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For a pitching coach to become outrageously famous, a few things must happen. He has to coach for a consistent winner--say, a team that reels off 14 consecutive division titles. […]

Everybody is a seismologist when it comes to Jose Guillen. They interpret the visible signs--the minitremors that rise forth occasionally they, throw buildup of pressure beneath the surface--and they predict, […]

The last time anyone saw this team on the field, it was waving adieu--a group hug for Montreal. The players genuinely were saddened to be leaving such a fine city, […]

Arrivals: LHP John Bale, SS Mike Bordick, 1B Jay Gibbons, RHP Pat Hentgen, RHP Willis Roberts, 1B David Segui. Departures: RF Albert Belle, IF Mark Lewis, RHP Mike Mussina, RHP […]

Two of the best shortstops in the game--and thus, two of the best all-around players in baseball--changed teams before the 2004 season. One of them basically added another formidable bat […]

There's trouble on the beach in Aruba. There's trouble at the bottom of a bottle. There's trouble in the heart of that drunken patron staring wild-eyed from the other side […]

They're feeling exhausted and lethargic in the Bronx these days, or is Jason Giambi just contemplating the potential fallout from another ring-less October with the Yankees? They're feeling a little […]

There are two people in baseball who can cause a stadium to go all electric and insane just by preparing to play. In San Francisco, they go nuts the instant […]

The Yankees let setup reliever Jeff Nelson go after the 2000 season over (by Yankee standards) a trifling amount of money, believing they could get someone else to do what […]

We fell hard for Francisco Rodriguez last October, We exalted him and exulted in the "legendary feats" of the Angels' "rising star." We labeled him a "brilliant" righthander and a […]

As they lie awake on those dark winter nights, the Braves must be haunted by the ghosts of postseasons past. There's Lonnie Smith, still tethered to second base. There's Otis […]

Anaheim Angels www.sportingnews.com/baseball/teams/angels SIDELINE: Shawn Wooten will miss as much as four months after having surgery for a dislocated right thumb. Wooten was expected to get 350-400 at-bats as the […]

In true inside-the-Beltway fashion, the Nationals brass was in full spin mode when it pulled off one of the winter meetings' biggest trades by getting second baseman Alfonso Soriano from […]

Melvin Mora is off to another torrid start at the plate--he began the week leading the American League in batting at .379. Before a similar hot start last season, he […]

Miguel Tejada walked into the Orioles' clubhouse on the first day of spring training and pronounced the franchise's dark days over. "This," Tejada said, "is not a losing team anymore. […]

It wasn't all that long ago the Orioles were the virtual equals of the Yankees. The rivals, two of the biggest revenue producers and biggest spenders in the game, met […]

The turning point in Sidney Ponson's season, and perhaps his career, came in his first start of 2003. During a horrid third inning April 4 against the Red Sox, Ponson, […]

AMERICAN LEAGUE There are varying viewpoints on what the Most Valuable Player award should be, and all of them are represented in the American League race this season. There are […]