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General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading candidate to…

Mike Cameron always had a squeaky-clean image. He was best-known for hitting four homers in a game in 2002 and for a frightening, face-to-face collision with a teammate in the outfield three seasons later. He was a family man, and his kids would hang…

Adam Dunn became the Cincinnati Reds’ highest-paid player Wednesday when the team picked up his contract option for $13 million next season. The Reds answered their most expensive offseason question by keeping their top power hitter, the only one in…

Jr. Giants take part in Halloween Heroes

Mix a weak-minded narcissist with a conniving, slime-covered agent and you get Sunday night at the World Series: a shameful bit of upstaging that not only exposed the true colors of Alex Rodriguez and Scott Boras, but actually damaged their cause. There wasn’…

By now I’m sure you’ve heard that Alex Rodriguez decided to opt-out of his contract with the New York Yankees and become a free agent. I’m sure you’ve also heard that he decided to make this apparently all-important decision in the middle of Game 4 of the World Series, with FOX unfortunately obliging his […]

So the baseball season is officially over.  The Red Sox took an otherwise exciting postseason and pretty much violently murdered any climax it had in store for us.  The feel good Rockies were swept, while the other feel good team blew a 3-1 series lead against the new Evil Empire.  With the nation’s focus turned […]

Denver - The final moments of a World Series are always worth watching, the scenes of elation and despair, of a simple swing and miss at a 94-mph fastball that ends another grinding season, of the Old Towne Team celebrating at a relatively new franchise’s…

Sometimes baseball can really be a strange game. Emphasis on strange. Kevin Mitchell once strained a muscle while vomiting. He also broke a tooth while eating a chocolate donut. Heck, you could probably fill an entire book about general Kevin Mitchell weirdness. Or, the time ex-Giant masher Glen Allen Hill fell through a glass table […]

The home run king is looking for a job. Barry Bonds filed for free agency Monday on the first possible day after the World Series ended with Boston’s sweep of the Colorado Rockies on Sunday night. That means the slugger’s tenure with San Francisco is…

Mailbag: Fans have their trade caps on

Barr named special assistant to GM

Bonds files for free agency

Drenched from the celebration in Boston’s bustling clubhouse, Mike Lowell clutched his new trophy and broke into a sheepish smile. He’s much more than some throw-in on a Red Sox trade _ and he knows it. He’s the World Series MVP. The steady…

The 1900s? Yesterday’s news. That century belonged to the New York Yankees. This is the 2000s, and it’s all about the Boston Red Sox. Big money, big players, big games. That was the Yankees’ winning formula in the past, and the Red Sox are following suit….

The buzz from World Series Game 4 at Coors Field: Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk was supposed to throw out the first pitch in Game 6 of the 2004 World Series, but the Red Sox swept the Cardinals in four. The hero of Game 6 of the 1975 Series was given the same…

While the A’s were at home, in the wake of their worst season since 1998, Bobby Kielty was enjoying his greatest moment in baseball. “It went from one of the roughest years I’ve ever had to one of the greatest years I’ve ever had,” said Kielty, soaked in…

The buzz from World Series Game 3 at Coors Field: - Kevin Youkilis’ older brother, Scott, is a partner in a Mission District restaurant, Maverick on 17th Street. “American eatery,” said Youkilis the ballplayer, who has a small stake in the place. “He…

- Everyone who ever has taken a stance on the designated hitter, pro or con, had every right to stand up and express an opinion Saturday night. For the first time in the 103rd World Series, the DH rule was not in effect, and that meant Daisuke Matsuzaka was…

The starting pitchers are getting shelled, the brilliant bullpen is a bust. The timely hits are nowhere to be found, manager Clint Hurdle’s moves are coming up short. Colorado’s collapse is almost complete. After a month in which most everything went…