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You sometimes have to wonder if baseball journalists are lazy or don't pay enough attention to the sport they cover. Or maybe they just think that if it doesn't happen in New York or Boston then it's not important. Just over a week into the 162 game season, it's hard to avoid a story about David...

While Mark Buerhle was wowing the south side of Chicago with his wonder play, Vanderbilt pitcher Corey Williams was spending Monday recovering from surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after an equally impressive play of his own over the weekend, although this one was certainly not as...

Toronto Blue Jays The best outcome for the Toronto Blue Jays most years is 3rd in the AL East and in those most years they had Roy Halladay. Without him, they're going to be battling all they can to avoid finishing last. They aren't even such a bad team, they just happen to be in the division...

Washington Nationals When you are a generally a lock to finish bottom of your division and your offseason signings include Adam Kennedy, Jason Marquis and Ivan Rodriguez then history is probably going to repeat itself. Although they do have some good young players and an ownership willing to...

Kansas City Royals Billy Butler, David DeJesus and Zack Greinke that represents three positives for the Royals organization. Sadly, that's the only three positives in what must be the worst run franchise in baseball it's the club where mediocre players go to die. In the middle of last...

Pittsburgh Pirates Next to the Cubs' World Series drought, it has to be the most overused statistic in baseball but I'll just remind everyone that the Pirates haven't had a winning season since 1992. In 1992, the Arizona Diamondbacks didn't exist and they've already won a World Series...

Los Angeles Angels In the last six years the Angels have been AL West winners five times, the only other time they finished second. In four of those five seasons they won the division by at least six games and you have to go back to 2003 for the last time they won less than 89 games. But if...

With opening day getting ever closer, we are going to take a look at the six divisions, the PECOTA predictions for win totals and the Pinnacle odds for division winners, AL/NL Pennant winners and World Series winners. Going from left to right across the country we start with the NL West...

Now the Spring Training games are underway and the rosters, as well as the PECOTA predictions, are a lot firmer than a month ago, its time to look at the remainder of the Pinnacle MLB season long props; these being for team wins/losses. First is the team wins prop where the O/U is set at...

In part 3 of our look at Pinnacle's 2010 MLB props we get to the first section of the pitcher props; the wins and the losses. Looking back over the last 10 seasons, the current line for wins (O/U 20.5) has cashed 7 times and the line for losses (O/U 17.5) has cashed 8 times - however neither of...