There are few debates that aggravated me more last year than the one about Joba Chamberlain’s role. Thankfully, that debate has been ended: Some believe Chamberlain’s highest value is as the eighth-inning bridge to Mariano Rivera, while others think the 23-year-old fireballer better serves the Yankees by pitching five, six or seven innings every fifth […]

The future is… in the future.

He has had two down years in a row, and is owed $117 million. What can the Blue Jays expect now?

It’s year one for Mister Rickey in Pittsburgh. What kind of a start does he pull off?

Reviews of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field from The New Yorker. The reviews themselves wind around in typical New Yorkery style, but end up here: A stadium is a stage set as sure as anything on Broadway, and it determines the tone of the dramas within. Citi Field suggests a team that wants to be […]

Given that the Astros’ catching situation was described as “dire” last week, this makes a lot of sense: Catcher Ivan Rodriguez has agree to a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Houston Astros, a source told ESPN’s Steve Phillips on Monday. Rodriguez can make an additional $1.5 million in performances bonuses. At the World Baseball […]

Willie Mays is helping Aaron Rowand: When Aaron Rowand took a seat at Mays’ table in the Giants’ clubhouse last week, something important was happening. For all the talk of Rowand’s prolonged hitting slump during his first season with the Giants, his fielding troubles might have been more crucial. Rowand did not always get great […]

Lew Wolff has given what seems like the final kiss-off to Oakland: The Oakland A’s have “exhausted” their time and resources with the city of Oakland in a search for a new home, and have “no interest in covering old ground again,” A’s owner Lew Wolff said in a statement released Friday . . . […]

It was a slow week as the clubs started trimming the excess fat off their spring training rosters while crossing their fingers that their players playing in the World Baseball Classic don’t get hurt.

King Kaufman interviews Tracy Ringolsby — late of the Rocky Mountain News — about the death of his paper and the notion that he’s turning into a blogger of some kind with his new Rockies web site: Kaufman: You say you don’t know that much about the Internet and I wonder how you feel about […]