http://www.mail.com/organizations/13314-major-league-baseball.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/13314-major-league-baseball.html http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2090852-mlb-hoping-large-replay-expansion-2014.html NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball appears set for a vast expansion of video review by umpires in 2014 and is examining whether all calls other than balls and strikes should be subject to instant replay. Replay has been in place for home run calls since August 2008. Commissioner Bud Selig initially wanted to add trap plays and fair/foul calls down the ... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:01:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2090852-mlb-hoping-large-replay-expansion-2014.html 2013-05-16T22:01:33Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2085104-mlb-improves-diversity-senior-administration.html NEW YORK (AP) — While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 per... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:52:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2085104-mlb-improves-diversity-senior-administration.html 2013-05-14T17:52:12Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2077410-mlb-suspends-fines-umps-2nd-mistake.html NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games on Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning. Culbreth and the rest of his crew — Brian O'Nora, Bill Welke and Adrian Johnson — were also fined an undisclosed amount after M... Sat, 11 May 2013 04:26:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2077410-mlb-suspends-fines-umps-2nd-mistake.html 2013-05-11T04:26:42Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2074106-mlb-umpires-improper-call-as.html CLEVELAND (AP) — Major League Baseball said the umpires were wrong. The Athletics knew that all along. "We saw what we saw last night," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. One day after umpire Angel Hernandez and his crew failed to reverse an obvious game-tying home run by A's infielder Adam Rosales in the ninth inning following a video review, MLB executive... Thu, 09 May 2013 21:42:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2074106-mlb-umpires-improper-call-as.html 2013-05-09T21:42:35Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2072818-hit-liner-happ-i-feel-fortunate.html ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — J.A. Happ isn't sure how he'll react when gets on a mound again. One thing he does know is that he's going to try to forget what happened Tuesday night. Toronto's 30-year-old left-hander returned to Tropicana Field on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was struck on the head by a line drive that sent him to a hospital for a... Thu, 09 May 2013 07:51:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2072818-hit-liner-happ-i-feel-fortunate.html 2013-05-09T07:51:28Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2070778-torontos-happ-released-hospital.html ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was released Wednesday from a Florida hospital, just a day after he was hit on the head by a line drive, and hopes for a quick return to the mound. Bayfront Medical Center said in a statement that Happ was discharged after being upgraded from fair to good condition. Happ was taken there after... Wed, 08 May 2013 19:11:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2070778-torontos-happ-released-hospital.html 2013-05-08T19:11:57Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2070244-jennings-rays-shaken-happ-hit-head.html ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Jennings stood with his hands on his head, his Tampa Bay Rays teammates also visibly concerned as they watched Toronto's J.A. Happ receive medical attention for about eight minutes. Happ was removed from the field on a stretcher in the second inning Tuesday night after being struck on the head by a line drive off the ba... Wed, 08 May 2013 05:20:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2070244-jennings-rays-shaken-happ-hit-head.html 2013-05-08T05:20:02Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2070076-jays-happ-hit-head-drive-carted.html ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was hit in the head by a line drive and taken off the field on a stretcher during Toronto's game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night. In a frightening scene at Tropicana Field, Desmond Jennings' second-inning liner caromed squarely off the left side of Happ's head in a loud "thwack!" The ball... Wed, 08 May 2013 02:45:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2070076-jays-happ-hit-head-drive-carted.html 2013-05-08T02:45:45Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2066824-mlb-outfielder-otis-nixon-arrested.html CANTON, Ga. (AP) — Former Major League outfielder Otis Nixon has been arrested on drug charges following a weekend traffic stop in suburban Atlanta. Nixon was pulled over just after midnight Saturday after another driver called police to report a Dodge Ram truck weaving all over the road, according to an incident report from the Cherokee County Sheriff's ... Mon, 06 May 2013 20:23:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2066824-mlb-outfielder-otis-nixon-arrested.html 2013-05-06T20:23:54Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2059672-mlb-fines-umpire-hallion-price-2-rays-teammates.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Major League Baseball fined umpire Tom Hallion and Tampa Bay pitchers David Price, Jeremy Hellickson and Matt Moore for their dustup last weekend. Each of the pitchers was fined $1,000. It was unknown how much Hallion was docked. Hallion was the plate umpire and crew chief during a game Sunday at Chicago against the White Sox and P... Thu, 02 May 2013 22:31:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2059672-mlb-fines-umpire-hallion-price-2-rays-teammates.html 2013-05-02T22:31:55Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2045546-selig-mlb-wont-interrupt-season-olympics.html NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball won't change its schedule to boost the sport's chances of getting back into the Olympics. Baseball was an Olympic medal sport from 1992-2008, then was dropped for last year's London Games. IOC President Jacques Rogge says baseball should make its top athletes available, as they are in basketball and hockey. ... