there have been some good times for fans lately, as the Sox finally shook off their dreaded “curse” and brought home World Series championships in 2004 and 2007. But the problem is, Boston is quite a ways away from Augusta, and tickets to get into Fenway Park ar

Former major league headcase Manny Ramirez is scheduled to arrive in Taiwan on Monday and sign a contract to play with the EDA Rhinos in the China Professional Baseball League, his agent said. No terms have been disclosed.

Saturday's World Baseball Classic game between Mexico and Canada featured one of the longest and most violent brawls that you'll ever see in a baseball game, but no players will be suspended as a result of the melee. Seven players were ejected, but World Baseball Classic officials decided that no players will be further disciplined for their role in the brawl...

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Relief pitcher Will Ohman made his first — and last — appearance for the Washington Nationals this spring against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Ohman allowed two hits and two walks in one inning pitched, and he was promptly cut from the team before he got to the showers...

You didn’t have to see ‘BASEketball' to know mixing sports is a horrible, horrible idea.

Jonathan Papelbon came over to the Philadelphia Phillies from a Red Sox team that, at the time, probably had more leaders than actual soldiers. In his time with Philly, Papelbon has been waiting for one of the Phillies to step up and take a vocal role...

Ever since Alex Rodriguez left for Texas in 2001, the Seattle Mariners have been a little thin at shortstop. Nick Franklin is trying to change that.

All 133 arbitration-eligible Major League Baseball players settled on contracts with their respective teams this off-season. It's the first time since arbitration began in 1974 that no player who filed went to an arbitration hearing. Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Darren O'Day was the last of the 133 MLB players who filed for arbitration Jan...

When a baseball team’s lineup has three potential first round fantasy picks in it, including one of the contenders for #1 overall, you tend not to worry about the offense.

Major League Baseball has announced that Edith Houghton, a Philadelphia baseball prodigy and first female MLB scout, passed away Saturday, February 2 at age 100.

"The job of a sports writer isn't easy" claims hundreds of columns I've read over the years. These men watch and write about baseball for a living which sounds like a step above working in a hospice. It must be awful.

A report late Tuesday said the New York Yankees were investigating ways to potentially void the contract of third baseman Alex Rodriguez if he were to be suspended by Major League Baseball for his alleged involvement with a Miami clinic that dispensed performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).

On this day in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers announced that they had hired the infamous circus clown Emmett Kelly to entertain their fans at games. (Read: On this day in history, a lot of people developed a debilitating phobia at a friendly afternoon baseball game in Brooklyn.)

One of the great baseball players of all time #6, Stan ‘Stan the Man’ Musial, died on Saturday at the age of 92. He was not only one of the greats but a great baseball name.