Major League Baseball News and Rumors
Give MLB A Break: The Steroid Era -- and Alex Rodriguez's involveme…The Steroid Era -- and Alex Rodriguez's involvement in it -- just won't go away, but Joe Lemire says it's time to acknowledge Major League Baseball's efforts to clean up the game. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com On Monday, The Stew posted about John Axford of the Milwaukee Brewers signing the belly of a pregnant fan, and we wondered how unusual of a request it was. Well, how does former major league slugger Mark McGwire signing a fan's prosthetic leg sound? Not… |
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Alex Rodriguez needn’t concern himself now with hunkering down on that rehab program for his surgically repaired hip. A-Rod has to understand that the Yankees and Major League Baseball want no part of him. |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Second baseman Daniel Murphy and the New York Mets have agreed to a one-year contract worth $2,925,000, avoiding salary arbitration. |
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Cash Kruth, MLB.com Catcher Brian Schneider, who caught 13 years with the Expos/Nationals organization, Mets and Phillies, has decided to retire, according to his hometown newspaper, the Allentown Morning Call. |
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David Waldstein, nytimes.com The Yankees, against Andy Pettitte's participation in the international competition, announced that the left-hander had withdrawn from the tournament. |
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Jerry Crasnick, ESPN.com Free agent catcher Kelly Shoppach has reached an agreement with the Seattle Mariners on a one-year contract pending a physical exam, a baseball source told ESPN.com. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols says he hopes to play for the Dominican Republic after the second round of the World Baseball Classic. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com The New York Yankees better hope Alex Rodriguez heals up from hip surgery and starts hitting home runs again for the next five summers. Because there's almost zero chance they can void the remainder of his contract, which is worth $114 million, regardle… |
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Evan Drellich, MLB.com Well-respected Red Sox bullpen coach Gary Tuck, who was to be the only holdover on the staff from a year ago, has decided not to return for 2013, according to a WEEI.com report Tuesday. |
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Mark Bowman, MLB.com When Manny Upton was at Turner Field for his son B.J. Upton's introductory news conference in November, he playfully told a media member to tell Braves general manager Frank Wren to trade for his other son. |
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DENVER (AP) -- Starting pitcher Jhoulys Chacin (yo-LEES cha-SEEN) and the Colorado Rockies avoided arbitration by agreeing to a two-year, $6.5 million deal on Tuesday. |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Reliever Chad Durbin and the Phillies have finalized a $1 million, one-year contract. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com "You can't go home again" is a figurative saying in the United States, meaning once you leave the nest for the first time, it's never quite the same once you happen to go back. For athletes who defected from Cuba, ones such as major league rig… |
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Bill Chastain, MLB.com On Tuesday afternoon, a contingent from the Rays headed by principal owner Stuart Sternberg addressed the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners. The message echoed that of the previous week, when the same contingent met with the Hillsborough Cou… |
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Richard Sandomir, nytimes.com In the late 1950s, the Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley explored the idea of charging to watch baseball games on television. |
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Alden Gonzalez, MLB.com The Angels settled on a 2013 contract with relief pitcher Kevin Jepsen on Tuesday, thus avoiding arbitration with any of their eligible players. |
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Paul Casella, MLB.com B.J. and Justin Upton are next in a line of approximately 100 sets of brothers to play as teammates. Though rare, brothers donning the same Major League uniform is nothing new. It can be traced as far back as 1882, when Bill and Jack Gleason suited up f… |
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Ian O'Connor, ESPN.com If the allegations against A-Rod are true, he should take his bat and go home |
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Brian McTaggart, MLB.com Bud Norris and a bunch of his buddies are packing up the car and driving to New Orleans this weekend to see their beloved San Francisco 49ers play the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII, but the Astros pitcher is anything but a front-running fan. |
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Tom Singer, MLB.com In 2011, Joe Beimel converted the opportunity into becoming the primary lefty in the Pirates' bullpen for the first half of the season. Last spring, Juan Cruz earned a significant role as a valuable setup reliever. Who can emerge from this Spring Traini… |
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Bill Ladson, MLB.com Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez denied that he used performance-enhancing drugs after a report from the Miami New Times linked the pitcher to Anthony Bosch, who reportedy supplied PEDs to professional athletes from Miami. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com In response to the New Times of Miami PED/Anthony Bosch story published Tuesday, New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has issued a complete denial. Gio Gonzalez of the Washington Nationals did likewise and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz, through h… |
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David Brown, yahoo.com Are either of these Oakland Athletics outfielders is using hair-enhancers? Nobody is saying for now. On the right, the Afro of Coco Crisp (or "Co-Fro") appears to be in mid-season form. Angela Davis is jealous, it's so kinky. Further, the San … |
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Hunter Becomes The HuntedJan 29
The Tigers added Torii Hunter to a deep and talented team that looks to be in great shape to make a run at a third straight AL Central championship, writes Jay Jaffe. |
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Mets Sign Reliever AtchisonJan 29
Andrew Keh, nytimes.com Scott Atchison, 36, pitched 51 1/3 innings out of the Boston bullpen last season and finished the season with a 1.58 earned run average. |
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Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com The Cardinals announced on Tuesday that they have reached a multiyear agreement with Mercy Health of St. Louis that makes Mercy the official medical provider for the organization. |
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T.R. Sullivan, MLB.com The Rangers offered little comment on a report out of Miami that stated outfielder Nelson Cruz was among a list of prominent clients at a clinic under investigation for the sale of performance-enhancing drugs. |
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Anthony DiComo, MLB.com General manager Sandy Alderson and assistant GM John Ricco flew to Houston last week to have dinner with Michael Bourn and his agent, Scott Boras, according to the New York Post. But the meeting "was more a getting-to-know-you session than a dollar… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Records from an anti-aging clinic in Miami list the names of baseball players -- including Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and Gio Gonzalez -- and detail PEDs administered to them and others, according to a report by Miami New Times. |
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Major League Baseball issued a statement regarding today's story in the Miami New Times. |
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Alex Rodriguez has been linked to PEDs yet again, this time in a report that scars him forever and could lead to unprecedented action by Bud Selig, writes Tom Verducci. |
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Bill Chastain, MLB.com Multiple reports have indicated that the Rays have agreed to a one-year contract with second baseman Kelly Johnson. Interpreting the move for Johnson, it appears the Rays could make Ben Zobrist the team's full-time right ielder. |
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Lyle Spencer, MLB.com While the catcher is considered the leader of the infield, set apart by his tools and multiple duties calling pitches, guiding pitchers and setting defenses, the man on the mound -- the fifth infielder -- is critical to defensive containment. His glove … |
