Cubs, Sox Lose Cespedes To Athletics
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes and the Oakland Athletics have agreed to a $36 million, four-year contract.
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Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes and the Oakland Athletics have agreed to a $36 million, four-year contract.
Free agent outfielder David DeJesus became Theo Epstein's first signing with the Cubs, agreeing to a tw0-year deal with the team Wednesday.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa announced his retirement Monday morning.
You likely wouldn't want to get too close to the pair of underwear Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland presumably finally took off on Thursday.
White Sox slugger Adam Dunn has said that he only needs about 75 good swings a season to be valuable. He had one of those on Sunday afternoon.
Brent Lillibridge helped make John Danks a winner with a homer-saving catch in the eighth inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2 on Saturday night.
Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko each hit two-run homers and the Chicago White Sox spoiled the debut of Oakland interim manager Bob Melvin.
On Thursday, the Chicago White Sox and the Oakland Athletics will start a four-game series in Chicago. When the two teams square off, the Athletics will do so without the manager they started the season with.
Frank Thomas has always maintained he never took steroids and for the most part, he's been one of the few sluggers from the steroid era who is believed to be clean.
Alexei Ramirez hit his fifth home run of the year and drove in two runs, Mark Buehrle pitched 6 1/3 strong innings and the White Sox bullpen didn't give up a run, giving the Sox a 4-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Sunday.
David DeJesus recorded his 1,000th career hit and drove in two runs, Tyson Ross took a shutout into the sixth inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 6-2 on Saturday.
Coco Crisp was caught trying to score the tying run on a straight steal of home in the eighth inning, and the Chicago White Sox held off the Oakland Athletics 4-3 Friday night.
By now, you're tired of hearing it's early. Me too. As expert after expert tells you that there is still a ton of baseball to be played, I keep looking at the calendar thinking one thing: It's time to make a move.
Every half inning of a baseball game ends when three outs are registered, not more and not less.
Alexei Ramirez hit his second homer of the game with two outs in the 10th inning to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 6-5 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
Close games have not gone the White Sox way early in 2011, losing both one-run contests they've been in this year after falling 2-1 to the Oakland Athletics on Monday night.
Ten games into a major-league season is no time to declare a crisis. There will be normalization of underperformance, just as there is in the other direction. In time, players will be who they are.
Mark Buehrle looks to reverse his recent struggles against the Oakland A's on Monday night. And with the A's recent offensive struggles this might be the best time to do so.
The Cubs defeated the Oakland A's Wednesday and Carlos Silva had his best performance of a difficult spring.
Jake Peavy was at the mound the longest he has been so far during spring training, but the Oakland A's were able to score three runs off the pitcher. The Chicago White Sox, on the other hand, struggled to score. Their first run came in the seventh inning.
Thursday, The Chicago Cubs took a late lead over the Oakland A's with three home runs. The Cubs couldn't hang on, however, as Oakland took the lead with a three-run ninth inning.
Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff knows right where he wants the new ballpark for his team to be located, it's just not in Oakland.
Sunday was the first exhibition game on the season for the Cubs and Carlos Zambrano looked strong.
