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Jon Paul Morosi is a national MLB writer for FOXSports.com. He previously covered baseball for the Detroit Free Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He began his journalism career at the Bay City Times in his native Michigan.

Key 2009 stats in which Ryan Howard ranked in the top 10 in the National League: STAT: NUMBER - RANK RBIs: 141 - T-1st Extra-base hits: 86 - 2nd Home runs: 45 - 3rd Total bases: 352 - 3rd At-bats per HR: 13.7 - 4th Slugging percentage: .571 - 4th Plate appearances: 703 - 4th At-bats: 616 - 5th Runs: 105 - 5th OPS percentage*: .931 - 9th *Slugging ...

The Angels have resumed their pursuit of pitcher Roy Halladay, the Toronto Blue Jays ace who would be an extremely attractive alternative to free-agent right-hander John Lackey, with whom the team continues to negotiate.

ABSTRACT: THE SPORTING SCENE about the 2009 baseball season and the World Series, which was won by the Yankees over the Phillies.

The New York Yankees are quite easily the most loved baseball team in MLB. They are probably even hands down the most loved team in all of sports.

Andy Pettitte was among the last two of the 171 eligible players to declare for free agency yesterday.

If the New York Yankees bring back Andy Pettitte, if could determine what the Bombers do in the rest of free agency.

The baseball free-agent market opens Thursday night at midnight, but players will not have real estate agents on call for Friday morning.

NEW YORK a ' Unless he's told otherwise, Joba Chamberlain anticipates being in the Yankees' starting rotation in 2010.

If you surveyed 10 baseball executives who were walking the halls of the Hilton O'Hare this week, you would have received 10 different viewpoints of how the market for free-agent starting pitchers will shake out this off-season. Some see a class so weak beyond right-hander John Lackey that they believe only two other pitchers, Randy Wolf and Joel ...

Roy Halladay is not a free agent, but Blue Jays figure to listen to offers from Yankees and Red Sox.

"For this team, they never stopped fighting," said Girardi. "They got up and they got up.

This could very well be a possibility, but the question is, why? Why do the reigning World Series Champions need to add another ace toA their already proven and capable starting rotation? Sports Illustrated'sA Jon Heyman tweeted A that the Yankees planA on inquiring about Halladay.

B ack in December, right before Christmas, the Yankees agreed to an eight-year, $180 million contract with first-baseman Mark Teixeira, completing a two-week spending spree the likes of which had never been seen in professional sport.

Hundreds of thousands of people streamed into Lower Manhattan on Friday to help the Yankees celebrate their 27th World Series championship with a ticker-tape parade.

Cradling his infant son, Justin, in one arm, Chien-Ming Wang walked out of the home clubhouse at Yankee Stadium on Friday, unsure if he would return.

Friday 06 Nov 2009 Former Kane County Cougar A.J. Burnett is World Series Champion Friday, November 6, 2009 at 02:25AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-GENEVA, IL A.J. Burnett, a Cougar from the 1998 squad, has become the most recent world champion with Kane County Cougars ties.

Angels pitcher John Lackey could be of interest to Yankees GM Brian Cashman for 2010.

Short hops, quick pops and backhand stops as the general managers meetings wrapped Wednesday: When the Angels acquired Scott Kazmir last summer, most people assumed that he'd wind up being the replacement for John Lackey .