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The emigrants: Departures for U.S. weaken baseball in Japan
Bud Selig would love to see a series between the World Series and Japan Series champions. But among the realities is that as problematic as that idea seems now, it might become even less viable in the future. Major League Baseball is lowering the talent...
Tags: Darren Oliver, Adam Lind, Major League Baseball, Ian Kinsler, Baseball
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Could it finally be year for Dodgers-Angels Freeway World Series?
Here’s a little dream that’s been spinning around unfulfilled since 1966 -- a freeway World Series. Dodgers vs. Angels, cars streaming back and forth on the Golden State Freeway, all the baseball world focused on Southern California. It&...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Clayton Kershaw, Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball
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Dodgers' farm system, prospects get preseason reviews (Web links)
One of my least-favorite sports terms: It’s a process. Like everything isn’t. Studying game film, learning to lay off that low outside slider, scratching your left earlobe, it’s all a process. Normally this process malarkey is used...
Tags: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Baseball, Chad Billingsley
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Dodgers mulling a run at Scott Rolen
The Dodgers have had internal discussions about whether to pursue third baseman Scott Rolen, according to a person familiar with the team's thinking. The team has not reached out to Rolen to gauge his interest, the person said. Rolen previously has...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Dodger Stadium, Baseball, Todd Frazier
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Giants epitomize spirit of 2012 playoffs
Here we are again. For the second series in a row, the Giants have refused to fade to black. They have extended the National League Championship Series to six games, forcing the Cardinals to make a round-trip flight they would have liked to avoid. The...
Tags: Baseball, Chris Carpenter, Jose Valverde, Jayson Werth, World Series
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Hitting woes continue but Giants survive for another game
CINCINNATI — Hensley Meulens must be a very happy man. Throughout Game 3 of the National League Division Series, the Giants hitting coach was one timely hit away from the flight of shame home to San Francisco. Buster Posey and his teammates were...
Tags: Madison Bumgarner, Baseball, Johnny Cueto, Buster Posey, World Series
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Showalter baseball's biggest difference-maker of 2012
At the risk of messing with the sabermetric lobby, Mike Trout wasn't the biggest difference-maker in baseball this season. No, this is not just another plug for Miguel Cabrera and calculations you can do in your head. It's actually an endorsement for...
Tags: Robinson Cano, Gio Gonzalez, Stephen Strasburg, Todd Frazier, A.J. Pierzynski
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After GM meetings, Cubs and Sox ready to wheel and deal
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Next time baseball's general managers meet face-to-face will be the first week of December at the winter meetings in Nashville. By then, the Cubs and White Sox hope to have different-looking rosters in the wake of three...
Tags: Brandon Inge, Baseball, Orlando Hudson, Kevin Youkilis, Chicago Cubs
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Cubs position analysis: Hole at the hot corner
The Cubs couldn’t find a way to replace Aramis Ramirez at third base this year, and have to go back to the drawing board in 2013. They tried Ian Stewart, Luis Valbuena and Josh Vitters for the most part, with Joe Mather filling in occasionally, and...
Tags: Dave Sappelt, Placido Polanco, Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs
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The national pastime becomes a time machine
I'm playing hooky. It's Thursday around noon, and a column is due, but it's 1970 and I'm playing hooky. I'm watching baseball. Gloriously sunny, rapturously dramatic, midweek playoff baseball. I'm sitting in my living room in the middle of the day...Tags: Louisville Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Bill Plaschke, Baseball
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Sox position analysis: Another chance for Morel
David Wright? Mark De Rosa? Kevin Kouzmanoff? Placido Polanco? Scott Rolen? That’s the bulk of your 2012-13 free agent third basemen, unless you count first baseman Mark Reynolds, the only player to strike out more times in a single season than...
Tags: Brent Morel, Dayan Viciedo, Mark Reynolds, Placido Polanco, Baseball
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Is lack of postseason experience good or bad for Orioles?
When the playoff microscope gets rolled out next week and experts begin to dissect the Orioles — assuming they hold on to at least an American League wild-card spot — one of the primary criticisms is going to be the club's overall lack of...
Tags: Luis Ayala, Superman (fictional character), Citi Field, Buck Showalter, Baseball
Mar 16, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Feb 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Oct 21, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 9, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 7, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Nov 9, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 11, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 11, 2012
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Oct 11, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 27, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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