Scott Rolen

Cody Asche entered Saturday night's game with Charlotte hitting .297, with five home runs, 33 RBI, a ..481 slugging percentage, and a .340 on-base percentage over his last 47 games with the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Not bad for someone in only his...

Bud Selig would love to see a series between the World Series and Japan Series champions. But among the realities is that as problematic as that idea seems now, it might become even less viable in the future. Major League Baseball is lowering the talent...

Here’s a little dream that’s been spinning around unfulfilled since 1966 -- a freeway World Series. Dodgers vs. Angels, cars streaming back and forth on the Golden State Freeway, all the baseball world focused on Southern California. It&...

One of my least-favorite sports terms: It’s a process. Like everything isn’t. Studying game film, learning to lay off that low outside slider, scratching your left earlobe, it’s all a process. Normally this process malarkey is used...

The Dodgers have had internal discussions about whether to pursue third baseman Scott Rolen, according to a person familiar with the team's thinking. The team has not reached out to Rolen to gauge his interest, the person said. Rolen previously has...

PHILADELPHIA — Charlie Manuel doesn't tire easily — unless you're talking about all the trips he made to the mound during the eighth inning of Friday's game, when he needed four pitchers to get three outs. That's something he wants to avoid...

Here we are again. For the second series in a row, the Giants have refused to fade to black. They have extended the National League Championship Series to six games, forcing the Cardinals to make a round-trip flight they would have liked to avoid. The...

CINCINNATI — Hensley Meulens must be a very happy man. Throughout Game 3 of the National League Division Series, the Giants hitting coach was one timely hit away from the flight of shame home to San Francisco. Buster Posey and his teammates were...

At the risk of messing with the sabermetric lobby, Mike Trout wasn't the biggest difference-maker in baseball this season. No, this is not just another plug for Miguel Cabrera and calculations you can do in your head. It's actually an endorsement for...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Next time baseball's general managers meet face-to-face will be the first week of December at the winter meetings in Nashville. By then, the Cubs and White Sox hope to have different-looking rosters in the wake of three...

The Cubs couldn’t find a way to replace Aramis Ramirez at third base this year, and have to go back to the drawing board in 2013. They tried Ian Stewart, Luis Valbuena and Josh Vitters for the most part, with Joe Mather filling in occasionally, and...

I'm playing hooky. It's Thursday around noon, and a column is due, but it's 1970 and I'm playing hooky. I'm watching baseball. Gloriously sunny, rapturously dramatic, midweek playoff baseball. I'm sitting in my living room in the middle of the day...