Juan Encarnacion

Orioles fans who hoped to see Adam Jones, Matt Wieters and Nick Markakis at the team’s first road Grapefruit League game today against the Blue Jays in Dunedin will be disappointed. Most of the team’s starters – with the exception of...

By the time the Cubs' "afternoon" game was finished, the Brewers already had a 3-0 lead over Cincinnati in their night game a few miles north. But it didn't matter, for another day at least, what the Brewers did, because the Cubs went home Saturday...

Grandville Grandville police are investigating what can only be described as an unbelievable coincidence.     A Grand Rapids man allegedly stole a man's identity years ago.  No one knew about it, until this month, when he went to get a job.  To his...

It's hard to decipher what the Cubs are thinking in terms of next year's rotation. A half-dozen rookies have been getting serious shots at filling two or three spots, assuming Mark Prior is penciled in for one. The only certainty for 2007 is Carlos...

While manager Dusty Baker squirms in the final weeks of the final year of his four-year contract, first baseman Derrek Lee wonders why the players don't get their share of the blame for the Cubs' disastrous season. "It's funny to me that Dusty takes...

All the momentum the Cubs carried home from their West Coast trip was neutralized during another puzzling homestand. One day after a 14-0 shutout of Florida, the Cubs found themselves on the other side of the fence Wednesday, serving up 20 hits in an...

While St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols may be gone for several weeks with a strained oblique muscle, the Cardinals appear better equipped to handle the loss of their superstar than the Cubs were when Derrek Lee was lost with a broken wrist. Plugging...

The Rich Hill conundrum is one that has left the Cubs searching for answers for more than a year now. How can a kid look so untouchable in the minors but so average once he dons a Cubs uniform? Called up from Triple-A Iowa on Thursday for his fifth...

As if anything extra was needed to heat up an old rivalry, the Cubs and Cardinals turned up the tempers Friday on a torrid afternoon at Wrigley Field. The final toll: Both teams' third basemen hit by pitches, another hit-by-pitch that wasn't, the season'...

Imagine Kerry Wood and Mark Prior coming back to the Cubs at the end of May and discovering there's no room in the rotation. While that's an unlikely scenario, rookie left-hander Sean Marshall doesn't look like a guy simply making a cameo appearance...

With Neifi Perez traded to Detroit on Sunday before the Cubs' 5-3 loss to St. Louis, all three players who competed for the Cubs' second-base job in spring training are gone. Jerry Hairston was traded to Texas in May for Phil Nevin, and Todd Walker was...

As the St. Louis Cardinals tried to thaw out after their 5-1 loss to the Cubs in Friday's frigid Wrigley Field season opener, they discovered the hot water in their showers had run out after about five minutes. That's the kind of inconvenience that leads...