Veteran Santiago is a tight fit
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Bracing for the possibility of playing without injured tight end Benjamin Watson, the Patriots added depth at the position yesterday by signing veteran O.J. Santiago.
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There are progressions that must continue in Josh Beckett's game. Last season, he went over the 200-inning hump for the first time. He faced American League hitters for the first time and realized how much tougher the lineups with a DH can be.
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Carlos Beltran's stay in Houston almost certainly will be short.
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he&#39;s the tallest, most solidly-built player in international cricket at the moment. The next thing that gets your attention
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The challenge Kenny Lofton posed to Bernie Williams a year ago turned out to be a bug versus windshield. However, if the Yankees ink free agent Carlos Beltran he will be
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Omar Vizquel hopes to revitalize his career with a new team in a new league. The San Francisco Giants just hope the veteran shortstop has a few more good years in him.
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Few situations in baseball are as awkward as the legendary player whose skills have diminished greatly in the twilight of his career. Double the awkward quotient when he has spent his entire career in one city, and triple it when he is on the verge of a career-defining milestone.
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He enters a game now not to the menacing sound of Metallica. Mariano Rivera does that -- and Rivera is on the outside looking in. Keith Foulke needs no impending-doom tune to signal his arrival. His pitching seems to be working just fine.
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Yet another player joins the MRAP race.
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VIERA, Fla., Feb. 18 -- In some ways, the season Cristian Guzman endured in 2006 was as bad as a player could have, sitting at home idly watching television while his teammates played major league baseball. Out the entire season with a shoulder injury, Guzman only occasionally joined the Washington Nationals at RFK Stadium, and when he did, he was an outsider, not on the field taking grounders during batting practice, not even in the dugout during games....
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The star starter and the key reliever for the Mets may seem to have little in common, but both are seeking to defy expectations.
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John Thomson looks ready for a prime spot in the Braves&#39; postseason rotation, and Julio Franco looks ready to display his midlife resurgence to a wider audience in the playoffs.
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Joe Torre knows there are no guarantees as to which players thrive in New York and which players wilt under the pressure. But he&#39;s got a good idea about Randy Johnson.
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If the Orioles decideÃÂ that Kris Benson is not ready for his next start after watching him throw on Thursday, the team will likely turn to Rodrigo Lopez to fill in for him.
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Jack McGeary of Newton is considered a blue-chip pitching prospect who could develop into a big league hurler. But the Roxbury Latin lefthander, who was projected to be a late-first- or early-second-round selection in the major league baseball draft, which started Thursday and concluded yesterday, wasn't selected until the sixth pick of the sixth round (No. 190 overall) by the ...
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He's supposed to be the jump-starter, the man who gets the Rockies going. First man up and, ideally, first man on. "It starts with me," said center fielder Willy Taveras. Problem is, after two games of the World Series, it had been ending with him, too.
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Vladimir Guerrero figured someone from his baseball-crazed country would be chosen as the American League&#39;s Most Valuable Player.