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Thursday marked the end of MLB’s Winter Meetings, when each team’s top brass converge on a hotel and jam pack a bunch of offseason trades into one week.  For baseball fans, it’s heaven, the first major MLB event since the World Series. But it also tends to be heavy on conjecture and rumor — a lot of “X team talking to X players about a deal.” If you’re not a…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn. The court on Friday cleared the way for a 24-field baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, upholding a lower court’s decision that the City Council properly rezoned the property…

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Remember being a kid and saving up your weekly allowance to buy a pack of baseball cards? Well, now you can do that as an adult, only it might take a couple months worth of salary depending on how crazy you’re willing to get. For the price of $22,000, you can own the most expensive box of baseball cards ever assembled. Topps released its 2016 Transcendent Collection on Friday, and even…

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Reuters Bobby Valentine skippered the New York Mets from 1996 to 2002. He also managed the Texas Rangers and the Boston Red Sox, as well as the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball. President-elect Donald Trump reportedly is considering former Mets manager Bobby Valentine to be U.S. ambassador to Japan. Valentine, a former…

Chat it up: Braves Top 10 Prospects Chat with Bill Ballew Knowledge is Power: Braves Top 10 Insider Want More? Complete Top 10 Prospects Rankings Go 30 deep: Order the 2017 Prospect Handbook! TOP 10 PROSPECTS 1. Dansby Swanson, ss 2. Ozzie Albies, 2b/ss 3. Kolby Allard, lhp 4. Mike Soroka, rhp 5. Ian Anderson, rhp 6. Ronald Acuna, of 7. Kevin Maitan, ss 8. Sean Newcomb, lhp 9. Patrick Weigel, rhp 10….

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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — All-Star closers Aroldis Chapman, Mark Melancon and Wade Davis moved to different bullpens. Chris Sale boosted a big rotation in Boston. And the Washington Nationals got their fans talking – a lot. As teams packed up along the Potomac River and headed home Thursday, a look at what did and didn’t happen this week at the winter meetings: — WHO’S LEFT? Major league home run…

Of all the major sports, baseball has been the one most closely tied to player performance data. Whether that has been PitchFx, Statcast, or other advanced metrics that are now fully adopted in the game, when it comes to statistics, baseball rules them all. So, it may come as no surprise that the use of wearable technology has quietly worked its way into Major League Baseball. The league and players…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Baseball’s annual Winter Meetings are a surreal place. Practically everyone in the baseball industry converges into a mega hotel for an event that’s a combination of general managers and agents trying to woo each other, reporters looking for scoops, front-office job seekers looking for a gig and trade-show people trying to sell their latest products. That absurdity isn’t helped by the fact that the days run upward…

For three days last month, the brain trusts of all 30 Major League Baseball teams gathered at a ritzy resort in the wealthy desert suburb of Scottsdale, Ariz., and tried to find common ground. The start of a baseball offseason is traditionally slow, and before the new collective bargaining agreement is due, the action was even quieter. But, when these general managers met, more and more of them saw reflections….

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — All-Star closers Aroldis Chapman, Mark Melancon and Wade Davis moved to different bullpens. Chris Sale boosted a big rotation in Boston. And the Washington Nationals got their fans talking – a lot. As teams packed up along the Potomac River and headed home Thursday, a look at what did and didn’t happen this week at the winter meetings: — WHO’S LEFT? Major league home run…

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) All-Star closers Aroldis Chapman, Mark Melancon and Wade Davis moved to different bullpens. Chris Sale boosted a big rotation in Boston. And the Washington Nationals got their fans talking – a lot. As teams packed up along the Potomac River and headed home Thursday, a look at what did and didn’t happen this week at the winter meetings: — WHO’S LEFT? Major league home run leader…

For years, the cost of participating in baseball showcases has been rising. Parents have been spending hundreds of dollars for their sons to be seen by college coaches or professional scouts. Major League Baseball and USA Baseball announced on Wednesday the creation of the Prospect Development Pipeline, a program of 17 free events across the country for invited high school players ages 16 to 18. “We’re tasked with growing our game and…

JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: a pioneer in the traditionally male-dominated world of sports writing. Claire Smith has been covering baseball for more than four decades. She was the first African-American female reporter to cover the game for a newspaper. Working for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Hartford Courant during her career. She’s now with ESPN. And, yesterday, she was awarded the top honor for a baseball…

A look at what’s happening today at the baseball winter meetings in Oxon Hill, Maryland: ——— CLOSING TIME It was a good week for several top closers, with Aroldis Chapman and Mark Melancon getting rich deals and Wade Davis winding up with the World Series champion Cubs. As teams pack up and leave the D.C. area, star reliever Kenley Jansen is still on the free agent market. Who knows —…

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The Chicago Cubs could use a closer, maybe someone like Wade Davis. Texas needs a center fielder, and most every team wants an extra arm. So now that Chris Sale got traded, baseball executives are trying to figure out who’s next. Andrew McCutchen is still available, perhaps the Tigers really would deal Miguel Cabrera or Justin Verlander, and Cincinnati speedster Billy…