Starting pitcher Zack Greinke #23 of the Kansas City Royals pitches just prior to the start of the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 17, 2009 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Greinke was named as the 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Greinke gets an early start

Kansas City Cy Young winner, closer Joakim Soria and first baseman Billy Butler report to training camp in Surprise, Ariz.

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A tip of the cap to Dawson

Any baseball fan worth his salt will always associate The Hawk with the Expos

Roberto Alomar during his time with the Cleveland Indians in 1999.
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Alomar left Toronto for business reasons

Perennial all-star would have preferred to finish his career with the Blue Jays

American League All-Star Curtis Granderson of the Detroit Tigers scores the game-winning run.

Granderson fine with possible switch to left field

Former Detroit Tigers All-Star centre fielder is 'excited to get back and start the 2010 season'

Richmond hurts shoulder preparing for spring training

Jays pitcher is suffering from right shoulder impingement and will need rehab

BJ Upton loses to Rays in arbitration

Club defeats outfielder, leaving the Rays 5-0 in cases that have gone to hearings

Giants, Lincecum reach deal

Two-time reigning NL Cy Young Award winner avoids arbitration hearing and settles on $23M, 2-year contract agreement

Frank Thomas announces retirement

Two-time MVP calls it quits

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Andre Dawson's career batting average is the worst of any outfielder ever admitted to the Hall. Given one vote, who would you have elected to baseball's Hall of Fame today?

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Tigers' Cabrera says he's turned life around

Detroit slugger spent the off-season in a treatment program for alcoholism

Jeff Blair
Time for the National League to adopt the DH

The genie is out of the bottle, and rather than talking about abolishing the designated hitter rule, both leagues should embrace it instead

Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter Adam Lind.
Cooperstown hits a single

Former Expo Dawson alone in his class as former Blue Jay Alomar falls a few votes shy in first Hall of Fame at-bat

Andre Dawson talks to a reporter after a practice in this March 7, 1987 photo. Former Montreal Expo Dawson has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.