Cody Ross

The Boston Red Sox have signed Cody Ross, ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick reports. The deal will have a base salary of $3mm and will include performance bonuses based on an unknown number of plate appearances, Crasnick adds. Ross will likely platoon with the left-handed hitting Ryan Sweeny who was acquired by the Red Sox from the A’s [...]

The Colorado Rockies are in the advanced stages of negotiations with free agent outfielder Cody Ross, Buster Olney of ESPN reports. If the Rockies do sign Ross, it would help provide depth if they still plan on moving Seth Smith, like it has been rumored most of the offseason. Smith is projected to make about $2.6 [...]

According to Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post, the Marlins will be busy this off season looking for a third baseman, a center fielder, a starting pitcher or two and a closer. He adds that although they could fill some of these spots via trade, there will enough players in the free agent pool [...]

In recent years, pitchers have dominated the game and this season it’s no different. A lot of people might say it’s because of the end of the steroids era, but I’ve always thought that banning steroids is not the reason for pitching success. Hitters were not the only ones using steroids during the steroids era, as pitchers [...]

Giants’ rookie Brandon Belt was recently demoted to Triple-A last week after Cody Ross returned from the Disabled List. According to Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle, Belt was sent down largely to fix a mechanical flaw that prevented him from hitting fastballs squarely. In his first four games at Triple-A Fresno, Belt played right [...]

The San Francisco Giants are letting teams know that outfielder Nate Schierholtz is available, Jerry Crasnick of ESPN reports. Schierholtz could be the “odd-man” out when Andres Torres returns from his Achilles injury. Schierholtz was a trade candidate late in Spring Training when the team had an abundance of outfielders in addition to prized prospect Brandon [...]

Rookie first baseman Brandon Belt has been optioned to Triple-A Fresno according to Mychael Urban of CSNBayArea.com. He was optioned to the Minors to make room for outfielder Cody Ross who started the season on the Disabled List (via Giants official Twitter account). Belt was slated to be a strong candidate for the Rookie Of The [...]

Here’s the latest from FOXSports’ Ken Rosenthal: – Rookie catcher Hank Conger, could be the team’s everyday catcher. He has started three of the last four games prior to today’s game and manager Mike Scioscia has been working hard with him. According to Rosenthal, Conger has responded well and the pitchers love working with him. Besides [...]

As many of you know, I live in Venezuela, here baseball is a big deal, but we get only one maybe two games a day. To solve that problem I decided to get myself a TV package that has four more sports channel so I could enjoy up to five baseball games a day. I kinda [...]

Here’s a running list of injury updates for several Major league players: – Clint Barmes played catch yesterday for the first time since he fractured his hand reports Zachary Levine of the Houston Chronicle. “It was sore, but I didn’t expect to come out and feel 100 percent on my first day,” Barmes said. “It was [...]