Coco Crisp News

The off-season marketplace should crystallize somewhat after Tuesday's deadline for clubs to offer arbitration to former players who are now free agents.

Ozzie Guillen was asked during Monday's conference call announcing Omar Vizquel's free-agent signing what needs his White Sox had to fill as Thanksgiving approached.

When Royals general manager Dayton Moore looks ahead to the 2010 season, he's obligated to steal a look backwards, too.

A year after Johan Santana won the 2006 American League Cy Young Award, the Twins traded him away.

There are no true bargains in baseball free agency. All players come with a price, some greater than others.

Catcher Miguel Olivo and pitcher Bruce Chen of the Royals filed for free agency as six-year Major Leaguers on Friday.

The Royals created an additional space on their 40-man roster Monday afternoon by sending right-handed pitcher John Bannister to Class AAA Omaha on an outright assignment after he cleared waivers.Bannister, 25, chose to stay with the organization by agreeing to a minor-league contract.

The Royals created an additional space on their 40-man roster Monday afternoon by sending right-handed pitcher John Bannister to Class AAA Omaha on an outright assignment after he cleared waivers.

Happily for him, he's got his old position back. The Kansas City Royals sent Teahen to the White Sox on Friday and Chicago will find a home for him at third base.

Two overriding factors surfaced Friday in explaining the Royals decision to send third baseman/outfielder Mark Teahen to division-rival Chicago with cash for second baseman Chris Getz and third baseman/outfielder Josh Fields.Increasing inventory while gaining financial flexibility.Our motivation behind this deal and any deal that we make this ...

The Kansas City Royals have declined the 2010 options on outfielder Coco Crisp, catcher Miguel Olivo and pitcher Yasuhiko Yabuta.

In the Nation, we tend to get impatient...a lot. This tends to escalate in offseasons following disappointing campaigns, but then again, our version of disappointing would make about 80 percent of the rest of baseball angry considering the Red Sox's run of success over the past decade.

Plank and Bender eventually signed with the Federal League. 1916 -- New York theater owner and producer Harry H. Frazee bought the Boston Red Sox for $675,000. 1938 -- Ernie Lombardi of Cincinnati won the National League MVP award.

The baseball postseason, New England version, begins Thursday night. And if the Red Sox are to succeed, Jacoby Ellsbury will simply have to keep doing what he's done all year.

Lock and reload for 2010. That's the Royals' mission. There don't appear to be any far-reaching changes coming in the look of the roster.

Two people can look at what transpired Tuesday night between the Blue Jays and Yankees and see two very different things.

Baseball Prospectus' Pre-season Projection : 75-87, fourth place Current record: 60-88, fifth place The powder-blue unis didn't quite do the trick.

When Ramon Ramirez is throwing a lot, he's a happy man. It's a work ethic that was formed on the beaches of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, where the onetime outfielder rebuilt himself into a pitcher through a makeshift, self-designed program of near-constant throwing.

Yesterday, the Royals traded one of their top prospects, Danny Gutierrez, to the Texas Rangers.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, It's fair to say that every Royals fan has accepted their playoff-less fate by now .