Torre OK with not being selected for All-Star coaching staff
Joe Torre doesn't mind that he was left off the coaching staff for the All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. He might not have accepted an invitation anyway.
Joe Torre doesn't mind that he was left off the coaching staff for the All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. He might not have accepted an invitation anyway.
Oft-injured pitcher Mark Prior has another shoulder problem that will delay his debut with the San Diego Padres.
Houston's Shawn Chacon set a major league record by making his ninth consecutive start without a decision to begin the season.
The Chicago White Sox fired director of player personnel David Wilder on Friday along with two other scouts in the club's Latin American operation.
Peter Magowan, the owner who brought Barry Bonds to San Francisco, built a new ballpark and kept major league baseball in the city, is stepping down as managing partner of the Giants.
Joe Girardi is handing his office in Yankee Stadium over to Boston's Terry Francona for the All-Star game.
Jayson Werth homered in his first three at-bats and tied a Philadelphia Phillies record with eight RBIs against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.
Matt Holliday was removed from the Colorado Rockies' starting lineup Friday night because of tightness in his lower back.
Ryan Braun had no intention of leaving the Milwaukee Brewers anytime soon.
Ryan Braun grinned. He had just agreed to the largest contract in Milwaukee Brewers' history.
Nationals first baseman Nick Johnson was placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a torn tendon sheath in his right wrist.
Baseball owners unanimously ratified tougher drug testing rules Thursday, and commissioner Bud Selig said he will now turn his attention to whether maple bats have become dangerous.
Tampa Bay left-hander Scott Kazmir agreed Wednesday to a $28.5 million, three-year extension through 2011, a deal with a club option that could raise the contract's value to $39.5 million over four seasons.
Jim Edmonds wasn't out of work long. The Chicago Cubs agreed to a contract with the 37-year-old outfielder on Wednesday, five days after he was released by the San Diego Padres.
Hank Steinbrenner expects his struggling New York Yankees to focus and turn around their season. "They've got to play smarter and harder," he said Wednesday, even before manager Joe Girardi called a pregame meeting.
Federal prosecutors have unveiled a revamped indictment against Barry Bonds, but the career home run leader's lawyers say nothing has changed.
Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and that he hampered the federal government's doping investigation.
The St. Louis Cardinals are expecting Yadier Molina to be disciplined for his antics.
Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron will receive an honorary law degree from Concordia University in Wisconsin. The former home-run king also will deliver the commencement speech on Saturday.
Injured Alex Rodriguez is hoping to rejoin the New York Yankees early next week. "We're aiming for Tuesday at home," Rodriguez said after working out at the team's minor league complex. "You've got to be smart, so it's a good way to go."
Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona left the team and will miss the first two games of his team's series at Baltimore following the death of his mother-in-law.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected the appeal of a former youth baseball coach convicted of offering a player $25 to bean a 9-year-old autistic teammate.
Manny Ramirez was back in Boston's lineup, with a blast. After homering only once in his last 19 games, Ramirez hit a two-run shot in the first inning for the Red Sox at Minnesota on Monday. It was the 498th of his career and came off Twins starter Livan Hernandez.
Indians second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera turned the 14th unassisted triple play in major league history, accomplishing the feat Monday night in the second game of a doubleheader against Toronto.
Manny Ramirez did not start Sunday night's game against the Minnesota Twins because of a sore right hamstring.
All it took for the San Diego Padres to suddenly look alive was to face a pitcher making his big league debut.
The Brewers yanked Eric Gagne from the closer's role on Sunday after the reliever called his latest performance embarrassing and said he didn't feel he deserved to pitch the ninth anymore.
The Cincinnati Reds batted out of order in the ninth inning of Sunday's 8-3 loss to the New York Mets, resulting in a 10-minute delay as umpires and managers sorted out the confusion.
With a new ballpark finally on the horizon, the Florida Marlins are beginning to loosen their purse strings. Star shortstop Hanley Ramirez has agreed to the framework of a $70 million, six-year contract to remain with the Marlins, a person familiar with the negotiations said Saturday.
Vernon Wells will go from leading the Toronto Blue Jays in home runs and RBIs to leading the team in cheers.