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Relief pitcher Will Ohman made his first — and last — appearance for the Washington Nationals this spring against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Ohman allowed two hits and two walks in one inning pitched, and he was promptly cut from the team before he got to the showers...

You didn’t have to see ‘BASEketball' to know mixing sports is a horrible, horrible idea.

The 2013 World Baseball Classic gets underway this weekend, and while it isn't as popular as some of the other global sporting events, it's gaining ground. So is it important to you to see your country well represented?

All 133 arbitration-eligible Major League Baseball players settled on contracts with their respective teams this off-season. It's the first time since arbitration began in 1974 that no player who filed went to an arbitration hearing. Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Darren O'Day was the last of the 133 MLB players who filed for arbitration Jan...

When a baseball team’s lineup has three potential first round fantasy picks in it, including one of the contenders for #1 overall, you tend not to worry about the offense.

Prince Fielder, who just might be the world’s largest baseball player, is now on the world’s largest baseball card.

A report late Tuesday said the New York Yankees were investigating ways to potentially void the contract of third baseman Alex Rodriguez if he were to be suspended by Major League Baseball for his alleged involvement with a Miami clinic that dispensed performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).

On this day in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers announced that they had hired the infamous circus clown Emmett Kelly to entertain their fans at games. (Read: On this day in history, a lot of people developed a debilitating phobia at a friendly afternoon baseball game in Brooklyn.)

Plate discipline is often a problem for Delmon Young. If he can show more restraint at the dinner table than he does in the batter's box, Young can earn another $600,000 in 2013.

One of the great baseball players of all time #6, Stan ‘Stan the Man’ Musial, died on Saturday at the age of 92. He was not only one of the greats but a great baseball name.

Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona has penned a new book that discusses his team's infamous late-season crash in the fall of 2011, one of the biggest collapses in baseball history. But the big news apparently is that Francona is willing to reveal a bit of the inner workings of the franchise's ownership, and it doesn't sound pretty.

One of the traditions of baseball is about to get replaced by modern technology. The ‘dugout’ phone is going to be replaced by cell phones. No longer will you see the manager tell the pitching coach to grab the phone on the wall and call the dugout to tell the relief pitcher to get warmed up.

The 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame nominees are in and there won't be any plaques added this year.

You might have seen the television show 'American Pickers' on the History Channel. Mark, Frank and Danielle travel the United States in their van searching for treasures while meeting some interesting people. Maybe you've been to a yard sale and wondered to yourself if you are picking a valuable item. That's exactly what happened at a yard sale in Baileyville, Maine.

On Wednesday, baseball's Hall of Fame will announce the players who comprise the 2013 class of inductees—or they will announce that no one has surpassed the 75 percent voting mark required for induction. Which would be remarkable, given that some of the greatest players ever to step on a baseball diamond are on the ballot this year. So why the uncertainty? Steroids, of course.