Major League Baseball News and Rumors
The Disabled List, More Popular Than EverStuart Miller, nytimes.com Quirks of the game: The Yankees aren't the only team with a crowded disabled list (see also Cleveland, Oakland and Batimore, among others). Teams are now using more players per season than ever. |
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Zachary Finkelstein, MLB.com Beat the Streak leader Aaron Brown's quest reached 45 games after Miguel Cabrera doubled in the first inning. |
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Rangers release Lowe and sign veteran Teahen1 hour ago
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Rangers have placed right-hander Derek Lowe on unconditional release waivers and signed utility man Mark Teahen (TEA-en) to a minor league contract. |
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Gio Gonzalez wears shirt with old image of Nationals coach Steve McCatty posing for ‘Playgirl’2 hours ago
David Brown, yahoo.com Steve McCatty could use the excuse "I was young; I needed the money" in trying to explain why he posed in swim trunks for the July 1984 edition of 'Playgirl' magazine. He was 31 years old and just a season away from his last pitch in the major… |
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Kevin Gausman won’t be eating donuts during his MLB debut, but he still has his superstitions2 hours ago
Mike Oz, yahoo.com Kevin Gausman, who was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2012 MLB draft, makes his debut Thursday for the Baltimore Orioles. Scouts and prospect watchers will tell you he's special because of his dancing mid-90s fastball and his baffling changeup. Other peo… |
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Get A Load Of This Fucking Phillies Fan3 hours ago
Tom Ley, deadspin.com This fucking guy was at last night's Phillies-Marlins game. The tipster who sent us the photo has details:Read more... |
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Elbow setback costs D-backs' Eaton 3 weeks3 hours ago
Associated Press, ESPN.com The Arizona Diamondbacks say outfielder Adam Eaton's injured left elbow has an irritation but no structural damage. |
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Seasoned in Seattle: New role suits wiser Perez3 hours ago
Zack Meisel, MLB.com This isn't the old Perez, the southpaw who caved to the pressure of pitching in New York on a $36 million contract. This is the older Perez, a father, a reinvented reliever and a man so relaxed that he can enjoy life's small treasures, |
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For starters, Brewers' rotation is struggling3 hours ago
Adam McCalvy, MLB.com Manager Ron Roenicke knows his starting pitchers, to a man, are struggling. With more than a quarter of the season in the books, Brewers starters are 11-19 with a 5.28 ERA in 45 games, worst in the NL and one of only four clubs in the Majors with a star… |
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Mike Oz, yahoo.com Here's your new favorite thing. And you can thank Major League Baseball's web team for it. It's a gallery of funny GIFs meant to entertain you when you've made a wrong turn on MLB.com. I'll try to explain in the least nerd-blogger terms possible: When y… |
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World Series ball still resonates for Reinsdorf4 hours ago
Scott Merkin, MLB.com Jerry Reinsdorf has said one of the biggest highlights of his 33-year career as owner of the White Sox came when Paul Konerko handed him the baseball from the final out of the 2005 World Series-clinching Game 4. |
