Nick Punto

For the meet-and-greet types, the Dodgers have announced the schedule for their 10th annual community caravan. The caravan begins Monday, with team alumni featured the first four days at one stop per day. On Friday, 15 current players will be joined...

AARON HARANG, 34, starting pitcher Final 2012 stats: 10-10, 3.61 ERA, 31 starts, 1.40 WHIP, 6.6 strikeouts per nine innings, .246 opponent batting average. Contract status: Signed for next season at $7 million. The good: Ate up almost 180 innings,...

That’s right, our man Jerry Sands, the slugging prospect who could never quite take with the Dodgers, is on the move again. He is clearly still intriguing to many. Sands, part of the group sent by the Dodgers to the Red Sox in the blockbuster...

That’s right, the Dodgers’ very own ambassador of baseball manages to morph Bing Crosby and Elvis in his new holiday treat: “I’m Dreaming of a Blue Christmas.” Actually, he’s just the opening and closing act on this...

This is not a Christmas story, though it is about giving. It is about doing the right thing, about how the youngest of us can sometimes offer a shining light. This story takes place Sept. 15, when in the middle of the game Dodgers shortstop Hanley...

NICK PUNTO, 35, infielder Final 2012 stats: .219 batting average, one homer, 10 RBI, 20 runs, six stolen bases, .321 on-base and .281 slugging percentages in 160 at-bats. Contract status: Signed for 2013 at $1.5 million, the last season of a two-...

MINNEAPOLIS — You couldn't have blamed Kevin Youkilis if he wanted a little time to collect himself. But baseball doesn't work like that, not during the 162-game marathon. So there was Youkilis on Monday, reporting to Target Field about 24 hours...

BOSTON — The Orioles arrived at Fenway Park on Friday focused on continuing their march toward the playoffs. The Boston Red Sox were waiting, their focus and motivation an open question after a season gone terribly awry. So, what exactly is...

There's only one thing to ask about what Larry Lucchino and the Red Sox front office have done to Theo Epstein's legacy in Boston: Does he have to give back the two World Series rings? Have you ever seen an airplane drop down low from the clouds and...

Tony Abreu singled home the go-ahead run in the 12th inning, and the Kansas City Royals completed their comeback from a six-run deficit by beating the Boston Red Sox 10-9 on Saturday night. Just a few hours after Boston traded scheduled starter Josh...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Adrian Gonzalez had only been in Los Angeles for a couple of hours and was wearing his Dodgers uniform for the first time when he found himself rounding the bases at Dodger Stadium. One of the four players acquired in a blockbuster...

Can you handle it, Red Sox fans? No, not the immediate aftermath of an amazing, late-season blockbuster trade that sent Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez and Nick Punto to the Dodgers. There is such glee around New England this weekend over...