Back by popular demand, we've compiled the Latest Leaders for MLBlogs for the past year. As it turned out, 2009 was a great year to be an MLBlogger, with some new faces joining some old standbys with large audiences. For the second-straight year, it was a Cub (Reed Johnson, this time) who boasted the most traffic amongst the player-bloggers. MetsBlog.com reigned supreme in the Pro Blogs category, while Confessions of a She-Fan edged out last year's top Fan blog, Red State Blue State. It was newcomer Bowman's Blog that ended up leading the team beat writer blogs. Congratulations to everyone on the list and here's wishing you all a very happy 2010!

Here's a link to the 2008 Latest Leaders for those of you who would like to do a year-to-year comparison.

PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines  
2. Torii's Storiis   
3. Ank's Blog  
4. Behind the Mask  
5. Matt's Blog  
6. Disco Hayes  
7. Dining with 'Dre  
8. kevin slowey's (offseason) blog  
9. Scott Eyre's Blog  
10. Matt Kemp's Blog  
11. Big Papi's Blog  
12. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham  
13. Derek's Blog  
14. Perk's Place  
15. Moskie Madness  
16. Beau knows diddly  
17. Bally's Blog  
18. Plouffe!  
19. Rick's Blog  
20. Laying Down the Lawrie  
21. Wagner's Compositions  
22. Life in Grey Pants  
23. Future in Pinstripes  
24. 30 is the new 20  
25. Huston Street's Blog  
26. Braves in the AFL  
27. Hanley's Blog  
28. Giants in the AFL  
29. Michael Cuddyer's Blog  
30. Prince's Blog
  
MLB PRO  
1. MetsBlog.com  
2. Hot Stove Blog  
3. Bronx Banter  
4. Mets Minor League Blog  
5. Was Watching  
6. Pinstriped Bible  
7. Trade Talk  
8. Inside the Dodgers  
9. The Kimberly Jones Blog  
10. YES Blog  
11. Baseball Nerd  
12. MLB.com Fantasy 411  
13. The Baseball Collector  
14. Alyson's Footnotes  
15. *touch* 'em all  
16. Around the Horn in KC  
17. Phillies Insider  
18. Inside the White Sox  
19. Reds Internal Affairs  
20. Inside the Giants Clubhouse  
21. Ben's Biz Blog  
22. The Max  
23. MLBlogosphere (lol)  
24. Newberg Report  
25. MLB.TV Blog  
26. The USA Baseball 16U Blog  
27. Red Sox Insider Blog  
28. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful  
29. Vine Line's Cubs Club Blog  
30. Tommy Lasorda's World  
31. Kaat's Korner  
32. Beat the Streak Report  
33. The Blob  
34. Twins Ballpark Update  
35. Friar John's Blog  
36. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls  
37. The Nets Insider  
38. Deep in the Red  
39. MLB Urban Youth Academy  
40. The Pulse  
41. Brian Anderson's House of Blogs  
42. Off The Wall with Chris Shearn  
43. Mrs. Singy  
44. MURRAY COOK'S FIELD BLOG  
45. New Era Presents the Call-Up  
46. Heard It From Hoard  
47. Notes from NatsTown  
48. Comerica Park, 48201  
49. Is this thing on?  
50. View From the Booth  
51. Better Off Red
52. Inside the Chiefs  
53. Remembering Harry Kalas  
54. The LumberBlog  
55. MLB.com Organizational Report  
56. got milb?  
57. Gameday  
58. Twins Confidential  
59. The Dog Ate Daron's Homework..Again  
60. Chirp Chatter
61. Harold Reynolds Presents 
62. Psychollingy 
63. From the Booth with Steve Stewart 
64. A Voice From Twins Territory 
65. HYDE'S INSIDE PITCH 
66. Jesse Sanchez at the Park   
67. Delmarva Shorebirds Blog 
68. Siguiendo a los Mets 
69. MiLB Snap Shots 
70. Welcome to Third and King 
71. 'Topes Tattler 
72. It's a Kind of a Family. It's a Kind of Insanity. 
73. 2009 Reds Winter Caravan 
74. Extra Innings with the K Crew 
75. Welcome To The Show 
76. Clubhouse Confidential 
77. Cooperstown Chatter 
78. Colorado Springs Sky Sox Official Team Blog 
79. MLB.TV Mosaic Blog 
80. A 'Braves' New World 
81. An Astros Minute   
82. The Dish    
83. Voices of The Game    
84. @MLB   
85. A's Ticket Services   
86. MLB.com Geeking on the Draft   
87. Desde el Desierto  
88. MLB Musings with Michael - Look Who I Just Interviewed!  
89. Tony Schiavone Blog  
90. MLB.com Mobile Blog  
91. Yankee Stadium Memories   
92. MLB.com/Entertainment    
93. Brooks Robinson's Hot Corner    
94. John & Cait...Plus Nine   
95. DONDE NACEN LAS ESTRELLAS   
96. El Champion Bat   
97. Detrás de Los Dodgers  
98. Diggin' In to the Legends with SuperMario  
99. Ask Dave  
100. Rainiers Rants  

FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan  
2. Red State Blue State  
3. Julia's Rants  
4. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk  
5. Rockpile Rant  
6. The Future Blog of the Red Sox  
7. Phillies Phollowers  
8. I Live for This  
9. FutureAngels.com  
10. Rays Renegade  
11. Pick Me Up Some Mets!  
12. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball  
13. Yankees Chick  
14. I'm Not A Headline Guy...  
15. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student  
16. Counting Baseballs  
17. The 'Burgh Blues  
18. Indians, Cardinals, and Tigers! Oh my!  
19. Eat, Sleep, Baseball  
20. Unfinished Business  
21. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG  
22. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life...  
23. Plunking Gomez  
24. Baseball Cleats & Shoes  
25. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS  
26. King of Cali  
27. Bruce Markusen's Cooperstown Confidential  
28. Cambios y Curvas  
29. Statistician Magician  
30. The 1 Constant  
31. Passion & Pride Collide  
32. Rocky Mountain Way...Outside Coors looking in  
33. The Diamond Diva  
34. All Baseball All The Time  
35. King Yankees  
36. Flair For The Dramatic  
37. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker  
38. Cook & Son Bats' Blog  
39. A Misplaced Astros Fan  
40. The Closer  
41. The Yankees Baseball Whisperer  
42. Live, Eat, and Breathe Yankees  
43. Phillies Red Pinstripes  
44. The Pittsburgh Peas  
45. The Watercooler  
46. sittingstill  
47. Baseball Canadiana  
48. Everything Baseball  
49. Yogi Brewer  
50. Cardinal Girl  
51. Bottom of the Ninth  
52. The Brewer Nation  
53. The NYC Autograph Collector  
54. Linea de Primera  
55. A Bite Off The Big Apple  
56. A Girl's View of the Brewers, and Other Related Baseball Things  
57. cat loves the dodgers
58. Bjarkman's Latino and Cuban League Baseball History Page  
59. The Season Experience  
60. Ranger Rumors  
61. Baseball Bats  
62. We're talkin Homer, Blue Jays and MLB  
63. Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts  
64. The Rumor Mill - MLB Rumors  
65. Redbird Chatter  
66. More Cowbell
67. DYNASTY League Baseball from designer of Pursue the Pennant 
68. This is what the girl thinks.... 
69. Ted's Take 
70. Angry Fan's Baseball Fix
71. Red Sox Nation Daily  
72. Hitless Wanderings in Texas   
73. Baseball's Hottest Wives   
74. District Boy  
75. MLB in the eyes of a 14 year old  
76. Up in Section 360  
77. Prose and Ivy 
78. Perfect Pitch 
79. Yawkey Way Yaker 
80. For Love of The Game 
81. Twins Limey  
82. Hello Halos! My View of the Big A   
83. Sports Propaganda   
84. Bringing Diamond Back(s)  
85. Bleeding Pinstripes  
86. The Squad  
87. Dodgers Trends 
88. Crzblue's Dodger Blue World 
89. Outside the Phillies Looking In 
90. The Golden Rule 
91. New Mexican Yankee Fan  
92. Mets' Main Man   
93. Pinstripes in the Bronx   
94. Art of the Pale Hose  
95. Go Redlegs!  
96. When it Rains it Pours  
97. Blogging 'Bout Baseball 
98. El Casillero de los Medias Rojas 
99. How 'Bout Those Phils? 
100. Wrightoholics     

MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
1. Bowman's Blog  
2. The Zo Zone  
3. Muskat Ramblings  
4. Bombers Beat  
5. Obviously, You're Not a Golfer  
6. Postcards from Elysian Fields  
7. Beck's Blog  
8. CastroTurf  
9. Brownie Points  
10. Brew Beat  
11. All Nats All the Time  
12. Mark My Word  
13. By Gosh, It's Langosch  
14. Major League Bastian  
15. Haft-Baked Ideas  
16. rallymonkeys  
17. The Fish Pond  
18. Being Ozzie Guillen  
19. Noble Thoughts  
20. Kenny G Around the Horn  

 

As you may have read below, Bloomberg and MLB.com have entered into a partnership to launch two new state of the art analytic products, one for the professional teams, and one for fantasy sports and general interest.  We delivered the professional product to the teams at the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis for a six-month trial, and the response was very strong.  The consumer product designed for fantasy players and avid fans will launch in mid February.

Bloomberg will be hosting an invitation-only event in New York on Sunday, January 31, to give a sneak peek at the consumer product to key baseball media, to get feedback before it goes to market.

The meeting will take place on Sunday so that those interested in coming from out of town would be able to join, with enough time to take everyone through the product step by step.  Food and drink will be served.

We would like you to join us for the event and get a preview of this fun, innovative, state-of-the art tool that will grow both the fantasy baseball market and overall interest in baseball.  An outline of the product, as well as preliminary press reaction, can be seen at www.bloombergsports.com.

Seating for the event is limited, so if you would like to join us please respond for further details and credentialing.

Thanks for your time and interest, and we hope to see you on January 31.

Please RSVP to Joe Favorito at bbsports@bloomberg.net.

We hope you are enjoying the off-season and all the Hot Stove talk that is starting to build during the winter meetings and beyond.

You may have heard recently about a new product for Fantasy Baseball that Bloomberg and MLB.com are readying for the 2010 baseball season...a product that takes player analysis to a new level, and will be a lot of fun for fantasy players. Here is the link to a story about the product in the New York Times.

The BLOOMBERG SPORTS(TM) team wants to be sure that you are aware of the product, as someone who is passionately involved in the coverage of baseball.  We will be reaching out to you to sample the service and get your input before it is available to consumers.  The feedback of those who follow the sport so closely is invaluable to Bloomberg in building the best tool ever for baseball fans.

We are organizing an invitation-only event in New York City in late January for a group of the most influential baseball writers who would like to learn about the development of the product and the technology behind it.  We hope you will be able to join us for this event, where you will get a complete walk-through of the new service and a free subscription to these analytical tools.

We hope to see you in January, and we know you will be impressed by this one-of-a-kind product.

Hope you all are having a wonderful offseason! I would like to invite everyone to please share your Custom Jersey story in the comments section of my MLB.com article just posted and see what others have to say about that fixture in our fashion lives. Remember to leave a link to your blog (you have to omit the http:// though) when you do!

What jerseys are in your closet and why? Which one have you always wanted most?

What is your next jersey purchase? Please note that if you order one of those dream jerseys from Majestic Athletic at the MLB.com Shop (online only) by 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, it will be guaranteed delivery by Dec. 24 -- and it also will be 10 percent off.

Do you wear yours into enemy territory?

Have you ever ripped off the letters from the back like one fan I talked to who replaced the letters D-A-M-O-N with S-T-E-R-N after Johnny left the Red Sox? Do you wait to see who lands where in the Hot Stove season, or do you go for one now?

I wear a No. 5 Pujols jersey most often. I had a nice White Sox jersey with my last name on it but a certain ballpark dog mustard stain took care of that. Also, why is that we only spill mustard on our shirts when we are wearing home white custom jerseys?

