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Sports Central June 12, 2004 David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central October 3, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Indians Face Long Winter Ahead Nine out of the last 10 years, 93 wins was good enough to earn a wildcard berth in the American League. Unfortunately for the Cleveland Indians, this year it wasn't. |
Sports Central September 16, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Sports Central June 13, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central November 4, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Questions For Theo Epstein The "new curse" of the Boston Red Sox may be free agency -- with 17 roster players eligible to ink new deals. How will the team's wheeling-dealing general manager deal with that? |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
High on Lowe The hurler's emergence could put Boston over the top. |
Sports Illustrated July 26, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Utter anonymity The Angels have quietly become a force in the AL West. |
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Illustrated July 31, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Steal of a deal In Floyd, the Red Sox added the best player available. |
Sports Central September 9, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Tribe Take Over First in the Wildcard The Cleveland Indians have put together an impressive season in a year where they were still supposed to be rebuilding. |
Sports Central May 3, 2008 Sean Crowe |
How the Yankees Became the Red Sox The formerly loveable loser Boston Red Sox have become the new Evil Empire. |
Sports Central September 30, 2008 Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Divisional Series Breakdown A closer look at the four MLB playoff match-ups. |
Sports Central August 12, 2004 William Geoghegan |
The Complex Psyche of Red Sox Nation In the world of stats and results, the 2004 Red Sox are not dramatically different from the 2003 team that got within one game of the World Series. |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Lowe-Hitters In a weekend of near no-hitters only Boston's Derek Lowe finished the job... |
Sports Illustrated August 6, 2003 Albert Chen |
Trading Day Amid a flurry of deals, New York and Boston prepared for a pennant race. |
Sports Central July 5, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Where, Oh Where, Are the Devil Dogs? With the Red Sox and Yankees playing 18 and 14 games, respectively, against Tampa Bay from here out, the last-place Devil Rays have a magnified prominence in the American League East race. |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
All the Answers In the game of prognostication you use every available tool. We've gazed into our Magic 8 Ball to see how the remainder of the baseball season will play out |
Sports Central October 12, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
It's Deja Vu, All Over Again Red Sox fans share a common belief, that this is their year. |
Sports Central August 23, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Sports Central November 17, 2010 Jess Coleman |
Crawford to Yankees? Besides Cliff Lee, Carl Crawford is possibly the most talented free agent on the market. He is near the top in stolen bases every year, he can hit above .300, and he is young. |
Sports Illustrated June 4, 2003 Daniel G. Habib |
Jay Walkers With a get-on-base mantra, red-hot Toronto is running up the score. |
Sports Central December 26, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Central May 17, 2010 Bill Hazell |
What's Wrong With the Red Sox? Perhaps for once, the Red Sox are the overlooked team in Boston at the moment. |
Sports Central July 14, 2005 Derek Daggett |
MLB Second-Half Predictions Armed with 80+ games of knowledge, here is how the remainder of the 2005 Major League Baseball season should break down, division by glorious division. |
Sports Central October 8, 2009 Sean Crowe |
It's Groundhog Day For Angels If the Angels don't beat the Red Sox this year, they'll never beat the Red Sox. |
Sports Illustrated September 12, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Winning ways The A's and Twins have taken different routes to success |
Sports Central August 24, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
The American League Shark Tank A good shark always knows a good deal when he sees one. 6/5 odds on the Yankees to win the AL, as unimpressive as it looks on paper, is still a better deal than anything you can get on any of the other teams. |
Sports Central July 4, 2012 Greg Suttich |
Hot and Not Heading to the All-Star Break The Yankees, Rangers, and Angels are playing the best baseball in the American League. The National League has seen the surprising Washington Nationals post the best record, with the Giants now flexing their muscle in the NL West. |
Sports Central September 12, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Yanks/Sox Series Inevitable Are you ready to see the World Series pit the Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees again? As much as these two rivals cannot pitch, play defense, or close out games, they do present the most appealing matchup in the NLCS. |
Sports Central September 3, 2012 Greg Suttich |
Blowin' it Up in Beantown The Boston Red Sox opened the 2012 season with high hopes and plans of playing in October. So what happened? |
Sports Central July 18, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The 10 Biggest Series For the Second Half As the baseball season moves to the second half, to the trade deadline, into pennant races and the cooler weather of September, there are series that carry added significance for playoff spots. |
Sports Central June 15, 2007 Rich Lyons |
The Uprising of the Yankees The Yankees make their inevitable climb towards the top of the division. |
Sports Central July 23, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
Sports Central July 25, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Under the Radar Three teams to watch as the division races heat up are the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Arizona Diamondbacks. |
Sports Central April 25, 2005 Mike Round |
Baseball Rebounds From Grim Winter A summary of the start of the baseball season that lists the strengths of the White Sox and the weaknesses of the Yankees. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2004 Bob Bobala |
Boston's Hottest Stock Are the Red Sox a stock on the rise, or will the Yankees do them in again? |
Sports Central August 29, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Landslide: Who Wants AL Playoff Spots? Incredibly, most of baseball's American League powers seem quite content in giving each other a good head-start going into the final home stretch in September. |
Sports Central August 25, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has. |
Sports Illustrated April 24, 2001 Tom Verducci |
International sensation Ichiro Suzuki, the Mariners' slashing leadoff hitter, shouldn't book any fishing excursions or vacation getaways for the July All-Star break. The rookie has a very good chance of starting the All-Star Game in, of all places, Seattle's Safeco Field... |
Sports Illustrated September 5, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Will Chicago kick dirt on the Big Hurt? Unique clause may end Frank Thomas' days with White Sox |
Sports Central January 26, 2011 Jess Coleman |
Vernon Wells? Really, Angels? The Angels should focus on winning back their seat atop the American League West. Vernon Wells was is not the answer. |
Sports Central January 18, 2006 Eric Maus |
Don't Count Out Red Sox Just Yet The Red Sox have the potential to be very good, possibly even great this year. |
Sports Illustrated July 13, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Crunch time Future of A's organization will be determined now... |
Sports Central October 6, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Season-Ending Races Live Up to Hype Some say that the same teams in 2005 that succeeded to reach the postseason in Major League Baseball in 2004 are old-hat. But this year, unlike past seasons, the road to success was nothing but routine for several of these perennial winners. |
Sports Central October 4, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October. |
Sports Central August 9, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
The Leaning Tower of Baseball There is such a divide between first and third in all the divisions. So what happened to all the other contenders? |
Sports Central May 26, 2006 Isaac Miller |
Red Sox and Yankees: Rethinking the Rivalry If this is the most storied rivalry in all of baseball, where was it from 1918 to 1967? |
Sports Central March 29, 2007 Seth Doria |
2007 MLB Preview: American League Here are a few thoughts about MLB's American League, in order of predicted finish. |
Sports Central September 11, 2006 Bijan C. Bayne |
No Run Left in Sox: A Post-Curse Postscript August closed as it generally does in Red Sox Nation -- with bad news. |