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NL Central News and Rumors

Braun shows up in Miami PED records

CNNSI.com

Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun says he used the person who ran the Florida clinic now under investigation by Major League Baseball as a consultant on his drug suspension appeal last year and nothing more.

CNNSI.com

CHICAGO (AP) -- Northwestern will play five college football games at Wrigley Field under a partnership with the Chicago Cubs that was announced on Tuesday.

Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com

While some within the NL Central are surely feeling some relief in the prospect of not having to face Chris Carpenter this year, the immediate reaction to the right-hander's latest setback was much more reserved.

Brian McTaggart, MLB.com

Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow has heard the critics who have chastised the club for dealing away most of its established Major League players in the last year, while slashing payroll and stockpiling talent for what suddenly has become a very good M…

Brian McTaggart, MLB.com

The Astros worked diligently to pack up an 18-wheeler Tuesday morning, cramming it with just about anything you could imagine to sustain nearly 60 baseball players and a couple of dozen staff members for seven weeks together at the team’s Spring Tra…

Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com

Four Philadelphia Phillies will make more money in 2013 than the entire Houston Astros team. So will three New York Yankees, three Los Angeles Dodgers, three Detroit Tigers and three San Francisco Giants. All total, 20 deep-pocketed players are set to e…

Mark Townsend, yahoo.com

At some point we’ve all been halfway to our destination before realizing we forgot something — like baseball tickets, perhaps — and had to turn around to retrieve them. But how many people can say they’ve started a cross-country trek to work, only…

grantland.com

The A's and Astros pulled off a five-player trade yesterday, one that strengthens Oakland's status as a contender and upgrades Houston's already vastl...