According to Buster Olney of ESPN.com, Curtis Granderson has made a commitment to play for the U.S. team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.  Granderson will join other commits to the team, alongside the first recruit, current Yankee and Michigander Derek Jeter.
Just in the last week, Mark DeRosa, Ryan Braun, David Wright, Grady Sizemore and John Lackey have joined the squad. Having Sizemore and Granderson in the same outfield will be interesting, but gets Team U.S.A. back to the fundamental ball that they want to present and win with.
I think Manager Davey Johnson made the best choice here. Granderson has [...]

According to Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star, the Royals have signed former catcher Vance Wilson to a  minor league deal. Wilson is still rehabilitating from his elbow injury that hampered him from making an impact on the club in 2009.
Wilson hit .283 with 5 homers and 18 RBIs in 2006. According to Mellinger, Wilson will not be invited to big league camp, because rehabbing is number one on Wilson’s list. It would seem that Vance will start the season at AAA Omaha.
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The Tigers also signed former 2006 Post-Season Hero and Jim Leyland fave- Alexis Gomez yesterday [...]

Proper Name: Tyler S. Stohr
Born: Sept. 19, 1986 in Newburgh, N.Y.
High School: Melbourne (Fla.) Central HS
College: North Florida
Ht.: 6-2 Wt.: 210
Bats: L Throws: R
150,000 dollars later, and with one season now under his belt, 2008 sixth round pick Tyler Stohr has developed into a true relief and closer prospect. A product of the University of North Florida, Stohr shut down a Atlantic Sun leading ten saves in 2008, also good enough for 11th in the Nation. He hit the top prospect radar in the summer of 2007 with a great performance in the infamous Cape Cod League, where [...]

On January 1st, I think it’s important for us to remember what is most important to us in our life. For all of us, baseball is something we love. So remember this New Years what the real definition of baseball is, from one of Detroit’s true heroes. Mr. Ernie Harwell:
There’s a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh forty-six years ago. That’s baseball. So is the scout reporting that a sixteen year old pitcher in Cheyenne is a coming Walter Johnson. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. [...]