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By Jerry Green  |  Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Barry Bonds, rejected! Roger Clemens, shunned! Mark McGwire, denied! Bud Selig, elected! Inducted! Glorified! It is election time again in Major League Baseball. The qualified sports journalists of the Baseball Writers Association of America are voting this week for the worthy candidates for election to

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Every July in a tiny village in upstate New York, the living history of baseball is on full display. It’s long been tradition for living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame to return to Cooperstown for the annual induction weekend, and, health permitting, almost all of them do.

Jay Cohen  |  Associated Press Chicago — San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller reunited with an old friend in another blockbuster move Tuesday night. The aggressive Padres got Yu Darvish in a trade with the Chicago Cubs, adding another ace to their rotation after announcing a deal for Blake Snell earlier in the day.

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — More than two years later, Jose Urena still insists the pitch just got away from him. If you knew anything at all about this lanky, Dominican-born right-hander before the Tigers signed him last week for one year at $3.25 million, it was probably that on Aug. 15, 2018,

Mike Fitzpatrick  |  Associated Press Two months ago, Blake Snell got yanked off the mound with a two-hit shutout going in the final game of the World Series. Now, the Tampa Bay Rays are ready to ship him out of town. The San Diego Padres are close to completing a blockbuster trade to acquire Snell

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News With the understanding J.T. Realmuto isn’t compatible with the Tigers’ taut budget and likely wouldn’t be terribly interested in the Tigers even if they could offer him a gaudy free-agent check, and with further belief that neither are high-gloss pitchers in Detroit’s cards (see: last week’s signing of one

Paul Newberry  |  Associated Press Atlanta – Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, who pitched well into his 40s with a knuckleball that baffled big league hitters for more than two decades, mostly with the Atlanta Braves, has died after a long fight with cancer, the team announced Sunday. He was 81. The Braves said Niekro

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — It rained on the last day of the regular season. Of course it did. How else would such a dismal, woebegone baseball season end but in an empty Kauffman Stadium after an hour and a half rain delay, with a Tigers lineup that featured seven players who spent most

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – National League hitters are probably as excited about this signing as the Tigers are. On Wednesday night, the Tigers made their first significant free agent signing of the winter, agreeing to terms with former Miami Marlins right-hander José Ureña on a one-year deal worth $3.25 million, pending

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Aggressive thinking has returned to Comerica Park. Or, at least it should. It’s time to at least see if George Springer would consider a handsome one-year offer to play for the Detroit Tigers, all as vaccines arrive, as a pandemic wanes, and as calmer times presumably return to big-league

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – This probably isn’t the catcher signing most Tigers’ fans were clamoring for. The club on Wednesday signed 33-year-old journeyman Dustin Garneau to a minor-league contract. He has also been invited to big-league camp in February. Garneau, who spent last season with the Astros (17 games) backing up

Rob Maaddi  |  Associated Press Philadelphia – Sam Fuld went from interviewing to become Boston’s manager to general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. Fuld was promoted to GM on Tuesday, filling the role previously held by Matt Klentak. The team also promoted Jorge Velandia to assistant general manager and Terry Ryan to special assistant to

Jay Cohen Associated Press  |  Associated Press White Sox manager Tony La Russa says he doesn’t have a drinking problem. He also says he has to prove that with his behavior. The 76-year-old La Russa pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge to resolve misdemeanor drunken driving charges stemming from his arrest nearly 10 months

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News A year that will live in infamy for so many, 2020, has turned darker for a top Tigers pitching prospect. Alex Faedo now must endure the year-plus recovery that follows Tommy John ligament reconstruction. A first-round draft pick by the Tigers in 2017, Faedo, 25, will have surgery this

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Another lost year to Tommy John surgery blindsided the Tigers on Saturday when they announced Alex Faedo would be lost for 2021 with elbow-ligament surgery scheduled for this coming week. Faedo, 25, was the Tigers’ first-round pick in 2017 out of the University of Florida. The right-hander was moving

Associated Press  |  Associated Press ESPN will open its “Sunday Night Baseball” schedule on April 4 when the Los Angeles Angels host the Chicago White Sox. The game will feature the last two American League MVPs, with the Angels’ Mike Trout facing reigning MVP and White Sox first baseman José Abreu. The following week will

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Immediately you know, from the fluency of his thoughts and words, that Akil Baddoo was tempted by his University of Kentucky scholarship for more reasons than baseball. “Business,” he said Friday when asked about his probable major had he taken that UK offer. In fact, a business decision is

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Quite the mission, crafting a Tigers Top 50 Prospects thesis when the Tigers farm went 0-for-six-months in 2020. Not a single game played. And yet stuff happened, lots of it, which made a 2021 list intriguing and not as mysterious as might be expected. There was a big June

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Associated Press  |  The Detroit News Longtime major league shortstop Omar Vizquel denied accusations of domestic abuse made by his wife after she described two alleged acts of physical violence by the 11-time Gold Glove winner in a story published by The Athletic. Blanca Vizquel, 36, said her 53-year-old husband first assaulted her in 2011,