Spring is in air with as pitchers, catchers report
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Three words that warm the hearts of baseball fans -- "pitchers and catchers" -- are being tossed around this wintry week as Spring Training camps in Florida and Arizona open their gates for early arrivals.
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And now for a preview of Red Sox spring training, Non-Daisuke Division: If your idea of spring training is all-out competition for jobs, then this camp is not for you. Outside of a spot or two in the bullpen, manager Terry Francona's roster is all but set, even before pitchers and catchers report Friday, and position players four days later.
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One of the great things about the pre- game phase of spring training is "live batting practice." It's when hitters step into the batting cage and try to hit real big league pitching. The hurlers give them the courtesy of telling them what's coming, but the ball isn't lobbed into their wheelhouse.
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June 7 is not a significant date on the baseball calendar, but itâs the date on which two teams in the past two years reached the nadir of their seasons, then turned their seasons around.
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Usually, the start of spring training is a time of clean slates, sun-splashed fields and endless hope. Not this year. Steroids were the No. 1 topic Tuesday, when the new Washington Nationals, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds opened camp.
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Fresh faces on the mound signal a changing of the guard this MLB postseason.
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Alfonso Sorianoâs slow start is long forgotten. Now that summer is turning to fall, Soriano is where he expected to be â leading the Chicago Cubs as they make a serious postseason run.
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Curt Schilling doesn't need a matching set of healthy ankles to be right about one thing: In this town, with this team, it always does come back to the manager. He's either a candidate for bronzing or for the hanging tree.
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In the coming months and the coming baseball season, there are a number of questions seeking answers.
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With the wind whipping out on a warm afternoon in Chicago, the Cubs found the perfect conditions to pad their home run total and strengthen their lead in the National League Central.
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Beautifully colored leaves, warm days, chilly nights, high school football and ah, yes, October baseball. Like most things in nature, fall is predictable.
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VIERA, Fla., Feb. 26 -- That night last June, Shawn Hill took to the mound at Fenway Park knowing his right elbow wasn't quite perfect, knowing the situation was bound to go bad. The previous two evenings against the Boston Red Sox, the starting pitchers for the Washington Nationals had failed to...
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Like the autumn leaves, baseball changes in October. Pitchers dominate, and hitters desperately look for ways to score runs. By Andre Pichette, AP.
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Joe Torre sat behind the manager's desk, and George Steinbrenner was surrounded by cameras as he limped down the tunnel outside the clubhouse at Legends Field. The Yankees were back in business Tuesday, opening spring training after another of their typically tumultuous offseasons.
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It would have been easy to take the bait. Acknowledge that, yes, September is a traditionally difficult month offensively for catchers. That the season has been wearing him down. That the injuries he rarely admits to have caught up with him, making his bat slow and his stroke impotent. Instead, Jason Varitek claimed health, blamed his eyes, and thanked, once ...
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Three Cardinals pitchers fell a single short of the cycle.
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Jim Edmonds made a circus catch. Jeff Suppan outpitched the Rocket. And Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen came through, yet again. Surrounded by a rollicking sea of red, clearly these St.