Just another example of the stupidity of Orioles management, and the dumb luck of Brian Cashman being able to pedal of unneeded assets for actual help.

It's time to see what Prospects lie in the NL East. And to put it bluntly, there's ain't much. Particularly in Washington.

It's the American League West's top prospects covered by Baseball Central today, with some disagreements, some notes on how bad the Rangers farm system is, and some references to vampires and World B. Free thrown in.

It's day number two of the whirwind trip around baseball's divisions to see who each organization's top prospect is. Today, Baseball Central ganders the AL Central and finds that it's a division where it seems each team has an elite prospect just waiting to show the Majors what they've got.

Baseball Central starts it's gander into who each organization's best prospect is. First stop the AL East. And after we get past the obligatory Phil Hughes pick for the Yankees, things start getting a little more interesting.

Baseball Central's newest article features a pot-pourri of baseball tidbits, including a fictional story featured in Esquire Magazine which surrounds the death of the Yankee shortstop.

Also noted: How can David Ecsktein be overlooked, if everyone notices him? A scientific analysis of who the World Series favourite is now. And what you need to know about Tom Gorzelanny.

A list of 10 Things That Would Make Major League Baseball Better.

No, it's not a redundant list of griping about salaries and the New York Yankees, it's much more esoteric than that. It's tackling the real pandemics of the game, like The Wave and the stupid new hockey mask that catchers wear.

Everyone in the online community wants to weigh in with their predictions of what's going to go down in the two baseball matchups.

Here's some of the more entertaining ones

Rosenthal doesn't care he went 0 for 4, and provides his prognosis: http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6045998

(He picks Tigers and Mets)

Sager takes the Cardinals and Athletics as his picks: http://neatesager.blogspot.com/2006/10/mlb-playoffs-whos-world-serious.html

And, I'm too afraid to look dumb, so pick everyone and no-one: http://dahumber.blogspot.com/2006/10/championship-series-preview.html

In an interview with members of a long running baseball keeper pool, Jose Reyes and Albert Pujols were the consensous choices for the Most Valuable Players to have.

On Reyes: "Despite the fact he has only one fantastic season under his belt, there is little to suggest that he won't duplicate or improve on his numbers due to the fact he is still well under 25 years of age. Another factor which greatly helps him is the fact that he will never have pitchers try to pitch around him."

On Pujols: "He hits like Gehrig and is only 26 years old"

Other subjects include most overrated fantasy players and best player not currently in the majors.