MLB Roundup reviews the 1st month of the Major League Baseball season. Early pitching success warrants you an April Cy Young. A Red Sox slugger makes his case for an early MVP. The Cubs have a 31-year old rookie making his case for Rookie of the Year. What’s that you say? We’re 5 months too early for these kind of awards! Anchor Stephanie Rosa could care less, she loves post-season honors, even at the start of May. Also in this episode, a special report on the Oakland A’s courtesy of Casey Pratt. How can trading one player, net you a dozen? Billy Beane knows, and we’ll fill you in too. And we’re following Jeff Ma’s Tout Wars team. Dave Regan and Dave Gonos are leading this elite fantasy baseball league. But the team from ProTrade has a double-secret strategy to climb its way to first place. Kick back and watch, MLB Roundup’s heading for home!

At MLB Roundup we like to kick ‘em when they’re down, Miguel Tejada will not be spared. In this episode anchor Stephanie Rosa changes venues. We move from one side of The Bay to the other, giving the Oakland A’s a little love. Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors is on board this week, filling us in on who’s available to toe-the-rubber for a different squad. Producer/Editor/Reporter/Model Michael Barnett makes an appearance. He’s got a special report on a Japanese pitcher who’s due to land state-side in 2009. He’s a Yomiuri Giant right now, who knows where he’ll land next season. And finally we spend a night at McAfee Coliseum, and we do it on a budget, a two-dollar budget. Strap your panties on boys, MLB Roundup swings for the fences.

Do you have a Red Sox jersey buried in your stadium? MLB Roundup sure does! In this week’s webisode, anchor Stephanie Rosa tackles the single most important news story of our generation… JerseyGate. We expose the seedy underbelly of ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight,” and how “Roundup” put a hex on one of their most popular analysts. Additionally, we prove that we’re more than just sports, we’re fashion too. Throwback jersey anyone? Mizzou’s own J.J. joins us from the Bleacher Report. He’s got the brief on the White Sox rotation. And last but not least, Jeff Ma of ProTrade has a Tout Wars team, do you? If so, sit back, enjoy, and find out where your experts-league fantasy baseball team falls in the standings.

Could the Tigers be any worse. The second biggest payroll in baseball and they’ve got one win to show for all that bread. Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors tells us whether the Tigers should pull the plug or sit tight and hope things come around. Bummin’ that Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis haven’t made the difference? Sit back and check out Adam Godson and Bug And Cranks. He tours the best parks in Major League Baseball, looking for new advertisement opportunities, hilarity ensues. Plus we have a special report all the way from Paris, France. Jean-Martial Carré, a pitcher and the webmaster of the French site Strikeout, fills us in on two European players who have cracked the Major League system. Stephanie Rosa anchors and you watch, MLB Roundup swings for the fences.

MLB Roundup reviews the first week of Major League Baseball’s regular season. The San Francisco Giants are so bad they’ve been taking applications. Along with the good people at BleacherReport, we take batting practice at AT&T Park… with mixed results. Also we examine the Hideki Matsui wedding. Will Bobby Abreu’s fear of commitment hurt his chances this year? Is Derek Jeter too light in the loafers to be an Allstar? And in our third such installment, Jeff Ma competes in the fantasy baseball experts league, “Tout Wars.” Will Yahoo!’s Brandon Funston swipe Yunel Escobar? Can Jeff match the wits of SandLot Shrink’s Larry Schechter? We’re set to amaze and astound… MLB Roundup is on deck!

These are the things that we can’t live without…that’s right boys and girls although the 2008 season officially got underway last tuesday in Tokyo town, monday marks the beginning of our beloved pastime here stateside and we here at the round up are ready for all the hot, summer action! Also in this week’s episode we fill you in on all the trades that you didn’t hear about because you were to damn focused on the dolla dolla billz surrounding Johantana. Tim Dierkes gives us the low down all the peripheral trade moves you missed. And finally Protrader, Jeff Ma, brings his second installment from the Tout Wars fantasy draft from New York City. It’s only a few minutes of your life…just click play and enjoy!

Can you smell it? The sweet smell of pine tar and HGH is in the air. Yessir, with opening day slated for next tuedsday (Tokyo time) baseball is here. I hope you are as excited as we here at DoubleplayTV are! In this week’s MLBRoundup, field correspondent, Michael Barnett, previews next tuesday’s matchup in the Tokyo Dome between the Oakland A’s and the World Champion Boston Red Sox.We also have a special treat for nerds with baseball blood as thick as tree sap - Stephanie Rosa reviews the Pitch Type and Velocity Leaderboard available on the FanGraphs website. And finally, MLB Roundup is invited to tag along with Jeff Ma as he drafts his fantasy team in the coveted Tout Wars. So sit back and relax and enjoy the next 3 minutes of your life with the MLB Roundup!

Guess whose back? The Biiiiiiiig Unit. If there was ever a good time to use the word, ‘Booya,’ it’s now…Booya! Also in this week’s show, Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors has the inside scoop on a potential Brian Roberts trade, DoublePlayTV’s Lucas Ruprecht talks about some pitchers past-their-prime and comedian Sean Keane gives his advice on naming your fantasy baseball team.

Like Durty Souf rapper, Ludacris, so eloquently put it, “ I wanna a draft a pitcher in the Georgia Dome on the fifty yard line while the dirty birds kick the three… But I gotta, kn-kn-kn-know what what is your fan-ta-ta-sy [draft in your rotisserie league]!” - RotoWire’s Chris Liss offers some first round draft advice, while field reporter Michael Barnett looks at Kosuke Fukudome and where his draft slot may be on your team. Finally, comedian Sean Keane warns of some deadly draft day mispronunciations.

MLB Roundup continues to prepare for the 2008 baseball season - Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus considers the injuries to Brad Lidge and Yovani Gallardo. Stephanie Rosa breaks down last year’s walk-offs. And Sean Keane explains why Chase Utley is like the hottest girl at your local community college.