Josh Bell

Score: Diamondbacks 11, White Sox 9. Spring record: 6-4-2. At the plate: Paul Konerko had a string of seven straight hits broken but clubbed his third homer in the last two games. Josh Bell hit his second homer and is hitting .500. On the mound: Matt...

TODAY HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING Mitchell at Brandon Valley Philip Tournament Pierre at Huron HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' HOCKEY Aberdeen Cougars at Watertown, 8 p.m. JUNIOR HOCKEY Aberdeen Wings vs. Bismarck, Odde Ice Center, 7:15 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL...

The Chicago White Sox invited 20 players to major league camp when spring training starts in mid-February in Glendale, Ariz., including their 2011 No. 1 draft choice Keenyn Walker. Walker stole 56 bases while hitting .267 at Class A last season. Also...

Media Sun's Preston named top Md. sportswriter The Baltimore Sun's Mike Preston has been honored as the Maryland Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association for the second straight year, it was announced...

One of several offseason roster deadlines arrived tonight at midnight, when teams must set their 40-man rosters for next month's Rule 5 draft. The Orioles must place certain players with minor-league experience on their 40-man or risk losing them in the...

New rules, new attitudes. That may be what's needed to understand the changes to the baseball draft. Always the quirkiest distribution system for talent in pro sports, Major League Baseball has added layers of complications with spending limits and...

Baseball America has acquired the list of minor leaguers that have applied for free agency and there are 25 former Orioles farmhands that can now look for work elsewhere. It’s a procedural filing – some of the players will come back to the...

Two Orioles minor leagues played in Saturday night’s Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Ariz. Infielder Jonathan Schoop, the Orioles’ third-ranked prospect, was 0-for-2 with a run scored, and left-handed...

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In considering the Orioles’ remarkable season and the myriad unsung contributors that the club has rescued from the minors, it’s easy to point to Miguel Gonzalez, who was pitching in Mexico, and Lew Ford, who was playing in the Atlantic...

Last week, Orioles manager Buck Showalter and executive vice president Dan Duquette were knee deep in personnel decisions, trying to figure out how to fortify a battered 25-man roster. Eventually, perhaps fairly soon, Showalter and Duquette will have...

TODAY LEGION BASEBALL Aberdeen Smittys vs. Mitchell, Fossum Field, 5 p.m. doubleheader HIGH SCHOOL GOLF State B boys/girls tournament in Rapid City, day two of two State A girls' tournament at Hot Springs, day two of two State B girls'...