Posts Tagged ‘MLB’
Sewage leak spills onto field during game at Dodger Stadium
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The final game of spring training between the Angels and Dodgers was cut short Tuesday night because of a foul-smelling leak that spilled sewage onto the…
Read MoreChase Anderson ready for Brewers’ opener at San Diego
PHOENIX (AP) — Chase Anderson says he is ready for Milwaukee’s opener at San Diego on Thursday. He was 12-4 with a 2.74 ERA last year for a team with…
Read MoreBrewers release Gallardo, costing team $483,871
PHOENIX (AP) — Yovani Gallardo has been released by the Milwaukee Brewers, who owe the 32-year-old right-hander $483,871 in termination pay rather than his $2 million salary. Milwaukee made the…
Read MoreRed Sox have highest salary, Brewers 26th
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees are on track to open the season this week with baseball’s seventh-highest payroll, their lowest ranking since 1992, according to projections by…
Read MoreThe Ohtani Dilemma: Can fantasy accommodate a 2-way star?
Shohei Ohtani had general managers scrambling this winter with his jump to the major leagues. They weren’t alone. For folks who write the code that tracks stats for fantasy baseball…
Read MoreInjury-plagued Hughes hoping for healthy year with Twins
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Minnesota Twins pitcher Phil Hughes prefers to focus on the future. Besides, lingering on his injury-plagued past might be too painful. Yet coming off three…
Read MoreNo Opening Day: Ex-major leaguers struggle with retirement
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Todd Helton now regularly drives his two daughters to school or other activities back home in Tennessee, a huge life change for Colorado’s former All-Star first…
Read MoreLorenzo Cain, Christian Yelich boost Brewers with glove, bat
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers’ pitching could improve this year better because of two new bats in the lineup: Outfielders Lorenzo Cain and Christian Yelich are just as capable…
Read MoreColumn: Rules tinkering by baseball bosses ruining sport
By HAL BOCK, AP The proprietors of baseball, charged with the task of protecting and preserving the sport, insist on tinkering with it instead. They keep fooling around with the…
Read MoreBaseball players in minors to lose minimum wage protection through federal tax changes
Minor league baseball players who make as little as $5,500 a season would be stripped of the protection of federal minimum wage laws under a provision in government spending legislation…
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