Hideki Matsui

The Yankees debate over who will be in their Starting Rotation ended when Pineda went to the 15 Day-DL. Who do you think would have been cut if the injury did not occur and what will happen when Pineda's healthy? Or when Andy Pettite is deemed ready to...

When the Twins signed former Japanese batting champ Tsuyoshi Nishioka to a three-year, $9.25 million deal before the 2011 season, they were taking a chance the middle infielder could buck the historical trend running against his chances of becoming a star...

No. 2 Yankees: 29th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Angels. Can we have a mulligan? That's what Hal Steinbrenner or Randy Levine, the Yankees' president, is believed to have asked either Commissioner Bud Selig or Rob Manfred, Major...

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First in a series, counting down to the opening of spring training. First up: the Athletics, No. 30 in Phil Rogers' power rankings. Loved the movie "Moneyball." If you weren't touched by Billy Beane's relationship with his daughter, you don't have a...

The Orioles' second win at The Coliseum since 2008 featured another solid start from one of the rotation's newest members, a shutdown relief appearance from a much-maligned lefty, and two clutch hits from the bottom of the order. Tommy Hunter survived...

In the days leading up to Brian Matusz's return to the big leagues, Orioles manager Buck Showalter was asked several times about what he was looking to see from the 24-year-old left-hander. His answer didn't include mention of the stadium radar gun,...

The field for this fall's playoffs might be far different if Josh Byrnes, then the Diamondbacks general manager, hadn't approached the Yankees' Brian Cashman with an idea shortly before Thanksgiving in 2009. What transpired next may have contributed to...

Michael Pineda might not be an All-Star -- not yet anyway. But the big Mariners right-hander continued his impressive rookie season with six innings of two-hit ball on Monday, as Seattle edged the A's, 2-1, in a Fourth of July game at Oakland Coliseum....

He can't exactly race around the diamond at the moment, but Justin Smoak certainly didn't need to on Monday night. Smoak, who has been battling a sore groin for the past two weeks, launched a sixth-inning three-run homer that provided the necessary...

This wasn't the way that Blake Beavan wanted to end his rookie season. A strong second half by the young right-hander ended on a sour note on Tuesday as the A's rolled to a 7-0 victory at Safeco Field in the second-to-last game of the season. Beavan,...