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:01:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2045546-selig-mlb-wont-interrupt-season-olympics.html 2013-04-26T00:01:54Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2044948-worlds-oldest-ex-big-leaguer-turns-102-cuba.html HAVANA (AP) — There weren't nearly enough birthday candles on hand to do justice to Conrado Marrero, the world's oldest living former Major League Baseball player. So the Cuban hurler had to make do with just one atop the cake Thursday as he celebrated his 102nd birthday at his modest Havana apartment, surrounded by family and friends with an unlit Cuban cigar in his mouth a... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:15:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2044948-worlds-oldest-ex-big-leaguer-turns-102-cuba.html 2013-04-25T21:15:18Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2040538-mlb-to-discuss-security-bombings.html NEW YORK (AP) — Stadium operations officials from the 30 big league baseball teams will meet this week and are expected to discuss whether to make any security changes in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Major League Baseball said the session Thursday in New York was planned before the attacks last week. "This stadium operations meeting scheduled... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:57:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2040538-mlb-to-discuss-security-bombings.html 2013-04-24T00:57:42Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2020790-violent-backdrop-sports-to-jackie-robinson-day.html MIAMI (AP) — Lined up in front of their dugouts, all wearing No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day, the Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins stood for a moment of silence to honor bombing victims at the Boston Marathon. What began as an annual celebration to salute the man who broke baseball's color barrier 66 years ago turned somber after a pair of explosions ... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:48:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2020790-violent-backdrop-sports-to-jackie-robinson-day.html 2013-04-16T07:48:13Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2021726-bruins-celtics-affected-security-up-bombs.html A few hours after the Boston Marathon bombings, and more than 1,000 miles away, a police officer with a German shepherd patrolled near an entrance to the baseball stadium where Miami hosted Washington on Monday evening — an unusual sight at Marlins Park. Inside, on the field, two Marlins officials gave a security supervisor a briefing about the ballpark's... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:05:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2021726-bruins-celtics-affected-security-up-bombs.html 2013-04-16T03:05:53Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2015038-greinke-with-injury-quentin-suspended-8-games.html SAN DIEGO (AP) — Zack Greinke's pitch sailed up and into Carlos Quentin's upper left arm, and it was on. A little personal history was at play, as were rules that aren't in any rule book. Now the Dodgers will be without their $147 million pitcher for at least eight weeks and Quentin was suspended for eight games by Major League Baseball, pending an appeal... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:41:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2015038-greinke-with-injury-quentin-suspended-8-games.html 2013-04-13T05:41:22Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2016902-ap-sources-biogenesis-backer-selling-doping-info.html NEW YORK (AP) — An investor who helped launch Anthony Bosch's Biogenesis of America has been trying to sell purported documents from the closed anti-aging clinic to Major League Baseball and players, several people familiar with the matter said Friday. MLB has bought some of the documents, the people said, all speaking on condition of anonymity because th... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:16:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2016902-ap-sources-biogenesis-backer-selling-doping-info.html 2013-04-13T00:16:36Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2014948-report-baseball-pays-clinic-documents.html NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball paid a former employee of a Florida anti-aging clinic linked to performance-enhancing drugs for documents, The New York Times reported Thursday on its website. The newspaper reported that two unidentified people briefed on the matter said at least one player linked to now-closed Biogenesis of America purchased documen... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:04:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2014948-report-baseball-pays-clinic-documents.html 2013-04-12T04:04:28Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2012112-mlb-forms-diversity-committee-black-players-focus.html NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has created a task force that will study how to increase diversity in the game, especially among black players. Commissioner Bud Selig announced the committee Wednesday. In less than a week, baseball will celebrate the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. A new movie titled "42" focuses on t... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:43:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2012112-mlb-forms-diversity-committee-black-players-focus.html 2013-04-11T00:43:08Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1995402-baseball-lacks-mlb-guarantee-olympic-bid.html ROME (AP) — Baseball and softball's joint bid for Olympic reinstatement is still lacking a guarantee that major league stars would be available to play ahead of a key presentation to the IOC next month. International Baseball Federation President Riccardo Fraccari is holding out hope that Major League Baseball will commit its players for at least the semi... