Draft Dollars, Big Papi and Yankee Stadium: Top 3 Ongoing Storylines for the 2009 MLB Season

With almost half of the 2009 Baseball season complete there have been some exciting storylines that have popped up or continued into the season. Here are 3 of the top storylines in Baseball today.

1) Draft Dollars - The NFL has made headlines year after year for their draft as well as the price tag for the top drafted players. This price tag has seen itself grow exponentially year over year even thought the economic times and current players are not so lucky. MLB has started making similar headlines and one of the biggest storylines this season has been the assumed 1^st round draft pick San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg. Strasburg has been nothing more than amazing in his short pitching career making it impossible to pass on a 103mph hurler. The news though is not how great he could be but how broke he could make the team drafting him. He is reported as wanting an over 50 million dollar deal blowing away the prior record of 10.5 million. The MLB will be sure to look at getting a similar system NBA currently has capping rookie pay once this deal is done.

2) Yankees Home Run Derby - The Yankees this season debuted their new ball park with much fanfare, unfortunately that event has been overshadowed in 2009 by what records are being broken by the park. Home Run after Home run the Stadium is acting like a wind tunnel straight out of the park. Lazy fly balls seem to go on a never-ending track leaving the highest paid pitching staff scratching their head wondering if they are in Colorado. This should be a great story to watch as the Yankees try and use this phenomenon to their advantage not to the other teams. Currently the Yankees Ball Park has given up well over 100 HR's before the all-star break (more than any other ball park to date).

3) Big Pappy goes Big Floppy - David Ortiz has been a favorite Boston Redsox player for many years. The word bench has never come near this all-star, until now. Ortiz has had the worst start of his illustrious career batting less than .200 for most of the season and a mild 5 Home Runs, which took him to the middle of May to produce one. As the fans now curtain call David Ortiz's every base hit they can only stand losing for so long. This story line will be definitely a hot topic for the rest for the year