With about two weeks until Major League Baseball breaks for its annual All-Star festivities (this year to be held in St. Louis), it’s time to evaluate each league’s performances both from individual and team standpoints. This piece, highlighting the National League in particular, with offer the traditional MLB awards and will finish by predicting how each division race/playoffs will play out.National League MVP: Albert Pujols/ 1B/ St. Louis Cardinals.328 BA, 28 HR, 74 RBI, .451 OBPWhat an easy c

The very talented illustrator Joshua David McKenney has started a Facebook frenzy with his amazing series of watercolor portraits of friends like David Favale , Maya Judd , Nicolas Alexander , Antonia Thompson , Kwesi Blair , Mark Langrish , George Sotelo , Eric Spear and yours truly. Having a McKenney watercolor as your Facebook profile pic is the new badge of cool. I was bored on the bus to Boston and I decided to do a doodle of my friend, McKenney tells me. I did a few more fr

If there are two things I love it's baseball and the Samurai... and so, I give you this: Cool, right? Shoutout to Big League Stew for the clip. Click the link to read more...

Not much to report here really... The Red Sox seem to have the Orioles number these days, especially when Jon Lester is pitching. With last night's 4-0 victory, Lester improved to 8-0 agains the O's in his career. He pitched seven shutout innings and fanned eight, knocking his ERA down to 4.35 on the year and 1.85 in five June starts. Paps closed out the game and earned his 132nd save, tying him... Click the link to read more...

It appears that Jon Lester has sorted through the problems that plagued him through the early part of the season. The latest evidence came from last night’s start against the Orioles, which saw Lester toss seven shutout innings with eight strikeouts in a 4-0 win. Lester improved to 8-0 with a 2.18 ERA in 10 career starts against Baltimore. Jason Bay made a beautiful sliding catch with two outs in the ninth inning to secure the save for Jonathan Papelbon, who tied Bob Stanley for the most caree