"The exercise we're going through right now is not exclusive to the Houston Astros. A lot of teams are doing the same type of thing, trying to squeeze every last nickel out of their payroll and do it productively." ...
The 41-year-old right-hander was a reliable setup man for Houston closer Jose Valverde this season, going 7-5 with a 3.93 ERA in a career-high 72 appearances. Brocail is the third of 171 players who filed for free agency last month to ...
Bush popped into the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Greensboro — which has worked with Youth Focus Inc., a nonprofit agency — to match 220 children of prisoners with adult mentors. The program is part of a national initiative, ...
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MILWAUKEE — Free agents CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets were offered salary arbitration Monday by the Brewers, ensuring Milwaukee will receive compensatory picks in next year’s amateur draft if they sign elsewhere. ...
The players, all of whom are slated to miss the remainder of the regular season, tested positive for Bumetanide, a diuretic which is sometimes used as a masking agent for steroids. Pittman, the team's long snapper since 2003, ...
The four armed men were dressed in black and had lettering on their clothes identifying them as agents of Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency, the statement said. However, none of the police officers who had been guarding Ramirez ...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian food and drug regulators on Tuesday updated the death toll to 34 in an outbreak of fatalities among infants given a locally-made teething formula tainted with a toxic thickening agent. ...
Cecilia Fedorov, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, said the agency is in negotiations with the Justice Department to reach an agreement that could avoid litigation over conditions in the facilities ...
In a response to the GAO, Neel Kashkari, who heads the department's Office of Financial Stability, said the agency was developing its own compliance program and indicated that it disagreed with the need to work with regulators. ...
