Several signings and extensions occurred and a Sunday-night deal brought the Baltimore Orioles a new outfielder and may have given the Chicago Cubs a piece needed to make Jake Peavy part of their team.

You have to scroll way down to read it here, but that losing battle the City of Anaheim fought against the Angels wasn’t cheap: After spending roughly $4 million in legal fees, the City of Anaheim agreed to drop its civil suit against its baseball team–the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim–seeking to have the “L.A.” […]

Trey Hillman is having a little get together/mini-camp at his Texas home next week: Hey, y’all, come on down to Liberty Hill, Texas. Set a spell. Chew the fat. Snag some worm-killers. Whack the ol’ horsehide. All you infielders, that is. Yep, Royals manager Trey Hillman is having most of his infielders down to his […]

On Jan. 16, 1980 Albert Pujols was born. The greatness of “Prince Albert” is in no dispute—his second MVP attesting to the fact—but this week Richard looks back to see just how Pujols compares to great hitters of the past.

Andruw Jones is about to be released. I wouldn’t bet my belly button lint that the Braves won’t sign him to a veteran minimum deal within the next week or so.

The A’s and Nats are talking about Nick Johnson: The Nationals and Oakland Athletics, who discussed a potential trade for first baseman Nick Johnson all the way back in November, have revived those talks in recent weeks, according to a source familiar with the discussions. At one point last week, the source said, a deal […]

The economy may be stank on a stick, but the Twins are doing just fine, thank you: The Minnesota Twins are on pace to sell a franchise-record 11,000 season tickets for the 2009 season, up from about 10,000 last year. The team expects about 90 percent of last year’s season-ticket holders to renew — a […]

So a couple of weeks ago I was writing an article that will appear in Rotoworld Magazine. You’ll have to buy it to read it, but the jist is that it’s a list of predictions of things that will happen in 2009, erring on the side of the funny and absurd. In an initial draft […]

When your team comes out with a new jersey, you can (a) say “Here’s the new jersey. We like it and hope people buy a lot of them”; or (b) reach for a lot of symbolic hooey. Tampa Bay has chosen (b): On May 1st, the Rays will don a new alternate jersey when they […]

The city of Anaheim has decided to drop that lawsuit in which they’re trying to force the Angels to change their name: Mayor Curt Pringle says the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to give up its battle to restore the team’s name to the Anaheim Angels. The city had argued that team owner Arte Moreno […]