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For the last seven years, Mark Teixeira has been paid large sums of money to play ball for the New York Yankees. It's good work if you can get it, and the stars are aligned in such a way that 2016 might not be the end of the road.

There probably won’t be many PETA members wearing Yoenis Cespedes jerseys in the Citi Field stands this season.  

The group that advocates the ethical treatment of animals was not pleased with the New York Mets outfielder’s decision to send a pig he recently bought to the butcher, per Mike Puma of the New York Post.

Kansas City Royals right fielder Jarrod Dyson strained his right oblique during Wednesday's spring training game against the Texas Rangers, and it is uncertain when he will be able to return to action.

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The Toronto Blue Jays have opened up contract discussions with designated hitter/first baseman Edwin Encarnacion, who is a free agent at the end of the 2016 season, per Sportsnet's Shi Davidi.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brett Anderson is nursing a back injury that will require surgery, and it is uncertain when he will be able to return to action.

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Former Boston Red Sox ace Curt Schilling weighed in on the 2016 presidential election Wednesday, and the outspoken ESPN analyst didn't hold back in his criticism of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The St. Louis Cardinals locked in one of their key offensive players Wednesday, signing second baseman Kolten Wong to a five-year contract extension to avoid arbitration.

The Cardinals announced Tuesday that they had signed Wong to a five-year deal with an option for a sixth season.

LA PUENTE, California — Six months after knocking ignorance and intolerance out of the park, Milwaukee minor league slugger David Denson hops out of his father's white Dodge Charger in a parking lot here and smiles broadly.

Behind him are the shadows from which he emerged to declare himself to the world, finally brave and comfortable enough in his own skin to do something that no other active, affiliated professional baseball player ever has dared.

Major League Baseball has submitted a proposal to the Treasury Department of the United States that would set up a committee made up of "Cuban entrepreneurs and officials from MLB and its players’ union" and allow MLB teams to directly sign Cuban baseball players, per Ben Strauss of the New York Times, citing the lea

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman confirmed Wednesday that Andrew Miller will once again serve as the team's closer until Aroldis Chapman returns from his 30-game suspension.