Brown, Morrison, the Future.

The recent call-ups of Domonic Brown and Logan Morrison are massive. These are two guys that are in a wave of incredible baseball players taking over the league. While neither of them are quite on the level of Jason Heyward or Mike Stanton, they are going to be perennial All-Stars. The move for Morrison from a 1B to a LF is awesome. The Marlins are awesome. The future is awesome. I wonder if Carlos Santana can play the guitar too.

My Top Future Hitters List

Jason Heyward
Justin Upton

Domonic Brown

Desmond Jennings
Bryce Harper

Carlos Santana

Buster Posey

Mike Stanton

Pedro Alvarez

Justin Smoak

Logan Morrison

Jesus Montero

Grant Green

Gordon Beckham

Fernando Martinez

Chris Carter
Freddie Freeman

This is an absolute work in progress but I'm posting it for now anyways, HA.

Roy Oswalt

Roy Oswalt is a stud. Career 3.57 K/BB. Career .255 AVG against with a .306 BABIP. The Astros deserve a good prospect for him, regardless of contract, at least a package frontlined by Jesus Montero.

The man just does not get the respect he deserves. His ten-year career ERA+ is 134.

This year his K/BB is 3.53, his WHIP is 1.11, his strand rate is right in line with his career normal and his BABIP is only 23 points lower, although it would be the lowest BABIP he's ever recorded. Even with regression, Roy Oswalt will be an incredible 2-starter on any team. If the Rangers can land Oswalt in a three-way deal, they instantly become the World Series favorites in a relatively open year.

Of course the Yankees are always the favorites, but a healthy Rangers lineup with a playoff staff consisting of the best left-handed pitcher in the league, Roy Oswalt, Colby Lewis, and CJ Wilson or Derek Holland, if a fourth starter is even needed. Three guys who have been around, have seen the league, have never won a World Series ring.

Roy Oswalt has a good chance to win a World Series ring this year if he is traded. His salary is large, but he is just the kind of piece to make a good team great.

Lee for Smoak

As much as I want to say the Rangers screwed up, it is too early to tell. Say they win a ring this year or even the next, would you consider it a win even when Justin Smoak goes on to continually spank them for the next half-decade plus?

Say Nelson Cruz tears a hamstring or Josh Hamilton goes into remission, is that enough to completely take away their hopes at a World Series title?

By the way, a healthy Rangers roster with another addition to the staff such as Roy Oswalt or Brett Myers is my pick to win the World Series.

LeBron James

to Miami to become the first billionaire in basketball. International icon. Cocaine distributor.

All-Star Weekend

This is my proposal, to help shore up all the snubs that I just witnessed and to increase revenues for Major League Baseball. Instead of one All-Star game with two teams, have six teams playing a total of eight baseball games.

The first round would be lose and out. There are two options I've considered for this round and it is either the three AL teams play the three NL teams, rotating divisions similarly to interleague play. That or two intra-league games and one interleague game.

You are then left with three teams, each team playing two games. You will be left with two teams who go on to fight for the crown as Best Division in Baseball.

The players would have to be voted in to keep that fan-interaction aspect running, but the rosters would ultimately be determined by the manager who won the division the prior year with the other 3-5 coaches also in the dugout. For once the Yankees and Red Sox would have to combine forces with Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford to try to take out Justin Upton, Carlos Gonzalez and Jonathan Broxton.

Proposed Rosters

AL East
C Martinez

1B Youkilis

2B Cano

3B Longoria

SS Jeter

LF Crawford
CF Granderson
RF Swisher

SP Hughes
SP Sabathia
SP Price
SP Lester
SP Buchholz

SP Romero
SP Cecil
RP Rivera
RP Soriano
RP Papelbon

AL Central

C Mauer
1B Cabrera
2B Callaspo

3B Peralta
SS Ramirez

LF Rios
CF Jackson
RF Choo

SP Pavano
SP Liriano
SP Danks

SP Greinke

SP Carmona
SP Peavy
SP Verlander
RP Rauch
RP Thornton
RP Soria

AL West
C Suzuki
1B Smoak
2B Kendrick

3B Young

SS Andrus
LF Cruz

CF Hamilton
RF Ichiro

SP Lee

SP Hernandez

SP Lewis

SP Cahill
SP Weaver
SP Pineiro

SP Gonzalez
RP Bailey
RP Feliz
RP Aardsma

NL East

C McCann

1B Glaus
2B Prado
3B Wright
SS Ramirez

LF Victorino
CF Pagan
RF Werth

SP Johnson

SP Halladay
SP Santana
SP Pelfrey
SP Hanson
SP Hudson
SP Strasburg
RP Wagner
RP Capps
RP Rodriguez

NL Central
C Doumit
1B Votto

2B Phillips
3B Rolen
SS Theriot

LF Braun

CF McCutchen

RF Rasmus

SP Gallardo
SP Leake
SP Wainwright
SP Carpenter
SP Garcia
SP Oswalt

SP Silva
RP Marmol
RP Meek
RP Rhodes

NL West
C Olivo
1B Gonzalez

2B Johnson

3B Reynolds
SS Tulowitzki
LF Kemp

CF Gonzalez

RF Upton

SP Jimenez

SP Kershaw
SP Latos
SP Lincecum
SP Cain
SP Sanchez
SP Richard

RP Broxton
RP Bell
RP Wilson

What is an Omar Infante?

Jered Weaver and Joey Votto stand out to me as the biggest snubs in their respective leagues. The worst player on either team is Omar Infante, that is absolute insanity. What is an Omar Infante?

Cahill is nice and all, but Weaver or Romero deserved a slot in the game, and this is coming from an Oakland Athletics fan.

Now that you mention it, Kurt Suzuki getting snubbed is an absolute snub and a half. Jorge Posada GET OFF THE TEAM.

Youkilis, too, snubbed.

Howard finally doesn't deserve to make the All-Star team and does. Brandon Phillips should be starting.

Don't forget Andrew McCutchen either. Jesus there are a good amount of snubs. Maybe they should play two All-Star games? Maybe three All-Star games? Each division gets their own All-Star game? Tournament? Holy crap.