Stephen Strasburg: Star or Bust >> Posted By needforsports 2 hours, 26 minutes ago in Sports > On Tuesday evening, the Washington Nationals did what everyone was expecting them to do: they drafted San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg with the first overall pick in Major League Baseball's First-Year Player Draft.

Diabetes Diet	Custom Wedding Bands		Green Interior Design
Executive Recruiter Consulting Toronto	Janitorial Services Fredericksburg	Static Electricity Control	Legal Information

** Follow Fwicki on Twitter

NEW YORK Target Field has a target date. Outdoor baseball is tentatively set to return to Minneapolis on April 12 when the Minnesota Twins play their 2010 home opener against the Boston Red Sox.

Manny Ramirez returned to the big leagues as only he could. Wearing sunglasses and with his famous dreadlocks in a ponytail, the Los Angeles Dodgers ' slugger apologized to fans and teammates during a news conference Friday afternoon.

SAN DIEGO ? Manny Ramriez has walked in his first at-bat since his 50-day suspension for violating baseball's drug policy ended. It was a loud at-bat, with Dodgers fans standing and cheering, and Padres fans trying to drown them out with boos. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Pinch-hitter Brooks Conrad hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 9-8 on Friday night for their season-high fifth straight win. Yunel Escobar drew a leadoff walk ...

How it went down: On Dec. 13, 2007, Lo Duca was cited in the Mitchell Report as a user of steroids and human growth hormone.

Menlo School grad Kenny Diekroeger's summer just keeps getting more interesting.

Agent to the stars Scott Boras is at it again. The high-profile representative who has a long history of creative maneuvering when it comes to the MLB draft, is floating the possibility that wunderkind and top overall pick Stephen Strasburg could play professionally in Japan if he's not paid in line with what Boras thinks he's worth.

Aroldis Chapman , a Cuban considered by many scouts to be the best lefthanded pitching prospect in the world, has defected from the national team, several sources confirmed to ESPN The Magazine.

Stephen Strasburg went undrafted out of high school. Three years later, he was the overall No.

Since the beginning of the season, I've been watching the Washington Nationals play a very unique brand of baseball. Most of us wrote off last year's 59-102 debacle as a perfect storm, a confluence of off-years, green pitching and bad luck. I mean ...

Coach John Carruthers (right) has the attention of all his charges as he imparts the best method of throwing a ball to a teammate after a circle throw and catch practice session. From left to right are: Dylan Justice, Christian Barrowdale, Jayson ...

Detroit at Minnesota . Kevin Slowey goes for his 11th win when the contending Twins host the AL Central -leading Tigers in the opener of a weekend series.

LUBBOCK, Texas ? Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year ...

Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 16:04. Outside Nationals Park here, there's a statue of legendary Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson.

Dodgers left fielder Manny Ramirez will be going through uncharted territory when he returns to the lineup today after serving a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance.

Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year.

A season-high four-game winning streak and a sweep of the defending World Champions has put the Atlanta Braves back in the thick of the NL East race. A visit to Washington could help them climb even higher. Some challenges could lie ahead for the ...

Two top baseball players who were caught using performance-enhancing drugs With Manny Ramirez back tonight from his 50-game drug suspension, a look at some of baseball's top players linked to performance-enhancing drugs. Dodgers left fielder Manny ...

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:30 a.m. You don't have to be Perry Mason to solve the latest whodunit: The Case of the Ballpark Murder.

Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year.

Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) ? Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year ...

The Atlanta Braves try to push their season-high winning streak to five games this evening when they open a three-game series with the lowly Washington Nationals at Nationals Park. Although it still sits in fourth place, Atlanta got itself right back ...

Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz was arrested yesterday in South Florida on charges of domestic battery against his ex-wife, just two months before his trial on a DUI manslaughter charge was set to begin.

Former San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 overall draft pick by the Washington Nationals last month, has been selected as the winner of the Dick howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year.

Brooks Conrad's first home run of his career was a pinch-hit, three-run shot to help the Atlanta Braves take a 9-8 win over the Washington Nationals in the opener of a three-game set. Chipper Jones, Yunel Escobar and Matt Diaz each had two RBI while ...

