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SAN DIEGO -- The managers of the All-Star Game on Tuesday reflected the relative health of the baseball industry. Ned Yost of the Kansas City Royals guided the American League [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the Administration for Community Living (ACL): Next Wednesday, ACL will close National Disability Employment Awareness Month with a with a panel [...]

Corey Kluber has financial security, and the Cleveland Indians locked up their ace for at least five more years. Kluber, the American League Cy Young Award winner, finalized a $38.5 [...]

The Chicago Cubs reassigned third baseman Kris Bryant to their minor league camp on Monday, as expected. Still, with his outstanding showing at the plate in spring training, the move [...]

The Colorado Rockies released Jhoulys Chacin, their former ace, who had a 6.52 E.R.A. in four appearances in Cactus League games. In 2013, Chacin's best season, he was 14-10 with [...]

Byline: Bob NightengaleThe Daily Pitch! is examining a different issue every day until baseball training camps open in earnest beginning Saturday. Today: The final countdown for the coming free agent [...]

It is a standard negotiating tactic, an argument hard to beat on the surface. Player A is better than Player B. Therefore, Player A should make more money than Player [...]

Byline: Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY The sounds of backs and hands being slapped reverberated through the Milwaukee Brewers clubhouse 15 minutes after the team's season had ended. Heads were high [...]

Byline: Seth Livingstone The deal: The New York Mets send OF Carlos Beltran to the San Francisco Giants for RHP Zach Wheeler. Impact on Giants: The defending World Series champs, [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY The St. Louis Cardinals decided Wednesday their future is now, and the San Francisco Giants signaled that they are going all out to recreate the [...]

Byline: Ray Glier At a meeting in January, Tampa Bay Rays scouts heard with authority they were going to be held especially liable at this year's draft. Stuart Sternberg, an [...]

Byline: Paul White The first time Julio Teheran started a major league game, he knew he would be heading back to the minor leagues. When the 20-year-old rookie started Wednesday [...]

Byline: Rob Biertempfel May 16----On his weekly radio show, general manager Neal Huntington said there are no plans to send Pedro Alvarez to the minors to work out his offensive [...]

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The Mets have asked the right-handed reliever Jason Isringhausen to remain in extended spring training for a week or two to increase his arm strength [...]

Felix Hernandez is one of baseball's best young pitchers, but when he arrives at the United States Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, before the start of spring training each year, he [...]

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- During their initial meeting in the manager's office Saturday, Luis Castillo and his new manager, Terry Collins, discussed Castillo's painful 2010 season, including the best [...]

Last winter, when a relatively weak class of free agents prompted many teams to fill their needs through trades, the refrain around baseball was ''just wait until 2010.'' But with [...]

Could Johnny Damon actually play for the Boston Red Sox again? If he does, the folks at Fenway Park will face the ultimate test of the Jerry Seinfeld Theory that [...]

HAVERFORD, Pa. -- Each coach at Haverford College has a similar office along one long corridor in the athletic complex. Four years ago, Jen Ward's was at the end of [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale Their resumes are filled with All-Star selections, World Series rings and Cy Young awards. While several might have a future home in Cooperstown, the free agent market [...]

Manny Ramirez is coming back to the Dodgers next season. The team said Friday that he exercised his $20 million contract option for 2010. His agent Scott Boras informed General […]

The budget-conscious Tampa Bay Rays saved some money and added some promising bullpen help when they traded infielder Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for the right-hander Jesse Chavez. The […]

Byline: Jeff Blair BASEBALL New York -- Roy Halladay has food for thought, even without Cliff Lee starting tomorrow night's first game of the World Series for the Philadelphia Phillies. [...]

GIANTS ACQUIRE SANCHEZ The San Francisco Giants acquired infielder Freddy Sanchez from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday. The teams announced the trade after the Giants beat Pittsburgh, 1-0 in 10 […]

Nick Green was one of the last nonroster players the Boston Red Sox invited to spring training in February. Typically, players in that situation are insurance policies. Unless there are […]

Byline: Bob Nightengale DENHAM SPRINGS, La. -- You get off of Interstate 12, go past Carters Supermarket with the $3.50 a pound shrimp special, turn off Petes Highway and arrive [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale Booed by the hometown fans and offered in trades by their teams, a quartet of starting major league pitchers today hope to validate their comeback seasons. The [...]

Before the Mets re-signed Oliver Perez last off-season, his agent, Scott Boras, gave them one of his celebrated binders detailing why they should enrich him with a long-term contract. Some […]

Byline: Gene Farris Web watch Ever get into a fantasy dispute over Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jason Isringhausen? Then go ahead and take the case to arbitration. The website Fantasy [...]

Byline: Paul White WASHINGTON -- It was one of those brief conversations between opponents in the middle of a baseball game. Hanley Ramirez stood on the base next to Washington [...]

Byline: Mel Antonen Mark Teixeira and CC Sabathia have always been slow starters, but this season, the New York Yankees may not accept that. Not when the two signed contracts [...]

The Yankees, who once spent wildly on middle relievers, have built a bridge to Mariano Rivera from other teams' castoffs. It is a testament to the players' desire, the scouts' […]