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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Infielder Ha-Seong Kim and the Tampa Bay Rays finalized a $29 million, two-year contract on Monday.

SEATTLE (AP) — Infielder Jorge Polanco and the Seattle Mariners finalized a $7.75 million, one-year contract on Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league's investi

Rich Dauer, an infielder who played a decade in the major leagues and won a World Series as a player with Baltimore and as a coach with Houston, has died. He was 72. The Orioles announced Dauer's death Monday. They did not announce a cause of death.

NEW YORK (AP) — Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league's investi

Pitcher Jack Flaherty is returning to the Detroit Tigers, agreeing Sunday to a $35 million, two-year contract, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Nov. 12, 1920 to Nov. 25, 1944. Happy Chandler, April 24, 1945 to July 15, 1951. Ford Frick, Sept. 20, 1951 to Nov. 16, 1965. William Eckert, Nov. 17, 1965 to Dec. 20, 1968. Bowie Kuhn, Feb. 4, 1969 to Sept. 30, 1984.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in May is "about right,” manager Dave Roberts said Saturday at the team's annual fan fest.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — When Ken Griffey Jr.'s own baseball-star father struggled to get through to the talented teen, Rickey Henderson somehow could.