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Yankees great Mel Stottlemyre ‘fighting for his life’
Mel Stottlemyre is “fighting for his life.” The former Yankees pitching great and pitching coach, who sat beside Joe Torre during the club’s last dynasty in four World Series championship seasons between 1996-2000, has been battling bone marrow cancer since 1999. “Calling all prayer warriors during this...
MLB All-Star Game no longer will decide home-field advantage
A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press the league that wins baseball’s All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series. Instead, that will be determined by which pennant winner had the better regular season record. The change was included in Major League...
How Cespedes signing only complicates Yankees’ DH market
Yoenis Cespedes getting four years and $110 million to rejoin the Mets didn’t send shock waves through an industry swimming in billions but strangely entangled in a labor problem, as the clock ticks on an expiring Collective Bargaining Agreement. Right-handed power is a commodity every team is looking for, and Cespedes...
TERRIBLE: MLB Umpire Covered In Blood (VIDEO)
UMPIRE Paul Emmel was a ‘bloody mess’ as walked off to a standing ovation during the Los Angeles Angels and Oakland Athletics MLB game at Angels Stadium. Not that the home plate official would remember much about it as he was being helped off after getting hit in the head by a flying bat. Emmell was felled after LA...