Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Carlos Pena was named the American League Player of the Week on Monday.
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Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Carlos Pena was named the American League Player of the Week on Monday.
On Sunday evening, they will walk off America’s most famous field for the final time. No more sunny days spent watching the pinstripes run out across the same ground once patrolled by Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle. No more October afternoons with shadows creeping across the grass. No more glorious nights with balls soaring [...]
As the Yankees prepare to finally welcome back their most recent icon of a center fielder when they bid farewell to Yankee Stadium on Sunday, manager Joe Girardi looked at what their next starting center fielder should be like.
While fan favorite Bernie Williams endeared himself to the Yankees with clutch hitting and power, Girardi sees [...]
Disappointment ran rampant through the clubhouse and executive suites with the grim news that right-hander Shaun Marcum will have to undergo “Tommy John” ligament transfer surgery and will be lost for the entire 2009 season.
Right-hander A.J. Burnett is expected to opt out of his contract following the season, which with the Marcum update, leaves the [...]
A banner hanging over the Boston bullpen at Rogers Centre proclaimed it to be the home of the “Noodle Arm Club,” but those arms were plenty strong Friday night. Jason Varitek drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and four Boston relievers combined to throw three shutout innings as the Red Sox moved [...]
The 2008 season hasn’t even ended and Shaun Marcum’s 2009 campaign is already over.
Paul Byrd won’t dazzle anyone with radar gun readings or the “stuff” that he brings to the mound every five days.
The 37-year-old veteran mixes his pitches and throws strikes, and gives his team the same kind of outings pretty much every time he toes the rubber. Friday night’s Sox win was one of those particular [...]
A banner hanging over the Boston bullpen at Rogers Centre proclaimed it to be the home of the “Noodle Arm Club,” but those arms were plenty strong Friday night. Jason Varitek drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and four Boston relievers combined to throw three shutout innings as the Red Sox moved [...]
The indomitable Rosie Santizo impacted many lives helping Latin players for three organizations, and her death in a car accident left a void.