Anything else you want to share about Custom Jerseys, please add to the comments section of the MLB.com story. Thanks and happy blogging!

Mark/MLB.com

All the activity at MLBlogs shows there's no such thing as an offseason in baseball. The Phillies' Scott Eyre rode the carryover from his World Series appearance to lead all players, while Kevin Slowey's return to blogging saw him shoot up to second. MetsBlog.com once again ruled the Pro blogs, but the Hot Stove Blog is ablaze with news and rumors. Confessions of a She-Fan and Red State Blue State went 1-2 amongst fan blogs, while The Zo Zone claimed to spot over Bowman's Blog in the MLB.com Beat Writer category.

Here they are -- your full Latest Leaders for November 2009:

PLAYERS
1. Scott Eyre's Blog 
2. kevin slowey's (offseason) blog 
3. Matt's Blog 
4. Torii's Storiis 
5. Ank's Blog 
6. Reed Between the Lines 
7. Braves in the AFL 
8. Derek's Blog 
9. Giants in the AFL 
10. U.S. Department of Agriculture: A Farm Team Worth Playing For 
11. Behind the Mask 
12. Disco Hayes 
13. Matt Kemp's Blog 
14. Big Papi's Blog 
15. Parker's Pitch 

MLB PRO
1. MetsBlog.com 
2. Hot Stove Blog 
3. Bronx Banter 
4. Mets Minor League Blog 
5. Was Watching 
6. Baseball Nerd 
7. Inside the Giants Clubhouse 
8. The Baseball Collector 
9. Inside the Dodgers 
10. Alyson's Footnotes 
11. Phillies Insider 
12. Better Off Red 
13. MLB.com Fantasy 411 
14. *touch* 'em all 
15. Notes from NatsTown 
16. MLBlogosphere (lol) 
17. Reds Internal Affairs 
18. Newberg Report 
19. Ben's Biz Blog 
20. Around the Horn in KC 
21. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls 
22. Inside the White Sox 
23. Twins Ballpark Update 
24. Vine Line's Cubs Club Blog 
25. Tommy Lasorda's World 
26. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful 
27. Clubhouse Confidential 
28. Red Sox Insider Blog 
29. Friar John's Blog 
30. A Voice From Twins Territory 
31. MLB Urban Youth Academy 
32. MURRAY COOK'S FIELD BLOG 
33. Cooperstown Chatter 
34. @MLB 
35. Heard It From Hoard 
36. HYDE'S INSIDE PITCH 
37. Welcome To The Show 
38. Brian Anderson's House of Blogs 
39. MLB Network 
40. MiLB Snap Shots 

FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan 
2. Red State Blue State 
3. Phillies Phollowers 
4. Yankees Chick 
5. A Bite Off The Big Apple 
6. I'm Not A Headline Guy... 
7. Julia's Rants 
8. I Live for This 
9. Rockpile Rant 
10. The Future Blog of the Red Sox 
11. Passion & Pride Collide 
12. FutureAngels.com 
13. Cook & Son Bats' Blog 
14. Bottom of the Ninth 
15. Rays Renegade 
16. The Golden Rule 
17. A Girl's View of the Brewers, and Other Related Baseball Things 
18. Unfinished Business 
19. My Baseball Heaven 
20. All Phillies All the Time 
21. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball 
22. Ted's Take 
23. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk 
24. Life and Indians Baseball through the Eyes of a Clemson Girl 
25. King Yankees 
26. YANKEEHOLICS 
27. The Diamond Diva 
28. Live, Eat, and Breathe Yankees 
29. Blood, Sweat & Pinstripes 
30. Total Bases 
31. Yesterday's Hitter! 
32. Behind The Bombers 
33. Everything Baseball 
34. Rangers Lowlights for Cynics 
35. This is what the girl thinks.... 
36. Pretty In Pinstripes 
37. For the Love of the Game 
38. The Pittsburgh Peas 
39. The Official Scorer 
40. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student: Baseball Edition 
41. Yawkey Way Yaker 
42. Counting Baseballs 
43. LC Column 
44. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG 
45. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS 
46. Yankee Yapping 
47. Linea de Primera 
48. Red Sox, Rants, Randomness 
49. The Yankees Baseball Whisperer 
50. King of Cali 

MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
1. The Zo Zone 
2. Bowman's Blog 
3. Muskat Ramblings 
4. Brew Beat 
5. Noble Thoughts 
6. Beck's Blog 
7. Haft-Baked Ideas 
8. Bombers Beat 
9. Postcards from Elysian Fields 
10. rallymonkeys 
11. CastroTurf 
12. Major League Bastian 
13. Tag's Lines 
14. By Gosh, It's Langosch 
15. Mark My Word 
16. Brownie Points 
17. Obviously, You're Not a Golfer 
18. All Nats All the Time 
19. Street's Corner 
20. The Fish Pond 

We will celebrate the fifth birthday of this awesome MLBlogs community when the next season gets under way, and the plan is to do so with continued improvements to the overall blogging technology you are using. Once again, we ask for your input to help make that happen as the world keeps changing fast. This is just a wishlist at this point, but leave comments below so that we have all input for consideration going forward.

Requested features so far include:

• Integration with Twitter
• Mobile blogging
• Traffic counter widget
• Video upload
• Picture upload
• More Speed

Let us know whether it's the blogging software you use or the way the actual blog looks to your audience. As always, your involvement is key to making this the best and biggest baseball blogging community around. Blog about it as well if you wish, but be sure that we see anything in comments below, as that is what we here at MLB Advanced Media will be checking. Also visit http://MLB.com/connect and choose your favorite team's logo to see all of the social networking opportunities around the national pastime.

Thanks to all our fans for great blogging as always!

Mark/MLB

Latest Leaders in the MLBlogs Network by pageviews, from April 4, 2009, through October 4, 2009.

Baseball's regular season is all about sustained excellence -- showing up every day, even when the going gets tough. So we're recognizing the MLBloggers who brought their 'A' games from Opening Day through the final weekend.

His team may not have made the Postseason, but Reed Johnson's Reed Between the Lines finished on top of the Players Division. Torri Hunter was hot on his heels with Torii's Storiis, with Ank's Blog in third. Bengie Molina's Behind the Mask occupies the fourth spot, with Chris "Disco" Hayes finishing fifth after developing a big audience for his humorous look into his life as a Minor League prospect.

MetsBlog.com avoided the injuries that hampered its namesake's season to take the MLB Pro Blogs Division title. SNY blogs were well represented with Bronx Banter and Mets Minor League Blog in the next two spots. Trade Talk rode the hunger for Trade Deadline news to the fourth spot, while the YES Network's Kimberly Jones is in the fifth spot.

The Fan Division Champion is none other than auther Jane Heller's Confessions of a She-Fan, edging out The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk for top honors. The dynamic duo at Red State Blue State come next, with Julia's Rants and Rockpile Rant fourth and fifth, respectively.

Mark Bowman cultivated a rabid community of commenters that helped make Bowman's Blog the top dog in the MLB.com Beat Writer Division. Todd Zolecki's The Zo Zone was the runner-up, and Carrie Muskat's Ramblings ending up third. Longtime MLBlogger Matthew Leach's Obviously, You're Not a Golfer finished a strong fourth, and another blog with a huge commenting community, Bryan Hoch's Bombers Beat, one spot behind that.

Congratulations to everyone on the list!

And now, your Latest Leaders for the 2009 Regular Season:

PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines 
2. Torii's Storiis 
3. Ank's Blog
4. Behind the Mask
5. Disco Hayes
6. Matt's Blog
7. Big Papi's Blog
8. Dining with 'Dre
9. Beau knows diddly
10. Derek's Blog
11. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham
12. Laying Down the Lawrie
13. Rick's Blog
14. kevin slowey's (offseason) blog
15. Plouffe!
16. Moskie Madness
17. Perk's Place
18. 30 is the new 20
19. Future in Pinstripes
20. Wagner's Compositions
21. Life in Grey Pants
22. Hanley's Blog
23. Plugging the Leake
24. Prince's Blog
25. Bally's Blog
26. The Doctor (Doolittle) Is In
27. Carlos Zambrano
28. Rantin' and Raben
29. Seeing Red
30. Q-Tip 

