Major League Baseball News and Rumors
Kennedy among six D-backs facing arbitrationSteve Gilbert, MLB.com D-backs players Chris Johnson, Ian Kennedy, Gerardo Parra, Cliff Pennington, Tony Sipp and Brad Ziegler were among the 133 players who filed for salary arbitration Tuesday. |
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Thomas Harding, MLB.com Rockies outfielder Dexter Fowler, coming off his best season, and right-hander Jhoulys Chacin, who is bouncing back from an injury-shortened 2012, were among six Rockies to file for arbitration, the MLB Players Association announced Tuesday. |
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Corey Brock, MLB.com Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler said on Tuesday that the team is preparing a presentation for Major League Baseball to propose an All-Star Game at Petco Park in San Diego. |
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Dick Kaegel, MLB.com It's the awards season, winter league style, and the Royals are walking the red carpet. Three members of the Royals' organization have taken honors, including starting catcher Salvador Perez, named the Venezuelan League Rookie of the Year. |
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Mark Bowman, MLB.com Jason Heyward, Kris Medlen and Jonny Venters, three of six Braves who have filed for salary arbitration, are set to gain significant raises as they enter the process for the first time. |
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Mark Townsend, yahoo.com A couple months ago we told you about the cool 'Design A Youniform Contest' the Milwaukee Brewers were running that allows baseball fans to show their creative and design a new alternate uniform for them to wear for their March 22 Catcus League game aga… |
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Barry M. Bloom, MLB.com The World Baseball Classic is back, now on a four-year cycle, and provisional rosters for each of the participating 16 teams will be released Thursday. |
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Alden Gonzalez, MLB.com The Angels and pitcher Jerome Williams agreed Tuesday on a one-year, $2 million contract that avoids arbitration for the 31-year-old right-hander, a source told MLB.com. |
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Ken Gurnick, MLB.com Starting catcher A.J. Ellis and reliever Ronald Belisario are the two Dodgers that filed for salary arbitration on Tuesday, both earning the right as "Super Twos." |
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Rhett Bollinger, MLB.com Much has changed for Terry Steinbach since those days, as he was named Minnesota's new bench coach this offseason and joined manager Ron Gardenhire, infielder Brian Dozier and broadcaster Dick Bremer on the first leg of the annual Twins Caravan. |
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Thomas Harding, MLB.com Rockies top prospect Nolan Arenado turned 21 at the start of last season at Double-A Tulsa. It turned out he was old enough, all right ... old enough to experience stress in a baseball uniform for the first time. |
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Carrie Muskat, MLB.com Cubs pitchers Matt Garza, Jeff Samardzija and James Russell were among the 133 Major League players who filed for salary arbitration on Tuesday. |
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Bryan Hoch, MLB.com The Yankees were fortunate to have Rafael Soriano waiting in their bullpen when disaster struck in 2012, but now they're hoping the hurler's departure will pay dividends in the future. |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com Terry Francona has a book coming out about his time in Boston. Written with (ugh) Dan Shaughnessy, it probably won't satisfy readers expecting a bridge-burning tell-all, since he's back in baseball managing the Indians and has to work alongside the play… |
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With most of the game's biggest free-agents having signed, SI.com begins its team-by-team assessment of the offseason. Jay Jaffe takes a look at the Cubs' rebuilding effort. |
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Richard Justice, MLB.com Nationals GM Mike Rizzo has constructed a roster that's close to perfect, and now he's about to turn it over to a manager, Davey Johnson, with one of the best winning percentages in history. |
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Adam Berry, MLB.com Wil Myers, attending the Rays' annual Winter Development Camp featuring many of their top prospects, made his first visit to Tropicana Field as a member of the organization. |
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Ken Gurnick, MLB.com In 2012, Chris Capuano had a career-best 3.72 ERA. His 198 1/3 innings pitched, second most on the Dodgers' staff, were his highest total since 2006. He also ranked second on the club with 12 wins and 162 strikeouts. Oh, and he probably lost his job for… |
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Jane Lee, MLB.com The Rangers have signed right-hander Kyle McClellan to a Minor League contract with an invitation to big league camp, putting him in the mix for both the rotation and bullpen. |
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Gregor Chisholm, MLB.com J.P. Arencibia has become the latest Blue Jays player named as a participant in the upcoming World Baseball Classic. |
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Cash Kruth, MLB.com The Nationals and reliever Rafael Soriano agreed Tuesday to a two-year, $28 million contract, according to baseball sources. The deal includes a $14 million option for 2015 that vests if Soriano finishes 120 games over the next two seasons. |
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Scott Merkin, MLB.com When asked about his outlook for the 2013 season during the months of October, November and December, John Danks would use the words "cautiously optimistic" as part of his response. |
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Brian McTaggart, MLB.com Many of them have crossed paths with Roger Clemens in the past, whether it was at an event honoring the Astros' 50th anniversary last year or in previous years at a Minor League ballpark when the Rocket was stopping in to check on his son Koby. |
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Richard Durrett, ESPN.com Rangers pitcher Matt Harrison said he has declined an invitation to participate in the World Baseball Classic. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com 500 lb Goliath Grouper! I'd say it was a good day fishing! @trouty20 @jeffreytrout @tylertrout @debbietrout27 twitter.com/JessTara/statu… — Jessica Tara Cox (@JessTara) January 13, 2013 There's an old baseball saying about great defense that fans with… |
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Anthony Castrovince, MLB.com We seem to have reached an impasse in this offseason -- a point at which several notable players are still searching for homes and some long-expected deals are falling short of the finish line. Here are some thoughts on how to get out of this traffic ja… |
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Joe Frisaro, MLB.com Nick Green, who was with the organization in 2012, has agreed to a Minor League deal with an invitation to Spring Training. The 34-year-old will have an excellent chance to win the utility infielder role, with the Marlins' 40-man roster thin on middle i… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Former Arizona Diamondbacks television analyst Mark Grace says he blames himself, not the team, for firing him last season. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Ichiro Suzuki is looking forward to starting the baseball season the way he ended last season: as a member of the New York Yankees. |
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AJ Cassavell, MLB.com A number of established players have signed or changed teams after mid-January in recent years. And many of them have played significant roles during the ensuing season. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com So, was it Nyjer Morgan, his alter-ego Tony Plush, or an anonymous third party who sent a string of bizarre messages from Morgan's Twitter account Monday night? Yes, they were bizarre even for Morgan. At first, Morgan appeared to admit he was caught che… |
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Paul Hagen, MLB.com A series of rules changes proposed by the general managers in November and approved by the sport's top executives at the recent Owners Meetings are awaiting ratification by the Major League Baseball Players Association. |
