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TCU righthander Preston Morrison. (TCU) ALSO SEE: Postseason Stock Report The weekly projections are decided through a committee-style meeting between national writers Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt, and Mark Etheridge. Last Five In:Southern Mississippi Auburn Indiana Missouri Georgia Tech First Five Out:South Florida Kentucky UNC Wilmington South Carolina Memphis

Thanks to advanced scouting, baseball teams are implementing shifts more than ever. However, one Korean team took shifting to such an extreme Tuesday that the umpire wouldn’t allow it. During the ninth inning of their game against KT Wiz, the Kia Tigers put a fielder behind home plate. That’s in addition to the catcher. It’s a bold shift to try, but it also happens to be against the rules. Deadspin‘s Barry…

An emergency medical technician very publicly proposed marriage to the domestic violence survivor he once saved, at a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game this week. Cameron Hill and Melissa Dohme first met more than three years ago after Dohme’s former boyfriend, Robert Lee Burton Jr., 22, stabbed her 32 times and left her for dead. Burton is currently serving a life sentence in prison without parole after pleading guilty to…

By Michael Salfino Yasmani Grandal of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who has been very hot lately, is our Wednesday daily fantasy play at catcher. Getty Images The Methodology: As hard as it is to project a player’s performance in any given season, projecting his performance on any single day is even more difficult. Daily fantasy baseball is all about trying to maximize each day’s matchups using historic batter vs. pitcher performance,…

In 1970, Houston Astros pitcher Jim Bouton published Ball Four, one of the most influential baseball books ever written. Breaking the clubhouse code of omertà by portraying ballplayers as skirt-chasing, hard-partying regular guys rather than paragons of virtuous American masculinity, Ball Four forever changed the way that the press covered professional sports; it also unleashed a wave of massively entertaining (and deeply off-color) player memoirs, including Sparky Lyle’s The Bronx…

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Thanks to advanced scouting, baseball teams are implementing shifts more than ever. However, one Korean team took shifting to such an extreme Tuesday that the umpire wouldn’t allow it. During the ninth inning of their game against KT Wiz, the Kia Tigers put a fielder behind home plate. That’s in addition to the catcher. It’s a bold shift to try, but it also happens to be against the rules. Deadspin‘s Barry…

A brief recap of Georgia’s 6-0 victory over Georgia Tech at Turner Field on Tuesday night: How the game was won: A three-run home run to right-center field by first baseman Daniel Nichols – his sixth homer of the season — gave Georgia a 4-0 lead in the sixth inning. Nichols also drove in the Bulldogs’ first run with a sacrifice fly in the first inning and their final run…

Alabama may have found another solid arm for the postseason, and it’s familiar face. Junior right-hander Will Carter came out of the bullpen for the first time this season and fanned nine in five innings as the Crimson Tide beat Mercer 5-3 tonight at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville. “The story of game, to me, was Will Carter,” Alabama coach Mitch Gaspard said. “He was dynamite. The velocity was mid…

You’d best get out your hip waders, folks – we’re about to wade through a steaming pile of government balderdash. The controversy surrounds a storage shed built by the baseball booster club at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas. The youngsters needed a place to store their bats and balls and bases. The boosters had wanted to build a clubhouse for the teenage ball players, but after…

By Michael Salfino Baltimore Orioles’ Delmon Young is one of our fantasy plays for Tuesday as he has a favorable matchup against lefty Mark Buehrle. Associated Press The Methodology: As hard as it is to project a player’s performance in any given season, projecting his performance on any single day is even more difficult. Daily fantasy baseball is all about trying to maximize each day’s matchups using historic batter vs. pitcher…

CBS Sports’ Jon Heyman reports that Barry Bonds and his lawyers are working on a grievance against Major League Baseball alleging that it and its clubs colluded against him and effectively blackballed him following the 2007 season, his last in the majors.* The idea that Major League Baseball blackballed Bonds has been talked about for years. And it’s understandable why the idea has some appeal, even if there were a lot…

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” The words of the late historian Jacques Barzun can be found in almost any serious book on the sport that was long ago deemed “America’s pastime.” And it’s true: Throughout modern history, baseball has come to exemplify the American spirit. Mark Twain said that baseball symbolized “the drive and push and rush and struggle of the…

Justly praised but hardly perfect, LSU’s baseball team sails into the final week of the regular season still a unanimous No. 1 but numbering a growing list of concerns. Second base is now a liability with the academic ineligibility of Jared Foster. Monday, LSU coach Paul Mainieri basically said…

A lack of true aces on the board could make Tuesday a big day for the hitters in daily fantasy baseball. If you find the right value for pitchers and combine it with some big-time performers at the plate, you could be in for a nice showing on May 12.   Pitchers to Draft Jake Arrieta, Chicago Cubs ($8,600) Jeff Roberson/Associated Press Betting on a struggling pitcher represents a decent…

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 56 teams that will compete in the 2015 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. • Regional Chart Six teams will compete at four regional sites and eight teams will compete at four regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Forty conference champions qualified automatically. Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify…

What a difference a week makes for Alabama and Auburn. Auburn was streaking, having won three straight SEC series. Alabama was reeling, coming off being swept at home by Arkansas. But it was the Crimson Tide who put a late jolt into its season with a road sweep over Auburn. With one SEC weekend left, it’s looking better for Alabama’s chances to play in the SEC Tournament from May 19-24 at…

Rice veteran RHP Jordan Stephens (Rice Athletics) Podcast: Peterson, Fitt and Rogers | Chat: Ask Fitt and Rogers a question LSU maintained its stranglehold on the No. 1 spot in the D1Baseball Top 25 rankings after sweeping a series against Missouri and taking sole possession of first place in the SEC’s overall standings. ACC leader Louisville and Pac-12 leader UCLA remained No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, after winning showdown series against…

This past Saturday, the Ole Miss Rebel baseball team kept its postseason hopes alive by sweeping their series against the archrival Mississippi State Bulldogs. The Rebels, by what seemed to be a set of miracles, came from behind, erasing a five run deficit in the ninth inning (!) to tie the game and force extras. The Rebels got the win, 8-7, on a walkoff RBI single in the bottom of…

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