Jason Kubel News

With plate appearances and innings pitched piling up a bit, we can finally start to look -- though there are still small sample size caveats -- at what some of our old friends are up to in their current locations.

Prior to May 3, D-backs ace Ian Kennedy had won nine straight and 16 of 17 regular-season decisions.

With the 2012 Major League Baseball first-year player draft less than one month away, it seems timely to look back on the Minnesota Twins' draft history.

It's difficult to win when the first three hitters homer. The pros call that "starting off in a hole." The Cardinals lead baseball with a team BABIP of .331. GM John Mozeliak got a call from A's GM Billy Beane, who asked for "my .031 back." Stephen Strasburg struck out 13 Pirates and, at one point, seven straight.

Finding a needle in a haystack would be a pretty difficult task. That is, of course, assuming that a needle is in there at all.

Every team needs a go-to power bat in their lineup who has the ability to be a game-changer with one swing of the lumber.

It has been a memorable month for the offseason acquisition, who already has earned big points as a slugger and a family man.

Jose Reyes got the night off, and still had as many hits as nearly everyone else in the Miami lineup.