We knew it was going to happen, but details are now emerging: Considered by many the top reliever on the free-agent market, Rodriguez saved 62 games for Anaheim last season. The Angels offered just more than $30 million over three years to retain the 26-year-old right-hander . . . . . . The three-time All-Star […]

You’re not going to believe this, but the Yankees and Mets need — and are going to get — more money from the taxpayers of New York: With opening day for the city’s two newest baseball stadiums only four months away, the price tag for taxpayers continues to rise. The Bloomberg administration has issued fresh […]

You know, until I read this story, the historical weirdness of baseball — the most anti-gambling of all of the major sports — holding one of its biggest events in a casino hadn’t occurred to me. Really, it was not that long ago when Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays — Mantle and Mays! The two […]

My general approach during the Winter Meetings is to not opine on every rumor or random story out there because, let’s face it, most of what you read about isn’t really going to happen. Still, I have to smile at stuff like this: Shortly after Theo Epstein met with reporters tonight, an agent walking the […]

You know, as soon as I made it known I was going to move my blog, The Sporting News offered me an insane amount of money. I left that offer open for weeks, mostly because my wife didn’t want to move to North Carolina. Then I ran into Studeman in a Vegas hotel and told […]

Maddux, closing the book on his unmatched career: “I don’t really feel like I know a whole lot about anything, but I know a few things about baseball.” Just a few.

Someone is in the market for some new sources: Allen, Santo and Torre To Get The Call Monday Published by Scott Jensen on December 7, 2008 11:52 am under Hall of Fame According to a source close to the situation, the Veteran’s Committee will on Monday announce that Dick Allen, Ron Santo and Joe Torre […]

The Hall of Fame Veterans Committee’s voting results are out, and the lone, lucky inductee was Joe Gordon. Sorry Mr. Santo. Mr. Allen, Mr. Torre, Mr. Pinson, Mr. Oliva, and everyone else on the list. The voting was divided up into post-1942 and pre-1943 voter’s pools, which makes some degree of sense. Among the former […]

As I’m sitting on the Hall of Fame’s website waiting for them to annouce the Veterans’ Committee inductees, I look at the latest headlines in the lower lefthand corner. One of them is “Maddux to retire Monday; Hall could beckon” As a cautious sort, I would like to praise the Hall of Fame for not […]

Ryan Ludwick, who played college ball at UNLV, gave some Sin City entertainment and dining advice to Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch: Favotite hotel: The Venetian. Favorite show: Lance Burton. Favorite restaurant: Piero’s. Favorite mexican food: Roberto’s Taco shop. Favorite burger: obviously In and Out burger. Favorite auto dealer: Findlay Toyota, got to get my […]