Free-agent slugger Prince Fielder is in Dallas to meet with the Texas Rangers at an area hotel, according to multiple media reports.
According to USA Today, the former Milwaukee Brewers first baseman and Rangers general manager Jon Daniels were in the lobby of the hotel.
The Rangers are one of a h…
For Andrew Bailey, coming in from the bullpen at Fenway Park is a special feeling.
He’ll experience that a lot more next season.
New manager Bobby Valentine found his new man for the back end of the Boston bullpen on Wednesday when the Red Sox obtained the All-Star closer and outfielder Ryan S…
There has been do doubt among baseball followers for some time that Justin Verlander would win this year's AL Cy Young Award. The question remains whether his magnificent season will earn him MVP honors as well.
That won't be answered until Monday, but for now Verlander will happily settle for c…
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Matt Kemp are in agreement on a deal that would land the 27-year-old outfielder $160 million over eight years, pending a physical, sources told FOXSports.com.
It would rank as the seventh-largest contract in baseball history.
Kemp's sixth season in the majors was …
Veteran slugger Jim Thome agreed Friday to a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, The Associated Press reported.
"I'll keep playing," Thome said last month. "I just need teams to call me. I can't go play in the backyard by myself. I don't know the demand for a 41-year-old DH, but my…
First, Frank McCourt tried to buy his hometown Boston Red Sox. Then he sought the Anaheim Angels. Finally, in late 2003, McCourt, a land developer, triumphed: he and his wife, Jamie, bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for $430 million.
Now, after an ugly divorce, an angry battle with Major League Bas…
Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade was fired Wednesday in the first major move by Theo Epstein since becoming the team's president of baseball operations.
Epstein, who was introduced in his new position last week, said Quade would not return after traveling to Florida to tell him in person. He cal…
Clayton Kershaw said he was surprised. Andre Ethier said he was shocked.
Kershaw and Ethier were awarded their first Gold Gloves on Tuesday, joining center fielder Matt Kemp to form the only trio of Dodgers to be recognized by managers and coaches as the league's best defensive players at their po…
Frank McCourt and Major League Baseball are moving closer to settling their bankruptcy hearing, with McCourt possibly agreeing to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
A sale of the franchise likely would also include Dodger Stadium and the parking lots …
It was getting close. But CC Sabathia and the Yankees were able to get his new contract done last night to avoid the ace opting out of his previous deal.
Sabathia tweeted the announcement of his new contract at 7:23 p.m., four hours and 36 minutes before he could have opted out and become a…
Minutes after fireworks exploded above Busch Stadium, a light rain replaced the shower of red, white and blue confetti that dusted the delirious fans.
St. Louis Cardinals utility man Skip Schumaker interpreted it as a message from the baseball gods to a team of destiny.
"We had so many things happe…
The St. Louis Cardinals host the Texas Rangers in Game 7 of the World Series tonight. It's the first Game 7 played since 2002, when the Anaheim Angels beat Barry Bonds' San Francisco Giants.
The Series has gone seven games 17 times since 1962, with the visiting team winning the decisive game o…
Twice down to their last strike, the St. Louis Cardinals kept rallying to win one of baseball's greatest thrillers.
David Freese completed a startling night of comebacks with a home run leading off the bottom of the 11th inning to beat Texas 10-9 on Thursday, and suddenly fans all over got some…
After a day of rain, the Rangers enter Game 6 in St. Louis on Thursday night one win away from the first world championship in franchise history. Created as the expansion Washington Senators in 1961 and moved to Texas in 1972, the Rangers are the oldest of the eight major league clubs to have n…
Angels first baseman Mark Trumbo, a former Villa Park High School star who hit .254 with a team-leading 29 home runs and 89 runs batted in this season, was named American League rookie of the year by the Sporting News on Wednesday.
Atlanta Braves closer Greg Kimbrel, who had 46 saves and a 2.10…
The phone lines from the dugouts to the bullpens at Busch Stadium have been checked out. They are working. Now the World Series focus can return to the field.
Texas takes a 3-games-to-2 lead into Game 6 of the World Series at Busch Stadium tonight, weather permitting.
Here are five storylines t…
As Elvis Andrus says, when you're not hitting, you have to do other things.
Such as be aggressive running the bases. Such as play great defense. Such as pitch like crazy.
The Rangers did enough of those other things to steal a 2-1 victory in Game 2 of the World Series Thursday night. A…
After 20 years in the majors and 900 games on the mound, Arthur Rhodes finally got his first chance to pitch in the World Series.
He did his job, too. Brought in to face left-handed slugger Josh Hamilton, Rhodes retired last year's AL MVP on a lazy fly to center for the final out of the eighth…
Raise your hand if you had the Texas Rangers squaring off with the St. Louis Cardinals your preseason World Series picks.
If you did I'm sure you were in select company, but that is where we are as we get ready to open the 107th edition of the Fall Classic on Wednesday at Busch Stadium.
Th…
