Chipper Jones already had a World Series ring and an MVP trophy. What he wanted was the chance to finish up in the place he started. ...more

April 1, 2009

Baseball looked more like America's national pastime Sunday night. Team USA avoided elimination from the World Baseball Classic, beating the Netherlands 9-3 to ease the sting of a drubbing endured against Puerto Rico the night before. ...more

March 16, 2009

Chien-Ming Wang passed another test, and it had nothing to do with his pitching arm. ...more

March 7, 2009

The dawn of a rainy late-winter day brought a breakthrough in the stalemate between Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers. ...more

March 5, 2009

Cole Hamels returned to the mound for the first time since helping the Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series and pitched two scoreless innings in a 9-2 win over Canada on Wednesday. ...more

March 4, 2009

He doesn't want to waste a second. He beats most everyone to the park. Joe Nelson learned at his first training camp, in 1996. The then-Atlanta Braves prospect overslept twice. ...more

February 22, 2009

Ken Griffey Jr. has decided to return to the Seattle Mariners. ...more

February 19, 2009

In the current climate of Major League Baseball, there's something particularly fitting about a story of an elite ballplayer who falls from fame and fortune thanks to his own steroid-fueled self-destruction. ...more

February 15, 2009

It's Friday the 13th – potentially bad news for the flocks of superstitious folks involved in sports. Here's a look at how this day – and superstitions in general – have affected the world of sports: ...more

February 13, 2009

Former Seminole High graduate Casey Kotchman and the Atlanta Braves avoided salary arbitration, agreeing to a one-year contract worth $2,885,000. Kotchman could earn an additional $100,000 in performance bonuses under the deal agreed to last week and announced Monday. He hit a combined .272 with 14 homers and 74 RBIs last season for the Braves and the Los Angeles Angels. The first baseman, who turns 26 on Feb. 22, hit only .149 with no homers in his first 22 games after he was acquired by the Braves on July 29 in the trade that sent Mark Teixeira to the Angels. Kotchman hit .305 with two homers and 15 RBIs in September. He has a .997 career fielding percentage with just eight errors in 357 games. After making $1.45 million last year, Kotchman had asked for a raise to $3.25 million in arbitration. He had been offered $2,475,000. ...more

February 2, 2009