Manny Ramirez returned to the big leagues and apologized to fans and his teammates.

SAN DIEGO - Manny Ramirez returned to the big leagues and apologized to fans and his teammates. He refused to talk about steroids, though. The slugger's 50-game suspension for violating baseball's drug policy ended Friday and he was set to play for ...

The skeptics were right. The struggles of the Nationals and Orioles show there isn't room for two teams in the Washington area.

What happened to the NL East? They've taken over the title of the laughing stock of baseball.

Former Expos manager Felipe Alou and son Moises were fan favourites last night during fundraising softball game at Jarry Park to benefit the ALS Society of Quebec.

Looking around Peter G. Angelos? office on the 22nd floor of One Charles Center, you?d never guess he had anything to do with the Baltimore Orioles. The tiny clues are practically drowned out by the brilliantly distracting view of the Inner ...

Outside Nationals Park here, there's a statue of legendary Washington Senators pitcher Walter (Big Train) Johnson. What was meant as a signature piece is so preposterously awful -- the artists call it "repetitive motion" but to most people it makes ...

If so, better get to a game pretty soon. Looks like the Vermont Lake Monsters are not long for the Green Mountain State. Last week, Burlington Free Press sportswriter Mike Donoghue wrote a long piece on the inadequacies of the Lake Monsters? home ...

The Washington Capitals are among the top 10 franchises on ESPN 's "Ultimate Standings" list, which ranks all 122 franchises in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball .

Here is a list of some reasonably available players to assist you in the strikeout category.

Baseball fans in Atlanta on April 27 and in Milwaukee exactly one month later might not have known they'd witnessed something especially rare. No, not a sea gull beaned by a base hit, or even a victory by the Washington Nationals. Let it be noted ...

Here is a list of some reasonably available players to assist you in the strikeout category. I realize that some of these players will come with high ERA and WHIP because if a pitcher has low numbers in those categories and a good K total, they?re ...

MIAMI, July 1 -- The Washington Nationals sent Elijah Dukes to Class AAA Syracuse on Wednesday morning, saying Dukes was not a "finished product" and needed to play every day rather than sit on the bench in the majors. The move came in response to ...

Less than an hour before game time, Boog Powell, the former Baltimore Orioles slugger turned stadium restaurateur, stands in his usual spot, greeting fans lined up for his sizzling pork and beef dishes at Boog's Barbeque Pit, along the concourse ...

Belief in baseball With many of the estimated crowd of more than 70,000 fans departing from Cooperstown today, and most of the rest leaving tomorrow, the town is no doubt looking forward to getting back to business as usual. This was my first trip to ...

According to manager Ozzie Guillen, a rough draft of the 2010 interleague schedule features the White Sox making trips to National League East opponents Washington and Florida.

Cody Ross hit his 14th home run and added an RBI single in the eighth for Florida, which improved to 9-0 against Washington this season and 25-3 against the Nationals since September 2007. Ramirez hit a two-run double for the Marlins, making him the ...

Within weeks, Lastings Milledge was in the minor leagues and Joel Hanrahan was in a mop-up role. And now neither player is employed by the Nationals . In the first significant trade of the Mike Rizzo era, Washington's acting general manager dealt ...

The Nationals have no answer for either, and so they were pretty much doomed to lose Tuesday night's game at Land Shark Stadium one way or another. Never mind that they held a four-run lead in the sixth inning. The deadly combination of Ramirez, the ...

MIAMI (AP) ? Nyjer Morgan had no complaints about getting traded to the team with baseball's worst record. Instead, he found it flattering. With that, he and the Washington Nationals are getting along just fine. The Nationals welcomed Morgan and ...

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs (8:05 p.m.). The NL Central rivals open a four-game series at Wrigley Field. Seth McClung (3-1, 3.55 ERA) is scheduled to get the ball for the division-leading Brewers, while Ryan Dempster (4-5, 4.09 ERA) is expected to ...

MIAMI ? Asked to explain Florida's baffling mastery of the Washington Nationals, Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez offered the simplest explanation. "We've been lucky," he said. Having Hanley Ramirez has helped a little bit, too. Ramirez extended his ...