I wouldn’t exactly call him a major fantasy option, but Milwaukee middle reliever Rick Helling does deserve a look. With three striaght scoreless outings, Helling now has a 2.20 ERA in 10 games since the break. His opponents batting average since then? Try .132. Because he’s often used as a multi-inning man, Helling doesn’t see

Richie Sexson, just dreadful the first couple of months of the season, has spent the past few weeks trying to justify that huge cash outlay by the Mariners. Since the break, the hulking Sexson is batting .280 with 11 homers while getting on base at a .354 clip. That home run total is the second

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Shea Hillenbrand finally contributed something other than team-inspiring epitaths on the clubhouse blackboard. After getting ushered out of Toronto for predicting nautical disasters, he’s been next to useless with the Giants, batting just .215 since arriving. But that was before Cincinnati came to town and Hillenbrand proceeded

Padres’ prospect Tim Stauffer made an emergency start Monday when Chan Ho Park was scratched and now that Chris Young may be ailing, Stauffer could stick around for more than just one start. He certainly deserves another start or two after throwing six innings of three-hit, two-run (one earned) ball, with just one walk and

John Koronka’s brutal performances finally earned him a ticket out of Texas and down to Triple-A Oklahoma. His fate was sealed when he couldn’t even get out of the second inning against the Tigers. In his past two starts, Koronka was absolutely shellacked for 13 hits, 13 runs, two homers and eight walks in just