Alex Abboud/FlickrTo round out their starting rotation, the New York Yankees, with a Major League high payroll of $206 million, say they are unable to find someone that would be any better than Sergio Mitre, a pitcher who has been a full-time starter only once during his 7-year career.
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Keith Allison/FlickrAccording to teammates and other personnel at Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees Spring Training home in Tampa Bay, New York third baseman Alex Rodriguez has been strutting around the clubhouse with his shirt off even more than he had in years past, presumably to show off his leaner, more toned physique.
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Jaubele1/FlickrPittsburgh Pirate players, coaches and front office staff have been driving around central Florida in a used school bus for the past couple weeks in search of a vacant lot to serve as this year's Spring Training facility.
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Baseball barry larkin 2004Members of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), the professional organization of journalists who vote annually for such MLB honors as Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, and election to the Hall of Fame, have yet to determine the appropriate length of time to exclude former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin from enshrinement into Cooperstown.
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First baseman Derrek Lee agreed to a 1-year contract to be split three ways by the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians and Kansas City Royals, as the clubs decided to pool their money in order to acquire the best player possible.
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Bo Nash/FlickrA nation growing tired of greedy athletes only concerned with making as much as they can was rejuvenated this week, when Cliff Lee's said the contract he just signed with the Philadelphia Phillies, which will pay him an average annual salary of $24 million to play baseball once every five days, was about more than money.
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The conclusion of baseball's winter meetings signal it's time for ESPN Baseball Insider Buster Olney to lie dormant for three months in the den he created beneath the right field bullpen at Fenway Park.
no commentsJaubele1/FlickrIn order to send general manager Neal Huntington to baseball's winter meetings in Orlando, the Pittsburgh Pirates spent every dollar they had allocated to sign players this offseason, and are now completely tapped out.
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New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman and owner Hank Steinbrenner are daring free agent shortstop Derek Jeter to ask for that type of contract again, only this time "look us in the eye and do it with a straight face."
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Major League Baseball's 30 teams played roughly 2500 games in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Japan over the course of six months, plus another month of playoff games only to end up with the Giants as the so-called best team in baseball. no comments
