Major League Baseball News and Rumors
Reds done with major moves this offseasonMark Sheldon, MLB.com Having checked off all of their offseason needs in rapid fashion in late November and December, the Reds are poised to keep more additions to a minimum in the final weeks of the Hot Stove season. |
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Jane Lee, MLB.com Though Bartolo Colon's winter ball stats equate to a small sample size, the A's are convinced that the veteran right-hander has maintained the form that helped him win 10 games for them last year. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com The Cleveland Indians have reclaimed infielder Russ Canzler off waivers from Toronto. |
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Brittany Ghiroli, MLB.com While Baltimore remains interested in bringing back free agent Joe Saunders and could potentially sign another reliever or two, there's plenty of competition already on the roster. |
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Edwin Jackson keeps bouncing around, and he thinks he knows why. |
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The wife of former Atlanta Braves star Andruw Jones filed for divorce about a week after she accused him of grabbing her neck and saying he wanted to kill her, according to a court document. |
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Mark Townsend, yahoo.com As expected, Marlins Park in Miami and its spacious dimensions proved to be very friendly for pitchers as it only surrendered 113 home runs in its inaugural season — the third fewest by any park in 2012. Of course that didn't stop the strongest man in … |
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Greg Johns, MLB.com Franklin Gutierrez has wrapped up his Venezuelan Winter League season, and the Mariners will be thrilled if the center fielder can carry his success there over into Spring Training next month in Arizona. |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Rays have announced American League Cy Young Award winner David Price has agreed to a one-year deal for just over $10 million and avoided arbitration. |
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Brian McTaggart, MLB.com With the start of Spring Training less than six weeks away, general manager Jeff Luhnow says the Astros aren't likely to add any additional key players before the team hits Kissimmee, Fla. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com Well, if the beloved farm in Dyersville, Iowa that spawned "Field of Dreams" must be sold and developed into a multimillion dollar baseball and softball complex, it's good that Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is one of the new owners. Right? The sale… |
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Corey Brock, MLB.com There's a chance the Padres won't add another starting pitcher before the start of Spring Training. |
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Jason Beck, MLB.com For the Tigers, January has been more like holiday shopping. But whether it'll be that kind of January for Detroit this time around remains to be seen. |
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Voters can select up to 10 players for election to the Hall of Fame each year, but there's a chance no one will get in from this year's loaded ballot, writes Jay Jaffe. |
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Adam Berry, MLB.com Tim Raines, in his sixth year on the Hall of Fame ballot, will join the Blue Jays as a Minor League baserunning and outfield coach this season. An official announcement from Toronto is expected later this week. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com If a pilgrimage to Jamaica leads to a Major League Baseball team employing Usain Bolt as a pinch runner, we'll all be better for what Joel Reinebold started. In December, Reinebold — the head groundskeeper for the South Bend (Ind.) Silverhawks who also … |
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Alden Gonzalez, MLB.com Heading into 2012, starting pitching was perceived to be the Angels' greatest strength. Now, it's the main concern for a club with championship aspirations. |
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Scott Merkin, MLB.com After knocking out a career-high 16 homers and compiling 60 RBIs, Gordon Beckham believes to have found something important within his overall game. |
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Anthony DiComo, MLB.com The busiest half of baseball's Hot Stove season is over, with fruitful free agent and trade markets defining November and December. The Mets took part in the action to an extent, signing David Wright to a $138 million contract extension and trading R.A.… |
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Andrew Keh, nytimes.com The Mets have signed Andrew Brown, who batted .232 with 5 home runs in 46 games for the Colorado Rockies last season, to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. |
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Tom Singer, MLB.com Andrew McCutchen went out of 2012 the same way he spent the year: Collecting awards and public confirmations of a breakout season. The Pirates' center fielder just added a big one to his cache: The 2012 Dapper Dan Sportsman of the Year. |
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Richard Justice, MLB.com There will be days when Brett Myers frustrates the Cleveland Indians. But he's also one of baseball's more amazing pitchers, one who learned to get by on smarts, grit and determination. |
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Joe Frisaro, MLB.com Dramatically turning over their roster has created opportunity along with plenty of uncertainty for the Miami Marlins in 2013. So much surrounding the club is new. Since Jeffrey Loria assumed ownership in 2002, the Marlins also underwent a major redo in… |
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David Brown, yahoo.com This is kind of what it looked like at old Metropolitan Stadium during the baseball offseason 35 years ago. The above photo submitted by the Minnesota Twins via Twitter on Wednesday is much more football-y than baseball-y. Fair enough, with the Vikings … |
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Rhett Bollinger, MLB.com The Twins have a hole to fill in center field, which has been one of their steadiest positions in recent years. |
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Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com This is the first of a seven-part Around the Horn series that will take a position-by-position look at the Cardinals' projected starters and backup options heading into next season. Up first: Catchers. |
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Bryan Hoch, MLB.com As the Yankees' high command reports to the office for the first time in 2013, they'll do so knowing that they have entered the home stretch for assembling a competitive roster. |
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Mike Bauman, MLB.com Achieving competitive balance has been a way of life for the 20 years of Commissioner Bud Selig's tenure. There was a time not all that long ago, when competitive imbalance was a way of life in Major League Baseball. |
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The holidays saw several more deals go through, ranging from the Royals signing 38-year-old Miguel Tejada in the hopes he'll provide actual value for ... |
