Preview/Prediction

The Cincinnati Reds are 17-5 in their last 22 games against the Chicago Cubs, which is important to consider when making your MLB picks on Friday as the two teams open up a three-game series at the Great American Ball Park.

Everybody in the baseball world is an angel.

Well, except for a few people. Yours truly got to thinking about people who are ruining baseball, and a few obvious targets came to mind.

I have no patience for certain managers who need to understand that there’s one inning in which a sacrifice bunt should never be laid down, one umpire in particular who loves the spotlight, or for that one owner in South Beach who seems hellbent on putting himself in the history books as the worst owner in baseball history.

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Zack Greinke is 15-0 with a 2.89 ERA in 24 games at Miller Park, which is important to consider when making your MLB picks Tuesday as he prepares to take on the Milwaukee Brewers.

The 2013 MLB Draft is rapidly approaching as only 16 days remain until the draft kicks off on June 6 in MLB Network's Studio 42 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

The Chicago Cubs hold the second pick in the 2013 draft, following the Houston Astros. Pitching is always a concern, and the Cubs will have no shortage of pitching choices in 2013.

Here is a look at three pitchers the Cubs should target in the 2013 draft.

Major League Baseball’s midsummer showcase, also known as the All-Star Game, is less than two months away, and many players have already made strong cases to make their respective league’s team.

But which players will be fortunate enough to try to secure home-field advantage throughout the World Series for either the American or National League?

In baseball, to slump is to be human. Nobody likes it when the darn things happen, but they happen. Even the best of ‘em have to deal with them now and then.

About the only good thing about slumps is this: They don’t last forever.

There are a few players around the league who have gotten off to slow starts in 2013 who can take comfort in that reality, and some will surely be breaking out of their season-opening slumps sooner rather than later.

And B/R Pop Culture Lead Writer Gabe Zaldivar and I think we know who they are.

There are a lot of pitchers close to comebacks. With Zack Greinke making a quick comeback from his collarbone fracture and Jered Weaver not far behind him, not to mention Johnny Cueto's return, we will see a lot of pitching coming back to the mound. The problem is that there are just as many heading out with injury. 

We are about one quarter of the way through the MLB season with the Atlanta Braves clinging to a slim lead in the National League East.

After a blazing start, the Braves have come back down to earth against a rather difficult early schedule.

The Braves have yet to play a game with their full lineup and still have one of the more talented rosters in the National League.

General manager Brian Cashman spent the offseason (and parts of spring training) picking up aging veterans presumably on the tail ends of their respective careers to fill the holes left by the injured stars of the team.

The St. Louis Cardinals certainly have no shortage of young star pitching prospects in their farm system. Shelby Miller sat at the top of that list of prospects coming into this season, and he has done an outstanding job fitting into a starting rotation that is arguably the best in the entire MLB right now.