The first major interleague trade of the season happened over the weekend when the Cleveland Indians sent up their white flag and traded their most valuable commodity, versatile veteran Mark ... Read More

On days like Sunday, I can see why West Coast folks see a little bias at ESPN. Mariano Rivera picked up his 500th save in a game against the Mets on ... Read More

I'm going to back into the lead on this one. See if you can figure out what these nine major-league pitchers have in common. In alphabetical order: Jose Arredondo, Angels: He ... Read More

LSU was the gold standard program in college baseball under Skip Bertman, winning five national championships in a 10-year span in the 1990s. The Tigers lost their way for a while, ... Read More

Donald Fehr is stepping down at age 60, handing over the reins of the Major League Baseball Players Association no earlier than next March. It's good timing for Fehr, whose successor ... Read More

You know how when you read a book, it seems inevitable that this will be a movie someday? I never got that feeling when reading "Moneyball," the Michael Lewis non-fiction best-seller ... Read More

With the financial bottom line affecting many teams -- attendance is generally down across baseball in the 6 to 7 percent range, with some teams hurting even more -- there ... Read More

The annual Civil Rights Game took place Saturday in a new place, Cincinnati, after two years as a March exhibition game in Memphis, Tenn. It was a bit of backtracking - ... Read More

The Players Association and Major League Baseball won't release the names of the players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. But it's inevitable that more are going to ... Read More

Troy Percival has 358 career saves. Jason Isringhausen has 293. They started the season competing for the closer's spot in the bullpen for the Tampa Bay Rays. And it seems ... Read More

Back in 2001, I worked in Northeast Ohio and covered a tournament basketball game, eager to see how good LeBron James, a sophomore in high school, really was. I came ... Read More

A story from Iowa is making the rounds, about an umpire who kicked out every spectator at a high school baseball game last week. Don Briggs ejected roughly 100 people ... Read More

Baseball teams have such a huge list of players they can go with in the later rounds of the draft that they're bound to take a flier or two as ... Read More

In 2007, it was those lake midges - awful, pesky bugs that live in the mud on the shores of Lake Erie - that laid waste to Joba Chamberlain and ... Read More

Baseball and Twitter have gotten off to a lousy start. The social networking phenomenon is great for getting unfettered access to celebrities, but it also has some built-in issues for famous ... Read More

One more day in the pitching-heavy baseball draft - seriously, does this really need to spread out to three days? - and it's always interesting to look at the draft ... Read More

The Washington Nationals really had no other choice. Picking Stephen Strasburg first overall in Tuesday's MLB amateur draft was the only move they could possibly make. That 103 mph fastball, ... Read More

It usually takes at least five years to grade a baseball draft. But it takes less than four to put an A-plus on the draft from 2005. It turns out that ... Read More

Braves president John Schuerholz moved aside from the team's GM spot almost two years ago, but ended up back in the spotlight, responding to the team's controversial move of releasing ... Read More

Baseball's team owners are judged on a pretty harsh curve by fans. Owners must balance the bottom line with the line in the daily standings, putting together a good fan ... Read More

It was said that Tom Glavine was the last of a dying breed, perhaps the final 300-game winner ever. Turns out that was premature, as the San Francisco Giants' Randy Johnson ... Read More

Wednesday was a day that will be remembered for a long time by Atlanta Braves fans. They decided on a surprise goodbye for one of their legends, and a shocking ... Read More

There's a lot of love going around for the Texas Rangers, but I'm not quite ready to jump on the bandwagon. For once, there's some pitching in Arlington in their bandbox ... Read More

The super-regional round is set for this weekend, with just a few surprises. The biggest story was a historic first-round game. Top-ranked Texas defeated Boston College 3-2 in the longest game ... Read More