Musical infielders comes full circle
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David Eckstein has agreed to terms on a three-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals, a source told ESPN Insider Jerry Crasnick.
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VIERA, Fla., March 1 -- There is but one portable stereo in the Washington Nationals' clubhouse, constantly set to an innocuous pop station. Not once during the past three weeks has it risen to a level that interfered with normal conversations. Not once has someone slid in a country CD, only to have...
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It's a relatively recent story, and a familiar one. The Red Sox had two big sluggers in the middle of their lineup -- one a lefthanded hitter, the other a righty, both .300 hitters, one a former MVP, one who would soon be named one. They were the linchpins of a Sox team that had high hopes of playing deep ...
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Bee Staff Writer. SAN FRANCISCO - One mighty swing by the Houston Astros&#39; Lance Berkman made a significant impact before 41,537 hushed spectators and a stunned band of Giants.
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It&#39;s time the celebrate the geriatric set once again, a couple of baseball&#39;s 40-plus guys who are raising the bar for players over the age of 35 in a way that hasn&#39;t been done before.
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It was a fitting backdrop. With Theo Epstein among the 9,134 fans crammed into a park that once housed Boston minor leaguers, the legend of Red Sox past took on the promise of the future.
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A number of starting pitchers have pitched in games on their days to throw on the side by becoming a middle-inning bridge between the starter and the setup men.
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From the instant Aaron Boone&#39;s home run cleared the left-field wall last October, the Yankees and Red Sox have been building to this.
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The Mets would like to make at least one more big addition this winter, but yesterday they made moves involving some players already in-house.
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NEW YORK - The man could sing. Oh, how he could sing, and now he can team up and tune up with the angels. As a tenor, he was in their league for decades.
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Turning point: Austin Kearns slugged a two-run homer in the 12th to win it for the Reds. CHICAGO -- Big names come to town. The payroll increases.
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If there was a star, it was a whole bloc within a band: the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestraâs saxophone section, playing tightly harmonized passages.
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It doesn&#39;t get any better than this. The Red Sox visit Yankee Stadium, the Giants and Padres battle it out for the NL wildcard, while the Cubs try and keep pace and are leaning on a kid to do so.
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It was as if David Ortiz wanted to give a gift to every fan at Fenway Park. They had already made him a folk hero here, and his legend was about to grow.
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From the instant Aaron Boone's home run cleared the left-field wall last October, the Yankees and Red Sox have been building to this.
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If the Giants&#39; 12-inning loss to New York on Saturday was a grand, tragic opera, Sunday&#39;s game was &quot;The Minute Waltz,&quot; a blithe romp on the grass that brought cheer inside the clubhouse not only for its outcome, but its brevity.
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Baseball's young guns take their place in the rotation