Longtime baseball executive Bill Lajoie, whose eye for talent helped build the Detroit Tigers team that won the 1984 World Series championship, died Tuesday. He was 76. Tigers spokesman Brian Britten said the team first learned of Lajoie's death from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Lajoie had been working as a special assistant to the Pirates.

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Cuban authorities are discussing allowing players to leave, but the U.S. embargo makes the arrangement untenable.

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The Texas Rangers lost one former Cy Young Award winner, Cliff Lee, to free agency this offseason.

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The Cincinnati Reds have joined the Los Angeles Angels in pursuing free agent Scott Podsednik, according to…

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Signing Carl Crawford and Cliff Lee vaulted the Red Sox and Phillies, respectively, to the top of the offseason list.

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A person familiar with the negotiations says left-handed reliever Arthur Rhodes has agreed to a contract with the AL champion Texas Rangers. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because the agreement had not yet been announced. The 41-year-old Rhodes was 4-4 with a 2.29 ERA in 69 relief appearances for the Cincinnati Reds last season, when he became a…

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Major League Baseball is a sport that provides a vast array of amazing plays and accomplishments on a daily basis. It is a treasure trove of statistics, a testament to athleticism and just plain fun to watch. In 2010, there were a slew of great moments, made memorable by not only the players of the game but by the sequence of events that produced the moment and the reactions of those around them as it occurred. Of the hundreds of great plays, games, and records set, broken, and chased, the following five stand out from the rest for the 2010 baseball season.

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Pete Rose Jr., the son of the career hits leader who is banned from baseball, will run a rookie league team of the Chicago White Sox.

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The 2010 baseball season saw over 73 million fans attend a Major League ballpark. The year of the pitcher featured six no-hitters, a rookie sensation in Buster Posey, – Jose Bautista joining the 50 homer club after never previously hitting more than 20, nine teams winning 90 games or more, exciting pennant races down to the wire, the end of managerial eras in Lou Piniella and Bobby Cox and the death of two legendary Yankees figures, owner George Steinbrenner and long time announcer Bob Sheppard within two days of each other.

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The Philadelphia Phillies didn't win the World Series, but they still had a fantastic 2010 season. The Phillies finished with the best record in the majors. They picked up their fourth straight National League East title, adding to the strongest run in over 125 years of franchise history. 2010 had some memorable moments, including one after the season ended. Here is a look at the top five moments from 2010 for the Philadelphia Phillies. 1. Roy Halladay's Postseason No-Hitter The Phillies finished with the best record in baseball and drew the Cincinnati…

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