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Big league managers don't always make what others perceive as the best choices when deciding who should and who should not be the designated closer for their teams. In fact, one might argue, when faced with a less-than-obvious choice, they seem ...

Blog | May 09, 2013

Eric Karabell has the latest news on closers, including Heath Bell taking over in Arizona with J.J. Putz on the disabled list.

Blog | Conversation | May 09, 2013

The Arizona Diamondbacks have placed closer J.J. Putz on the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday because of a right elbow strain and recalled reliever Will Harris from Triple-A Reno before the finale of a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Cody Ross, bottom of the 10th, man in scoring position, tie game. You're supposed to bank on that, right? You plan on it, because it wasn't that long ago that Ross was a postseason hero and -- briefly, because who doesn't have ADD nowadays? -- a hous...

The Tigers need one. The Brewers thought they had one. The Cubs already have a new one. Some teams probably wish they had a different one. Closers are already melting down in rapid fashion. On Monday afternoon, with closer Jason Motte sidelined wi...

2012 in review Record: 81-81 (86-76 Pythagorean) 734 runs scored (4th in NL) 688 runs allowed (9th in NL) Big Offseason Moves In three-team deal, traded Chris Young and acquired Cliff Pennington and Heath Bell. Traded Ryan Wheeler to the Rocki...

Outfielders Ryan Braun of Milwaukee, Giancarlo Stanton of Miami and Adam Jones of Baltimore and Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey headline the United States' provisional roster for the upcoming World Baseball Classic.

An apparently disgruntled Diamondbacks fan has undertaken to "update" Kevin Towers' Wikipedia page (via Dayn Perry of the Eye on Baseball blog). You may think it's funny, but, man, there are a lot of angry fans out there. It is worth looking at To...

Baseball's average salary increased 3.8 percent this year to a record $3.2 million.

Yunel Escobar's stay with the Miami Marlins lasted all of two weeks.

HT/Mashable The next time a professional athlete feels the urge to tweet a string of profanity, some hate speech, a lewd photo of themselves, ugly thoughts that might get them fined or respond in anger after some nasty criticism -- they need not w...

The Miami Marlins' latest payroll purge received final approval Monday from the commissioner's office, and as the team's top baseball executive began to discuss the deal during a conference call, a bad connection generated waves of reverberating noise tha

Bud Selig was on hand when the Miami Marlins played their first regular-season game in their swanky new ballpark in April. The commissioner provided a glowing review of the $634 million project and boldly declared that opposition to the facility would fad

I did think we'd see a major deal involving an Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder this offseason, but I certainly didn't think it'd be Chris Young, and I was surprised to see him headed to Oakland and to see Heath Bell headed to any team ...

Blog | October 22, 2012

Chris Young was a shrewd pickup for A's, writes Keith Law, but Arizona getting Heath Bell doesn't make much sense.

Blog | Conversation | October 22, 2012

From the difficult to understand department: In a three-way trade with the Oakland Athletics and Florida Marlins, the Arizona Diamondbacks gave up outfielder Chris Young and acquired infielder Cliff Pennington from the A's and relief pitcher Heath Be...