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Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan

Baseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa,...

Hideki Okajima Re-Signs With Red Sox

Hideki Okajima is officially back with the Red Sox, as the team announced Monday a one-year deal with the veteran reliever. Word emerged Dec. 31 that Okajima was likely to return, even though the Red Sox non-tendered him earlier in the month. That non-tender essentially allowed the Red Sox to cut Okajima's pay from the...

Hideki Okajima Reportedly Close to Returning to Red Sox

The Red Sox will have a familiar option available for lefty relief in 2011. Hideki Okajima reportedly is close to a deal that will bring him back to Boston, just weeks after he was non-tendered by the Red Sox. The pending deal was first reported by the Boston Globe. Okajima, 35, will be by far the most seasoned of the...

Five Non-Tendered Players Worth a Look

Baseball's Hot Stove season switched into a higher gear at midnight on Thursday night. A whole new batch of free agents flooded the market with the deadline for offering contracts to arbitration-eligible players. It's not a terribly sexy list. Players get non-tendered because their potential arbitration salary exceeds...

Red Sox Refuse to Be Counted Out

NEW YORK – Well, that was rather uneventful. It wasn't exactly a crisp masterpiece -- not that the Yankees and the Red Sox would have the slightest idea of that meaning whenever they get together – but nobody broke a rib or did something silly, like declare this a do-or-die weekend in the Bronx. There's a...