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MLB set to expand playoffs this season: report

Major League Baseballís plan to add two wild-card teams to the post-season could be implemented as soon as this season, according to reports Wednesday.

Boston Red Sox catcher and captain Jason Varitek will bring an end to his illustrious career on Thursday, Major League Baseball reported on its website.

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7 Dodgers bidders to meet with MLB

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Seven groups of bidders for the Los Angeles Dodgers, including Magic Johnson and Stan Kroenke, will interview with baseball’s ownership committee in the next step toward selling the bankrupt team by the end of April.

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Ryan Braun made major-league history Thursday, the kind that left the National League most valuable player as well as the Milwaukee Brewers ecstatic, but Major League Baseball officials openly disturbed.

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MLB looking to add teams to playoffs

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He is only one voice in the discussions, but Carlos Villanueva is optimistic that Major League Baseball will find a way to add another wild-card team in each league this year.

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Baseball great Carter succumbs to brain cancer

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Baseball Hall of Famer Gary Carter, whose exuberance earned him the nickname “The Kid” and whose talent made one of the best catchers of his generation, died on Thursday of brain cancer.

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The Kid will be missed

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Like many Montrealers of my generation, my first baseball hero was Rusty Staub.

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Albert Pujols is leaving his St. Louis home Thursday for spring training, only this time he’s heading in the opposite direction, venturing west in a seismic move that still is shaking the baseball landscape.

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Who is crazier? Joe Maddon or Andrew Friedman? Or do the two men running baseball’s best operation – without question the most efficient – know something that the rest of us do not?

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Als probably will sit pat on free agency

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And so, the guessing game and speculation begins. Canadian Football League free agency, which begins Wednesday at noon, will never be confused with July 1, when there’s a flurry of activity – and interest – in the National Hockey Leag…

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