Baseball returning to prominence

MLB Draft: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9295644/national-league-central-team-needs-targets-2013-mlb-draft?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">NL Central targets
Bowden: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/the-gms-office/post?id=6632&addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Indians should be sellers
Szymborski: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9297550/anthony-rendon-best-house-solutions-contenders-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_xxx_sce_mlb_xxx&addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Best in-house upgrades
Lindbergh: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9301085/why-baltimore-orioles-better-2013-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">O's even better in 2013
Law: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/keith-law/post?id=827&addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Diagnosing Hosmer, Moustakas' woes

Updated: November 3, 2003, 11:51 AM ET

By Jim Baker | MLB Insider

Baseball, it seems, is waking up with the hangover it got from partying too hard at contract time back in 2000 and our own Peter Gammons has a very interesting take on the situation. Focusing on Manny Ramirez, he points out that the union needs to take some of the blame for that

The Marlins are sure to be an inspiration to many other baseball teams, but do they have legs beyond their own sport? Ethan J. Skolnick of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel discusses how the Marlins' success will impact the town's more famous denizen, the Dolphins.

John Erardi of the Cincinnati Enquirer has the latest from baseball's favorite outcast, Pete Rose. He also suggests some famous real and fictitious characters that Rose should emulate.

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