Baseball

Things are interesting at the shortstop position this season. While many experts view it as shallow because of how the position performed as a whole last year, using hindsight isn’t always helpful. When I look at this list, I see a group of guys that are capable of matching or exceeding their 2012 numbers...

How does a minor league baseball team plan to get all the guys to the yard this summer? Milkshakes, made with beer. You said baseball? Don't be dumb.

Major League Baseball is "actively going after" players who were named in a newspaper report on Miami-based clinic Biogenesis, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun. The warning came a day after Detroit Tigers minor league pitcher Cesar Carrillo was suspended 100 games for violating the minors' drug prevention and treatment program...

Team USA is still very much alive in the World Baseball Classic. When manager Joe Torre's squad takes on the Dominican Republic Thursday night, it will once again have a rather tattered U.S. flag hanging in its dugout. As one might assume, it's no ordinary flag — it used to fly over U...

For the millions of Baseball fans out around the country, opening day for the MLB Regular Season will soon been here on Sunday, March 31st. When the Houston Astros make their American League debut vs. the Texas Rangers in an 8 p.m. ET game that will be broadcast on ESPN.

Giancarlo Stanton is dangerous in the batter's box, even if you're not on the mound.

The Oakland A’s decision to embrace the moneyball concept is well-known, so you can bet the team is none too pleased it has to pay to treat Michael Taylor’s ridiculous injury.

Saturday's World Baseball Classic game between Mexico and Canada featured one of the longest and most violent brawls that you'll ever see in a baseball game, but no players will be suspended as a result of the melee. Seven players were ejected, but World Baseball Classic officials decided that no players will be further disciplined for their role in the brawl...

In news of product ideas that would never get approved if they were pitched today, Big League Chew — the bubble gum that was shredded to resemble chewing tobacco — has signed Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cole Hamels of the Philadelphia Phillies as celebrity endorsers.

Mariano Rivera, the greatest relief pitcher in major league history, intends to retire at the end of the 2013 season. The New York Yankees' closer is supposed to make the announcement official at a press conference at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa on Saturday morning...