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Barry M. Bloom has been a national reporter for MLB.com since 2002 and has more than 35 years of experience covering sports.
 | It must have been a crystal, clear day like Saturday, the day Ernie Banks coined his most poetic phrase: "It's a great day for a ball game: Let's play two!" And so it is.
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 | Since his dismissal as the Reds manager following the 2013 season, Dusty Baker has started a couple of businesses and enjoys watching his son play baseball, but he still hopes to manage again under the right circumstances.
More» Snow, Baker help deliver game ball |
 | There's nothing better on the West Coast in the offseason than the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation Awards Dinner. This year, the 12th annual soiree was staged on Saturday night by founder Dennis Gilbert at the famous Century Plaza Hotel.
More»Former Dodgers honored at scouts dinner |
 | Many current and former D-backs took part in the Most Valuable Partner show and handed out the annual awards to longtime and newer sponsors who are treated as part of the family. Derrick Hall's self-deprecating humor made him the star.
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 | The many facets of Randy Johnson were on display Wednesday as the Class of 2015 was introduced by the National Baseball Hall of Fame during a media conference. Photographer, USO volunteer, new special assistant with the D-backs, former left-handed pitcher for six teams -- Arizona twice -- and now utterly eloquent.
More»2015 Hall of Fame class shows off lighter side |
 | Steve Garvey had good stats, was a remarkable big-game player, played in the most consecutive games of any National League player and played the most consecutive errorless games at first base. I can't fathom why he isn't in the Hall of Fame.
More» Garvey joins the Padres booth to discuss '84 |
 | As the Padres move forward this offseason, trying to greatly improve a team that hasn't been to the playoffs since 2006, new upper management has yet to progress on one major issue: extending manager Bud Black's contract as it heads into its final year.
More»Black on starting rotation, acquiring an impact bat |
 | The 16-member Golden Era Committee will have a chance to add to that legacy when it votes Monday on a ballot that includes nine players and one executive whose careers were prominent from 1947-72. Or perhaps it won't. The election is on Monday morning with a possible announcement scheduled for the first day of the Winter Meetings.
More»MLB Now breaks down the Golden Era HOF Ballot |
 | After the sudden diagnosis of throat cancer earlier this year, Terry Ryan is back in full throttle, back at the annual General Managers Meetings where the long-time Twins' GM feels most at home -- doing his job.
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 | Jake Peavy has witnessed Bruce Bochy manage since he was a 20-year-old pitcher just emerging with the Padres. Bochy is in his 20th season managing, 12 with the Padres and eight in San Francisco.
More» Ishikawa sends Giants to WS with homer |
 | Buster Posey is not officially the captain of the San Francisco Giants, but he might as well be. A two-time All-Star catcher, Posey is the core player on a team that has been to the National League Championship Series three times in his five-year career and won the World Series twice.
More» Giants on shutout win in NLCS Game 1 |
 | The Giants and Cardinals are back at it in the National League Championship Series for the fourth time since 1987, and memories of what happened just two scant years ago have to be fresh in the minds of Redbird fans everywhere.
More» Giants are headed to the World Series |
 | It's been a long journey for Matt Kemp along the road from injury and recovery to helping his club win Game 2 of their National League Division Series on Saturday night against the Cardinals.
More» Kemp hammers go-ahead shot in the 8th |
 | For those wondering why Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw was left in to allow eight earned runs, six of them in the climactic seventh inning on Friday night at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles manager Don Mattingly provided the answer: It's simply hard to remove Kershaw from a start.
More» Mattingly on why he left Kershaw in game |
 | Ichiro Suzuki just finished his 14th Major League season only 156 hits shy of the cherished 3,000-hit mark. Even though he wants to play baseball again next year, he's not sure what big league team is going to give him the opportunity.
More» Ichiro rips a two-run triple to right-center |
 | The fans at Fenway Park were still chanting Derek Jeter's name throughout the ninth inning on Sunday, which tells you all you need to know. He was hours gone from his final game, and by and large they were Red Sox fans, but the love was universal.
More» Jeter reflects on his career after last game |
 | To mangle a famous line penned eons ago by a music critic to describe young rocker Bruce Springsteen: I have seen the future of the Boston Red Sox and it is Yoenis Cespedes. The trade that rocked the baseball world and has had such a devastating effect on the A's offense is set to pay huge dividends for the Red Sox.
More» Cespedes picks up 100th RBI with single |
 | The day after his chilling and engrossing finale at Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter was spent. He was so spent that for the first time in his 20-year career Jeter wanted to sit and that he did in Friday night's opener of a season-closing three-game set against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. That had never happened with any manager, certainly not with Joe Torre, definitely not with Joe Girardi, until Friday night.
More» Red Sox fans honor Jeter, chant his name |
 | With the curtain having fallen on Derek Jeter's career -- at least at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night -- there's not much dispute about where he stands on the list of all-time Yankee great position players: Pretty darned high.
More» Jeter takes home field for the final time |
 | It's been a banner year for the Baltimore Orioles. After a 9-5 win at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, Baltimore eliminated its rival from postseason contention -- certainly an inner source of pride for Orioles skipper Buck Showalter, whose managerial career began with four seasons in the Bronx (1992-95) before he was replaced by Joe Torre.
More» Showalter reacts to O's clinching AL East |
