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Since his career began eight years ago, Mark Teixeira of the New York Yankees has been everything scouts and baseball executives hoped he would be—a can't-miss talent with solid character, defensive prowess and power to burn.
As he takes the field in Game 1 of the World Series Wednesday, he's widely viewed as the kind of player a team is supposed to draft as a teenager and hold for a retirement ceremony some 20 summers later.
Now we’re talking. Now the Washington Nationals have a rival. A real rival, not an interleague, MLB-arranged, bi-annual blind date with the Baltimore Orioles, which despite their proximity was actually more of a long-distance ... more »
I don’t care what Philadelphia Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. says — I’ll believe his team is a seller when I see it. But know this: According to major league sources, at least one club — the... more »
The Nationals never had any doubt, from the moment Cole Hamels’s 93-mph fastball bored into Bryce Harper’s backside, that Hamels had done it on purpose. Afterward, in a statement that may earn him a fine and suspension,... more »
Two hundred million dollars won't necessarily buy you wins. But it sure can buy you a lot of margin for error. If there's a difference between the rosters of the two favorites in the American League East this year, it's that.... more »
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