Major League Baseball News and Rumors
With Super Bowl XLVII over, time to prep for baseballMark Newman, MLB.com Congratulations to the Ravens, and thanks again for the handoff. Equipment trucks have arrived in Arizona and Florida, pitchers and catchers report soon, and MLB.com's gradual rollout of the coolest technology has begun, and there's much more to come. |
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Major League Baseball senior vice president of baseball operations Kim Ng made an appearance at the Caribbean Series on Sunday, touring the brand-new Estadio Sonora and meeting with Caribbean Baseball Confederation president Juan Francisco Puello Herrer… |
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Dominican shortstop Miguel Tejada homered in Sunday's much-anticipated game against Mexico, giving his Leones del Escogido a 2-0 lead and padding his own milestone. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the central character in the movie "A League of Their Own," has died, her son said Sunday. |
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Thanks in large part to a strong playoff performance in the Dominican Republic's winter league, Angels prospect Luis Jimenez is taking in his first Caribbean Series experience with a Leones del Escogido team that's looking to win its second straight tit… |
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Adam Rubin, ESPN.com The New York Mets were closing in on a deal with right-hander Brandon Lyon on Sunday afternoon, a major league source told ESPNNewYork.com. |
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Alden Gonzalez, MLB.com On Sunday, before Day 3 of the Caribbean Series, Fernando Valenzuela was officially enshrined in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame -- even though his entrance had long been foregone. |
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Richard Dean, MLB.com Designated hitter John Oropeza paced a 16-hit attack with four hits on Sunday, and the Mules defeated Arkansas Tech, 10-4, to win for the second consecutive night at Minute Maid Park. |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com This is almost too good to be true. It's taken only a handful of years for Title Town to completely revert back to the blubbering, blundering, sad-sack Boston we all know and love. It has been eight years since the Patriots won a Super Bowl. Eight! That… |
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Report: Millwood calling it quits after 16 seasons |
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Mark Townsend, yahoo.com We’re one month away from the World Baseball Classic and the seemingly never-ending roster shuffling remains just that — never-ending. This time it’s the controversial Melky Cabrera — not to be confused again with Miguel Cabrera, he’s still play… |
