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HAVANA (AP) A lineup of Cuban-born baseball stars, including some of the most famous defectors in recent memory, made a triumphant return to the island Tuesday as part of the first Major League Baseball trip here since 1999.Once the object of official disdain in Cuba for leaving the...

CLEVELAND (AP) - A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber and the Cleveland Indians have agreed to a five-year contract.The deal includes two club options, the person told the AP on Saturday night. Kluber's deal is contingent upon...

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - The first thing Dayton Moore makes clear is that he never set out to change how baseball clubs are built. He simply wanted to win games, something the Kansas City Royals had repeatedly failed to do for nearly three decades.Never once did Moore think he'd...

ATLANTA (AP) Veteran catcher A.J. Pierzynski will return for another season with the Atlanta Braves after agreeing to a $3 million, one-year contract.The 38-year-old Pierzynski was a rare bright spot for the Braves this past season. Signed to serve mainly as a backup, he wound up handling the...

AP Baseball WriterBig daddy: Freeman takes newborn home, homers, gets 4 hitsBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Freddie Freeman took his newborn son and wife home from a hospital, stayed up through most of the night and headed from Atlanta to New York.This is what adrenaline can do: He...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A California utility lists Oakland Athletics' executive Billy Beane as among the top excessive water users in a district east of San Francisco.A September report from the East Bay Municipal Utility District shows Beane, who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film ''Moneyball,'' used about...

PHOENIX (AP) The Arizona Diamondbacks have hired Dave Magadan as their hitting coach.The 53-year-old Magadan spent the last three seasons as hitting coach of the Texas Rangers. Before that, he was hitting coach for the San Diego Padres and Boston Red Sox.In Magadan's first year in Boston, 2007,...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Infielder Trevor Plouffe has finalized a $5.25 million, one-year contract with the Oakland Athletics and is expected to be the primary third baseman if he can stay healthy. Plouffe can earn an additional $750,000 in performance bonuses based on plate appearances as part of the agreement announced...

The LA DODGERS and the PHILADELPHIA will both be gunning for a victory on 9/18/2017 at 7:05 PM when they meet in a game matchup. GAME: Los Angeles Dodgers (96-53) at Philadelphia Phillies (58-91) DATE/TIME: Monday, September 18 - 7:05 PM EST WHERE: Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ROT TEAM PS OU RL 951 LA DODGERS 7.5 (330) (290) 7.5 (-110) -365 290 952 PHILADELPHIA TV: 7:05 p.m. ET, SportsNet LA...

ST. LOUIS (AP) Since 2011, the bill for clubhouse carpet cleaning and/or replacement has been high for the St. Louis Cardinals. It's a price willingly paid for all those champagne fests, every step of the way.Like clockwork, October arrives and so do the Cardinals, primed for another deep...

The Latest: Francona has restless night before Game 7CLEVELAND (AP) The Latest on Game 7 of the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians on Wednesday (all times local):5 p.m.Between the broken ribs and peanut butter, Indians manager Terry Francona had an interesting, restless night before...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - St. Louis ace Adam Wainwright injured his left ankle while batting Saturday night, and the Cardinals sounded concerned about how badly he was hurt.Wainwright was put in a walking boot and manager Mike Matheny said the clubhouse was ''pretty somber'' after a 5-3 win over the...