MLB PRO
1. MetsBlog.com
2. Bronx Banter
3. Mets Minor League Blog
4. Trade Talk
5. The Kimberly Jones Blog
6. Was Watching
7. Pinstriped Bible
8. Inside the Dodgers
9. Baseball Nerd
10. YES Blog
11. The Baseball Collector
12. Alyson's Footnotes
13. MLB.com Fantasy 411
14. *touch* 'em all
15. Reds Internal Affairs
16. Inside the White Sox
17. The USA Baseball 16U Blog
18. Around the Horn in KC
19. Phillies Insider
20. Beat the Streak Report
21. Newberg Report
22. Red Sox Insider Blog
23. The Blob
24. Vine Line's Cubs Club Blog
25. MLBlogosphere (LOL)
26. Inside the Giants Clubhouse
27. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful
28. Tommy Lasorda's World
29. The Max
30. Deep in the Red
31. New Era Presents the Call-Up
32. Kaat's Korner
33. Ben's Biz Blog
34. The Pulse
35. Mrs. Singy
36. Friar John's Blog
37. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls
38. Off The Wall with Chris Shearn
39. Twins Ballpark Update
40. Brian Anderson's House of Blogs
41. Hot Stove Blog
42. MLB.TV Blog
43. Heard It From Hoard
44. MLB Urban Youth Academy
45. Is this thing on?
46. MURRAY COOK'S FIELD BLOG
47. View From the Booth
48. The Nets Insider
49. The LumberBlog
50. Notes from NatsTown
51. Comerica Park, 48201
52. Inside the Chiefs
53. Psychollingy
54. Harold Reynolds Presents
55. Gameday
56. Chirp Chatter
57. Delmarva Shorebirds Blog
58. The Dog Ate Daron's Homework..Again
59. HYDE'S INSIDE PITCH
60. Struck out looking
61. Jesse Sanchez at the Park
62. MiLB Snap Shots
63. From the Booth with Steve Stewart
64. 'Topes Tattler
65. got milb?
66. Colorado Springs Sky Sox Official Team Blog
67. Siguiendo a los Mets
68. An Astros Minute
69. A Voice From Twins Territory
70. Welcome To The Show
71. Extra Innings with the K Crew
72. It's a Kind of a Family. It's a Kind of Insanity.
73. Welcome to Third and King
74. MLB.com Organizational Report
75. @MLB

FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan
2. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk
3. Red State Blue State
4. Julia's Rants
5. Rockpile Rant
6. The Future Blog of the Red Sox
7. I Live for This
8. Phillies Phollowers
9. Pick Me Up Some Mets!
10. FutureAngels.com
11. Counting Baseballs
12. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball
13. Rays Renegade
14. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG
15. Yankees Chick
16. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student: Baseball Edition
17. Life and Indians Baseball through the Eyes of a Clemson Girl
18. I'm Not A Headline Guy...
19. Unfinished Business
20. The 1 Constant
21. The 'Burgh Blues
22. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life...
23. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS
24. Eat, Sleep, Baseball
25. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker
26. Plunking Gomez
27. Bruce Markusen's Cooperstown Confidential
28. Cambios y Curvas
29. The Diamond Diva
30. The NYC Autograph Collector
31. The Pittsburgh Peas
32. King of Cali
33. Live, Eat, and Breathe Yankees
34. A Misplaced Astros Fan
35. Passion & Pride Collide
36. The Watercooler
37. Statistician Magician
38. Flair For The Dramatic
39. Everything Baseball
40. Baseball Cleats & Shoes
41. Rocky Mountain Way...Outside Coors looking in
42. More Cowbell
43. Cook & Son Bats' Blog
44. sittingstill
45. Cardinal Girl
46. cat loves the dodgers
47. The Yankees Baseball Whisperer
48. Phillies Red Pinstripes
49. The Season Experience
50. Linea de Primera
51. All Baseball All The Time
52. Crzblue's World
53. Baseball Canadiana
54. The Brewer Nation
55. Twins Limey
56. When it Rains it Pours
57. Hello Halos! My View of the Big A
58. Perennial Pinstriper
59. Made in San Diego
60. Yogi Brewer

MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
1. Bowman's Blog
2. The Zo Zone
3. Muskat Ramblings
4. Obviously, You're Not a Golfer
5. Bombers Beat
6. Beck's Blog
7. Postcards from Elysian Fields
8. CastroTurf 
9. Brownie Points
10. Brew Beat
11. All Nats All the Time
12. Mark My Word
13. Haft-Baked Ideas
14. By Gosh, It's Langosch
15. Major League Bastian
16. rallymonkeys
17. The Fish Pond
18. Kenny G Around the Horn
19. Being Ozzie Guillen
20. Tag's Lines

Welcome to a couple of familiar television friends here at MLBlogs. Tonight we just launched the MLB Network's MLBlog. Content will be posted by the talent you know and love at the Network's awesome Studio 3 and Studio 42 worlds for the "MLB Tonight" show. It will be a natural companion to your regular viewing of the network that blew away the record for largest launch in cable television history. If you love MLB Network, you'll love their blog. Talk to them!

That launch follows the recent startup of the TBS Hot Corner MLBlog, and the same thing applies there. Good chance that you already are enjoying the insights of studio talent such as Chip Caray and Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley. Keep an eye on that blog throughout the TBS coverage this postseason, and interact with the broadcasters.

Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the OMMA Awards. Headed there shortly, let's see if we bring you back any hardware. Speaking of hardware, be sure you are voting for awards like the Hank Aaron Award and Roberto Clemente Award on MLB.com. Besides doing your duty as a baseball fan, it's a way to win one of those World Series trips. Someone at MLB.com is going to win them, might as well be a fan like you!

Sorry for the slow posting here, have been busy being @MLB over on Twitter. Thanks to all of you who have followed us there! We are almost at 500,000 followers, and that means it's time for a 500K Giveaway over there. It will be a big one, too. Join us! Also keep an eye out for our new Twitter MLBlog here, an extension of @MLB.

As you've no doubt noticed, we're doing the Latest Leaders at about the start of every month now. It's easier that way, and just give or take a few days in case it's not on the first. Whether we will do that in the offseason remains to be seen. Definitely will come back with our second annual MLBlogs Top 100, though. Whenever you see one of those graphics around the MLBlogosphere, you know that person's blog was one of the 100 most viewed in the 2008 calendar year. We gave those out at the end of 2008.

Thanks again for all the great blogging this season! Keep it up! It's crunchtime...and clinch time!

- Mark/MLB.com

Latest Leaders in the MLBlogs Network by pageview, for the month of August 2009.

Baseball season is in its stretch run, and like the teams, MLBloggers are looking to raise their games. The four MLBlogs "division leaders" from last month were able to hold on to their leads, though there are challengers looking to unseat them.

Matt Holliday is now hot on the heels of Reed Johnson and Rick Ankiel for top honors among Major Leaguers, while PRO BLOGS Inside the Dodgers and The Baseball Collector blog are right there in the mix with the ever-popular SNY and YES blogs. T.R. Sullivan's Postcards from Elysian Fields jumped up two spots to second among the beat writer blogs, just behind Bowman's Blog.

For the fans, Jane Heller's Confessions of a She-Fan remained in the top spot, with Red State Blue State right there. The big movers were Rockpile Rant and Latest Leaders newcomer Live, Eat, and Breathe Yankees.

Congratulations to everyone on the list!


PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines
2. Ank's Blog
3. Matt's Blog
4. Behind the Mask
5. Torii's Storiis
6. Disco Hayes
7. Big Papi's Blog
8. Prince's Blog
9. Rick's Blog
10. Derek's Blog
11. Dining with 'Dre
12. Beau knows diddly
13. Future in Pinstripes
14. Moskie Madness
15. Hanley's Blog
16. Wagner's Compositions
17. Carlos Zambrano
18. Laying Down the Lawrie
19. Plouffe!
20. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham
21. Perk's Place
22. Life in Grey Pants
23. The Young and the Braves
24. Rantin' and Raben
25. Q-Tip

MLB PRO
1. MetsBlog.com
2. Bronx Banter
3. Mets Minor League Blog
4. Pinstriped Bible
5. The Kimberly Jones Blog
6. Was Watching
7. Inside the Dodgers
8. YES Blog
9. The Baseball Collector
10. Alyson's Footnotes
11. Baseball Nerd
12. Reds Internal Affairs
13. MLB.com Fantasy 411
14. Inside the White Sox
15. *touch* 'em all
16. The USA Baseball 16U Blog
17. Phillies Insider
18. Beat the Streak Report
19. Newberg Report
20. Trade Talk
21. Inside the Giants Clubhouse
22. MLBlogosphere (lol) 
23. Vine Line's Cubs Club Blog
24. The Blob
25. Around the Horn in KC
26. Red Sox Insider Blog
27. The Pulse
28. Deep in the Red
29. Mrs. Singy
30. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful
31. Tommy Lasorda's World
32. Heard It From Hoard
33. Ben's Biz Blog
34. Notes from NatsTown
35. Off The Wall with Chris Shearn
36. Kaat's Korner
37. Twins Ballpark Update
38. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls
39. Is this thing on?
40. The LumberBlog
41. A Voice From Twins Territory
42. Friar John's Blog
43. Brian Anderson's House of Blogs
44. Inside the Chiefs
45. MLB Urban Youth Academy
46. HYDE'S INSIDE PITCH
47. MURRAY COOK'S FIELD BLOG
48. Jesse Sanchez at the Park
49. The Max
50. Comerica Park, 48201

FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan
2. Red State Blue State
3. Julia's Rants
4. I Live for This
5. Rockpile Rant
6. The Future Blog of the Red Sox
7. Yankees Chick
8. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk
9. Phillies Phollowers
10. Rays Renegade
11. Live, Eat, and Breathe Yankees
12. Counting Baseballs
13. FutureAngels.com
14. Pick Me Up Some Mets!
15. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball
16. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG
17. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life...
18. More Cowbell
19. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker
20. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS
21. The 1 Constant
22. Unfinished Business
23. I'm Not A Headline Guy...
24. Passion & Pride Collide
25. Perennial Pinstriper
26. Crzblue's World
27. Cambios y Curvas
28. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student: Baseball Edition
29. The Watercooler
30. Everything Baseball
31. cat loves the dodgers
32. The Pittsburgh Peas
33. Cook & Son Bats' Blog
34. Life and Indians Baseball through the Eyes of a Clemson Girl
35. Tribe Talk With Ted
36. My thoughts on the Cubs
37. RyanDePaul Blog
38. A Misplaced Astros Fan
39. sittingstill
40. The Squad
41. Living the Baseball Life
42. Outside the Phillies Looking In
43. Statistician Magician
44. Baseballs 4 MADD! - MLBallhawk
45. It Was The Best Of Ballgames And It Was The Worst Of Ballgames
46. El Casillero de los Medias Rojas
47. Bjarkman's Latino and Cuban League Baseball History Page
48. The Few, The Proud, The Braves
49. Rays Baby Rays
50. King of Cali

MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
1. Bowman's Blog
2. Postcards from Elysian Fields
3. Muskat Ramblings
4. The Zo Zone
5. Obviously, You're Not a Golfer
6. Beck's Blog
7. Brew Beat
8. Brownie Points
9. Bombers Beat
10. All Nats All the Time
11. CastroTurf
12. rallymonkeys
13. By Gosh, It's Langosch
14. Haft-Baked Ideas
15. Mark My Word
16. Tag's Lines
17. Who's your Padre?
18. Major League Bastian
19. The Fish Pond
20. Inside the D-backs
21. Being Ozzie Guillen
22. Noble Thoughts
23. Big Urb Baseball
24. Kenny G Around the Horn
25. Street's Corner
26. Kelly's Corner
27. Hardball in the Rockies
28. The Spence Report
29. Rays Plays
30. Royals Beat

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