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As teams have started to realize, Major League Baseball rewards the thrifty and well-researched. The following free agents and team-controlled players signed modest contracts this past winter, but they have been dramatically outperforming them in 2013.

This list includes several unheralded veterans who were available, including James Loney and Marlon Byrd, as well as long-term building blocks like Allen Craig and Chris Sale.

Just as you would expect, the front offices who complete more team-friendly deals and spend wisely elsewhere generally find themselves in contention.

There is really no better way to spend a summer night than sitting at the ballpark. I have always loved sitting at anything from Little League baseball in my hometown of Barre, Vermont all the way up to my beloved Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.

This article is kind of a testimony to that.

These are purely my opinions on the seven best places to watch a baseball game in the United States. Honestly, I am not sure if there is anywhere I wouldn’t like to watch a baseball game, but these are my top seven.

As we approach the midway point of the 2013 MLB season, a good deal has already been established as far as which players are in for big seasons and which teams look ready to contend for a postseason spot.

It's likely that at the beginning of the 2013 season, no one would have assumed that starting pitchers Bartolo Colon of the Oakland Athletics and Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners would be anchoring their pitching staffs.

Though he won both of them, Gerrit Cole barely looked like a major league-caliber pitcher in the first two starts of his career.

After a while it must get kind of old hat for Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout.

You know, another great defensive play, he trends on Twitter.

Big deal, right?

The New York Mets pulled a game closer to the rival Philadelphia Phillies with a 4-3 win on Friday night, but umpire Adrian Johnson didn't make it easy for them.

Don't look now, but the Los Angeles Dodgers are starting to get healthy. The latest news, coming courtesy of the team on Twitter, has Matt Kemp getting ready to begin a rehab assignment this weekend. 

MLB umpire Angel Hernandez has committed several notorious errors this season. On Friday night, Buck Showalter became the latest manager to express his displeasure with him.

The 57-year-old skipper yelled and gestured his way to an ejection in the top of the second inning.

When New York Yankees star Robinson Cano ditched agent Scott Boras for Jay-Z several months ago, there was understandable optimism that he would consent to a long-term contract extension.