3 weeks ago Rather than ban home plate collisions outright, Major League Baseball and its players adopted a rule limiting them this season.
In what both sides said was a one-year experiment, the rule allows collisions if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runner's direct path to home plate, and if the catcher goes into the basepath to field a throw to the plate
Former Phillies manager Jim Fregosi suffered a stroke while on a Major League Baseball alumni cruise and has been hospitalized in the Cayman Islands, sources close to Fregosi said Wednesday.
Fregosi, most remembered by Phillies fans as the leader of the 1993 team that went to the World Series
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February 11, 2013 FORT MYERS, Fla. --Philadelphia Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon, who was part of the Boston Red Sox team from 2005-11, said Saturday that he and numerous other Red Sox players were regularly injected with Toradol, a legal anti-inflammatory drug whose use has become increasingly controversial in sports.
Toradol is the nonsteroidal drug that Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchhol
February 7, 2013 Former Philadelphia Philly and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said Thursday that someone in the Boston organization told him performance-enhancing drugs were an option for him as he tried to work his way back from a shoulder injury in 2008.
He did not identify the person, but ruled out specific individua
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July 17, 2012 And not necessarily among others. Davidoff (New York Post) notes the folly in (1) holding out hope for Brett Garnder, who’s only played nine games this season and, after suffering his third setback rehabbing a right elbow, doesn’t look to be playing too many more (2) relying on Raul Ibanez (40) and Andruw Jones (35) the rest of the way, (3) banking on Kosuke Fukudome (just three days younger than Jones), just added to their Triple-A Roster