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Here are the guys you wouldn't have (or shouldn't have) discussed with your friends or family before your 2010 fantasy baseball draft.

"How has no one drafted him yet?" you laughed to yourself.

The problem is, people did know about your sleepers. They passed on them for good reasons-or were simply lucky to avoid them.

You certainly don't find anything funny about these guys anymore because they have forced you to hold on to them, due mostly to the hope that they will, at some point, wake up.

July is just around the corner, and in the baseball world, that only means one thing: The trade deadline.

As the first half of a season enters the home stretch ahead of the All-Star game, teams and their GMs start plotting in earnest for some of the most important few weeks of the season.

While some teams will be looking to unload salary or pick up prospects for someone they think they will otherwise lose for free at the end of the season, others will be looking to acquire the pieces to push them over the top this postseason.

Those who are in a position to make a splash will be trying to st

The Baseball Jimmy with Caesar Cliffius Eastham and Sir Illya Charleton Harrell

Illya Harrell: Cliff, As Jerry Reed so eloquently sang in Smokey and the Bandit we, “Have a Long Way To Go and a Short Time To Get There.”

Down to brass tacks, who should the Reds attempt to acquire before the Major League trade deadline?

The injury plague that has ruled Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya's career struck again Monday night.

The reliever threw a pitch with one out in the eighth inning that Minnesota Twins outfielder Delmon Young fouled off.

Zumaya's right arm went limp after the pitch and he fell to the ground, writhing in pain. His right thumb shook as trainers examined him.

The video shows a pitcher in so much pain he can barely walk off the field.

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A shipment of corkboard arrived at Fenway Park today, with a note from New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman.

As a result of Carlos Zambrano’s tirade on Friday, the Chicago Cubs have placed Zambrano on the restricted list. So what exactly does that mean?

The restricted list is a list of players to whom certain teams have contractual obligations, but are currently not a part of the team and may not play in an MLB game. Players on the restricted list do not count towards a team’s 25-man or 40-man roster.

As we approach the 2010 MLB All-Star break, there is one topic that always seems to be more attention-grabbing than watching your favorite slugger launch rockets to the moon; one subject that nearly always trumps the festivities of raising money for charity, and playing a single game to determine home field advantage.

MLB trade rumors.

Interleague play has come to an end, but that certainly didn’t stop the excitement.  Who would have thought both Stephen Strasburg and Ubaldo Jimenez would look human on the same night?  Chase Utley owners need to be holding their breath, as he left yesterday’s game with an apparent injury.

Victor Martinez was hit with two foul tipped balls on Sunday, the first off Pablo Sandoval’s bat in the second inning, then off the bat of Andres Torres in the third, which broke a bone in the tip of V-Mart’s left thumb.