Greg Maddux News

Rockies reliever Alan Embree, who got a win out of the bullpen Tuesday night without throwing a pitch after entering the game in relief, on whether he could pitch Wednesday: "I'm not sure I'll be available.

Leading the youth movement, rookie Everth Cabrera has been dazzling on occasion at shortstop and pesky at the plate.

I got a request yesterday to add some trivia into the a.m. report. Always one to oblige here's some trivia based on the Astros' win last night .

To find out what Colorado is missing without big-time college baseball, go past the Sod Farm, the archway, King Kong burgers and 97 steakhouses.

Most people know the a oeWild Thinga for the home run he allowed in the 1993 World Series.

Oddly enough, this was the same gesture I made when I heard the news from Boston.

Some guys expect a team to bend over backwards to suit their every whim. "It's not how you go about it," John Smoltz told reporters this week, but how do you go about it? If you're suggesting, as Smoltz and others have, the Braves mishandled the release of Tom Glavine well, how do you handle it? How does a team say goodbye to someone who isn't ...

Randy Johnson won four straight Cy Young Awards, a feat matched only by Greg Maddux in baseball history, and his five awards overall are two shy of the record set by Roger Clemens.

The man responsible for the Imperfect Game makes deliveries for a veterinarian supply company these days, scratching to make ends meet in a small farming town near the Missouri River.

May 23, 2009, 10:32 p.m. The Padres got pitcher Michael Watt from the Los Angeles Dodgers as part of the deal for Greg Maddux last year.

It hurt this offseason when Jake Peavy turned down my favorite team, the Atlanta Braves.

Another week, another round of heart-breaking injuries. It's not that there weren't good things that happened but when so many All Star caliber players go down at once it's hard to ignore the bad things.

You scored a 34 on the ACT, took it again and scored a 35. What are your goals in the classroom? I definitely take education very seriously.

Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux played in different eras, but they used similar styles - and wore the same jersey number - to become two of the best pitchers in Cubs history.

Sure, his best years in the big leagues were spent pitching for the Atlanta Braves in the mid-1990s, but when he stepped to the mound for the Cubs , this pitcher proudly wore No.

The Cubs will retire No. 31 on Sunday in honor of Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux.

Recent baseball history offers many examples of pitchers developing symbiotic relationships with specific catchers, most notably the Greg Maddux-Eddie Perez pairing in Atlanta and Randy Johnson-John Flaherty with the 2005 Yankees.

Monday 20 Apr Monday, April 20, 2009 at 03:46AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-PORTLAND , Ore.

Posted by Mike Farley As far as pitchersa TM statistics in baseball, earned run average is the batting average of those stats.

April 14, 2009, 10:45 p.m. Fort Wayne remains unbeaten. But Lake Elsinore is no longer winless.