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The Toronto Blue Jays selected power-hitting shortstop Arjun Nimmala with their top pick in baseball's amateur draft on Sunday night in Seattle.The 17-year-old Nimmala, from Strawberry Crest High School in the Tampa, Fla., region was picked…

A cameraman was injured Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium and taken to the hospital after he was hit in the head by a wild throw from Baltimore Orioles rookie shortstop Gunnar Henderson.Positioned right next to the New York Yankees' dugout…

Alex Verdugo, Boston Red Sox. (Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)Red Sox Rumors: Alex Verdugo ‘open’ to extension in BostonEarly in June, Alex Verdugo was benched by Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora. The reasoning was…

Welcome to The Show! Baseball's 'top prospect' Elly De La Cruz, 21, is called up by the Cincinnati Reds for the upcoming LA Dodgers series after torching Triple-A pitchingESPN ranked De La Cruz as the most exciting player to…

Twins shortstop Carlos Correa has been diagnosed with a muscle strain in his left foot arch and plantar fasciitis, per John Shipley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Correa hasn’t yet been placed on the injured list but it seems like…

Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of the Milwaukee Brewers acquiring shortstop Willy Adames in a trade from the Tampa Bay Rays. He celebrated that by crushing an opposite-field home run against his former team and then…

LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts was returning from paternity leave, his car was stuck in Chicago freeway gridlock for what seemed like an eternity and he arrived at Wrigley Field late for that night’s game.The Los Angeles Dodgers knew in advance…

He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season N.C.A.A. scoring record. He went on to play pro basketball. But Dick Groat was mostly known as one of major league baseball’s leading shortstops of…

Shortstop Jose Iglesias' brief – officially, nonexistent – career with the Miami Marlins ended Thursday as the player opted out of his minor league contract with the ballclub. The 11-year veteran is a free agent and free to sign with any…

Detroit Tigers' shortstop Javier Baez is benched after appearing to FORGET how many outs are left in the inning, causing him to be doubled off secondJust before his folly Baez did not run hard out of the batter's box on a…