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View photo . (AP) There’s no question where Los Angeles Dodgers star Clayton Kershaw stands when it comes to Major League Baseball potentially expanding the designated hitter. Speaking at a team function at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, the former three-time Cy Young Award winner made it clear he is firmly against it, stating that baseball is meant to be a ‘two-sided’ game. [2016 Yahoo Fantasy Baseball is open…

Two of the major prospect-ranking outlets have released their preseason lists, and the same man ranks at the top of both. MLB.com (top 100 here) and Baseball Prospectus (top 101 here) have each tabbed Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager as the top prospect in all of baseball. Seager, 21, got a taste of the bigs last season and made quite the impression. He hit .337/.425/.561 (173 OPS+!) with eight doubles, a…

View photo . (AP) There’s no question where Los Angeles Dodgers star Clayton Kershaw stands when it comes to Major League Baseball potentially expanding the designated hitter. Speaking at a team function at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, the former three-time Cy Young Award winner made it clear he is firmly against it, stating that baseball is meant to be a ‘two-sided’ game. [2016 Yahoo Fantasy Baseball is open…

According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, two baseball coaches at Plano East Senior High School ran a pretty horrifying shop. Details from an investigation conducted by Plano ISD officials were released to the Morning News and wooboy, they’re bad. Not only did two coaches allegedly racially insult their players, they also ignored injuries, belittled injured players, and possibly ignored a fight club. From the report: “It was…

Florida State will begin selling beer at baseball games this season. The university announced in an email regarding baseball operation changes that beer would be available to purchase at Dick Howser Stadium. Beer will be $7 per serving, but it will be limited to three servings per individual during a game and to four servings during double-headers. Beer will not be sold after the sixth inning. “As mentioned in our…

Ken “Hawk” Harrelson made more than one questionable decision during his one year as White Sox GM in 1986. The announcer-turned-general manager famously fired Tony La Russa and Dave Dombrowski and traded rookie Bobby Bonilla (a six-time All-Star) to Pittsburgh for pitcher José DeLeón. Taking this all into consideration, it’s no surprise that Harrelson called GM “the worst job in baseball.” Speaking at Sox Fest 2016, Harrelson – currently a…

Baseball was the family business. Baseball was his passion. Baseball was all Justin Minaya wanted out of life. “When I was real young, I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player,” he said in a phone interview. “That was my dream.” His father, Omar Minaya, was the Mets’ general manager, affording him the luxury of hanging out in a major league clubhouse and on a big league diamond, getting…

BOSTON — One of the nation’s first professional baseball players lies largely forgotten by history in an unmarked grave in Boston. Now, nearly 150 years after Andrew Jackson Leonard began his professional career, his grandson hopes to raise enough money for a marker to honor his relative and his contributions to the game by auctioning his grandfather’s contracts, which are among the oldest known in existence. “He was one of…

BOSTON — One of the nation’s first professional baseball players lies largely forgotten by history in an unmarked grave in Boston. Now, nearly 150 years after Andrew Jackson Leonard began his professional career, his grandson hopes to raise enough money for a marker to honor his relative and his contributions to the game by auctioning his grandfather’s contracts, which are among the oldest known in existence. “He was one of…

Baseball was the family business. Baseball was his passion. Baseball was all Justin Minaya wanted out of life. “When I was real young, I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player,” he said in a phone interview. “That was my dream.” His father, Omar Minaya, was the Mets’ general manager, affording him the luxury of hanging out in a major league clubhouse and on a big league diamond, getting…

South Carolina has less than three weeks until its opener against Albany on Feb. 19, and coach Chad Holbrook might take that long to decide on an Opening Day roster. Holbrook said Friday there are currently 14 position players battling for nine spots, and he’ll make a decision on who starts in the opener based on scrimmages and practices leading up to the start of the season. “We’ve got some…

By now, we should be numb to the cost of supporting our favorite teams. We shrug, and we pay up, and up, and up. And then, one day, something makes you go, “Huh.” This was my “huh” moment on Friday: $48 for a seat in the left-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium? Not every seat, and not every game. But, if you want to sit in the front row of the…

BOSTON — One of the nation’s first professional baseball players lies largely forgotten by history in an unmarked grave in Boston. Now, nearly 150 years after Andrew Jackson Leonard began his professional career, his grandson hopes to raise enough money for a marker to honor his relative and his contributions to the game by auctioning his grandfather’s contracts, which are among the oldest known in existence. “He was one of…

Baseball was the family business. Baseball was his passion. Baseball was all Justin Minaya wanted out of life. “When I was real young, I wanted to be a Major League Baseball player,” he said in a phone interview. “That was my dream.” His father, Omar Minaya, was the Mets’ general manager, affording him the luxury of hanging out in a major league clubhouse and on a big league diamond, getting…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee quarterback Joshua Dobbs is spending part of his offseason working out with the Volunteers’ baseball team. NCAA FOOTBALL ON SOCIAL MEDIA JOIN THE TEAM. Follow @NCAAFootball Vols baseball coach Dave Serrano says Friday that Tennessee’s starting quarterback has participated in two baseball workouts with football coach Butch Jones’ blessing. Serrano declined comment on whether Dobbs might play for…

By now, we should be numb to the cost of supporting our favorite teams. We shrug, and we pay up, and up, and up. And then, one day, something makes you go, “Huh.” This was my “huh” moment on Friday: $48 for a seat in the left-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium? Not every seat, and not every game. But, if you want to sit in the front row of the…

CHAMPAIGN — Dan Hartleb had plenty of new faces looking back at him when he addressed his team Friday for the first time this season. Gone was an 11-strong senior class that had four fifth-year guys. Three juniors selected in the MLB draft who chose to pursue a professional career added to the departures. In their place? Fourteen newcomers, including 13 true…

Caption Close BOSTON (AP) — One of the nation’s first professional baseball players lies largely forgotten by history in an unmarked grave in Boston. Now, nearly 150 years after Andrew Jackson Leonard began his professional career, his grandson hopes to raise enough money for a marker to honor his relative and his contributions to the game by auctioning his grandfather’s contracts, which are among the oldest known in existence….

Five years ago, with a bizarre (to me!) groundswell of support for Omar Vizquel as a Hall of Fame candidate, it occurred to me that what we really needed was another way to honor Vizquel. It seemed to me that Vizquel, (then) still playing shortstop at the age of 47 or something, inspired a striking sense of admiration and wonderment amongst our nation’s baseball writers. And without an appropriate outlet…

1:07 PM ET print Once upon a time, a baseball team constructed its pitching staff the way your contractor constructs your hallway — from the front to the back. Boy, life in this sport sure was a lot less complicated then. You didn’t just need starters. You needed great starters. You needed innings from your starters. You needed horses. You needed men who could take a lead and hand it…