We’re just a week away from opening day in the best baseball city in America. The Cardinals come into the 2009 campaign with many question marks after a relatively quiet offseason in free agency.

As they’ve done four of the last five years, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will win the AL West going away. Despite some April rotation problems they’ll have, the Angels have enough bats and bullpen arms to mosey on into the playoffs by default. The last five years, the Angels have a .582 winning percentage against the West, and this year that

BOILING SPRINGS - The Gardner-Webb baseball team used a nine-run burst in the fourth inning to win 10-9 in Sunday's opener, but fell late in an 8-4 decision to split the day's twinbill with Longwood. Trailing 9-1 in the opener after three innings, Gardner-Webb

Good news baseball fans! In a week from tomorrow, your favorite team will finally be playing in ... the regular season! I know, this regular season I speak of is a strange concept, but if you think back to six months and about 500 beers ago, then you'll recall a time when the Tampa Bay Rays were holding back the surging Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs were in deadly pursuit of their first 100-win season since the last Great Depression. Now that Spring is finally ending -- although I've got m