For The Rangers' Jurickson Profar, The Time Is Now
Jurickson Profar is 21-years-old going into the 2014 season. And the Rangers are expecting a lot.
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Jurickson Profar is 21-years-old going into the 2014 season. And the Rangers are expecting a lot.
The average raise for a player in salary arbitration was 117 percent this year, according to a study by The Associated Press, led by steep hikes for Freddie Freeman, Craig Kimbrel, Giancarlo Stanton and Michael Brantley.
Okay, whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Where are you going? Don't leave. Not rooting for them more than your own favorite teams. That's not what I mean. Not even rooting for them to win championships. But rooting for them to be good. Rooting for them to be legitimate contenders.
Alex Rodriguez was hit with a 162 game suspension Saturday morning by an independent arbitrator.
As the game went on, Dan Girardi's mistake became magnified. Luckily for Girardi and the New York Rangers, the defenseman redeemed himself in a big way.
Like many Cuban baseball stars, outfielder Leonys Martin dreamed of leaving the communist island for the bright lights and big money of Major League Baseball. Martin accomplished his goal in 2011 when he signed with the Texas Rangers, but not before what court documents and the Justice Department describe as a harrowing ordeal in which he was held for ransom in Mexico while his family members were kept under surveillance in South Florida.
Local cable providers love to remind us that we have nine - yes, nine - professional sports clubs, a way of persuading us to click on this package or that so we can view the screen-in-screen horror we call baseball, football, and basketball.
Alex Rodriguez entered baseball in July 1994 and was immediately pegged as a future Hall of Famer and one of the greatest to ever play. Instead, the player who was considered a shoo-in for Cooperstown will be suspended through the rest of the 2013 season and all of the 2014 season for his role in the Biogenesis scandal, according to CBSNews.com.
Alex Rodriguez turned 38-years-old Saturday. His teammates could say this year and the upcoming one has certainly been filled with milestones and low points.
Derick Brassard and Rick Nash scored power-play goals in the opening 10 minutes, and Mats Zuccarello, Brassard and Brad Richards turned a tight game into a rout with goals 3:25 apart late in the third period of the New York Rangers' 6-1 victory on Florida Panthers Thursday night.
When the final buzzer sounded at Madison Square Garden, the Swedish goalie celebrated the big win with his teammates. No, it wasn't Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers this time. Jacob Markstrom made 44 saves, and he and the cellar-dwelling Florida Panthers stole the spotlight from Lundqvist and the Rangers with a 3-1 win Thursday night.
Now at 25 years old, Leonys Martin has to deal with an unenviable burden: replacing Josh Hamilton in the Rangers' lineup.
Wellman has appeared in 41 NHL games and this trade marks his return to the NHL from the AHL.
Former Florida Marlins catcher Ivan Rodriguez, also known as Pudge, returned to the Texas Rangers to formally announce his retirement from Major League Baseball.
First, the Florida Panthers made it to the NHL playoffs for the first time in a dozen years. Now, they do it as division champs, a win against the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday night giving the Cats their first division title in team history.
The last time the Florida Panthers made the playoffs, you could buy gas in South Florida for a buck and a half a gallon and the team's home ice was in Overtown, not west Broward. But at last, the Panthers are back in the Playoffs, and tickets went on sale Saturday.
The Florida Panthers were all set to break out the champagne and celebrate the team's first playoff berth in more than a decade, then the Winnipeg Jets finally showed up for Tuesday's game and put the celebration on ice.
The calendar may still read February, but spring training is getting underway across Florida and in Arizona. Almost every team has had pitchers and catchers report, though the Miami Marlins, Chicago White Sox, and Texas Rangers will report Wednesday.
The New York Rangers beat the Florida Panthers 6-1 on Sunday night for as comprehensive-looking a win as New York has enjoyed all season.
The Miami Marlins have a desperate need for pitching and they may address it with the hottest name on the free agent market.
The Miami Marlins need starting pitching, and they may address that in a big way with Mark Buehrle; who the Fish are pursuing hard heading into the baseball winter meetings.
Florida's Tomas Fleischmann went for a postgame medical evaluation after taking an elbow to the head Wednesday night. That left Panthers teammates to discuss his clutch performance.
In one of the most exciting World Series games of all-time, the St. Louis Cardinals, down to their final strike in both the ninth and 10th innings, forced a decisive Game 7 when David Freese capped a game for the ages with a walk-off home run to center field.
Professional athletes often purport that they play for their team's faithful fan base, above all else. And almost as frequently, for right or for wrong, someone will sigh in response.
Logan Morrison had a tiebreaking two-run double in the eighth after the Marlins got a lucky break and went on to a 6-4 win over the AL West-leading Texas Rangers on Sunday night to end a winning road trip under Jack McKeon.
