It was no surprise that the race for the AL East pennant was a close one, but who made it close wasn't necessarily what baseball fans expected.  Sure, the Yankees are about as close to a shoe-in...

This article is part of the series "2013 in the Major Leagues: The Shoot-Outs in the East". November of 2012 through February of 2013 has proven to be an exciting offseason in terms of regrouping for the...

This article is part of the series "2013 in the Major Leagues: The Shoot-Outs in the East". By the mid-point of the 2012 season, the pennant of the NL East was pretty much a two horse race...

Oscar Taveras, the top prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals, made sports news headlines when he switched his agent for the 2013 season from Melvin Toman to Rob Plummer. Plummer now manages the top three Dominican-born prospects:...

2013 will mark the first time in 17 years that not a single player received the required amount of votes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and the first time since 1965 that none of...

A recent proposal to allow interpreters to follow coaches to the pitcher’s mound is not completely unprecedented. In countries like South Korea and Japan, interpreters have been part of coaches conferences with players for many years. Players...

Most baseball writers such as myself aren’t paid for the bulk of their work. Most of us are continually trying to build and maintain a consistent audience, with the hope that someday we might make some money...