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The Houston Astros, fresh off a trip to the American League playoffs, are looking to add pieces for a deeper run in 2016. They did that on Wednesday, acquiring reliever Ken Giles from the Phillies. Giles went 6-3 last year and added 15 saves...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ruben Tejada hit an inside-the-park homer and drove in four runs to back Matt Harvey as the New York Mets returned to their winning ways against the Philadelphia Phillies with a 9-4 victory Wednesday night. Yoenis Cespedes and rookie Michael Conforto had conventional home runs for the NL East leaders, who won for the 14th time in 16 games against the last-place Phillies this season

The New York Mets hit eight home runs on Monday night and beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 16-7, in Philadelphia. The Mets got a home run from David Wright as he returned to the lineup for the first time since April, but also got blasts from Juan Lagares, Travis d'Arnoud, Michael Cuddyer, Daniel Murphy, Yoenis Cespedes, and then got two from Wilmer Flores...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rookie slugger Maikel Franco homered again and had five RBIs for the second straight night at Yankee Stadium, snapping a ninth-inning tie with a two-run double Tuesday that sent the Philadelphia Phillies to an 11-6 victory over New York...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maikel Franco homered twice among his career-high four hits, drove in five runs and made a fabulous diving play at third base Monday night, helping the Philadelphia Phillies snap a 12-game road skid with an 11-8 victory over the New York Yankees...

It may be March, not July. It may be against a National League opponent, not the Red Sox. And and the game may be in Tampa, not the Bronx, not Boston, Baltimore, Texas, Los Angeles or Seattle. It doesn't matter. When you haven't seen game action in 18 months, you take whatever positives you can find...

Schenectady High School product Casper Wells has signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers. He will report to spring training in Lakeland, Fla. Wells was drafted by the Tigers in 2005 before making his major league debut in 2010...

With Hanley Ramirez now off the board, the Yankees continue to look for Derek Jeter's replacement at shortstop. And they are reportedly leaving no stone unturned. They reportedly were interested in Phillies SS Jimmy Rollins. But Jayson Stark reports that Rollins has no interest in the Yankees - and that the Yanks offer wasn't good enough for the Phillies anyways...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wilmer Flores hit a grand slam and drove in a career-high six runs, Bartolo Colon threw seven-plus sharp innings and the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-2 Monday night in a makeup from an April rainout. After playing 39 innings in the three previous games, the teams finally didn't go extras...

Not so fast my friends! The winner will be  picked in a moment. First, the prelim. The standings. Here are my picks for what should be a great 2012 baseball season. By the way, don't buy into the phoney notion that baseball is about 5 teams and that's it...

Baseball is back, and the New York Yankees aren't looking so bad.  Sure, it's just spring training, but the over all performance of the team looked very promising.

It's no surprise that Philadelphia's Roy Halladay is pitching some great games for the first place Phillies.  He gets his 10th win yesterday and throws his 5th complete game.