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Fresh from winning his first Gold Glove which capped off a memorable year, following his perfect game against Tampa Bay last July, Mark Buerhle made a strong case for this year's award on Opening Day. Pitching in the top of the 5th inning with one out, Cleveland's Lou Marson hit a pitch back to...

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...

As usual news has been thin on the ground during the baseball offseason and as usual anything involving anything to do with Yankees overrides everything else. Irregular bowel movements from CC Sabathia would take precedent over anything relating to the Dodgers opening day starter or the Mariners...

On Monday, the Minnesota Twins took an eight year gamble as they announced they tied up their hometown boy Joe Mauer with a $184 million contract extension keeping him in Minnesota until he is 35 years old. Mauer was due to become a free agent at the end of the 2010 season which, in the absence...

We all know about Billy Beane, GM of the Oakland Athletics, and most people have heard of the 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game based on his experiences on how you can field a competitive and cost effective baseball team. So knowing Billy Beane, a few eyebrows were raised...

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...

Over the past few months both the Commissioner's Office and The MLB Player's Association have been publicaly discussing the current elephant in the room which is casting a cloud over baseball, that being the issue of Human Growth Hormone. HGH was banned in 2005 but today there is still no test...

Already being in possession of the record $15.1 million for a draft pick, the story of the day was Stephen Strasburg's debut in spring training as the Washington Nationals took on the Detroit Tigers. Strasburg, the 2009 number one overall draft pick, spent some time in the Arizona Fall League...

On Monday Alex Rodriguez was officially linked to another drug controversy when Dr. Anthony Galea, a physician based in Toronto who is under investigation in both the US and Canada, confirmed that he treated Rodriguez last March in relation to a bout of inflammation following his hip surgery...

In part 4 of at Pinnacle's 2010 MLB props, we look at the remainder of the pitching betting options – saves and strikeouts – before moving to the team props. The saves prop (unlike the strikeout prop) is similar to pitching props like wins (or especially losses) since the numbers of saves are...

After his statement last month over his steroid use Mark McGwire, the highest profile hitting coach in MLB, had his team's spring training hijacked by further steroid revelations from his brother Jay. Mark McGwire, the 12 time All Star who still holds the lowest at bats per home run ratio, will...

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...