Craig Biggio’s once-potent bat has splintered over the last couple of years, prompting him to announce he’ll pack it in at season’s end. For the next few days, we’re subbing in for Aaron Gleeman with the Daily Dose, reprising our role from last September, so expect plenty of baseball coverage between now and Monday. Craig […]

With the MLB regular season over, the Dose is dead for now. But not to worry, fans (all three of you): today marks the debut of my newest baseball column, Offseason Lowdown, which will appear every Thursday on RotoWorld, USA Today and possibly Fox Sports (depending how much attention it plans to pay on baseball

Baltimore’s Daniel Cabrera, a maddeningly difficult fantasy player to own, was on his game last night, coming within two outs of tossing the first complete-game no-hitter by an Oriole since Jim Palmer did it in 1969. Check out Cabrera’s exploits in today’s Daily Dose. Coors Field is a pitcher’s park? Trying telling that to anyone

As Don Henley so succinctly stated, “in a New York minute, everything can change.” Thanks to Pedro Martinez’s calf woes, the Mets may be forced to change their entire post-season pitching rotation. We review the situation in today’s Daily Dose. Derek Lowe has benefited greatly from having Greg Maddux around. Last night Lowe wasn’t at

The A’s are headed back to the playoffs, earning their first AL West title since 2003. For catcher Jason Kendall, it marks his post-season debut after 11 major league seasons. We explore this topic in today’s Daily Dose. A team going in the opposite direction is St. Louis. It lost its seventh straight yesterday even

Nomar Garciaparra has hit two dramatic game-winning home runs in the last week, but these may still be his final days as a Dodger, we write in today’s Daily Dose. Also, we honor Trevor Hoffman after his record-setting performance last night. Read all of this and the remainder of my fantasy baseball notes in today’s