Baseball

A wise man once said that money can't buy you happiness. That poor, dead, man is probably having second thoughts as his cheaply built coffin (or spacious cardboard box, if you will) disintegrates around him.

The Minnesota Twins seem quite content to pay Joe Mauer a whopping $23 million a year to play for them. And unless Mr. Mauer is a little slow (the sideburns beg questions), he's going to take that money.

And they're both quite happy about the arrangement.

The Majors is my fantasy baseball league, set up in coordination with Bleacher Report and CBS.

This league is designed to enhance CBS Sports’ fantasy baseball presence, and it offers Bleacher Reporters a special discount. Usually, this league costs $180—but with this offer, there is a discount.

The regular season is just a few weeks away and the Yankees roster is beginning to take shape. A few of the position battles are starting to clear up as players are released and sent to the minors.

The Yankees lost to the Phillies today as Phil Hughes gave up a game-ending home run in the bottom of the ninth. The home run was one of three given up by Hughes today. Despite the long balls, Hughes pitched very well, as he made batters swing and miss using his changeup.

Let's cut to the chase...

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I am currently setting up one of these leagues...

With Spring Training in full swing and fantasy baseball just around the corner, Bleacher Report and CBS have come to an agreement that gives Bleacher Report readers 50 percent off CBSSports.com Fantasy Baseball Commissioner.

This league, which generally costs users $180, won eight out of nine Fantasy Sports Trade Association Awards last year and offers a lot of analysis including downloadable draft kits, Top 300 rankings and draft projections.

As anyone who has read examples of my past writing can attest, I tend to focus a lot of my historical analysis pieces on the Hall of Fame. Today, I will divert myself from that path a little bit to argue my Hall of Fame case for a great in our generation whose contributions have been highly underrated: Scott Rolen.

Players are always listed too high for the amount of use they will get, whether you realize it or not.

Sometimes a player jumps up the list even though they had a serious injury during the season.

Next season the Minnesota Twins will finally have a place to call their own. After sharing the dreadful indoors at HHH Metrodome with the Vikings since 1982, the people of the Twin Cities finally had enough. Target Field broke ground just in the nick of time—before the US economy plunged.

Ever since Andy McPhail took over as General Manager, Baltimore Orioles fans have had this year circled. This is supposed to be the year that we saw signs that all of the waiting and developing prospects was going to show itself. However, as Spring Training is ¾ done, it seems that something unforeseen could stand in the way, injuries.

Every manager in baseball will say the same thing about record in Spring Training; it doesn’t matter.