A chip-cashing trade

The trade will include big names and first-round picks when it is finally completed. Curtis Granderson is an All-Star with some major numbers and a su...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009

Seattle balances cash with caution

A year ago, it was the Yankees who began the winter with their pockets full of cash, ready to spend on the best free agents, and after locking up CC S...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2009

Top priority

...any free agent outfielder. There are four or five they're interested in, including Mike Cameron, Coco Crisp, Rick Ankiel and Marlon Byrd. • Talking to the Chicago media who had gathered, Hendry and...

Talkin' winter baseball

Back to baseball -- both Chicago baseball GMs has press briefings on Friday. Ironically, both teams are still in the hunt for a leadoff man, some le...

Sox interested in Crisp as lead-off man

Switch-hitting outfielder Coco Crisp is one of a large pool of free agents the White Sox are looking at in...

May 9 2009: Coco Crisp of the Kansas City Royals bats against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium in Anaheim...

The free agent do-call list

The free-agent signing period begins four days from now, and we know that Matt Holliday, John Lackey and Jason Bay are going to be paid the most money...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009

Cashman casts praise far and wide

As the Yankees' players hopped happily in the middle of the infield late Wednesday, in the first moments after winning the World Series, plastic glass...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2009

Assessing the Sox, position by position

Assessing the Sox position by position as they head into the offseason.

Kiss 'Em Goodbye: Kansas City Royals

Insider and Baseball Prospectus collaborate to dissect the rapid April-to-late summer decline of the Kansas City Royals in 2009.

Story | Conversation | September 17, 2009

Series with Giants about playoff possibilities, not respect for Rockies

...around and it pushed back; first against the Yankees in spring training, then in Boston, when Coco Crisp, then with the Red Sox, charged the Rays' James Shields. The players dug in, made their...

Hillman to manage Royals next season

Royals manager Trey Hillman will be back next season.

The Ramon Ramirez story

The most overlooked player on one of the most well-known sports franchises in the United States often spends his time quietly sitting in front of his ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 02, 2009

Royals extend Moore four years

The Kansas City Royals have reached agreement on a four-year contract extension with general manager Dayton Moore that will take him through the 2014 season.

Wilson, Sweeney rally behind shaky Hernandez to power Mariners past Royals

Fill-in Josh Wilson had his first three-RBI game in more than two years, and former Royals All-Star Mike Sweeney burned his old team with a hustle play to score one of his two runs in the Seattle Mariners' 6-3 victory over Kansas City on Friday night.