Gary Matthews News

The Will County CrackerJacks have announced that former Chicago Cubs outfielder and 1984 National League Gold Glove Award winner Bob Dernier has joined its baseball staff as the associate head coach and director of baseball operations.

The romance of spring training only goes so far. Sure, the weather is nice. The pace is less frenetic than the regular season.

In Major League Baseball, the phrase "momentary lapse of judgment" could also be included as a definition of the word blunder as well.

Genovese signed approximately 40 players who proceeded to the Major Leagues. That group included Garry Maddox and Gary Matthews, who patrolled the Giants' outfield in the first few seasons after the club traded Mays to the New York Mets in 1972.

MLB free agency is a funny paradox: It is often viewed as a team's savior, but it's usually more of an iceberg.