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Joe Torre says he doesn't plan to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers after his contract expires. "I have one year on my contract and I don't anticipate it being more than that," he said Tuesday, two days before the Dodgers open the NLCS against Philadelphia. However, he noted, "I've said that before and my wife [...]

Joe Torre says he doesn't plan to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers after his contract expires. "I have one year on my contract and I don't anticipate it being more than that," he said Tuesday, two days before the Dodgers open the NLCS against Philadelphia. However, he noted, "I've said that before and my wife [...]

The Oakland Athletics will bring back their entire coaching staff in the same positions for the 2010 season. The team announced the decision to keep manager Bob Geren's staff on Tuesday, just more than a week after finishing a 75-87 season that left the A's in last place in the AL West. Pitching coach Curt [...]

Ssshhhh, don't let it get out, but the prospect of a Freeway World Series is a tantalizing prospect to Torii Hunter, of all people. With the Angels and Dodgers in their respective league championship series for the first time in the same season, Angelenos and their counterparts in Orange County are chatting up the idea.

The Mariners say catcher Rob Johnson has a series of offseason surgeries ahead. He's scheduled to have surgery Friday on his left hip at Vail, Colo., and have the same procedure three weeks later on his right hip. Following three or four weeks of rehab he'll have surgery in Seattle on his left wrist.

Washington Nationals closer Mike MacDougal had arthroscopic surgery on his right hip Tuesday and is expected to be fully recovered by spring training. MacDougal is scheduled to begin a throwing program within about two months. He finished 2009 with 20 saves, a 1-1 record and a 3.60 ERA for Washington.

Television ratings for baseball's division series were up from last season. The 13 games on TBS averaged a 3.1 rating, up 11 percent from last year. TBS said Tuesday it had its most-viewed week in the 33-year history of the network. The playoff return of the New York Yankees and their large market and national [...]

Brad Lidge was at the center of the celebrations, mobbed on the mound and then later bathed in bone-chilling ice water inside the clubhouse. Those recent ninth-inning meltdowns? A fading memory for the Philadelphia Phillies closer. Lidge was struggling badly going into the NL division series against the Colorado Rockies, blowing a league-high 11 save [...]

The sale of the Chicago Cubs moved closer Tuesday as a bankruptcy court judge said the team can go to the family of billionaire Joe Ricketts in a $845 million deal. The judge had already cleared Tribune Co. to sell the team and Wrigley Field. But he gave his approval again Tuesday because the Cubs [...]

Dana Brown has been hired as a special assistant to new Toronto Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos. The 42-year-old Brown spent the past eight seasons as director of scouting for the Washington Nationals and Montreal Expos. It was with Montreal that Brown first met Anthopoulos, who replaced J.P.