The Mariners’ organization announced today that Ken Griffey Jr. has officially retired from baseball. “I feel that without enough occasional starts to be sharper coming off the bench, my continued presence as a player would be an unfair distraction to my teammates and their success as a team is what the ultimate goal should be,” [...]

Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids during the 1989-90 offseason, 1993 and “on occasion throughout the nineties, including during the 1998 season” in a statement released by the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday. McGwire ranks eighth all-time in home runs with 583, including 245 in four seasons (1996 through 1999). However, in four appearances on [...]

The Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers made an agreement on Tuesday sending center fielder Curtis Granderson to the Yankees’ dugout, as part of the first major deal in this year’s winter meetings. Detroit will also send right-handers Edwin Jackson and Ian Kennedy to Arizona as part of the three-way deal. In [...]

Placido Polanco was reacquired by the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, agreeing to a three-year, $18 million contract. While the 34-year-old free agent won Gold Gloves in 2007 and 2009 with the Detroit Tigers for his second base skills, he will be sliding to third base for the Phillies, a position he hasn’t played primarily since [...]