MLBlogosphere

What do you want in a blog?

2009-11-09T22:35:29Z

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 - 2009 Regular Season

2009-10-18T21:45:51Z

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

Around the Sphere

2009-09-21T22:39:58Z

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 - August 2009

2009-09-06T13:19:14Z

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

@MLB Blog

2009-09-03T21:39:19Z

Check out the new @MLB blog just created to support the @MLB account I tweet on. And if you're on Twitter, follow me over there! Among other things, it will always be THE official source for verified/confirmed players who are on Twitter and want to be found there. If they aren't on that list, then they are bogus. You'll also find pics of Twitter followers, Twitter Giveaway rules, whatever else is worth more than 140 characters from time to time. - Mark

Congrats to everyone - now vote!

2009-09-03T21:22:01Z

The MLBlogs Network -- otherwise known as MLB.com/blogs -- has been recognized as one of three finalists for a cool award in the Best Blogs category. This is for all of you who have helped grow this awesome community. Please register and VOTE FOR MLBLOGS and let's win that one on Sept. 21. Also be sure to vote for MLB.com for Best Sports Site. Spread the word!

Latest Leaders - July 2009

2009-08-05T15:49:29Z

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

How did MLBloggers stack up in readership last month? Reed Johnson beat out Rick Ankiel amongst the players, while Trade Talk drew plenty of sets of eyes thanks to the Trade Deadline.

Confessions of a She-Fan continues to lead the Fan blogs, with Red State Blue State right behind, and The 1 Constant making a strong showing as well.

In the Beat Writer category, Bowman's Blog has developed a very lively community of Braves fans commenting on it.

Here's the full list of your July 2009 Latest Leaders:

PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines
2. Ank's Blog
3. Torii's Storiis
4. Big Papi's Blog
5. Disco Hayes
6. Behind the Mask
7. Derek's Blog
8. Matt's Blog
9. Hanley's Blog
10. Carlos Zambrano
11. Rick's Blog
12. Beau knows diddly
13. Dining with 'Dre
14. Moskie Madness
15. Future in Pinstripes
16. Laying Down the Lawrie
17. 30 is the new 20
18. Plouffe!
19. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham
20. Wagner's Compositions

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

FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan
2. Red State Blue State
3. The 1 Constant
4. Julia's Rants
5. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk
6. I Live for This
7. The Future Blog of the Red Sox
8. Phillies Phollowers
9. Rockpile Rant
10. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball
11. Counting Baseballs
12. FutureAngels.com
13. Rays Renegade
14. The Diamond Diva
15. More Cowbell
16. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG
17. The Watercooler
18. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life...
19. Unfinished Business
20. This is what the girl thinks....
21. Passion & Pride Collide
22. Pick Me Up Some Mets!
23. The 'Burgh Blues
24. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student: Baseball Edition
25. Life and Indians Baseball through the Eyes of a Clemson Girl
26. Pittsburgh Pirates - Bucco Blog
27. Living the Baseball Life
28. Crzblue's World
29. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker
30. Outside the Phillies Looking In
31. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS
32. The Pittsburgh Peas
33. I'm Not A Headline Guy...
34. Yankees Chick
35. The NYC Autograph Collector
36. Statistician Magician
37. Linea de Primera
38. Moneyball
39. Flair For The Dramatic
40. Everything Baseball
41. M.T.'s Blogger
42. sittingstill
43. A Misplaced Astros Fan
44. Braves By the Bay
45. Art of the Pale Hose
46. King of Cali
47. Cambios y Curvas
48. How 'Bout Those Phils?
49. Yankees Reality Check
50. Cook & Son Bats' Blog

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

Latest Leaders - June 2009

2009-07-03T17:36:14Z

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

As previously announced, we're trying something new with Latest Leaders. Notably, we're going to do this as a monthly breakdown.

For June, Reed Johnson and Torii Hunter continued to attract many readers, though newcomer Rick Ankiel ended up right up there with them among the top player blogs. The top of the PRO BLOGS looks very New York-centric, including television personalities Kimberly Jones and Keith Olbermann, while Jane Heller's Confessions of a She-Fan beat out Red State Blue State and The Happy Youngster to claim top honors among the fans. For the beat writers, Mark Bowman's Braves blog has bragging rights this month.