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:42:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1995402-baseball-lacks-mlb-guarantee-olympic-bid.html 2013-04-03T15:42:51Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1993380-cano-switches-agents-to-jay-z-company-boras.html NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper and recording producer Jay-Z is expanding into sports representation and has signed New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano away from Scott Boras to be a client. Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, and his Roc Nation company have partnered with CAA Sports to form Roc Nation Sports. Cano changed his listed agent with the Major L... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:48:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1993380-cano-switches-agents-to-jay-z-company-boras.html 2013-04-02T22:48:59Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1990912-alex-rodriguez-calls-return-a-great-challenge.html NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez stood in the Yankee Stadium tunnel, just in front of the entrance to the home clubhouse. He was willing to answer questions for the first time since hip surgery in January, but was positioned so he could make a quick getaway if he wanted to stop responding. "I love when all these people say, 'You can't do this. You can't do ... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:46:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1990912-alex-rodriguez-calls-return-a-great-challenge.html 2013-04-01T23:46:07Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1991190-mlb-teams-honor-newtown-victims-openers.html NEW YORK (AP) — The names, written in script, streamed slowly down on the video board in center field at Yankee Stadium, of the 20 children and six educators who died last December during the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Fans in the sellout crowd of nearly 50,000 were on their feet, silent, as were the players on the field. "It was tough seei... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:40:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1991190-mlb-teams-honor-newtown-victims-openers.html 2013-04-01T23:40:33Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1990180-play-ball-astros-strong-al-debut-beat-rangers.html HOUSTON (AP) — Many predicted the Houston Astros would be the worst team in the majors this season. On opening night, they certainly didn't look like it. Rick Ankiel and the Astros made an impressive debut in the American League, trouncing the Texas Rangers 8-2 Sunday night in the major league opener and giving Bo Porter a win in his first game as manager... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:55:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1990180-play-ball-astros-strong-al-debut-beat-rangers.html 2013-04-01T07:55:47Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1990072-astros-strong-al-debut-top-texas-mlb-opener.html HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros and their spiffy new uniforms looked like a perfect fit in the American League. Rick Ankiel and the Astros made an impressive debut in the AL, trouncing the Texas Rangers 8-2 Sunday night in the major league opener and giving Bo Porter a win in his first game as manager. "To come out with a win is perfect," Astros designa... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:29:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1990072-astros-strong-al-debut-top-texas-mlb-opener.html 2013-04-01T04:29:44Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1989758-mlb-openers-feature-strasburg-rivalries-al-vs-nl.html The Kansas City Royals have been absent from the playoffs since the day Billy Butler was born. They've barely had a winning season in the last two decades. They've often lost 100 games in a year. And yet, buoyed by the best record in spring training, hope abounds — for the Royals, for most everybody putting on a big league uniform. "There's no reason we s... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:17:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1989758-mlb-openers-feature-strasburg-rivalries-al-vs-nl.html 2013-04-01T03:17:26Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1983264-forbes-values-yankees-23-billion.html NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes estimated the New York Yankees have the highest value in Major League Baseball for the 16th straight year at $2.3 billion, and the average for an MLB team increased by 23 percent in the last year to $744 million. The magazine said Wednesday the Yankees' value increased from $1.85 billion last year. The Los Angeles Dodgers are second... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:09:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1983264-forbes-values-yankees-23-billion.html 2013-03-27T21:09:42Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1973308-mlb-sues-fla-clinic-banned-player-drugs.html MIAMI (AP) — Major League Baseball on Friday sued a now-shuttered South Florida clinic and its operators, accusing them of scheming to provide banned performance-enhancing drugs to players in violation of their contracts. The lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court seeks unspecified damages from Coral Gables anti-aging clinic Biogenesis of America and its ope... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:35:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1973308-mlb-sues-fla-clinic-banned-player-drugs.html 2013-03-22T20:35:29Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1966392-unbeaten-dominicans-win-world-baseball-classic-3-0.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Samuel Deduno pleaded with Tony Pena to leave him in the game — the outing of his life, his country across his chest. Pena stuck with the demonstrative Dominican Republic right-hander — with his island nation's World Baseball Classic hopes hanging on that managerial move. Deduno made Pena change his mind, and he never changes his mind... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:37:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/1966392-unbeaten-dominicans-win-world-baseball-classic-3-0.html 2013-03-20T07:37:07Z