Report: Yankees Are Among Final Five Teams In Tanaka Race
According to a report on NikkanSports.com, the Yankees are one of five finalists in the running to sign Masahiro Tanaka.
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According to a report on NikkanSports.com, the Yankees are one of five finalists in the running to sign Masahiro Tanaka.
The Cubs are trying to sell Masahiro Tanaka on hope, that he could be part of the turnaround if their prospects pan out, and they're selling the same thing to their fans.
There's been a new development in the pursuit of Masahiro Tanaka. The Japanese right-hander has at least three legitimate suitors, with a fourth apparently entering the fray on Thursday.
Kershaw receives the most lucrative deal for a pitcher, breaking the mark of $180 million set by Justin Verlander last March for his seven-year contract with Detroit.
It seems everyone is jazzed up over Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka's move to the U.S. Well, maybe not everyone.
Masahiro Tanaka hit the ground running Wednesday with his first round of "clandestine meetings" in the U.S., according to WFAN and CBSSports.com baseball insider Jon Heyman.
Piazza was named on 62.2 percent of the ballots (355 of 571), well shy of the 75 percent needed for induction. The Mets great received 57.8 percent in his first year of eligibility in 2013.
Jose Offerman said Monday he is not trying to avoid a U.S. lawsuit for attacking two opposing players with a baseball bat in Connecticut six years ago while he was playing for the Long Island Ducks.
Jose Offerman hit two Bluefish players, John Nathans and pitcher Matt Beech, with a bat. Nathans suffered a head injury that ended his career, and Beech broke the middle finger on his non-throwing hand. As a federal lawsuit over the attack heads to trial, Offerman is nowhere to be found.
My question to 40 major league executives, agents and players-turned-broadcasters was "What will Robinson Cano sign for?" So what is the magic number?
Carlos Beltran, Michael Wacha and the St. Louis Cardinals are going to the World Series -- not even Clayton Kershaw could stop them this year.
Adrian Gonzalez homered twice and Zack Greinke gave the Los Angeles Dodgers the clutch performance they needed in a 6-4 victory over the Cardinals on Wednesday that trimmed St. Louis' lead to 3-2 in the NL championship series.
He's cocky. He's arrogant. He's extremely unlikable. And he doesn't play the great game of baseball the right way, the way it's supposed to be played. Who am I talking about? You know who. I'm talking about Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig.
True story: Dustin Hoffman went to Monday night's NLCS game in Los Angeles and ended up with great seats to a dance extravaganza featuring baseball's newest darling -- a wannabe mascot in a bear costume.
"As a player, I just think he doesn't know (about how to act)," the former Met said. "That's what I think. He really doesn't know. He must think that he's still playing somewhere else."
Shortstop Hanley Ramirez had a CT scan on his left ribs Sunday, and the results were not yet available.
Lance Lynn will start Game 4 of the NL championship series for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Andre Ethier is not in the Los Angeles Dodgers lineup for Game 2 of the NLCS due to lingering soreness.
Well past midnight at Busch Stadium, Carlos Beltran singled into the right-field corner with one out against the Dodgers in the 13th to finish a game that took 4 hours, 47 minutes.
If you're not comfortable with that, the door is that-a-way. Yep, Hammurabi's code is coming to Arizona.
Theoretically, a team could play 20 postseason games before winning it all. Given all this, I wonder if the World Series has become anticlimactic. It takes so long just to reach the Fall Classic.
Jones threw out the first pitch in Atlanta prior to Game 1 of the NLDS, but didn't get to uncork it to a player. Instead he delivered to the Braves' mascot behind home plate. Why?
The NL West champions open the next round Friday against St. Louis or Pittsburgh. The Cardinals host the wild-card Pirates in a winner-take-all Game 5 on Wednesday.
"Though I can't talk about it, that other guy in New York is going to get paid -- not by us," the Dodgers owner said Thursday, according to CBSSports.com. "But he's going to get paid."
Cuba announced Friday that its athletes will be allowed to sign contracts to compete in foreign leagues, a shift from decades of policy that held professional sports to be anathema to socialist ideals.