So, without further ado, your June 2009 Latest Leaders:

PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines
2. Ank's Blog
3. Torii's Storiis
4. Behind the Mask
5. Disco Hayes
6. Matt's Blog
7. Plugging the Leake
8. Derek's Blog
9. Beau knows diddly
10. Dining with 'Dre
11. kevin slowey's (offseason) blog
12. Laying Down the Lawrie
13. 30 is the new 20
14. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham
15. Moskie Madness
16. Future in Pinstripes
17. Plouffe!
18. Perk's Place
19. The Doctor (Doolittle) Is In
20. Life in Grey Pants

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

FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan
2. Red State Blue State
3. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk
4. Julia's Rants
5. The Future Blog of the Red Sox
6. Rockpile Rant
7. FutureAngels.com
8. Phillies Phollowers
9. Pick Me Up Some Mets!
10. The 'Burgh Blues
11. Counting Baseballs
12. I'm Not A Headline Guy...
13. I Live for This
14. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball
15. Life and Indians Baseball through the Eyes of a Clemson Girl
16. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG
17. Eat, Sleep, Baseball
18. New Yuck Yankees
19. Rays Renegade
20. The NYC Autograph Collector
21. Unfinished Business
22. Plunking Gomez
23. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student: Baseball Edition
24. BravesRed
25. Yankees Chick
26. Pittsburgh Pirates - Bucco Blog
27. Rocky Mountain Way...Outside Coors looking in
28. The Payoff Pitch
29. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life...
30. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS
31. King of Cali
32. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker
33. The Yankees Baseball Whisperer
34. The Pittsburgh Peas
35. Bruce Markusen's Cooperstown Confidential
36. Statistician Magician
37. Flair For The Dramatic
38. The Diamond Diva
39. Crops on the Farm
40. Hello Halos! My View of the Big A
41. Cook & Son Bats' Blog
42. Baseball Cleats & Shoes
43. The Season Experience
44. Cardinal Girl
45. Baseball's Hottest Wives
46. Baseball Canadiana
47. Everything Baseball
48. A Misplaced Astros Fan
49. The Trop Autograph Collector
50. Angels Insider

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

Latest Leaders update

2009-06-23T21:16:43Z

For those of you eagerly awaiting the next installment of the MLBlogs Latest Leaders, it's coming very soon. We're switching things up so the rankings will be based on calendar months, so The Happy Youngster and Red State Blue State have a week to try to catch Confessions of a She-Fan...

On the subject of blog traffic, we're noticing that the new ratings and related entries feature has helped introduce readers to new blogs around our online community.

Also, we're always looking for new blogs to spotlight as the Featured MLBlogger on our front page. If you want to be featured in that space, you'll want to make sure you have a profile picture up in your blog. That (along with quality blogging, of course) is a prerequisite for consideration for that spot.

And speaking of new blogs, we've got some new additions to MLBlogosphere who wear spikes, with new player blogs by Rick Ankiel, Matt Holliday and Derek Lowe joining Torii Hunter, all sponsored by Sharp.

And last but not least, make sure you're voting for your All-Star Game picks!

New MLBlogs features

2009-06-09T18:13:55Z

You'll be noticing a couple of new features in MLBlogs, as we roll them out system-wide. They'll be showing up in blogs as new entries go live.

The first is a ratings system for blog entries that will be displayed at the bottom of every entry. You've seen this elsewhere on the Internet undoubtedly. It's just a way for a reader to share his or her rating for a particular entry, with all the user ratings for that entry then averaged together.

The second new feature uses an advanced formula of content analysis and user ratings to present related entries from other blogs. You'll see a box entitled "You might like:" with links to four other entries from MLBlogs recommended by the system.

Here's a screenshot of how it will look:

One of the main goals of this is to make it easier for users to find blogs of interest to them in the MLBlogs Network. We hope you enjoy these new features and take full advantage!

Latest Leaders - Apr. 15-May 18

2009-05-20T21:20:38Z

Latest Leaders in the MLBlogs Network by page view, for the period from April 15 through May 18.

Latest Leaders is back, and the big mover this past month has been the Happy Youngster, who surged from 17th to top the fan bloggers. Meanwhile, Kimberly Jones made a big leap up to third among the Pros, and Reed Johnson, Torii Hunter and Bengie Molina continue to set the pace for player-bloggers.

PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines
2. Torii's Storiis
3. Behind the Mask
4. Disco Hayes
5. Dining with 'Dre
6. Beau knows diddly
7. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham
8. Laying Down the Lawrie
9. Plouffe!
10. Perk's Place
11. 30 is the new 20
12. kevin slowey's (offseason) blog
13. Life in Grey Pants
14. Moskie Madness
15. Bally's Blog

MLB PRO
1. MetsBlog.com
2. Bronx Banter
3. The Kimberly Jones Blog
4. Was Watching
5. Mets Minor League Blog
6. Baseball Nerd
7. Inside the Dodgers
8. Pinstriped Bible
9. MLB.com Fantasy 411
10. The Baseball Collector
11. YES Blog
12. *touch* 'em all
13. Inside the White Sox
14. Red Sox Insider Blog
15. New Era Presents the Call-Up
16. Reds Internal Affairs
17. Around the Horn in KC
18. The Max
19. The Blob
20. Phillies Insider
21. Beat the Streak Report
22. Newberg Report
23. Inside the Giants Clubhouse
24. Vine Line's Cubs Club Blog
25. Off The Wall with Chris Shearn
26. Friar John's Blog
27. MLBlogosphere (lol)
28. Tommy Lasorda's World
29. Brian Anderson's House of Blogs
30. Kaat's Korner
31. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful
32. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls
33. Ben's Biz Blog
34. Mrs. Singy
35. View From the Booth
36. The Nets Insider
37. Twins Ballpark Update
38. Gameday
39. MURRAY COOK'S FIELD BLOG
40. MLB Urban Youth Academy
41. Psychollingy
42. Heard It From Hoard
43. Comerica Park, 48201
44. Is this thing on?
45. MLB.com Organizational Report
46. The Dog Ate Daron's Homework..Again
47. Struck out looking
48. The LumberBlog
49. Welcome to Third and King
50. Chirp Chatter

FANS
1. The Happy Youngster...Brew Town's Ballhawk
2. Confessions of a She-Fan
3. Red State Blue State
4. Julia's Rants
5. The Future Blog of the Red Sox
6. Rockpile Rant
7. Pick Me Up Some Mets!
8. A Diatribe from a Law Student: Baseball Edition
9. Phillies Phollowers
10. Life and Indians Baseball through the Eyes of a Clemson Girl
11. FutureAngels.com
12. Counting Baseballs
13. I Live for This
14. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG
15. Rays Renegade
16. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball
17. Unfinished Business
18. I'm Not A Headline Guy...
19. Bruce Markusen's Cooperstown Confidential
20. Plunking Gomez
21. The 1 Constant
22. The 'Burgh Blues
23. Eat, Sleep, Baseball
24. The Season Experience
25. Bleeding Pinstripes
26. Yankees Chick
27. A Misplaced Astros Fan
28. The Pittsburgh Peas
29. Flair For The Dramatic
30. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS
31. King of Cali
32. Baseball Cleats & Shoes
33. Statistician Magician
34. Rocky Mountain Way...Outside Coors looking in
35. Cambios y Curvas
36. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker
37. Twins Limey
38. Phillies Red Pinstripes
39. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life...
40. Crops on the Farm
41. The Yankees Baseball Whisperer
42. Random Reds Rants
43. The NYC Autograph Collector
44. Yogi Brewer
45. The Brewer Nation
46. crzblue's World
47. Fantasy Hardball: a bloop and a blast
48. Mets Go
49. Baseball Canadiana
50. The Diamond Diva

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

MLB Tweeps roster

2009-05-06T16:22:00Z

Here is the latest MLB Tweeps roster for those of you on Twitter. Carlos Delgado is latest player addition. Please leave your own Twitter names in comments here. Possible MLB Tweeps reported by fans are authenticated here by the MLB.com beat writers for each team, who simply ask that player or exec. Please note that I am now tweeting @MLB so be a regular there! Updated 1:52 p.m. ET May 28:

Official Major League Baseball Twitter
@MLB

Wear Spikes
@carlosdelgado21 - Carlos Delgado
@cc_sabathia - CC Sabathia
@chaddurbin - Chad Durbin
@chrisgetz - Chris Getz
@coco_crisp - Coco Crisp
@davidortiz - David Ortiz
@gator4god - Matt LaPorta
@joakimsoria - Joakim Soria
@moyerfoundation - Jamie Moyer
@nickswisher - Nick Swisher
@str8edgeracer - CJ Wilson
@todalion - Todd Wellemeyer
@detroit_tigers - Curtis Granderson

