Piazza agrees to manage Italian baseball team
Mike Piazza announced Wednesday on Twitter that he has agreed to manage the Italian baseball team for the 2020 European Baseball Championship and the 2021 World Baseball Classic.
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Giants name Kapler manager, replacing Bochy
The San Francisco Giants announced Tuesday that they've hired Gabe Kapler as their new manager. Kapler replaces Bruce Bochy, who retired after the season.
Philadelphia Phillies
... . Kapler also interviewed with the Cubs after becoming the third consecutive Phillies manager to be fired after no more than two full seasons, joining Pete Mackan ...
San Francisco Giants
... e Bochy, who retired after the season. Kapler worked with Farhan Zaidi, the Giants' head of baseball operations, when both were with the Los Angeles Dodgers. J ...
Olney: MLB shouldn't expect much from Astros investigating their own cheating
The Astros' attempts to gain extra advantages isn't a recent development, but MLB has failed to police the issue.
Cleveland Indians
... ense, we were not playing offense," Luhnow said about the situation with the Indians. "We wanted to make sure it was a level playing field. ... We look around to ...
Houston Astros
... ent context. Any plausible deniability is long since gone for Luhnow and the Astros. If he didn't know before MLB's 2018 investigation during the Cleveland seri ...
Tigers add Paul, Parrish to new-look staff
The Tigers enhanced their staff with Josh Paul as quality control coach and Lance Parrish as special assistant to the general manager.
Detroit Tigers
... ing coordinator for the Milwaukee Brewers. Parrish played 10 seasons for the Tigers, ending in 1986, finishing with 212 home runs and 700 RBIs for Detroit. Dave ...
White Sox add Coolbaugh to coaching staff
White Sox add to staff, hire Coolbaugh to assist new hitting coach Menechino
Chicago White Sox
... cago White Sox on Tuesday hired Scott Coolbaugh as assistant hitting coach. He will work wi ...
Cards' Shildt top NL manager after 2nd-half surge
In his first full season at the helm, Mike Shildt led the St. Louis Cardinals to the NL Central crown and, on Tuesday, he was named the league's manager of the year, edging out Milwaukee's Craig Counsell.
Chicago Cubs
... after the break, including a four-game sweep at Pittsburgh. They hosted the Cubs in late July with the teams tied for first and took two of three. They beat ...
Milwaukee Brewers
... late July with the teams tied for first and took two of three. They beat the Brewers in four of six games in August, but the biggest series of the season was a f ...
St. Louis Cardinals
... with all wins by one run by any team since 1919. In his first full season as Cardinals manager, Shildt managed around a mediocre offense that ranked just 10th in t ...
What you need to know amid Astros sign-stealing accusations
From what the Astros are said to have done to whether it did them any good, a look at Houston's latest controversy.
Boston Red Sox
... and Red Sox both discovered an unofficial employee of the Astros pointing a cell phone c ...
Houston Astros
... e system was developed at some point after the start of the season. Did they Astros improve at home as the season went on? They did, at least initially. Their m ...
Toronto Blue Jays
... the Royals and Blue Jays, Edinson Volquez said teammate Johnny Cueto told him the Jays had been steal ...
Ex-Astros pitcher: Team stole signs with camera
Former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers told The Athletic that the team used a camera in center field to help steal signs.
Houston Astros
... preclude the use of video in stealing signs. The league has looked into the Astros multiple times in recent years, with the first known incident in August 2018 ...
New York Yankees
... to the plate, which The Athletic's story corroborated. The Astros denied the Yankees' whistling accusations. MLB has not publicly addressed any wrongdoing found ...
Oakland A's
... imes in recent years, with the first known incident in August 2018, when the A's alleged Astros players were clapping in the dugout before pitches to relay s ...
Cardinals bring back Wainwright on 1-year deal
Free-agent pitcher Adam Wainwright, who is coming off his best season since 2014, will be back for a 15th season with the Cardinals after agreeing to a one-year deal.
St. Louis Cardinals
... nnings with 19 strikeouts and a 1.62 ERA. The 15year veteran -- all with the Cardinals -- ranked sixth in the National League in wins and ninth in walks allowed (6 ...
NL Central offseason preview: Cards, Cubs, Brewers all need refresh
St. Louis needs more pop despite adding Paul Goldschmidt, Chicago gets a new direction with David Ross and Milwaukee needs to bolster its rotation.
Rays GM Neander voted MLB Executive of Year
Tampa Bay Rays general manager Erik Neander has been voted Major League Baseball's Executive of the Year.
Tampa Bay Rays
... Bay Rays general manager Erik Neander has been voted Major League Baseball's Executiv ...
Yankees GM signals interest in Cole, Strasburg
Brian Cashman said the Yankees will talk to the "higher-end guys" in an effort to sign key free agents, highlighted by Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg.
New York Yankees
... a career best, and he led the National League with 209 innings pitched. The Yankees were sixth in the American League in 2019 with a 4.31 ERA. They spent most o ...