 Moving right along in our "Top 10 Right Now" series, today's report focuses on the shortstop position. Easily the most talented position in all of baseball right now and the position that is extremely critical to the overall defensive success of a team. Out of all 9 positions on the diamond, defense is key for the shortstop above anything else and virtually every team values that more than offense at this position.
When you survey all 30 teams in baseball right now, almost half of the teams have some sort of All-Star or top notch shortstop whose name you easily remember. In fact, you could argue that for some teams, their shortstop is the star of their team or as others like to coin it, the "Face of the Franchise." Regardless of how you break it down and evaluate the talent at this position, there is some serious star-studded talent throughout. Here are the Top 10 Shortstops in the game of baseball right now:  By: Chris Larson
Time for another week of the Remaining Pieces series. This time we are moving to Part III of the series, which focuses on the American League Central, since today is Monday and Mondays are dedicated to all things American League. This series, which goes team-by-team and division-by-division, is focused on identifying one remaining need for all 30 teams, something that every team should hope to achieve prior to Opening Day. With that being said, let's get started!  By: Chris Larson
Over the past week, there have been rumblings out of Cleveland that the Indians are at least willing to listen to many of their players, with the exception of both, Jose Ramirez and Francisco Lindor. As news of this came out into the market, word quickly spread around the industry and teams started contacting the Indians to see if a potential deal would be worked out.  By Eric Jacinto, Matt Koontz, Chris Larson, Joe Wagner, Ryan Waterman and Johnny JonesThe 2018 Divisional Series, starts tomorrow with the two NL series and the AL starts on Friday. The Atlanta Braves will play the Los Angeles Dodgers in one of the NLDS. series The Milwaukee Brewers will play the Colorado Rockies who beat the Chicago Cubs in the NL Wild Card game on Tuesday night in 13 innings, 2-1.
The winner of the New York Yankees/Oakland Athletics in the AL Wild Card game will play the Boston Red Sox in one of the ALDS series. The Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros will play each other in the other ALDS series. Click here to view the Postseason (League Division Series) Schedule.  By: Chris Larson
The American League MVP race is certainly made up of plenty of talented names, ranging from J.D. Martinez to Mookie Betts to Mike Trout, who is still the best player of this decade. No matter how you slice it, anyone would want those three players on their team, any day of the week and any team, would benefit tremendously from an offensive perspective with any of those three. |
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