MLB forms diversity committee, black players focus
Major League Baseball has created a task force that will study how to increase diversity in the game, especially among black players. Commissioner Bud ...

Verlander, Tigers agree to $180M, 7-year deal
For Justin Verlander, $180 million was enough. No need to wait two seasons, become a free agent and find out how much baseball's biggest spenders ...

MLB pitchers lost in translation no more
There were times in the low minors when Mariano Rivera felt totally lost on the mound. That was, before he got a good grasp of his cut fastball — and ...

Column: 'I had an idea I wasn't going to make it'
Detroit manager Jim Leyland arrived at the Tigers' training camp Monday in Lakeland, Fla., marking 50 seasons since he first showed up there as a ...

Tigers invest $80 million in RHP Anibal Sanchez
Anibal Sanchez hadn't gone anywhere, really, and yet here he was getting a big "welcome back" from Detroit Tigers president and general manager Dave ...