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MLB Draft day is officially here (follow the results with our MLB Draft Tracker), and while baseball's first-year player selection process hardly elicits the same excitement, hype or drama as its cousins in the NBA and NFL, it's still an enormously important day for every franchise.

Don't believe us? Just ask the Rays, who ascended all the way to the World Series last year in part thanks to their shrewd drafting. Or the Pirates and their fans, who have watched the team sink further and further with a series of poor picks.

With such a momentous day upon us, the MLB FanHouse team will be covering the draft (first round broadcast live on the MLB Network at 6 PM ET) from every angle. Ed Price will be on site in Secaucus, N.J., Andrew Johnson will be at Nationals Park in Washington, where Nationals brass will make the No. 1 and No. 10 overall selections, and the rest of the team, along with a special guest or two, will be live chatting during the proceedings.

After the jump read a wrapup of the first-round chat.

The baseball season is well into May, which means the early-season surprises can no longer be chalked up solely to small sample size. It's probably time to start taking the Blue Jays and Rangers at least semi-seriously. It's certainly time to believe in Zack Greinke, and maybe Ryan Zimmerman and Justin Upton too.

MLB FanHouse writers Ed Price and Jeff Fletcher discussed all the emerging trends and storylines in 2009 in a live chat Tuesday afternoon. After the jump read the wrap.

You might know him as a genius. Or maybe as a revolutionary. Or maybe you simply know him as the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. One way or another, you know Billy Beane.

He is arguably the most famous executive in sports, a byproduct of Michael Lewis' best-selling 2003 book Moneyball (also an upcoming motion picture), which detailed how he was able to compete annually with baseball's financial powers on a strict budget and introduced many fans to sabermetrics.

Beane stopped by FanHouse to chat with fans Friday afternoon. Read the transcript after the jump.

The newness of the major league season has begun to wear off, but many intriguing storylines remain. Can the Blue Jays, Marlins and Pirates continue their hot starts? Is Yankee Stadium a launching pad like no other? What team will emerge from the crowded AL Central?

Join me, MLB FanHouse writer Jeff Fletcher, for a recap of all those questions and more in our live chat wrap.

We're just over a week into the season, and some teams are off to hot starts (Padres, Blue Jays, Mariners, Marlins), while others have stumbled out of the gate (Red Sox, Nationals, Astros, Indians). So who should we be worried about even this early in the season and who should we expect to recover quickly?

MLB FanHouse's Jeff Fletcher answered those questions and many more in a live chat this afternoon.

Opening Day is in the books and the marathon baseball season is on. Who impressed the most in their opener? Who was the most disappointing? Should the Yankees be worried about CC Sabathia? What about Cliff Lee, Brandon Webb, Justin Verlander and Roy Halladay?

MLB FanHouse writer Ed Price took your baseball questions, comments and discussion points and dished on many of the big storylines from the start of the season. After the jump read the chat wrap.

We got a tease on Sunday night. Monday afternoon is the main event -- Opening Day. The baseball season begins in earnest and life gets just a little bit better for the next seven months.

The MLB FanHouse crew is pulling out all the stops for one of the best days of the year, including an Ozymandias-style marathon live chat that will run from the first pitch in Cincinnati to the final out in Anaheim, which should come sometime after midnight. Join us LIVE right now.

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The wait is over. Baseball -- real Major League Baseball; games that actually count -- returned Sunday night on ESPN when the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves to open the regular season.

World Series MVP Cole Hamels was not on the mound because of an ailing elbow, and the game itself was more of an appetizer with Opening Day on Monday being the main course. But what an appetizer it was. The Phillies sent Brett Myers to the hill against Derek Lowe and a Braves club with a rebuilt rotation and big aspirations of its own.

The MLB FanHouse crew, including Ed Price, who was on site at Citizens Bank Ballpark this evening, carried everyone from first pitch to final out. After the jump, read a wrapup of the Chat..

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When the powers that be in baseball imagined the World Baseball Classic, this is what they had in mind. Sunday night, Team Japan and Team USA are face off in Dodger Stadium at 8 PM ET in a one-off semifinal with the winner moving on to face Korea in the finals.

Roy Oswalt and Daisuke Matsuzaka will take the mound tonight as the countries that house the top two baseball leagues in the world face off in what might be the most epic baseball game ever played in March. Follow along after the jump where I'll be live blogging the action with some fellow FanHouse luminaries.

The Major League Baseball season is less than a month away, which means it's fantasy draft season. The next three weeks will house many-a-draft, and we've got your back here at FanHouse. First, check out our Free Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. If you have any questions or comments, that's cool -- we'll be chatting it up here at 1PM ET. Feel free to ask questions about different formats, tell us why you disagree with some picks, etc. We're open to anything (within reason, of course).