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MLB's efforts to punish players tied to the Biogenesis clinic is important. You must care. You need to stop enabling the cheaters the way we used to. You have to root, root, root just as hard for the game itself as you do for the players.

Remember the way we were before steroids reared their ugly head? Jim Caple's newly re-discovered set of 1988 Topps baseball cards takes him back.

Let's have a little fun and attempt to predict the players the BBWAA will elect over the next several years. Based on past vote totals for Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro and scanning published columns, it's pretty clear Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens a...

Think Congress is too polarized to accomplish anything meaningful these days? It's got nothin' on the writers organization trying to decide who to put in baseball's Hall of Fame.

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa are listed on the baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, setting up an election sure to become a referendum on the Steroids Era.

Things are looking up in Charm City these days, at least as baseball is concerned: Entering Thursday, the Baltimore Orioles are tied with the New York Yankees atop the American League East, and have been hovering around first place for a couple of we...

Greg Fiume/Getty ImagesZach Britton has won four straight starts for the Orioles.The Baltimore Orioles are partying like its 1997. For the first time since 1997, when Cal Ripken, Rafael Palmeiro and Roberto Alomar were in Baltimore, the Orioles ar...

That Roger Clemens comeback with the Sugar Land Skeeters this weekend? To Jim Caple, it's got the makings of a movie plot, hatched with some of the Rocket's friends who have their own Hall of Fame issues.

I don't have a vote for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but I'm curious about who will be voted into the Hall. This past weekend, I interviewed a former Ranger who has HOF credentials with 3,020 career hits including 569 home runs. That former ...

ARLINGTON, Texas - Former Texas Rangers slugger Rafael Palmeiro said Friday that Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds should be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Both Clemens and Bonds will be eligible for the first time starting in 2013. "You're tal...

Former Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles slugger Rafael Palmeiro said Friday that Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds should be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rafael Palmeiro is now a member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. He hopes someday Cooperstown comes calling as well.

Next year's Hall of Fame voting will create tough choices for writers voting on PED-implicated players, but could also create tough calls for already elected Hall of Famers.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers took advantage of mistakes and rode a five-run fifth inning to a 7-2 victory against the Oakland A's, their third straight win in this four-game series with their AL West rivals. The Rangers have made a habit ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- After trading solo home runs in the second inning, the Texas Rangers put together a scoring streak in the fifth to beat the Oakland A's, 7-2, and take the series. Martin Perez made his debut as a major league starter and got the w...

Pudge Rodriguez is the greatest ever all-around player in Rangers history.