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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,...

Orioles Turn to Japan, Koji Uehara for Pitching

Baltimore entered the offseason with exactly one rotation spot filled, so to say it needs pitching help would be an understatement of epic proportions. The Orioles signed journeyman Mark Hendrickson last week. Now they've erased another of the question marks after Jeremy Guthrie by agreeing to two-year deal with Japanese...

Mike Cameron Won't Be Wearing Pinstripes

For a brief minute last week it seemed certain that Mike Cameron and Melky Cabrera would switch teams, but Brewers GM Doug Melvin confirmed that the proposed trade with the Yankees has officially died. What happened? Apparently both sides took the "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" mantra a little too far, refusing to...

Rumor Mill Roundup: July 24

With the trade deadline right around the corner, our MLB editor brings you the top five rumors every day until July 31.- The Braves continue to indicate that they won't move Mark Teixeira in hopes of contending for the NL East title, but if the team struggles over the next week, that could all change. Atlanta is already a...

Kei Igawa Remains the Same Pitcher He Was the Last Time We Saw Him

Kei Igawa's return to a major league mound looked pretty familiar to Yankee watchers. He gave up 11 hits and six runs in three innings as his pedestrian stuff floated up to the plate like beach balls which the Tigers were all to happy to deposit into all corners of the outfield. He got two swings and misses out of the...

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05/09/12 Baseball: Igawa pulled after injury in loss against... Source: Mainichi Daily News - Japan Left-hander Kei Igawa made his first start back in Japan in six years, but the New York Yankee throwaway left early with an injury in the Orix Buffaloes' 1-0 defeat to the Softbank Hawks on Wednesday.
04/27/12 Scranton sells the team to a private version of itself Source: IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS... caught. Thus, the Traveling Wilkes Barres -- a/k/a the Empire State Buildings -- will remain in the Anthracite Capital of the World for eons to come, or at least until the parent club gets a better offer from some other rustbelt city whose political base makes its main decisions on putting greens.
04/14/12 Has Kuroda ended the Curse of Kei? Source: IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS... caught. Wow. It was like watching Cliff Lee silence us in 2009, never breaking sweat, so efficient was Hiroki Kuroda yesterday.
04/03/12 New York Yankees: An Embarrasing Chapter Ends with Kei... Source: Bleacher Report After strategically buying up every room in a Nicaraguan hotel in 2002, former Boston Red Sox GM Theo Epstein thought he had pulled the ultimate fast one on his rivals.
03/28/12 Baseball: Former Yankees hurler Igawa joins Orix Source: Mainichi Daily News - Japan The Orix Buffaloes on Wednesday announced the acquisition of former New York Yankees left-hander Kei Igawa, one of the most expensive Japanese flops ever to play in the major leagues.