Last summer, Carlos Beltran offered to foot the bill if then-Mets teammate Jonathan Niese received a nose job. Now it's time to pay up. The surgery, performed last October, didn't straighten the 25-year-old pitcher's crooked nose, but that wasn't the point. Niese is breathing a lot easier after the procedure corrected a deviated septum.
The Texas Rangers have hired former All-Star shortstop Tony Fernandez as a special assistant to general manager Jon Daniels. Fernandez went to five All-Star games and won four straight Gold Gloves with Toronto, where he spent most of a 17-year career that ended in 2001. He reached the playoffs with five different teams and won a World Series with the Blue Jays in 1993.
The Yankees finalized a $1.1 million, one-year contract with Raul Ibanez and reached a $900,000, one-year deal to keep Eric Chavez. Ibanez's deal, announced Tuesday, includes $2.9 million in performance bonuses. A 39-year-old outfielder who played with Philadelphia the previous three seasons, Ibanez hit .245 last year with 20 homers and 84 RBIs.
A casually dressed Don Mattingly leaned back in his clubhouse office chair admittedly much more relaxed the second time around as Dodgers manager. Nobody will question that his first move of spring training is spot on: Mattingly wasted no time Tuesday choosing reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw as the opening day starter for Los Angeles come April 5 at San Diego -- even if it's...
As important as Prince Fielder's addition could be, it's difficult to see the Tigers winning a World Series without another dominant season from Justin Verlander.
Three months have passed since Wilson Ramos' budding baseball career was interrupted by a gunpoint kidnapping in his native Venezuela. Yet there the 24-year-old catcher was Tuesday, smiling and laughing alongside his Washington Nationals teammates during their first full workout for pitchers and catchers.
The lineup change Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge hinted at during the offseason is going to become permanent. It won't be Ichiro Suzuki at the top of the Mariners batting order to begin the 2012 season. Wedge announced Tuesday that he will move Suzuki from his traditional leadoff spot down to No.
Yu Darvish arrived at the Texas Rangers' spring training complex Tuesday and had his first bullpen session with his new team. Darvish got to camp in Surprise, Ariz., a day before the reporting date for Texas pitchers and catchers. Rangers manager Ron Washington said Darvish threw about 35 pitches.
Theo Epstein's worth to the Boston Red Sox was easy to gauge. A quick glance at the two World Series trophies at Fenway Park settles that. Determining his value to the Chicago Cubs, another title-starved franchise desperately hoping to be saved by the Boy Wonder, turned out to be a much more complicated issue.
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