MLB News and Rumors

Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau has spent a lot of time watching baseball games since last July 7 when he was kneed in the head and suffered a concussion as he came into second base. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that he’s getting closer to actually playing in a game, which has to be music [...]

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Daisuke Matsuzaka figures to have a spot in the Red Sox rotation nailed down. However, that’s not the way he intends on going about his business this spring. Following his first start of spring training Monday at City of Palms Park, Matsuzaka talked as if he still had to earn one [...]

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Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit is scheduled to make .1 million this season as a backup and that’s a big salary for someone on the Pirates payroll. So "there is still a chance" that he’ll be "be in a different uniform before the Pirates open the season," according to MLB.com. The Pirates have had some [...]

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Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau has spent a lot of time watching baseball games since last July 7 when he was kneed in the head and suffered a concussion as he came into second base. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that he’s getting closer to actually playing in a game, which has got to be [...]

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The Tampa Bay Rays went for it all in 2010 and won the AL East before being knocked out of the playoffs by the Texas Rangers. Everyone knew the Rays would be making some wholesale changes this offseason (letting Carl Crawford, Rafael Soriano, Carlos Pena and Joaquin Benoit walk while trading away Matt Garza and [...]

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The San Francisco Giants are my pick to win the National League West this year, but how will the rest of the division play out? In the next few posts, I will give a brief analysis of the four other NL West teams, working from the bottom up. I start with the Arizona Diamondbacks, my [...]

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mike Cameron entered the 2010 spring training with his eyes on a full season as the Red Sox starting center fielder. It did not work out that way. But when the 2011 spring training slate began, Cameron was in center field once again, and looking no worse for wear. “On a [...]

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