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ChiSox close to Omar Vizquel deal File photo: Omar Vizquel stretches before batting practice Tuesday, Oct.

Late yesterday Tom Hicks made it clear: He intends to keep majority ownership of the Texas Rangers, despite all that danged debt.

The Hot Stove league, where players start swapping teams during baseball's off-season, begins in earnest today as free agents begin negotiating with other clubs and signing contracts for the 2010 season.

Perhaps the biggest news to come out of last week's GM meetings was that the Detroit Tigers might need to shed significant payroll and that could make a slew of still-young, but established players available.

A's closer Andrew Bailey was voted American League Rookie of the Year, the seventh Oakland player to receive the honor.

The Baseball Writers' Association of America will hand out their first two postseason awards on Monday, as the American and National League Rookies of the Year will be announced.

Jeff Wilson Depending on the numerous Web site or TV reports generated last week at the general managers' meetings, the Texas Rangers could sign free agent John Lackey.Maybe, reports say, the Rangers will deal Kevin Millwood for Milton Bradley.

By JEFF WILSON Josh Hamilton will be the first to admit that he's no Clay Council, the batting-practice ace who threw to the Texas Rangers' center fielder in the 2008 Home Run Derby.And Hamilton isn't likely to get any argument from the three batters he plunked while throwing BP at an instructional youth camp on a perfect November Saturday at ...

Baseball's Festival of Awards begins this week with the AL Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and Manager of the Year all being announced over the next three days.

Final bids from three men interested in buying the Rangers are due this month, but a transfer of ownership from Hicks Sports Group might not be competed until January.

After being stuck at dinners and meetings for the first day-and-a-half of the general managers meetings, Cubs GM Jim Hendry was itching to do some business Tuesday.

The phone still rings as often as it did in previous seasons when major league teams approached Rangers general manager Jon Daniels in the hopes of finding a deal that would make both clubs better.

This is an Oct. 3, 2009, file photo showing Seattle Mariners' Ken Griffey Jr. hitting a solo home run on a pitch from Texas Rangers' Tommy Hunter during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Seattle.

About the easiest thing to find as baseball's general manager's meetings started in Chicago Monday were teams that would like to add Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay.

The biggest storyline of the Texas Rangers' 2009 season was a pitching revolution that saw the club spend more than a month in first place and remain in contention deep into September.

Looks like most of the newspaper staff in town have been assigned to the Cowboys this weekend.

Even if he had been so inclined, Michael Young simply couldn't make himself watch the New York Yankees celebrate world championship No.

Former Rangers' pitcher Vicente Padilla, who was released from the team late last season for being a jerk and throwing at opposing player's heads, was accidentally shot in the leg by his body guard while hunting.

As I mentioned last week, although the Texas Rangers had a very successful 2009 season, they still have a shopping list that needs to be addressed this winter in order to build upon their success and hopefully take the next step towards making the postseason.

The Texas Rangers named Clint Hurdle as the team's new hitting coach on Thursday.