Chicago Tribune
Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington compared the Theo Epstein compensation issue to "cleaning out the garage" in early December, suggesting it was something you knew had to be done but would "find anything under the sun" to do instead. Hearing...
The New York Times
Yankees The clubs will also swap two players to be named later. Epstein left the Red Sox at the end of the 2011 Major League Baseball (MLB) season with a year remaining on his contract as general manager to take the position of president of baseball...
San Diego Union-Tribune
Ariz. Spring training is six weeks long because it takes starting pitchers that long to stretch out into the 100-pitch, six/seven-inning range. But Padres manager said the extended time also benefits catchers, especially young catchers and those...
Miami Herald
L The Sports Network The Boston Red Sox have acquired pitcher Chris Carpenter and a player to be named later from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for a player to be named later. The Red Sox also placed right-handed pitcher Bobby Jenks on the 60-day...
NY Daily News
The Cubs and the Red Sox announced a deal Tuesday that settles their dispute over what Boston should get after executive Theo Epstein left for Chicago. The Cubs are sending right-handed reliever Chris Carpenter and a player to be named later to the...
The Daily Herald
It will indeed as Carpenter was named as the compensation for the Cubs hiring team president Theo Epstein away from the Boston Red Sox. Although Commissioner Bud Seligs office had stepped into the talks between the Cubs and Red Sox, Cubs general...