Of all the free-agent positions with a glut, the outfielders take the prize for the most unsigned talent, and that's because the biggest piece in the puzzle hasn't been put ... Read More

Small-market teams in the next few years will be following the Tampa Bay blueprint. And the team that might be the closest is the Kansas City Royals. It's been a long ... Read More

The New York tabloids are having fun with a revisionist topic this week, thanks to Joe Torre and Tom Verducci's book, due out the first week of February. "The Yankee Years" ... Read More

The realities of the free agent market are evident in the quandary faced by catcher Jason Varitek. In the past few years, Varitek would have a suitor by now. He made ... Read More

The Cactus League has weathered good times and bad since Major League Baseball expanded to the West Coast in the 1950s. But Arizona's spring training sites were always the little ... Read More

It's that time again. A player with questionable Hall of Fame statistics is hanging up the cleats. Let the debate begin. Jeff Kent, 40, hit more home runs as a second ... Read More

MLB.com says the second World Baseball Classic will have more big names, and more excitement. (And this is why many reports on MLB.com, while a great resource with some good people ... Read More

Good news for baseball fans who enjoyed Ken Burns' "Baseball" miniseries (and are enjoying it on Tuesdays on the new MLB Network). It's going into extra innings. Burns, who has put together ... Read More

There finally appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel on the long and dragged-out sale of the Chicago Cubs by the bankrupt Tribune Company. Cubs chairman Crane ... Read More

As a president leaves office, it's almost a time-honored tradition that they issue some presidential pardons as they go out the door. That's how Gerald Ford took Richard Nixon off ... Read More

No sports media group holds more power than the Baseball Writers of America. They decide the Cy Young, MVP, Rookies of the Year and hold the legacies of every player in ... Read More

Left fielders Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame today. They played the same position, but were very different players who took different paths ... Read More

The quote of the week in baseball came from a scientist who has very little to do with the game itself. Dr. Gary Walder was asked to respond to baseball's ... Read More

Remember Michael Jordan in a Washington Wizards jersey? Emmitt Smith in Arizona Cardinals gear? Willie Mays playing for the New York Mets? (And for you real old-timers out there, Babe ... Read More

For those of you out there with baseball cards you thought would fund your retirement someday, this might make you a little bit angry. While you have a full complement of ... Read More

The Mitchell Report came out more than a year ago, and there was a lot of controversy about whether there was really enough proof to start naming the players who ... Read More

It's not a goal to be a broken record here, but it's still astonishing how little activity there is in baseball free agency, and we're just over a month out ... Read More

Sports franchise owners have a rough job, but one that just about all of us would gladly take. Every one of them is richer than 99.9 percent of the world's ... Read More