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Austin Kearns Re-Signs With Indians

Austin Kearns is headed back to Cleveland. The Indians re-signed the veteran outfielder to a one-year deal, the team announced Monday. Kearns reportedly will make $1.3 million plus possible incentives. The 30-year-old signed with Cleveland last offseason, too, and played in 84 games for the Indians before being traded...

Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Diamondbacks

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and over the course of November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the second...

A.J. Burnett Has Rough Simulated Outing for the Yankees

Say this much for A.J. Burnett: He treats simulated games just like the real thing. The well-paid starter was left on the bench for the Division Series against the Twins, but the Yankees will likely need him at some point in the ALCS so they had him throw a simulated game against some Yankee backups on Wednesday...

With Deck Stacked Against Them, Minor-League Dayton Dragons Thrive

DAYTON, Ohio -- If you build it here, they will not come. That's what ballpark planner Robert Murphy was told 11 years ago. Skeptics here in Dayton saw no future for the minor-league baseball team and ballpark that Murphy was proposing for their troubled city, population 160,000. How the Midwesterners saw it, the...

Yankees Acquire Indians' Austin Kearns for Outfield Depth

The Yankees have acquired outfielder Austin Kearns from the Indians Friday night to add right-handed outfield depth. Kearns, 30, could play left field against left-handed pitching, allowing the Yankees to sit Curtis Granderson and play Brett Gardner in center on those days. Granderson went into Friday's game hitting .214...

Austin Kearns News From the Web

05/23/12 Marlins remain cautious with Kearns Source: MLB For now, Austin Kearns is listed as day-to-day with a tight right hamstring.
05/22/12 Marlins Park receives Gold Certification Source: MLB Now, the new home of the Miami Marlins is being recognized for being environmentally sound.
05/12/12 Bonifacio running away with Marlins' records Source: MLB A couple of Marlins' stolen-base marks have now been swept away by Emilio Bonifacio.
05/05/12 Buehrle's complete game stops Padres 4-1 Source: The Merced Sun-Star - Merced CA Buehrle was coming off his shortest start of the season, a five-inning stint in a 9-5 loss against Arizona.
05/01/12 Errors doom Marlins in loss to Diamondbacks Source: Boston Herald - Boston MA Nearly 13,000 elementary and middle-school students from Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties were at Marlins Park on Monday afternoon as part of a fun-filled, science-focused educational field trip.