Orix Buffaloes pitcher Yoshihisa Hirano is eyeing a move to the major leagues as an international free agent, a senior official with the Pacific League club said Sunday. Hirano, who made his first appearance at the World Baseball Classic with Japan in the spring, told ...
Patience with young players yielding returns for Red Sox
Patience is a virtue, they say. But it is one rarely exhibited in MLB, especially when it comes to rookies. Be good or be gone is usually the modus operandi practiced by most big league ball clubs in dealing with their younger players. Go great guns ...
Tough to root against Tebow in attempt to make MLB
Tim Tebow sat alone in a corner of the New York Mets clubhouse, quietly working his iPhone. In an hour or so, Tebow would make his big league spring training debut against the Boston Red Sox. Amid nationwide hoopla. He looked relaxed enough, considering the situation. So, MAS ...
Former major league slugger Manny Ramirez was greeted with hysteria as he arrived in Japan on Tuesday to play independent baseball with the Kochi Fighting Dogs in the Shikoku Island League Plus. In fashion normally reserved for Hollywood icons and Japanese superstar athletes, hordes of ...
Cubs hammer out deal with free-agent pitcher Uehara: reports
Boston Red Sox free agent Koji Uehara is close to signing with the Chicago Cubs, according to U.S. media reports on Thursday. According to reports by media including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, CBS Sports and Boston Herald, Uehara and the National League club ...
Long-suffering Cubs fans will find no sympathy here
Sob . . . sob . . . Sniffle, sniffle. Those would be the sounds emanating from "long-suffering" Chicago Cubs fans (while looking around to see if they are eliciting a much-desired "Awww, poor babies . . ." from anyone close by). And all their boo-hooing is ...
The Boston Red Sox sound convinced that 41-year-old Koji Uehara can pitch, but the question is how they go about keeping the free agent right-handed reliever. "Koji's done an unbelievable job for this organization," president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told a news conference ...
Boston Red Sox reliever Koji Uehara threw 33 pitches on Tuesday as he underwent his first bullpen session since being placed on the disabled list for a right pectoral muscle strain. "I'm still pitching timidly but that's inevitable after getting injured," said Uehara, who suffered ...
Time for the analytics crowd to take a chill pill and get a grip on reality
TSSSSSSSUP! That, friends, is the ear-splitting sound of the fun being sucked out of sports by sabermetricians and analyticals. And an annoyed MAS finds his senses assaulted far too often these days by their ilk. He is constantly bombarded in print, on his computer and over the ...