Don't Wear Spikes
@AdamMcCalvy
@AlysonFooter
@Alyssa_Milano
@aroundthehornkc
@Ask14 - Jim Rice
@beckjason
@BlueJays
@Braves
@Brewercom
@bryanhoch
@CincinnatiReds
@CubsClub
@cushmlb
@DbacksPRGirl
@DodgertownUSA
@fantasymlb
@followthepadres
@gehrig38
@giantscommunity
@GiantsInsider
@InsideTheSox
@jerry_remy
@JesseSanchezMLB
@JoeFrisaro
@KC_Royals
@kellythesier
@klaystation
@MarinersClub
@marlinsmedia
@matthewhleach
@MLB_Network
@MLBAngels
@mlbastian
@mlbbravesscribe
@mlbCoz
@MLBMets
@MLBNationals
@MLBOrioles
@MLBPirates
@MLBRangers
@MLBRays
@mlbtv
@m_sheldon
@N_Y_Y
@OaklandAs
@OFFICIAL_TIGERS
@OrgulloSox
@PadresPR
@philaphillies
@RealRockies
@Red_Sox_Nation
@ticketservices (A's)
@Twins_Territory
@tzolecki
@vinelinecubs

Yankees vs. Red Sox

2009-04-24T21:05:10Z

Amidst the first 2009 renewal of Yankees vs. Red Sox, please note that there is a new batch of Red Sox Nation Governor MLBlogs for fans of Boston. They are at:

http://rsn-midwest-govs.mlblogs.com
http://rsn-newengland-govs.mlblogs.com
http://rsn-northeast-govs.mlblogs.com
http://rsn-northwest-govs.mlblogs.com
http://rsn-southeast-govs.mlblogs.com
http://rsn-southwest-govs.mlblogs.com

There are countless MLBlogs for both Red Sox and Yankees fans alike, whether from the club or the fans. Check out the tag search results for YANKEES and RED SOX to see them in order of most recently updated.

Ballots and Blogs

2009-04-22T20:09:57Z

Today we launched the All-Star Game Ballot and here is my MLB.com story with all the details. It makes for great baseball blogging material, and I look forward to frequent blogging on the subject between now and what probably will be another record-shattering voting finish during the summer. Just to get things started, below is the thank-you page for my first of 25 ballots I will submit, to show my votes. I have an all-Dodger outfield (justified because Kemp is having the best start, Ethier was just named NL Player of the Week, Manny is Manny to me and they look like baseball's best club right now) and right now I feel like the left side of the AL infield, once a Yankee province, belongs to the Rays (sorry, Jeter fans).

Happy Fourth Birthday To Us!

2009-04-17T17:21:53Z

It's a grand slam! Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of the MLBlogs community, and it all began with Tommy Lasorda's inaugural MLBlogs posting about his old friend Jackie Robinson. That is how Major League Baseball launched its own blogging community, billed as an official affiliate of MLB.com with unofficial opinions. It was April 18, 2005, and the Red Sox had just ended an 86-year drought, the White Sox were in the process of ending an 88-year drought, Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi had just dropped, and that day Adobe bought Macromedia, the Boston Marathon was held, and our friend Murray Cook also saved his first blog post, a simple picture as an offering to the baseball gods.

Tens of thousands of blogs later, we are here blogging about baseball on a regular basis and we have Latest Leaders and we have new MLBlogs starting for free all the time. We have Briscoe Baseball Blog predicting Indians over Dodgers in the Fall Classic (thus ending a drought dating back to 1948); we have none other than Giants catcher Bengie Molina telling you what's wrong with Tim Lincecum and his team right now; we have all 30 MLB.com beat writers like Ian Browne (Red Sox) and Kelly Thesier (Twins) blogging and communicating with you here; Welcome To The Show blogging about the best night for a ballplayer you might ever see; Kim Jones of YES posting about the new Yankee Stadium; and a Phillies fan from way back in the Connie Mack Stadium days blogging about the bid for a repeat.

Zack Hample, one of those first MLBloggers, has raised $634.80 for Pitch In For Baseball.

You can find all of the MLB PRO BLOGS in the drop-down menu on the MLBlogs homepage, and use the tag-search results link for each club nickname also on that page to find other MLBlogs about topics that may be of interest to you. There is so much to do, so much new technology to develop, but mainly we want to see our favorite MLB players and teams have great seasons, and there is a whole summer in front of us now. Be sure to follow us at the Official MLBlogs Twitter.