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Union to monitor Miami Marlins after payroll purge
The players' association will monitor the Miami Marlins following their payroll purge, saying it is too early to determine whether the salary cuts ...
Column: Still a lot to be thankful for in sports
The bad stuff is easy. You read about it almost every day; hear it discussed endlessly by the talking heads on radio and television. But if sports is ...
Cabrera, Blue Jays finalize $16 million deal
New Blue Jays manager John Gibbons is happy to have Melky Cabrera after the All-Star game MVP finalized a $16 million, two-year contract with Toronto.
Marlins salary dump to Toronto finalized
The Miami Marlins' latest payroll purge received final approval Monday from the commissioner's office, and as the team's top baseball executive began ...
Cirque du Soleil's 'Totem' planned for New York
Cirque du Soleil will mark the 25th anniversary of its first trip to New York next year with a visit by its high-octane show "Totem." The show will ...
AP source: Melky Cabrera, Blue Jays reach deal
The busy Toronto Blue Jays struck again Friday with their latest big deal: All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera is set to join them in his return from a ...
Tigers, OF Torii Hunter finalize 2-year, $26M deal
Torii Hunter has reached the postseason six times in his career, but he's never played in a World Series. Now he's joining forces with the defending ...
Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey win MVP awards
Miguel Cabrera has a Most Valuable Player award to go with his Triple Crown. And Buster Posey has an MVP prize to put alongside his second World ...
Selig reviewing pending Marlins-Blue Jays deal
Bud Selig was on hand when the Miami Marlins played their first regular-season game in their swanky new ballpark in April. The commissioner provided ...
Ramirez homers on 1st pitch in Dominican debut
Manny Ramirez homered on his first pitch of the Dominican winter league season. Thousands of cheering fans stood and cheered as Ramirez came to bat ...
Marlins' latest payroll purge prompts fan backlash
The attendance-challenged Miami Marlins have antagonized fans yet again by deciding a low-budget team is good enough for their new ballpark.
R.A. Dickey, David Price win Cy Young awards
R.A. Dickey languished in the minors for 14 years, bouncing from one team to another before finally perfecting that perplexing knuckleball that made ...
Column: Marlins fans must feel like fools now
People in Miami had begun to wise up about the time their new baseball stadium was being completed and Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria wanted them to ...
Cabrera a fan favorite in Venezuela
Even before Miguel Cabrera made the major leagues, coaches and scouts in Venezuela were predicting he would be a big star. They were proven right in ...
AP source: Hunter agrees with Tigers
Free agent outfielder Torii Hunter has agreed to a $26 million, two-year deal with Detroit, giving the Tigers a capable corner outfielder coming off ...
AP source: Marlins trade 3 stars to Blue Jays
Reacting to the Miami Marlins' latest payroll purge on Twitter, slugger Giancarlo Stanton gave it three exclamation marks. He wasn't exaggerating.
Melvin, Johnson picked as managers of the year
Young rosters, small budgets, limited expectations. No matter. Bob Melvin of the Oakland Athletics and Washington's Davey Johnson won big right away ...
Trout, Harper voted Rookies of the Year
Mike Trout and Bryce Harper were teammates on the Scottsdale Scorpions last fall. The outfielders arrived in the major leagues on the same April day ...
Dodgers bid $25.7 million for South Korean lefty
The Los Angeles Dodgers have bid nearly $26 million for a chance to sign pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin. The Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization ...
Nationals bring back manager Johnson for 2013
The Washington Nationals are bringing back Davey Johnson for one more season as their manager. Johnson will move into a role as a consultant to the ...
MLB team bids $25.7 million for South Korean lefty
A team in South Korea says one Major League Baseball club has bid nearly $26 million for a chance to sign pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin. The Hanwha Eagles of ...
Lee MacPhail, oldest Hall of Famer, dies at 95
Lee MacPhail, the longtime baseball executive who ruled in the celebrated Pine Tar case and later became part of the only father-son Hall of Fame ...
Free agents reject $13.3M deals as GMs head home
Josh Hamilton, B.J. Upton and Kyle Lohse were among nine free agents who turned down $13.3 million offers from their former clubs Friday as the annual ...
Boras: Dodgers 'bought store,' Mets 'in freezer'
With baseball awash in record revenue as the signing season starts, Scott Boras compares the habits of teams to families sifting through supermarket ...
Hamilton, Greinke lead weak free-agent class
With baseball awash in record revenue as the signing season starts, Scott Boras compares the habits of teams to families sifting through supermarket ...