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Ryan Braun accepts MVP at BBWAA dinner

Ryan Braun accepted his National League Most Valuable Player Award at Saturday's annual dinner of the New York champter of the Baseball Writers' Association of American and made his first public comments since a report came out th [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Texas formally introduces Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish leaned over and looked at his name and the No. 11 on the back of his Texas Rangers jersey. Then he looked up and smiled. “Excited, that's all I feel right now,” Darvish said through a translator. “Just exc [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

ANALYSIS: Baseball: Darvish had eyes on majors from long ago

A few years ago, Yu Darvish secretly asked Arn Tellem, now his agent, to start drawing up a player evaluation report for his future move to the major leagues. The high-profile right-hander has raised his level every year and put up the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Marty Springstead, Longtime Baseball Umpire and Supervisor, ...

Marty Springstead, who umpired games in Major League Baseball for 20 years and supervised major league umpires as an executive for more than 20 more, died on Tuesday in Sarasota, Fla. He was 74. The cause was a heart attack while swimming [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Alberta highway shooting victims honoured

Roughly 1,000 people came together in Lethbridge, Alta., Saturday afternoon to celebrate the lives of three young people cut short by an act of violence. The baseball-themed memorial was held at the Enmax Centre for the victims who were s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Steroids Era to consume Baseball Hall of Fame voters

Still glowing over his election to the Hall of Fame, Barry Larkin was asked about next year's sure-to-be-controversial vote: The first appearances of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa on the Cooperstown ballot. "All I [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Gopher Baseball Features 39 Home Games in 2012

The University of Minnesota baseball program will feature 39 home games during the 2012 season announced today by head coach John Anderson. Minnesota will play 38 games in the Metrodome, while the May 5 game against Penn State is schedule [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Ichiro felt "mental stress" last year

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's greatest baseball export Ichiro Suzuki has confessed to feeling "mental stress" last year after seeing his record streak of 200-hit seasons snapped at 10. The Seattle Mariners outfielder told local [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Fantasy Baseball Thoughts: Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder, Yoeni...

I was listening to the MLB channel on SiriusXM radio on Saturday, and a Dodgers fan called in with the following scenario involving Prince Fielder, and it is something I was wondering myself. He said it is entirely possible that Fielder&# [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

10 Ways for Baseball Fans to Deal with the 'Dark' Part of th...

Well, everyone not named after a certain '80s rocker who plays phallic guitars amidst purple smoke has been snatched up by some team somewhere. Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson (pictured) are lounging on the West beach and Hanley Ramirez [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Baseball's game of the year

Before the night of Oct. 27, you could have fueled a spirited debate with the directive, "Pick the best game of the 2011 Major League Baseball season." Philadelphia and Cincinnati hooked up in a 19-inning marathon in May, c [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball's most magical moments of 2011

Game 6 World Series: One strike from elimination, the St. Louis Cardinals rally vs. the Texas Rangers to tie the game in the ninth on David Freeze's two-run triple, tie it again in the 10th on a Lance Beckman single and win it when Fr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Cuban Free Agent Is Next Hot Commodity

Now that the Texas Rangers have won the right to negotiate with the Japanese pitching phenom Yu Darvish, Major League Baseball has turned its attention to Yoennis Cespedes, a captivating Cuban outfielder with a running back’s body w [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0