Prospecting for Gold:
Babes In Crazyland
By now you've probably noticed the long run of Dan Troy articles. Well, why mess with a streak, we say! After reading this assessment of his prospects' prospects, Peter Angelos decided to start overpaying free agents again.

Prospecting for Gold:
The Phuture is Now
Completing his circuit of the NL East, Dan Troy searches the Cradle of Liberty for noteworthy prospects, and surprisingly, doesn't get arrested.

Prospecting for Gold:
Shea La Vie
It's Dan Troy again, and this time he's observing, assessing, and tallying the youngsters they're rushing to Flushing. Okay, that one was especially bad. We're honestly very sorry.

Prospecting for Gold:
Budding Bedouins
Where would we be without Dan Troy? Nowhere. Speaking of which, he looks at MLB's barnstorming Expos and tells us who's on track to join that nomadic tribe and walk the earth like Caine.

Prospecting for Gold:
South Breach
Back with another team crop future, Dan Troy takes on the World Champs, and predicts that they won't be World Champs in 2008, unless Steinbrenner decides to spend his dotage in warmer climes.

Prospecting for Gold:
Brave Chart
In this offseason of our discontent, Dan Troy begins his team-by-team look at the kids who haven't even taken their first steroid yet. Okay, so that might be hitting below the belt. We hear steroids often do that too.

Don't Cry For Me, Derek Jeter
Whoever wins the World Series, Erik Lundegaard just hopes they shake hands and claim their winner's-share checks like professionals instead of going all Sally Field on our asses. And when he says "whoever," of course he clearly means the Yankees.

Curse Of The Curse
The World Series is here, and to FOX's dismay, this year the road to the championship is probably more interesting than the championship. Dan Troy writes more words here than Bret Boone spoke during the entire ALCS.

Prospecting for Gold:
The Postseason Edition
Once again propping up Strikethree.com with his wit and wisdom, Dan Troy gives you some rookies to watch in the playoffs. Bonus: we cut him off from TV on Tuesday and made him do predictions.

Prospecting for Gold:
Prospect of the Year 2003
With the minor-league year wrapping up, Dan Troy ponders the best seasons of the season, and hands off the hardware to some lucky kid, who then wonders why he just got handed the old faucet from Dan's sink.

Prospecting for Gold:
Serving Minors in Beertown
Returning to his duty as trusty cub reporter (as opposed to Cub reporter), Dan Troy sees good things (and one especially large thing) coming to The City That Made Schlitz Famous.

Prospecting for Gold:
The Short Stops Here
Taking out his trusty spyglass, Dan Troy surveys a couple of middle infielders who he believes would comprise one-ninth of an able-bodied crew. Just don't ask him to figure out how the sextant works.

The Predicticator II: NL Style
Without a single Pete Rose rumor to spread Dave Paisley unleashes the hounds on the National League and tries to figure out why those pesky Braves just won't go away. Maybe we'll just have to wait till the post season as usual?

Prospecting for Gold:
Blue Blood
Moving to the opposite side of this great nation, Dan Troy pokes and prods some of the Dodgers' potential pitching prospects until we step in and tell him "bleeding Dodger blue" is just a figure of speech.

Baseballhead:
Back In Slack
In a column specifically designed not to mention any front-page names starting with "K" or "A," Michael Cox instead delves into why Jeff Nelson was sent to his room without his supper, and why that's not really punishment for a kid with a fridge and big-screen TV in his room.

Prospecting for Gold:
I've Arrived (And To Prove It I'm Here)
There's a new kid on the block, and we gave Dan Troy a shiny quarter and put him in charge of watching the farm. Now play nice, and no swirlies, or no one's getting any ice cream.

The Predicticator
Stretch drive. Trade deadline approaching. Time to take stock. Dave Paisley cranks the predictation machine into reverse to see how things should have come out. He bets Pete Rose wishes he'd bet on the Royals this year...

Baseballhead:
All-Star Blame
This just in: your Commissioner-for-life can easily be replaced by a 19-year-old girl in a sausage outfit. This time, Michael Cox's opinion counts. Also, guys hitting balls great distances, and grown men behaving like the cast of "The Real World."

The Magnificent Six
As MLB winds its way down to the ever so needed All Star break, Dave Paisley tries to bring you some good news about the All Star selections. No, really, it can be done! Still, he manages to get a little rant in here and there, but who can blame him?

Baseballhead:
Home Improvement
With the balloting over and the votes all tabulated, Michael Cox can now announce this result: what the hell were they thinking? Also, Move over, Joe Morgan, make room for Mr. T.

Baseballhead:
American Idle
They say August is the "dog days," but Michael Cox finds it pretty poochy as July kicks off. From interleague narcolepsy to uniform uncouth-...er, ...-itude, in several easy-to-read paragraphs.

Prospect Report:
One Last Thing...
In the thrilling conclusion of the Prospect Report, David Cameron has a few guys he wishes he'd remembered last week, and remembers a few guys he'd like to hug. We'll miss him, the big galoot.

Lucky Dogs II—This Time It's National!
Now Dave Paisley turns his attention to the most fortunate li'l pitchers on the Senior Circuit, which is not to be confused with some sort of Old-Timers' charity tour. At least that's the mistake some guy at the bar made last night.

Baseballhead:
Boy, Did They Say It
This week Michael Cox takes a break from putting words in people's mouths, and takes a few words out of their mouths. Or whatever orifice said words might happen to be in. Yes, he uses latex gloves.

Prospect Report:
Stars and Bars
It's time to pick the best of the first half, and David Cameron is up to the task. Get out your homemade minor-league Strat-O-Matic cards and play yourself an All-Star...you mean I'm the only one with homemade minor-league Strat-O-Matic cards?

Lucky Dogs
In the grand tapestry that is life, it's often better to be lucky than good. Dave Paisley illustrates that with a brief around AL pitching. Unfortunately for the Tigers being neither sounds the death knell for the season.

More Features - More Analysis

Top 100 Prospects of 2003 - These are the stars of the future (barring injury or shoplifting conviction). By David Cameron.
Also see the 2002 list.

The 2002 Strikethree.com Baseball Awards - The best of the best (and best of the worst), selected by you.

The Prospect Ten -- Rated most likely to succeed, this is the class of the minors. No wagering, please.

How to judge prospects using actual performance instead of those "tools" things, by David Cameron

Smuggling Food, the article that took the Web by storm, by Hayes Bowman

How to See a Ballgame -- Be admired by friends and wanted by the opposite sex, by Michael Cox.
Part I -- Part II -- Part III

Boy's World, the first woman to play major-league baseball stars in the best online serial ever, by Derek Zumsteg.