Staying in contention all season could be see as a success for the young Minnesota Twins. AccuScore analyst Jonathan Lee instead views it as a colossal failure. He breaks down the five biggest mistakes that prevented Minnesota from winning the AL Central.
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The GNUru is back to provide lineup advice for your Week 7 Fantasy Baseball lineup. As always, the GNUru gives you the players who are hot as well as the pitchers who are slated to make 2-starts in week 7.
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Find out why Rafael Furcal, Lyle Overbay, Craig Monroe and many other contract year players will be great value pickups for your fantasy team this year.
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It’s always fun to make predictions on how the players will perform each season. About six months ago we did community projections for both the hitters and pitchers, and asked readers to give their predictions. We thought it’d be a good way to end the season by looking back and seeing   more...
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The trio in the booth can't seem to agree on how to pronounce Craig Monroe's last name. Is it MON-roe or mon-ROE? At least Steve Lyons is consistent. He goes with MON-roe, and also refers to the Tigers hometown as DEE-troit. Know what? They should ask the cops who arrested him for stealing that   more...
Original Story: http://www.sportsfrog.com/archives/2006_....

The Cubs are at the point now where they can plan their starting rotation and begin to make bullpen choices and start thinking about final roster selections for the NLDS. Here is how I think the Cubs should do it:A 10/1 - NLDS GAME 1: Pitcher "A" 10/2 - NLDS GAME 2: Pitcher   more...
Original Story: http://www.thecubreporter.com/2008/09/20....

Game 1 - Barry Zito vs. Nate Robertson. Ztio only pitched one game this season against the Tigers. Despite taking the loss, he pitched well, 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 4 BB, 3 K. Bless You Boys has the expected Tigers lineup and their career averages versus Barry Zito. The Tigers could be in for a long   more...
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Lee Panas at Tiger Tales combined five sets of projections from well known analysts to come up with the "ultimate" set of 2007 projections. Not that guys like Bill James needed any help with this sort of thing, but this should eliminate any "overly optimistic or pessimistic" projections. It may   more...
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Ok, with Denard Span being sent down to AAA and Joe Nathan being inked to a 4 year, $47 M payday, the Minnesota Twins opening day roster is rounding into shape. Here are my predictions for the upcoming season. The opening day lineup will look like this:1. Carlos Gomez, CF2. Joe Mauer, C3. Michael   more...
Original Story: http://www.thegoldseat.com/2008/03/25/mi....

- The Fox animated cartoon "Scooter" is back to explain to kids what a change-up is. Of course, most of the kids who are interested in a talking baseball cartoon are already in bed by 9:15 pm. But what the hell. This time Scooter is accompanied by an animated Jeff "Soup" Suppan, who says "Hey kids,   more...
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Detroit Tigers lead-glove outfielder Craig Monroe is currently slated 15th in American League Outfield All-Star Voting with 392,096 votes. Now, I'm not too certain how such an abortion of a baseball player can rack up 392,096 votes when he's hitting at a solid .232 clip with 9 home runs, no steals,   more...
Original Story: http://www.parlayer.com/2007/06/27/craig....

1. Keep the came close.2. After threatening in the 8th inning and coming up short, don't panic.3. Put in Jason Grilli in the bottom of the inning to get the last out.4. Have Brandon Inge work the count to earn a walk.5. Have Curtis Granderson manhandle the count to earn a walk.6. Have Craig Monroe   more...
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Craig tied a Detroit Tigers' record by striking out a punishing five times in yesterday's series finale against the Milwaukee Beer-Makers. One of Craig's lovely K's came with the tying run on 3rd with one out in the bottom of the 9th. However, the fans weren't totally upset with Monroe; he did   more...
Original Story: http://www.parlayer.com/2007/06/15/craig....

Screw the All Star Game let's put together a roster from those that have been utter disappointments this season.C: Victor Martinez - He's supposed to be the best hitting catcher in the league. Instead he doesn't have a single home run this season and has been on the DL for about a month now.1B: -   more...
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After making the playoffs for the first time in 19 years, the Tigers beat the Yankees 8-3, and are on to the ALCS to face the Athletics. Jeremy Bonderman dominated the aging Yanks with a strong performance going 8 1/3 innings only giving up 5 hits. Craig Monroe hit a key home run. Congratulations   more...
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