Eric Karros

The MLB Trade Deadline has officially passed and Jim Hendry and the Chicago Cubs only managed to make one move by trading Kosuke Fukudome.  The relative inactivity will most likely (and hopefully) be the end of Jim Hendry as we know him.  Fans were...

Not only has now Hurricane Irene postponed the Saturday night Phillies-Marlins game, but it has also scrambled Fox's national TV coverage plans. The Mets-Braves game in New York was supposed to be the featured game, but now Philadelphia and New York-...

Stan Musial An American Life George Vecsey Ballantine/ESPN Books: 397 pp., $26.00 Here is a theory I have: There are three kinds of baseball players — the Good, the Great and the Gods. In the first category is everybody who made it to the...

Andre Ethier's home run Thursday was the Dodgers' 22nd in the playoffs since Mike Davis' crowning blast in Game 5 of the 1988 World Series. Here's a snapshot of all 22, ranked casually in order of importance:22) Mike Piazza 1995......

Home runs 162 Shawn Green 125 Adrian Beltre 79 Gary Sheffield 75 Andre Ethier 75 Jeff Kent 61 Matt Kemp 59 Eric Karros 54 Paul Lo Duca 49 Russell Martin 45 James Loney Adjusted OPS (minimum 1,000 plate appearances)170 Gary......

Hail, Cesar? On-base percentage (minimum 1,000 plate appearances) .296 Cesar Izturis .317 Eric Karros .318 Alex Cora .319 Mark Grudzielanek .331 Adrian Beltre Slugging percentage (minimum 1,000 plate appearances) .336 Cesar Izturis .341 Dave Roberts...

This Dodger decade is practically bookended with strife. It ends with the McCourts in divorce. Back in 2001 -- and I know we've all tried to repress this -- we had the joy of Gary Sheffield and Kevin Malone. Come......

Eric Karros is on this year's Hall of Fame ballot, a de facto longshot. (Still, it's one more Hall of Fame ballot than I'll ever get on.) If you read Jay Jaffe's writeup at Baseball Prospectus, the best thing Karros......

The 61st spring encampment at the former Navy base that became Dodgertown in 1948 will be the last for the Dodgers in Vero Beach, Fla., another in the chain of broken links to Brooklyn. The Dodgers -- whose pitchers and catchers report to camp Thursday...

I don't know where to begin in giving you the details of the Fox/MLB pre-All Star game extravaganza, the kickoff to what Fox says "is sure to be one of the most memorable nights in sports history." So I'm just......

Some things are worth the wait, even if it means spending eight or nine hours eating junk food at Wrigley Field. Many of the 38,410 fans who ventured out to Wrigley on Monday morning were back in front of their own TV sets by the time the Cubs finished...

Tribune baseball expert Phil Rogers has picked an All-City team the last five years to kick off the Cubs-Sox interleague series. It's fair to say that Phil's selections haven't always hit it off with the public — seems there's disagreement about who ought...