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There is no one pat answer to any of these questions, but they all are begging for one, considering that the fate of this season certainly seems to be hanging upon first the fallout from the losses and then the odds that key players such as closer Andrew Bailey and outfielders Jacoby Ellsbury [ stats ] and Carl Crawford can come back with ... (more)

The Pittsburgh Pirates are on pace to score fewer runs than any team in the designated-hitter era, even the dreadful 2010 Mariners.

Although the reports of a possible sale of the New York Yankees were quickly dismissed by the Steinbrenner family this week, even George Steinbrenner himself would have to admit that times have changed.

The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2012 , an annual "must buy" for all baseball fans, is now shipping.

There will be games the depleted Red Sox lose in the coming days because they're so depleted in the outfield.

The slugger was slotted in at first base on Friday against the Tampa Bay Rays with Kevin Youkilis at third, but manager Bobby Valentine said there's a strong chance that Gonzalez will move to right on Saturday so he can cram third baseman Will Middlebrooks into the lineup.

With a .600 winning percentage over its last 30 games, the Boston Red Sox can use that math to make a postseason berth for the first time since 2009.

As speculation and waiting continues on what seems to be a pending contract extension for Orioles center fielder Adam Jones, here's an educated guess on how this will shake out.

Tampa Bay Rays: Rich Thompson laughs off missed HBP call; Joe Maddon likes the Rays' funk; Rays own AL's best home record Infielder Drew Sutton didn't choose the walk-up song that plays before his home at-bats, but laughed at how fitting Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam" is.

In Major League Baseball, trades are rarely able to be properly evaluated after just a few months.

Daniel Bard junked his delivery in the fourth inning Wednesday, pitching from the stretch as he tried to find some way to get the ball over the plate.

From a business point of view, the Red Sox have handled it right. They have been going year-to-year with David Ortiz, which, given the DH market and the fact that he is now 36, is the right thing to do.

First, though, there was one more game to play. Three weeks since they were last idle, the Red Sox concluded a run of 20 games in 20 days - the maximum number of consecutive days played allowed under the collective bargaining agreement - with a 6-5 victory over the Orioles today on a muggy spring afternoon at Camden Yards.

Every time we turn around another Red Sox position player has gone down to injury.A It would be comical if not for the fact that it has necessitated such extreme solutions.

The Washington Nationals activated Chien-Ming Wang from the 15-day disabled list Tuesday.

To make room for Youkilis, the team put outfielder Ryan Sweeney on the newly created seven-day disabled list, retroactive to Sunday.

Our question of the week comes from Jonathan Lobel, who lives in Frydlant in the Czech Republic.

The Red Sox may be missing a lot of pieces, but as they showed in Monday's 8-6 victory over the Orioles at Camden Yards, they still possess many of the most critical ones.

Baseball began early this year, in Japan on March 28tth. It's only May and many of the premier teams, the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Tampa Bay and others are struggling because of injuries.

An MRI administered to Boston Red Sox outfielder Cody Ross in Boston showed a small fracture in the outfielder's left foot, manager Bobby Valentine said Monday.